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Originally Posted by bastconsulting@gmail.com
Hi, I would like to learn the difference between a plant from tissue and one that grows from the corm, if any. Don't they all need the corm to grow?
Thank You!
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A tissue culture (TC) is a clone taken from tissue of a plant and grown in a sterile lab condition until sold to a nursery in bulk. They are tiny plants with about a dime sized corm. They are less expensive because they are tiny and very low cost to ship. They can make millions of TC plantlets off one pup. They are handled and sold a couple times so sometimes there is "mix ups" or sellers will sell the varieties they have as other varieties just to make $$$. They can do it because you will most likely not know about until the banana fruits say 2 years later.
A pup is also a clone of the mother plant. It is taken directly off the mother plant the natural way. It is usually more expensive because of the shipping. In my openion the best thing about corms is you know where they came from. The seller can show you the mother plant it was removed from and show your its fruit or even taste the fruit. Also the corm size is as big as a softball +-. It also has a much better survival rate than a TC because it has the corm as a backup. Even if the pup dies you have a good chance it will send up pups. The negative is it can have problems if you live in the tropics or even Florida etc.