Russel,
I understand your confusion, let me explain, we can sell annually about 50.000 musa velutina's maybe even more... if we had them!!! we do sell about 30.000 M basjoo, and as much M sikkimensis as we can lay our hands on plantlets,
usually we buy micropropagated plantlets from different sources, but they keep letting us down. hence all the effort to do it ourselves. Our business is in the netherlands. we have a website
www.floresinterra.nl its in dutch. We breed about 250 different plants and are very dependent on irregular micropropagators. this forum is very helpfull to me as it comes to bananas. People have offered to give us seeds before however at the quantities we need it becomes a bit of a problem, fresh seeds germinate no problem but we have tried 25.000 seeds last year with no result whatsoever. Its not that they cost a lot but all the effort man....phew...
We generally grow the plants until the are about 50 cm to a meter. we have a green house about 1 square km. We sell to garden centra and shops not directly to the general public.
hope to have cleared it up... any suggestions on seeds are welcome..
dave