They've been saved by the rain! If it hadn't rained there might have been a banana massacre. We cut one banana pup away from the mum but cut too close to the stem of the pup (my suggestion to cut closer- oops) and as a result we cut through the root bulb so poor little pup only has half his roots with him. I doubt he'll survive but we've put him in a pot and we'll see what happens.
We didn't realise that the bulbs are quite deep underground and because there is so much growing in Cowick Garden it wasn't very easy to position ourselves next to the plants as we also had to fight our way between palm leaves and ferns and the branches from the apple tree. It then started raining so we scurried inside and decided to do a bit more research on this whole transplanting process.
A few websites suggested waiting till spring or at least until there is enough warm weather remaining to allow the pups to settle into their new habitat. With temperatures due to drop over the next few weeks then now is probably not a good time. This sound advice made sense and I'm sure a large number of the pups we have won't survive the winter anyway as they are far too small. So we're going to let nature run its course and see how many pups remain after winter and deal with the fiesty survivors in the spring.
So the pups are still intact and they're out there lapping up the rain with one lonely pup in a pot on the deck, also getting a good soaking.
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