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Originally Posted by jeffreyp
TC plugs will grow very quickly given good soil, water, fertilizer, and warm temps. Ideally (if you live in a cool/cold climate) they should be grown in increasingly larger pots in a green house or by a sunny window sil. Under these aforementioned contions, tc plugs will grow just as fast to fruit as a corm.
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I hate to disagree with jeffrey, but I still have yet to see the tc plugs grow and bloom as fast as the average pups that I get from exchanges. It is always 3 to 4 years before they bloom, and my bananas pups grow crazy here. If I were to plant those TC plugs in the ground directly, they won't survive after one winter. I will have to do a labor intensive loving care of potting and repotting them until they're big enough to go into the ground, and the potting and repotting takes about 2 years alone.
There is one best online nursery ever, and I got most of my TC plants from them, these are the
www.going-bananas.com. Their TC plants are expensive, but they are no way called plugs, are very large and can be planted directly. With all of that headstart, still took about 3 years to bloom at the fastest. If ever I would obtain good TC plantlets, I would order from these guys.
When a TC plug gets damaged, like the pseudostem broken in half, mine did not survive. Doesn't grow back from corm, as their corms are microscopic.
You can tie a banana pup to the back of your car, drag it around the block, and then plant it, it will grow. Tie a TC plug the same way, there would be nothing left to plant, and if there is, it will not grow.