Originally Posted by siege2050

Orinoco actually store very well under the house in the crawlspace for 6 1/2 months, bare root, with no soil, roots, water, leaves, or lights after digging them up in fall. Its amazing really to see them still alive after so long in the spring. you just take them out after danger of frost, and dig a hole and plant them. In about 3 weeks they start producing new leaves. Yeah the bananas are going to be pretty close on the ripening, they might be done by then, but not sure.