Umpah

Ken
I’m a newbie too. I live on the North Phoenix-Glendale border. I ordered my first banana a few months ago, an Ice Cream/Blue Java. I potted it and put it outside where it would get morning sun only. It lasted about 2 weeks and bent in the middle and died. The next week the corm put up two water suckers that I’m still working with. The next month I got the Dwarf Nam Wah that I had ordered. It‘s potted in full shade on the north side of the house and doing fine. It came in with 2 leaves and now has 8 and a new one popping out. I have a Dwarf Orinoco, which I ordered like all of them, on the internet. It’s potted and kept inside under a grow light. It’s doing just fine. I had a Dwarf Red on order forever a month that arrived USPS Friday. I potted it up and it’s inside with the Orinoco and just starting to put up a new leaf. All of these were received either through the US Mail or UPS. I’m retired and was home for all the deliveries so nothing stayed on the porch cooking too long but the boxes were all hot from storage and transport. I’d say pick one that doesn’t cost a lot and go for it. I‘ve ordered 9 other plants over the internet over the last 5 months and all but one are doing ok. The dead one was a blueberry shipment that wasn’t in good shape when it got here but from the packaging and the condition of the plants I thought (and later confirmed) it was from a bad nursery.
Good Luck
Norm in Glendale AZ