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Originally Posted by jason
I have had a musa dwarf that only gets about 8 feet tall in my house for almost 5 years it has never seen outside and does great and gives me about 6 pups a year! but never will it fruit!!! thats the only downside.
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GROOVY! 
You and I need to talk!
(And I think we should do it out here in the open so that others in our same situation can possibly benefit too)
Help me out here...I've been growing for a while, but I'm a newbie to the jargon.
What's a musa 'dwarf'? What is the specific variety name?
At your Indiana home, do you have lots of skylights and /or picture windows?
How do you heat your home in the winter? And at what temp range?
Do you do anything special in the
dry winter months to help preserve / maintain the moisture needs of your 8' musa dwarf?
Finally, do you notice a discernable
'perking up' of your indoor banana tree as the season gradually moves from winter towards summer?
Congrats on your consistant pup success!
I only get pups inside the house once in a while... and as I said mine are basjoos I've been moving in and out incessantly for years now.
Fruit?
Not worried about that for now.
Maybe that will be my 2009 resol
nanalution, who knows?
I just want permanent exterior hardy naners ( I assume those will probably be basjoos);
and the permanent interior ones as well.