This trial investigated the effect of planting time on
subsets of plants grown from the same batch of
tissue cultured plantlets, which were deflasked on
22 August 2009. The trial showed that of the three
plantings of these tissue culture plants, the first
planting of the smallest plants were, by the end of
the growing season in late April, larger than the two
later plantings. This outcome suggests that banana
plants take better advantage of the peak of the
growing season if they are in the field than do plants
which remain in the nursery for more of the growing
season.