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Originally Posted by Tytaylor77
After that mat/plant has been established however the ratoon will produce how much faster than a new TC? On average as a guess would you say? There is no comparison to new TC.
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The ratoon shoot would probably be faster than a sucker planted, but it's hard to compare to a non-specified tissue culture plant as the plant sizes can vary widely. Counting time to fruiting from planting is difficult to predict exactly when considering different sizes of starter plants.
As a thought experiment, consider if a plant is growing in the nursery for 3 months and then planted in the ground and only takes 7 months to fruit. That is fast compared to 10 months for a new sucker on a mat in the field, but then again you aren't counting the 3 months spent in the nursery, so in reality they are equal. Alternatively, a sucker which is separated from the mat and transplanted when it has already been growing for 3 months would also see a reduced time to fruiting.
A new tissue culture plant can be very fast, but comparing their physiological age to a given sucker can be difficult.