meizzwang

It really depends on when their supplier, Agristarts, releases more material. It also depends on whether Florida Hill Nursery (FHN) gets to these starts before other buyers.

While there's no way to prove the following hypothesis, it wouldn't be shocking if FHN purchases several flats of a few varieties and then lists them as having many different varieties. When someone orders a TC start, it seems FHN selects material to ship out based on which plants look the best at the time but not necessarily what variety was ordered. This is why FHN have quite a few good reviews: buyers get a good looking plant in the mail, and think they got what they ordered. It takes 2-3 years after the purchase to verify what variety you received, and even that, it requires an expert to properly ID it.

I was happy with my purchases for months afterwards...took a while to find out the truth.....

Benefits of buying a TC start from Florida Hill Nursery:
1) Initially costs less than purchasing a corm or sword sucker (Save approx. $5-$15 per plant)
2) If you are a skilled grower, don't care what variety you get, and don't care how long it takes to produce bananas, this is a good way to acquire a desirable fruiting variety (well, most of the time they'll send you a variety that can fruit). Agristarts has released highly desirable varieties in the past.
3) TC starts typically are virus and disease free
4) they'll send you a healthy start
5) they typically ship pretty quickly.

Downside of Buying TC Starts from Florida Hill Nursery:
1) Very unlikely you'll get the variety you ordered. Even if you did, they sometimes come mutated from the tissue culture process. It usually takes years before you can ID the variety, which requires patience and access to experts. Even if you go through the whole process, you may never find out what you got because banana ID can be challenging.
2) In non-tropical climates, it takes skill and experience to harden off a TC start. Some amateur growers won't keep the start alive for more than a few weeks.
3) In non-tropical climates, expect to add at least an extra year of growing before reaching flowering size compared to starting with corms or sword suckers. You'll save $5-$15 initially, but overall it'll cost more to produce fruit from a start because of the significant extra time investment. note: This may not be true in some sub-tropical zones:it may be warm enough where your TC start will get very big the first grow season.
4) plants have arrived from FHN with spider mites.
5) In most non-tropical climates, it's difficult to get TC starts to a big enough size the first year to tolerate cool winters (keep in mind, all else equal, the larger the pseudostem, the more cold hardy the plant becomes).