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Originally Posted by meizzwang
I wonder if selling mis-labeled bananas is an industry-wide trend? So far, out of the 3 different sources that I acquired TC bananas from (local farmer's market, Green Earth Publishing, and Florida Hill Nursery), none of them so far have proven to sell correctly labeled plants (except maybe the raja puri that I got from the Farmer's market). I'm sure it's different when you order TC plants from members here, but the commercial companies seem to either receive mislabeled plants from their source, or they try to market one variety by labeling it with various desirable names. Seems like a perfect scheme since it's hard to prove, and judging by the traffic on this forum, there's a lot of buyers.
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Only if members actually TC the plants from known plants do you have any guarantee. Agristarts and other TC factories apparently grow what they want and sell them as what they want them to be which means someone who purchased one of their specimens years ago innocently sells you a Raji Puri that's really a dreaded DC.
I know people think I'm strange but, having raised figs (you really don't want to go there because IME only Brown Turkeys are reliably labeled), I am just collecting bananas from people who grow them and say they're yummy. I suspect I'll end up with many duplicates but perhaps also some unexpected jewels. We'll see. I'm loathe to trust anyone's word as to what pups they're selling because, odds are, they got their mama plant from a supplier of TCs and that's their ID program. I'm hoping, as I discovered with ficus, that someone smuggled in a really good plant and has grown it for years because it produces worthy fruit which I'll also raise.
Again, we'll see.