Duke21

It sounds like you want to commercially grow them?
I have a suggestion if you like. The climate in C. Fla. will make it extremely difficult to grow bananas for sale. Do you have a greenhouse?

I do this for a living in C.America. 90,000,000lbs/year. My belief is that it could be done if you have cooperating weather and are not trying to make $ on the crop. I would try to have a annual crop with planting as soon as frost let's you. The trick would be to plant a sword sucker at this time that would be just forming wide leaves. That would take having these plants available and ready to plant.

You would probably need a green house for this or an available supply of suckers to get the timing correct to take the sucker from the mother plant. One plant one sucker would give you the best odds with the sucker.

Fertilize them, water them, and put drainage within the plot. The idea, of course, would be to have a crop before the frost in the fall/winter. You then should have a supply of suckers to store over winter to replant in the spring.

I can give more details or try to make myself clearer, if you would like.