Re: starting out
Hmmmm, true that it might be more at the stores, but on the net you have to pay for shipping, and usually bananas will reqiure a recovery time, sometimes over 3 months before it will begin to grow again. I honestly would suggest purchasing one that doesn't have to be shipped over one that does for the recovery fact alone, but it all depends on the variety you want. Sometimes they wont recover at all, but that's not common, but it is a risk. Usually if you buy them in the stores, they need to be repotted quickly into a larger pot as the pots can become roots only and no dirt. I think for bananas you must keep them into a large pot, like a 7.5-10 gallon or more. I will say this though, ones in the stores are tissue cultures, which aren't as vigorous, but their pups are, ones purchased as a corm are more hardy. Definately anyone that is here most likely would sell you a corm, and some websites like webebananas.com or goingbananas.com are some good sites that most of their plants are corms and not tissue cultures. Good luck!
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