Last year I grew a "truly tiny" dwarf musa in 5-1-1 and it thrived pretty well. Started as a tiny plant (maybe 3 inches tall, with a few spindly leaves, looked half dead) in May, was about 3 ft wide and high, putting out leaves over 18" long each week by the end of August. I grew it as an annual, for fun, due to my zone and lack of space to overwinter it. I gave it lots of fertilizer and water, had to repot three times between may and september, did not realize how fast it would grow. Daniel

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1. How long does it take for to develop fruit after planting? Depends on the size of your plant. If it's a small tissue culture 4"-16" if on a good regime of regular feeding maybe in a 1.5-2 years. If it's a pup that's pretty big 2'-3', then it should fruit next season after planting. But this also depends on the variety, a short cycle type of banana like veinte cohol(only 2 months for blooming then ripening) can fruit the first season if you get a big pup 2'-3'+. There might be some other short cycle ones too( I think raja puri is one as well) Oh almost forgot, flowering will be in late spring or summer and takes fruits 4-6 months to develop/ripen, but a lot of people just cut the whole bunch off before winter, when you good see color change on the bananas otherwise they will sometime have splitting issues if ripen on the plant and uneven ripening. 2. Can we expect to have several fruiting per year? Not the first season, since only the main stalk/plant will produce, then the whole plant will died off. However if you keep more than one pup for next season maybe several will bloom and you will have multiple fruiting cycle from summer till fall. But from a lot of banana hobbyist's post on the banana forum that i've read, they like to only keep 1-3 pups for the next season and dig the other pups up or top them off.