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WildernessGreen · Yesterday, 02:08 PM

About a year ago, I started seeing "variegated dwarf cavendish musa aurea" or some sort of mix up of those words in many different TC plant listings from many different sellers. Someone, somewhere is obviously tissue culturing these things, are they actually dwarf cavendish? Has someone figured out how to actually tissue culture variegated dwarf cavendish - that hold their variegation - or are these something else mis-labled?

I tried twice last year-bought 3 of them each time, both times they came in as "straight outa the bag" tiny one inch plugs, less than an inch high. First batch died during shipping, second were dead within days. Just too small and weak to make the transition/shipping to me.

Well this year, these things are still all over the market on ebay, etsy, and elsewhere, and I decided to try again, and bought the biggest one I could find, it just arrived, about 10" high from top of pot. It has some nice variegation. The seller did a lousy job of packing it, allowing it to slide back and forth in the box, so it's a bit beat up, but looks ok.

To my surprise, it came in with 6 tiny pups emerging, and I'm wondering what to do with these 6 little shoots/pups. The main pseudostem is about 1" wide - it's a TC that has obviously been sitting in it's 4" pot for quite some time. I have never seen this many pups trying to emerge from such a small TC plant. The pups range from just emerging, to about 2" high. None have any visible variegation at this time.

I'm leaning towards chopping every one of them of, thinking they might steal energy from such a small main plant?

I tried, but am unable to load pics like I used to, I get an error message after attempting to upload the pic in the members photo gallery.

Thank you for any thoughts and opinions!

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WildernessGreen Location: Northern New Mexico, USA Find me on the map! Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 85 BananaBucks : 19,035 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 63 Times Was Thanked 126 Times in 48 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	Variegated Dwarf Cavendish (?) TC with 6 pups!?!? About a year ago, I started seeing "variegated dwarf cavendish musa aurea" or some sort of mix up of those words in many different TC plant listings from many different sellers. Someone, somewhere is obviously tissue culturing these things, are they actually dwarf cavendish? Has someone figured out how to actually tissue culture variegated dwarf cavendish - that hold their variegation - or are these something else mis-labled? I tried twice last year-bought 3 of them each time, both times they came in as "straight outa the bag" tiny one inch plugs, less than an inch high. First batch died during shipping, second were dead within days. Just too small and weak to make the transition/shipping to me. Well this year, these things are still all over the market on ebay, etsy, and elsewhere, and I decided to try again, and bought the biggest one I could find, it just arrived, about 10" high from top of pot. It has some nice variegation. The seller did a lousy job of packing it, allowing it to slide back and forth in the box, so it's a bit beat up, but looks ok. To my surprise, it came in with 6 tiny pups emerging, and I'm wondering what to do with these 6 little shoots/pups. The main pseudostem is about 1" wide - it's a TC that has obviously been sitting in it's 4" pot for quite some time. I have never seen this many pups trying to emerge from such a small TC plant. The pups range from just emerging, to about 2" high. None have any visible variegation at this time. I'm leaning towards chopping every one of them of, thinking they might steal energy from such a small main plant? I tried, but am unable to load pics like I used to, I get an error message after attempting to upload the pic in the members photo gallery. Thank you for any thoughts and opinions!