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US 2004/0163310 A1Published application
Method of propagating bananas
OwnerShimon Tsurgilinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of propagating and cultivating species of the genus Musa (and in particular bananas) by planting a whole defoliated sucker of this species substantially horizontally in the ground.
Claims13
A method of propagating a species of the genus Musa, comprising the step of:
- (a) planting one or more whole defoliated suckers of the genus Musa substantially horizontally;
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- (b) growing one or more plants from each sucker.
The method of 7, wherein the vertical offshoots are removed by pruning or destruction.
In a method of propagating bananas from suckers, the improvement comprising planting whole defoliated suckers substantially horizontally.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.