Propogating banana plants?

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I've got a huge banana plant with about 4 giant leaves extending to the surface and several other smaller ones. If I just cut this guy in half where all the leaves extend from will it be ok? Or will it just die?
 
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Plants/Nymphoides.html#0

I read the first 2 posts. I have them in a 15g and when the long leaves break off, they just make new leaves, no stems, so whatever.

The LFS said to just drop them in the tank and they'd root, which I did, and they did, but I have read other places you should plant them in the substrate. How do you keeps yours?

Thanks
lisa
 
plant the banana part out of the substrate and the roots that branch off this in the substrate. I've seen successful growth with the banana half in the soil too.
 
In my experience banana plants grow best when you just drop them on the substrate and allow the roots to grow into it.

What i'm asking is how to make multiple plants out of one.
 
Did the link help? in the top of my original post. sorry to manipulate the subject, didn't mean to.

lisa
 
Yeah, it did help.

It sounds that you can clip floating leaves with a good amount of stem and they'll eventually form roots and propogate that way.

I just clipped my largest leaf and hopefully it'll work.
 
If the plant is mature enough it will form baby plantlets at the petiole/stem junction. Once those develop enough, then is the best time to cut the leaf free. Pinning the leaf to a pot just barely sumerged with the leaf at the water surface works well for me.
 
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