Kat2,
There is a longtime member here named
jeffreyp who has seen and tasted Truly Tiny fruit. He runs a nursery in southern Florida and actually knows the person who developed Truly Tiny, which is a super dwarf form of Brazilian.
Here's the best thread to read on that topic --
Difference between Truly Tiny, Little Prince and Super Dwarf Cavendish -- and a key excerpt:
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Originally Posted by jeffreyp
I can confirm...it's definitely not a cavendish.
I'm from boynton beach, florida and I know the grower of the truly tiny banana plant personally ( she owns a nursery called truly tropicals in boynton beach and submitted the original corm for tissue culture with agristarts ). The corm was a mutation off of a Brazilian banana so the fruit is a dwarf form of Brazilian apple.
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Jeffreyp has shared that a couple other times, too:
http://www.bananas.org/f311/truly-tiny-bananas-10054.html#post104120 --
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Originally Posted by jeffreyp
truly tiny was a mutation of the brazilian banana. The original plant came from Truly Tropicals in Boynton Beach, FL.
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M. Truly Tiny is Truly Tough --
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Originally Posted by jeffreyp
Truly tiny was named after a nursery here in Boynton Beach called Truly Tropicals. It's a mutation of the brazilian bananna.
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And he has described the flavor:
Best Tasting Dwarf...... --
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Originally Posted by jeffreyp
Truly tiny is a super dwarf brazilian banana - more sub acid/apple aftertaste
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If you're wanting to get a Truly Tiny, I strongly recommend you order it from Wellspring Gardens. Why? Because they sell tc's of the original plant (original plant went from Truly Tropicals to Agri-Starts, and Wellspring gets their tc TT's directly from Agri-Starts). If you get it from another source, I think you'll run an extremely high risk of not getting the right species due to rampant mixups and a general lumping together of the midgets (super dwarf cav, little prince, and truly tiny).
I'm growing Super Dwarf Cavendish, Little Prince (basically a super duper dwarf cav), and Truly Tiny. All are growing in identical conditions a few feet from one another. The SDC and LP look exactly like all the other cavendish varieties I have, just smaller. The TT (purchased from Wellspring) looks obviously different.