Dwarf Cavendish
The familiar sweet grocery-banana flavor, on a short plant you can net or cover.
This variety
The fruit
The familiar sweet grocery-banana flavor, on a short plant you can net or cover.
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- Taste
- The familiar sweet grocery-banana flavor, on a short plant you can net or cover.
- Ripens
- Ready when the hands fill out and the last flower end has dried. Ripen warm, not in the refrigerator.
- Zones
- Zones 9 to 11.
- Hardiness
- Leaves shred in wind and burn at freezing. This is not a cold-climate banana.
- Size
- About 6 to 8 feet. The name is the height of the plant, not the size of the fruit.
- Tips
- Full sun, plenty of water, and compost. After you cut the bunch, chop the mother stalk and leave the pieces as mulch.
- Pollination
- No partner needed.