Hi Bananaman! Thank you for the Welcome.
I'm west of Houston, and although I would LOVE you take you up on the pups, our yard just isn't very big. I want to wait and see how big these things actually get!
Just to give you an idea, our yard, while quite long, is only about 20' wide. We removed over 60 trees from it!!! Most seemed to be from a hedge palnting that went out of control. They were mostly about 3-4" at the base, but there was a huge maple threateneing the pool, and several very large pine trees. So we cleaned it out and started from scratch.
By all accounts the bananas grow really fast - so I don't want to fill the yard just yet! Maybe next year. I have a feeling bananas are addictive!