Originally Posted by MinnesotaNole

This spring my son wanted to get a banana tree. Living in Minnesota I thought this was crazy, but I saw on a site I have bought many trees from that a dwarf cavendish could be grown in a pot outdoors in the summer and brought inside for the winter, so I thought why not. The plant was doing great outside, its sprouted up to about 5ft tall. Fast forward to today, we have moved the plant inside next to our sliding glass door in our kitchen/dining room. Now the leaves are starting to turn brown and starting to die off. I am just wondering if anyone might have some thoughts what I can do to help this plant survive the winter until I can get it back outside. I have cut back on watering it, only watering when the top inch or two of the soil is dry. Do you think its not getting enough sunlight, do I need to go buy a grow light? We keep the house around 70 degrees in the winter. Hopefully the images posted show up.

Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated.