Re: Helen's Hybrid Update
I suppose that depends on where you are located and how long your growing season is. The short answer for where I live is no. I don't now enough about it to suggest how it might behave in other climates.
This hybrid is a relatively hardy supposed cross between a tender edible and a cold hardy ornamental. As such it apparently produces an edible, seedy banana which I have not yet seen. Someday I hope to be able to sample the fruit from it but at this point I can not say whether it is worth growing for its fruit. I would suspect if you are most interested in banana fruit and are going to go through the trouble of growing and fruiting a banana, regardless of where you live, I would look into other, more well known and reliably understood edible cultivars.
Don't get me wrong, this is a beautiful plant and it grows rapidly in our summer climate in spite of the cool nights, which is why I grow it, but I am certainly not holding my breath for fruit.
Have a look through the wiki and previous threads and you will find all kinds of information on growing bananas in just about any climate.
Good luck and have fun
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