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sandy0225 · 04-01-2008, 06:52 AM

I think the problem is that the tc's as was said don't have that reserve to fall back on. So you do have to be more careful with them at first because if you overwater, don't fertilize properly, etc, it affects the tc plants more. If you rot the roots, they don't have anything to live on while they grow some new ones like a corm plant does. Even at the same height, say 12" they don't have the corm mass that the pups have. Does that mean that one is better than the other? no, it's just like starting something from seed. If you treat them as seedlings and baby them a little bit, by two feet tall, you really can't tell any difference in their sturdiness.
I appreciate that we can get tc plants though, because it sure would be difficult to get pups of the quantity that we can get tc plants. Some of these bananas would be super rare I'd imagine without it.

04-01-2008, 06:52 AM	#9 (permalink)
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