gardenguy, why don't you try to sell them or give them away to neighbors, friends or family. I'd love to have them, but if they were in the trash for this long, I wouldn't want to risk paying money for you to ship a couple dead bananas to me. If you have no one else to give them to and don't want the hassle of mailing them, maybe next time you could drop them off at your local nursery, they just might give you a discount on your next purchase. Who knows.

bearstate, I always scrape away the soil to try to get an understanding of the underground structure of the pup first. Some pups bud right off the edge of the mother corm. With those you HAVE to take some of the mother corm, especially when the pup is smaller. IF the mother is a large banana, there's no way you'll hurt her doing this. Some pups arise further away from the mother corm on a longer rhizome. These will likely have more roots coming from them and are generally easier to dig and transplant. If they are larger and well-rooted you would not have to get part of the mother corm. Another way to propagate bananas is to take an older corm from a mother plant that has already bloomed and slice it up into pie segements, each with at least one growing bud. shortleaf: In your zone, you'll want to heavily mulch that banana for winter and I would cover it over with bubble wrap or something to keep the rain/snow off of it as well, then maybe another layer of mulch. In April you can uncover and check to see if it's growing. If it is, cut away any rotted growth to expose the bleached growing tips. If hard frost threatens, cover with a frost cloth on those nights. I wouldn't even think of removing any pups until this plant is well established. Maybe two seasons. If you want a banana in another location and you are impatient, buy another plant.

Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was better to wait like it is with some of the others. A larger pot would be nice but I'm short on space over the winter. Even a pot 2" bigger might be pushing it. I'm going to leave it in it's pot and just give the pups to friends.

Repotting is not really necessary. I have a pot of Bilbergia hybrids that I inherited, so to speak - it has not been repotted in at least 13 years and has so many plants I cannot say how many there are! Ditto a cluster of Quesnelias, now about 50 plants and covering about 20 square feet but springing only from one large pot. In general it is true that removing pups means more pups will be produced. But 4 pups from your plant is a very nice yield! If you remove pups, you stand a chance of losing them (especially true for Vriesea and Guzmania, a lot less likely for Ae. fasciata).