harveyc

I've got a couple of bananas that are supposedly Texas Star. I got them from someone who got his original plants from Ty Ty several years ago. I kept one in the greenhouse this winter and the other got planted in the ground last fall even though it was a somewhat weak pup at the time, maybe 1.5" in diameter. We got down to 25F this past winter and it held up very well and started growing fairly early this spring even though it was a cool spring. The greenhouse plant is larger, understandably, and I'll probably plant it right next to the other one.

Ty Ty is a nursery of poor integrity, it seems, but it would appear that they simply gave a name to some strain of banana growing in Texas for which there was no known name. Same as what Jeff Earl did with his California Gold. At least it helps us keep track of them instead of calling them "unknown banana No. 1", etc.

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