[ButterflyLion]

Here's an article about hardy bananas. Some bear edible bananas. Have any of you grown banana plants that produced ripe bananas? One year we had bananas form but they didn't mature:

The Hardy Banana Plant - Best Cultivars

by Dennis Carey and Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery Inc.

Here at Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden we grow a wide variety of cold-tolerant (in USDA zone 7 or 8 at least) cultivars of the hardy banana plant. ...

Musa 'Orinoco'. This amazing banana is one of the most cold hardy of the edible fruiting bananas, commonly grown for fruit in the US Gulf Coast region. Musa 'Orinoco' amazes visitors with its nice fruit clusters in our Zone 7 garden. For us, a height of 10' is common, although Musa 'Orinoco' can reach 21' in more hospitable climates. In the colder climates, cut the banana fruit stalk before the first frost, and keep it indoors in a bucket of water until the fruit ripens. In Zone 7, I recommend surrounding the trunks with a 3'-4' tall cage filled with leaves to preserve next year's fruiting stalks. (Sun, Zone 8-10, colder with protection)


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[ButterflyLion]

This type only gets 2 feet tall and bears small bananas:

http://www.floridahi...ive-plant-p-254