[jdmichal]

That's now how bananas work. Bananas are sterile hybrids; that's why they're cloned in the first place. Other plants are cloned for other reasons, typically because they don't grow true from seed.

Luckily for us, banana plants grow like bromeliads. They flower and fruit then die. But not before sprouting several new stalks. So they're really easy to propagate by separating the new stalks once they get big enough.

Someone else posted this excellent article on it:

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-...