The large red sucker continues to plump up. I cannot detect any change in the small red sucker. The white shoot is growing rapidly. I have another conjecture about this shoot. Since the plant was chopped up at it grow point, perhaps the mother plant has established a new grow point from her side. The shoot is hooking upwards, so I believe she's trying to break through the soil.
Since I've been looking beneath the soil, I decided to try and find the point of junction between Princess and Pippy. I dug down about 2", but due to an abundance of cord roots, I couldn't dig any further. Pippy is quite deeply situated, so I better leave her as the follower and remove the other peepers. I saw evidence of 3 additional peepers.
I was a bit bored, so I decided to see what was going on beneath the soil of Regina. I found lots of healthy-looking cord roots and a peeper trying to peep. It appears that when suckers form a large, pimple-like nodule forms. It later breaks open when the sucker emerges. The busted nodule forms a ring at the junction of the mother corm and the sucker.
I think this shoot, which I thought was a sucker, is actually the corm extending itself. The shooting of the corm is what produces a banana mat. Hopefully, when the corm is through situating itself, it will produce a healthy, vigorous plant.
The shoots are plumping up, especially the larger one. The leaf/petiole of the large sucker is pushing out.
