Hi - I have a dwarf red cavendish here that I need to trade off before winter- (& before it get's any bigger) would you happen to have any Brugmansia to trade? (those are my passion) lmk! thanks- kasha77

Are you giving your nanner full or very nearly full sun outdoors? If its indoors it may just be too dark where you have it. Give it as much sun as possible. That's all that comes to mind.

I've heard that the variety you have doesn't produce pups OR seeds! But I also heard that if you put the plant under stress (damaging the stem) it should produce some pups...if you do get some seeds from it let me know! Good luck, Brent :)

I got a Red E Ventricosum banana late this spring. It did well in a pot getting quite large. About July I put it in the ground and did okay for awhile then started growing backwards (declining).. its pretty small right now..it really does dislike the hotter night temps as Eric (a previous poster) mentioned. I have grown both the green and red ones from seed in pots in S. Louisiana and they did quite well. They can get huge when they are happy. I'm going to put mine back in a pot again and see if it improves now that the nights are cooling off and it seems to be perking up a little. I think it takes the humidity better in a pot, based on my experiences. I also think they appreciate a little shade in the hottest part of the day here. I also grew these in AZ with basically no humidity and way above 100F temps during the summer they definitely hated that but survived with some shade and a misting system I had set up for my tropicals. My two Zebrina bananas are doing quite well, currently, in the ground and are beautiful. I've killed (or the winter, I should say, killed) 2 Siam Ruby bananas here but that was before I had my greenhouse techniques refined lol. ~Sjn