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radar4075 · 03-18-2013, 11:38 AM

Hay all
I live in nj and have several bananas in doors the dwarf red will run about 5 to 8 ft. In a 30 gallon pot.they will also be about 5 ft. Wide . You can keep the weight done by using mirical grow pot mix mix in a bag of palm and cactus mix and about 20% purlight.
Reds will flower and produce with the light and food and warmth and it seams to take 2 years + to get them to the fruit stage .
I. Use a smaller room in my home that has lots of south facing windows I have a extra heater that keeps it about 80 in the day and 68 at night also humidifier to keep it between 60 and 80.
I give fish amoltion every 2 weeks or so and banana fuel about the same .
I try and give them about 2 mouths of down time a year to try and simulate the season.it seems to work well. Happy growing

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radar4075 Location: new jersey Zone: 7 Name: Matthew Brown Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 52 BananaBucks : 14,341 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 30 Times Was Thanked 19 Times in 17 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 9 Times	Re: Is it possible to fruit a Red Dwarf indoors? Hay all I live in nj and have several bananas in doors the dwarf red will run about 5 to 8 ft. In a 30 gallon pot.they will also be about 5 ft. Wide . You can keep the weight done by using mirical grow pot mix mix in a bag of palm and cactus mix and about 20% purlight. Reds will flower and produce with the light and food and warmth and it seams to take 2 years + to get them to the fruit stage . I. Use a smaller room in my home that has lots of south facing windows I have a extra heater that keeps it about 80 in the day and 68 at night also humidifier to keep it between 60 and 80. I give fish amoltion every 2 weeks or so and banana fuel about the same . I try and give them about 2 mouths of down time a year to try and simulate the season.it seems to work well. Happy growing