ABSTRACT: This work was carried out in the EPAMIG/CTNM´s Experimental Farm, which is located in the irrigated area of Jaiba county in the north of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The experimental design was completely randomized with two treatments and 22 replicants and each plot had three plants. The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of male flowerage pruning on the bunch crop of irrigated banana 'Prata Ana' in the three first crops. The male flowerage pruning made the harvest time shorter and in the first crop the characteristics as total fruit weight; mean fruit weight, second fruit of the second hand girth and weight; second hand weight; hand before the last hand weight; peduncle´s weight and length was bigger than in the non-flowerage pruned banana tree plants. There was no response of pruning for the total bunch weight, first hand and last hand weight, and length of the central fruit of the second hand. In the second crop there was no response for the crop characteristics. In the third crop there was improvement of crop's characteristics as in the first crop.
Musa sp.; bunch trait; male flowerage prune; 'Prata-Anã'
