Re:Tell-Tale TC

Thanks, Glen. I purchased 'On Stage' by mail this spring, and by your
description it was definitely a TC (and wasn't all that cheap, either!).
It's very small, although coming along nicely. Not to start another round
of nurseryman-bashing, but I sure with some of the larger growers would
tell you up front that their plants are first year TC...since it seems to
me that it will require an additional year in the liner before I would feel
comfortable putting it out with the slugs.

Gerry 

At 09:34 AM 6/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>How does one tell whether a purchased plant is TC or grown from divisions?
>>And I'm looking forward to the answers to Sheila's question about TC vs.
>>division..
>>
>>Gerry:
>   The younger TCs are pretty easy to spot. There is much more fine root
>mass, sometimes multiple plants which can be carefully separated without
>cutting, and a clearer symmetry to second year TC plants.Divisions are
>often asymmetrical for a few months. Of course there is no confusing a
>division taken from a mature plant,  and you do  initially have a cut crown
>or bud to indicate that it is a division. None of that on TC. A TC grown on
>for 2 or 3 years becomes  impossible to identify as such, although there
>are some arguments about growth rates  and the appearance of mature
>leaves.With hostas which are fairly stoloniferous it might be a lot more
>difficult to make a determination as to whether it is a "cutting" or TC.
>The clue will almost always be the fine root mass.I would be interested to
>know what professional TCers would have to say.
>Glen Williams
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