Sweet Heart Banana Live Plant - Musa - Wellspring Gardens Starter Plant - Easy to Grow Starter Plants Great for Nature Lovers & Gardeners - Outdoor Planting in Home, Garden, Patio & Yard

Plants were well-packaged, with masking-taped moist dirt, and arrived in very good condition. Box said Live Plants in big letters on outside. Trees came 8" tall with three leaves each. Trees have been growing one new leaf every week, and are now up to five leaves each. I would buy from this seller again.Note that these banana leaves seem to be naturally tiger-striped maroon over green. At first I thought they were suffering from fertilizer burn, but after they've grown large, it's clear that the purple-brown patches are on purpose. Obviously so they can hide in the jungle, and not be seen.Would like to see a YouTube on how to plant banana trees properly. Apparently they eat lots of fertilizer.We put two bags of manure cut into the ground under each.Update 1: In tropical Florida, both plants have grown from 8" to 3' tall so far in about 5 months. They are strapping ridiculously healthy. We get hot, baking sun and punishing rainstorms, and they just eat it up. Very very satisfied. I would buy from this vendor again.Update 2: Seven months later, and both plants are 7' tall now. One of them is sending out sword suckers already, its babies are only 6" tall, we're going to wait until the suckers are 2' tall then cut them out and replant them, have a forest of banana trees, woohoo. The banana is apparently a grass, like a bamboo, with a rhizome, and it just grows obscenely fast. They're distantly related to both canna lilies and ginger. The secret seems to be to bury them with enough cow manure fertilizer to kill any ordinary plant, again we cut one entire bag into the sand in a 2.5' hole underneath each shoot, then poured another entire bag into a Valley Forge fort ring about 3' diameter on top of the soil around each planting, to keep rainwater in and give it extras for grow power. Then sometimes we throw dead banana-peel wrappers at the ground in front of it, to encourage it to think about potassium. Hurricane-level watering helps as well, as does baking sun. The one with more sun is taller. These guys are my favorite pets now. Still waiting for the fruit. They really require tropical conditions, it seems.Update 3, Oct '21 We had a cold snap last December, 40 deg F, and lost the 2/3 of the leaves. But the plants kept going. A year an a half later, one is 10' high and one is 8', and they've decided to fruit.The banana bunches are about 3' long and there's about 120 bananas on each tree. But they're all going to come ripe at once. So only around 20 will be useful; maybe the rest can go to a food kitchen. So far each banana is 5" long, you have to wait patiently for them to grow. Did I mention the heavy fertilizer. The trees keep throwing off suckers. I have cut off and replanted two suckers this spring, and now they are 4' and 3' tall, also ridiculously healthy. Wait until the sucker is close to 2' tall, then carefully dig down around it and cut it off from the main tree. A carpenter's reciprocating saw works wonders, and it turns out that it will vibrate and cut through the sand underneath the root. If you don't mind trashing your blade. Of course, only cut off one sucker at a time, so the main tree has time to gather its strength and re-grow. The suckers come back, and I now have two more suckers on each main tree.Apparently it's recommended that you cut the big purple "Eat Me" heart off the end of the bloom-stalk after you get about 100 bananas, as it will keep trying to throw off mini-bananas 1" long, and absorb energy that could be used to make the first bananas fatter.Apparently the main tree is scheduled to die back down to the root after it fruits once, at the end of its second year. So leave at least one replacement sucker for each tree. These are currently 3' tall.These things eat up punishing sun that scorches most other plants. They continue to be ridonculously healthy, not eaten by beetles, aphids, nor fungus. Definitely a warm-weather plant. Very very happy. This is one of the best things I've bought from Amazon in the last 5 years.Edit 2024: We have had bad luck in Central Florida, with a cold-snap coming below freezing one day a year in January. Which kills the banana fruit that sets in the fall, before it gets big enough to eat. But this year one of the plants finally set in the spring. And now in July we have a bunch of about 80 Chiquita bananas that are full-sized, dark green, and getting ready to be ripe. Woo hoo! And each of the originals--with leaves to 10' tall--continues to throw off multiple slow runners, making a small forest that will guarantee replacements when the main shoots die off. The SawsAll is best for taking down a shoot after it dies off and turns completely brown.The 2 tiny pups that got replanted two years ago have not taken off yet, they are only 5' tall. Different location, under an oak tree--maybe they are not getting enough sun. But they are throwing off their own pups slowly as well. At some point there will be a hedge of banana trees on that side. All from two 9" purchases. Central Florida FTW. This continues to be one of the most delightful purchases I've ever made.

I originally purchased this item on September 9th. It arrived on September 15th. It had two leaves which looked a bit limp and yellow to me. I transplanted it that day and by the evening it had wilted on me and did not look very good. By the next day, it had bent over and looked like it was about done. I contacted the sellers and they responded immediately and requested some information and photographs of the plant. They offered a replacement and I accepted it. The replacement arrived September 24th. It looked much healthier. The leaves looked firm and green. It arrived with two leaves also and it is now the 18th of October and it is already unfurling its 6th leaf! It looks healthy and is growing very fast. I appreciate their customer service, and their prompt resolution. I also am very happy with the productUpdate November 14, 2016.The plant is doing just fine. I've had it now for 2 months and it is growing very fast. The leaves are getting rather large. The longest one is 16 inches now. I am growing it indoors in minnesota. I will update the progressUpdate Jan 16, 2017The plant is quickly outgrowing my pot in my aquaponics tank. I will have to figure out what to do with it. This is a 4 month old plant now and it is very very healthy

More than a little disappointed in this company, as I reached out to them but never received a reply. When I received this plant in was in a plastic bag in a box, no packing material. The first thing I noticed is that two of the three leaves were cut. As if someone had cut off the dead parts of the leaves. That should have been a red flag but I don't know much about banana trees. I have 40 plus household plants, most 3-4 years old so I known sometimes cutting off dead leaves is beneficial to the plant. Within two days the stem was turning black. The plant was obviously dying three days after I potted it. another two and the leaves were gone. I have always wanted a banana tree.

I purchased this one year ago. The plant is healthy and rapidly growing. Already has three pups. Looking forward to tasting the bananas. Shouldn’t be to long.

well they put the product actually in your mailbox, NOT your front porch!! thats fine though, its covered in some paper and a thick layer of cardboard. just a disclaimer, your banana tree is going to be TINYYY! but my banana tree came in and like 2 of its leaves were yellow and limp. im not sure if this is for everyones plant but yours might be different due to the circumstances. but i heard the type of banana grows an inch a day! also i heard it tastes yummy. so go ahead and buy it if you live in a warm nice place and you wanta fast growing banana plant!