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Originally Posted by Gabe15
And another thing, all of these mini dwarf Cavendish types are pretty much junk for fruit production as far as I've experienced. The are finicky, tend to only fruit under optimum pristine conditions, and are liable to just give up and die back for the fun of it.
However, there are other mini bananas out there which are normal cultivars, and don't have any problem producing fruit. I'm slowly working on a way to introduce these into the nursery trade in a way that is useful to the communities they come from (so please don't bother me about getting them!). One in particular fruits at 2-3ft tall, and my colleague who collected it with me reports that it fruits in about 4months from planting.
I'll just leave this here as a teaser. 
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Gabe, what is amazing about your 'tease' banana is that it does not look like a dwarf banana at all; instead, it just looks like a very small banana. It reminds me of the difference between a dwarf person, and a midget person - a dwarf looks somewhat out of proportion, yet a midget looks small but still mostly proportional. The exception on your plant, though, is the bananas are large compared with the size of the plant. It's a beautiful little thing! What other naturally small size bananas have you discovered? That little plant is a total knockout! Oh, and by the way, is it an ABB, AAB, or what?