Thanks for the welcome!
The bananas we have are (I think) all the same thing, they have come to us thru swaps and the generosity of others, most of whom live south of us in zone 9. We were not sure how to overwinter them, we left one or 2 in the ground and noticed they are slower to come back in the spring, Ken dug a couple of them last year and put them in feed sacks and stored them in the unheated brooder house (we raise peafowl as well). They came along quickly as soon as we planted them out again. One plant he left in the ground and put a round cage around and filled it with dry leaves, then he put another (smaller in diameter) round cage on that and filled it with leaves. It looked like a strange two-tier wedding cake all winter. That banana has produced several large pups, it has not shown any signs of wanting to bloom. It's pretty good sized, maybe 12 feet or so?
