MediaHound

The first pups are still quite some bit less vigorous compared with the pups of pups that were cut from corms.
The way it seems to me, is that everything happens on a smaller scale. It takes several years for a mat started by TC to get enough kinetic energy going for things to happen as fast as if you started with a keiki that was cut and dug up.
I have had TC bananas put up pups rather quickly (weeks/months), and I have had others that push up very few, if any, even after years have passed. But these f1 and f2 (per sé) pups from TC are much smaller than they would have been if they were from many generations of mothers passing pups.
If you have the choice, go with cut corms! If you have no alternative, and your after a certain kind that you can only locate in TC, get it anyway, but still be on the lookout to grab a cut pup whenever you can, it will save you YEARS of waiting.