I'm more than happy to share all my pictures. I take detailed pictures to document the rooting and growth times. It was a rootless cleaned corm. That is why I am reporting since I took the gamble buying it. But it paid off. This corm has rooted in coarse sand faster than any before it!
I do not know the seller or profit in any way from them selling. I just have just bought from them before and I'm sharing my experience to help others. I didn't like how the listing description was either. I now believe it was due to language barrier. English is not their first language. They was still able to communicate ok with me.
MDA/Mike in Flordia is somehow connected to them maybe related? I'm not sure. The seller told me the plants were originally from Mike/MDA. That would make them the exact same clone and source as yours right PR-Giants? So that makes them the same clone/plant as yours. If yours are anything special these are also. Just so no one is confused.
Mike/MDA I have been extremely happy with. I have purchased 4 plants from him now. All arrived fine. He DOES secure the pot or foil wrapped rootball to the box. My plants have been very secure and packaged great. All are in amazing condition and have been growing great. He is a great eBay seller and really appreciates his buyers and their business. He will go out of his way to help you and thank you! Which is hard to find. Some ebay sellers you spend several hundred dollars with and never hear a "Thank You". The only thanks you get is being blocked from even viewing their listings. I'm just happy there are lots of options for potential buyers and collectors so we don't have to deal with childish sellers like those.
Here are the pictures and I will describe them and lay out a time frame:
3/20/2017 - Here is when I received my cleaned corm from the Puerto Rico eBay seller in question. It's on the right side! The one on the left is a mystery variegated shipped by a friend directly from Cambodia! I'm excited to see what it ends up being. I have 2 new variegated corms from the friend in Cambodia. Both shipments came in on the same day! Very good day!!
3/26/2017 - Next is the day the Puerto Rico eBay corm in question rooted. You will notice it was 6 days! That's my corm rooting record. A few friends can verify because I was very very excited about it! Only 6 days in sand in March! Amazing! I call that a very very good corm. I moved it to my potting mix this day. I only use sand for rooting.
4/10/17 - it's pushing. This corm was rooted outside so it wasn't as warm as it could have been in March-April. Still not bad for the time of year.
4/27/17 Here is a current picture taken a couple days ago. You can see the variegation up the pstem. I can't wait to see a big leaf. Can't tell from the pic but the top shows variegation also.
You can compare the quality to this corm. PR-Giants is questioning the quality of my corms and what I say requesting I show proof when if you really want to compare corms here is my AEAE Manini corm from PR-Giants himself. Also purchased off eBay and I paid WAY more for it than others! You will notice it's pretty small to begin with. All chopped and cut to pieces (not sure why) and he dug his knife into it and removed/cored out 2 nubs (future pups). No clue why he does this to his corms. Please explain PR? What does this benefit? I hear it's a (dirty sellers trick) to make sure you do not get pups for a long time. Also he can (steal) your pups from your purchased corm and root them to sell to someone else. I would NEVER think of doing this to a "customer". It allows disease to enter the hole and sets back rooting. You say "SOMETHING SEEMS A LITTLE ODD" Now THIS seems a little odd to me! Please explain why you do this to all your corms? You can see the cored out hole on the right and there is another in the back you can't see in the pic. I didn't even complain about my $150 pup I just did the best I could with it.
Next is from the other seller MDA in Florida. This is the day my variegated dwarf namwa arrived! Great condition. Root ball tightly wrapped.
Next here is the dwarf namwa today. Beautiful plant. In the sun and in some of the white areas if it hits just right you see pink! It's awesome.
Next from MDA also. Tall Namwa. Day it arrived.
Next from MDA also. Variegated Basjoo pup! Not TC plant. Day it arrived. It arrived 3'+ maybe 4' tall shipped complete. Not a leaf cut just like all his plants!
Next is the variegated basjoo today. Beautiful plant!
There is my pics. Sorry most are for my records and wasn't taken for public viewing. Please excuse any mess or ugly pictures. I use pictures for all my documentation. Dates, growth, etc. Please anyone feel free to PM me about any of the plants or for any reason. I always love talking bananas so your no bother!
Hope all this helped.
Do I get anything for the longest post ever?
