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06-16-2009, 03:43 PM | #81 (permalink) |
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Re: Surprise Texas Star Banana shipment from Ty Ty Nursery
Good luck with your Texas Star bananas! I ordered some from TyTy years ago and they turned out to be M. Ornata. They did survive several Zone 8 winters with protection but the ones I left in the ground perished this winter in a true Zone 7 winter.
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Re: Surprise Texas Star Banana shipment from Ty Ty Nursery
So what happened with the Texas Stars?
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03-13-2011, 05:37 PM | #83 (permalink) |
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Re: Surprise Texas Star Banana shipment from Ty Ty Nursery
well to sum up things without stirring up anything.. it's good to be careful of who you deal with. this applies to buying or trading.. an honest person will at least own up to or offer to make good on mistakes.
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03-13-2011, 07:36 PM | #84 (permalink) |
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Re: Surprise Texas Star Banana shipment from Ty Ty Nursery
I have 2 Texas Star ? The problem is there's no pic's of this plants flower or fruit.So if mine fruit and turn out to be Orinoco ,did I not get Texas Star or is there no such thing ?
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Re: Surprise Texas Star Banana shipment from Ty Ty Nursery
Texas Star - Banana tree Banana Plants Texas Star Banana tree grows 6-8 ft. tall with tasty, medium size fruit, and produces a sweet flavor. The original trees of the Texas Star banana were obtained from Central Texas. Cold hardy. Approx. 10" to 12" plant with leaves and soil shipped.
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The TX Stars, in the meantime remained at the under 5 ft height into the following Winter, and turned brown as the weather got colder. So did my 5 year old Dwarf Orinoco and D. Brazilian that were trailing it in height. I just left them as they were and withheld watering, thinking that it might go into hybernation. That same Winter, I kept the CA Gold indoors and the pups stayed green. As fate would have it, I lost my job and was pre-occupied in job hunting that I neglected my plants. So by the folowing Spring, I had lost most of my plants, including many bananas. The TX Stars, D. Orinoco, D. Brazilians, even the Thomsonii and CA Hardy (it was over 4 ft tall), were just a hole in their respective pots. The CA Gold was doing great when I moved it to Richland, WA where I'm currently working, but last Summer I slowly placed it to more sunny spot and all the leaves burned frjom the intense Richland sunshine. I brought it back to its original shady spot and they re grew new leaves. In November last year, the plants ithat I brought with me in Richland were taken indoors in my living room. All this Winter, the CA Gold did great until two months ago, it was infested with spider mites, and they almost whithered away. Several other bananas were infested as well, and in fact died. The 2 CA Golds are still struggling but I think that they will survive. I had several banana varieties that were left behind in my home in Seattle, and for a while all were doing great. When the temps dipped in the single digits, all but the TyTy Gold that I got from Richard and one !000 Fingers died. Both are indoors in my house in Seattle and are sporting new leaves. If my work situation becomes more stable, and I can complete my home project in Seattle, I will definitely order several corms of TX Stars from TyTy. That time will probably come when I'm close to retirement. If only I could have retired a couple of years ago. ( Sigh!) Hope Harvey can give an update on how his TX Stars are doing. Also, big thanks to Tony for his update. Hope he can get some bloom/fruit this year! Did you get yours from Ty Ty or TX? I tried emailing the source from TX several years ago, but she never responded. |
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I bought their Greenhouse Business book, and I didn't find anything new in it. I'm not complaining. They're practicing what they preach. I really know of only two sources of TX Star - GA and TX. Unless GB got their stock from either source and TC'd them, I will be skeptical as to whether it's the same as the one from Ty Ty. Harvey got several pups of TX Star from a grower from UT after I posted his pictures here. The grower indicated that he got his stock from TyTy. Thanks again. |
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