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Could someone tell me what type of edible banana would be easiest to grow in St. Louis.
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In St. Lois you are dependant on beeing able to store bananas inside during winter -if you want fruit. You plant them out in April/May and take them in at the end of September, depending on first and last frost.
This means you want a cultivar that goes into dormancy easily. You don't want a cultivar that starts growing at cool temperatures. Other members here probably have more experience on this than me, but from what I've read it seems brazilian, goldfinger, and apple are well suited to this. Offcourse, there is also the famous orinoco. Ironically, these are also said to be relatively cold hardy bananas compared to for example cavendish type bananas. But beeing able to go into dormancy is way more important than cold-hardiness in this equation.
Erlend