harveyc

I think the warm corner would be your better option for an indoor banana unless you wanted to add lighting. The heat is not a problem but the air might be drier than it likes. I haven't read of anyone fruiting one indoors yet but you can be a first.

Both soil and ambient temperatures are important if you want to produce fruit. Temps in the mid to lower 20s will usually kill the psuedostem and probably eliminate you chance for producing fruit since they need to start out at a decent size in the spring to flower early enough for fruiting. Most bananas will take 5-6 months to mature after flowering, so that leaves you with lit.tle room to grow and get to bloom. Some, like Senorita, Veinte Cohol, etc. can ripen much quicker but these are probably not cold hardy. If fruit production is very important to you, you may need to dig them up and protect them during the winter and then plant them back out in the spring. Otherwise, many bananas will die back to the corms each winter and you'll just get new nice-looking leaves each year (which is okay if fruit isn't important).

You might do some searching for old threads for discussions on "California Gold", "Texas Star, etc.

Good luck!

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