Southern-Grower

here's my take on this..

Quality= Actual variety that i wanted and from a supplier that has no rep.
for shipping wrong variety.

1' + stem with a nice corm attached, roots ARE NOT IMPORTANT to me.
most often than not the roots will die once disturbed or broke. but really depends on how the plant was cut and what media it was grown in..

if plant has real leaves then i want them all cut off but growing leaf, as the plant can't root and keep full leaves. this causes stress on plant or pup.. the leaves will yellow and die on their own.. why put the plant through this, cut them off and corm can get started on rooting quickley..

when i first started 5 years ago all my plants were a 1' stalk with nice cleaned corm. the corms had to be rooted first which required moistened
soil and wait till the leaf started then ok to water a little more..

i've taken a 1' bald corm to gh in the fall and have it to root during winter and plant in yard 1st season and get 4-5' plant by summer end. then have it to fruit following mid summer.. then take green fruit off before first frost.

take a tc plant begining of summer and have a 1' plant, by summer end.
plant out the following spring and have a 4-5' plant by summer end. then replant following spring and have fruit by end of season.. gest is that the smaller tc plants will take you 3 years to fruit, where i can fruit quality corm in 2 years..


just my 2cents for here in ga..

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SG

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Gabe15

The 2 best nurseries Ive ever bought from are of course Going Bananas(www.going-bananas.com), which I rountinely get plants from, and Gingerwood Nursery (www.gingerwoodnursery.com) if you are interested in some of the more obscure ornamentals.

Here is Musa muluensis and Musa beccarii from Going Bananas, just as they looked right out of the box.

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Growing bananas in Colorado, Washington, Hawaii since 2004. Commercial banana farmer, 200+ varieties.

Bananavilla

Yes, going bananas is #1 as far as nurseries. That is where I order when I want something.

But, for same price several of us are offering plants even bigger than what going bananas ships (which originated from them).

Also, the past few plants I have received from them are no longer corms. They are shipping nice sized T.C. plants which is fine except that they are bare-rooting the young fellows and it is sending them into a tail spin. Unless the person on the receiving end is really keen to banana growing, many are lost. Even those experienced of us are loosing some. I've been meaning to contact them about this and make some shipping recommendations fom the customer standpoint.

Mike

Gabe15

All of the TC plants I have recieved have been rooted and fine (last shipment was about 2 weeks ago, half TC, half pups), I have never seen Don send a bare root TC, thats not to say he hasn't. I know he has his more in demand plants as TC and the ones that he still has, but are not in high demand usally as pups.

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Growing bananas in Colorado, Washington, Hawaii since 2004. Commercial banana farmer, 200+ varieties.

GATrops

Part of the answer may lie in where the plants are being shipped into. I know the requirements for shipping into CA are very strict (in comparison to some other states) and that could be why they were bare-rooted.


Just a thought.