Musa Basjoo or other large cold hardy aggressive bananas.

[ZPalms]

I thought I'd try this again, hoping somebody might have an aggressive stand of them and willing to send me a pup or 2, I have limited funds but I can handle shipping depending on the cost! thanks!

[JohnAndSancho]

I might buy a couple when it warms up but what I'm stoked for is getting a Raja Puri pup or 2 from @Chester B. 

 

I should get more pups when I throw things in the yard but I don't have Basjoo. I've got Dwarf Cavendish, Red Dacca, Blue Java, a Mekong Giant and an Orinoco.

 

I can tell you Wellspring Gardens is cheap, and give you lots of freebies and their customer service is AMAZING. They're out of all the cool stuff right now but it's February, too. Their Banana Fuel is also like anabolic steroids. I absolutely vouch for the stuff. I have plants that I bought as pups 3 months ago that are taller than me now. Downside is the spider mites love them indoors. 

[ZPalms]

21 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I might buy a couple when it warms up but what I'm stoked for is getting a Raja Puri pup or 2 from @Chester B. 

 

I should get more pups when I throw things in the yard but I don't have Basjoo. I've got Dwarf Cavendish, Red Dacca, Blue Java, a Mekong Giant and an Orinoco.

 

I can tell you Wellspring Gardens is cheap, and give you lots of freebies and their customer service is AMAZING. They're out of all the cool stuff right now but it's February, too. Their Banana Fuel is also like anabolic steroids. I absolutely vouch for the stuff. I have plants that I bought as pups 3 months ago that are taller than me now. Downside is the spider mites love them indoors. 

I was hoping somebody on here would have some to sell to me or something, those prices are pretty steep for me on there 😭

[JohnAndSancho]

19 minutes ago, ZPalms said:

I was hoping somebody on here would have some to sell to me or something, those prices are pretty steep for me on there 😭

They're not too bad, $20 or so plus free shipping plus a free plant. My first order they also sent me a coupon for a free banana. I got a Red Dacca in November and it's as tall as I am now, but like, I'm also really fortunate that I've got that whole grow room to play with too. 

 

But I absolutely pinky promise that anybody who owns a Basjoo has pups that they absolutely want to get rid of 😂

[ZPalms]

15 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

They're not too bad, $20 or so plus free shipping plus a free plant. My first order they also sent me a coupon for a free banana. I got a Red Dacca in November and it's as tall as I am now, but like, I'm also really fortunate that I've got that whole grow room to play with too. 

 

But I absolutely pinky promise that anybody who owns a Basjoo has pups that they absolutely want to get rid of 😂

20$ is a lot! 😂 10$ would be more like it! I'd be ok with a musa basjoo pup though, That website has none in stock currently 🙁

[ZPalms]

The more I look at the website though the more convinced I am but they don't have the options I want 😭

[JohnAndSancho]

2 hours ago, ZPalms said:

The more I look at the website though the more convinced I am but they don't have the options I want 😭

Yeah they grow from tissue culture and everything is out of stock due to winter but I absolutely vouch for them. And you're probably gonna spend that much on shipping anyway honestly. UPS and USPS have both gone up and USPS' new business model seems to be "how far away can we ship this package from where it's going?" I bought some tissue culture bananas, paid extra for the heat pack and the insulation, paid for the priority shipping, and they spent 4 days in New Jersey for some reason. I got refunded for the plants. 😑 

[ZPalms]

2 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Yeah they grow from tissue culture and everything is out of stock due to winter but I absolutely vouch for them. And you're probably gonna spend that much on shipping anyway honestly. UPS and USPS have both gone up and USPS' new business model seems to be "how far away can we ship this package from where it's going?" I bought some tissue culture bananas, paid extra for the heat pack and the insulation, paid for the priority shipping, and they spent 4 days in New Jersey for some reason. I got refunded for the plants. 😑 

That makes me nervous for tissue culture, Im pretty sure when I bought my musa basjoo from PDN it was probably tissue cultured and I'm sure you may have seen back when my musa basjoo was sick from day 1. which no faults on them maybe I got a bad one but yeah... you seem to have been having good success.

[JohnAndSancho]

57 minutes ago, ZPalms said:

That makes me nervous for tissue culture, Im pretty sure when I bought my musa basjoo from PDN it was probably tissue cultured and I'm sure you may have seen back when my musa basjoo was sick from day 1. which no faults on them maybe I got a bad one but yeah... you seem to have been having good success.

That's wild because TC is supposed to be less disease prone. A few of mine are TC but I think 4 or 5 of them are pups I got from @5am. If you can swing it (believe me I know the struggle), the Dr Earth Exotic fertilizer is $12 for a 4 pound bag at Walmart right now and it's great for starting things out, and if you can really swing it Wellspring's Banana Fuel is insane. If you ask them to film your order sometimes they throw goodies in too, they sent me a sample bag of it. Also if you find a closet full of high demand vintage cosmetics in your house and put them on eBay and use that money to buy a bunch of grow lights and have a room you can keep at 80° and very humid it also helps 😂 I've had a couple pups so far and I cut one off too soon, I'm gonna let the other one get at least a foot tall this time. 

[PAPalmtrees]

On 2/20/2026 at 12:53 PM, ZPalms said:

I thought I'd try this again, hoping somebody might have an aggressive stand of them and willing to send me a pup or 2, I have limited funds but I can handle shipping depending on the cost! thanks!

If I had an extra Musa Basjoo i would send you one 

[JohnAndSancho]

15 minutes ago, PAPalmtrees said:

If I had an extra Musa Basjoo i would send you one 

If you're growing them, you will at some point lol. 

[PAPalmtrees]

5 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

If you're growing them, you will at some point lol. 

Exactly! next fall I'll probably have a lot of extra ones lol.

[JohnAndSancho]

1 hour ago, PAPalmtrees said:

Exactly! next fall I'll probably have a lot of extra ones lol.

There's a YouTube of a guy in Seattle of all places that has just massive massive clumps of them. I think that's one of the videos that made me want bananas. I don't care how much space you have indoors, I do not reccomend doing what I did. I wouldn't do it differently, other than maybe not buying seeds off Etsy, but the size they grow up to and the endless battle with spider mites is..... Kind of a hassle. I probably hack off 2 dozen leaves a week but who cares? They come right back. 

[ZPalms]

2 hours ago, PAPalmtrees said:

If I had an extra Musa Basjoo i would send you one 

I appreciate that 😂

[ZPalms]

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

There's a YouTube of a guy in Seattle of all places that has just massive massive clumps of them. I think that's one of the videos that made me want bananas. I don't care how much space you have indoors, I do not reccomend doing what I did. I wouldn't do it differently, other than maybe not buying seeds off Etsy, but the size they grow up to and the endless battle with spider mites is..... Kind of a hassle. I probably hack off 2 dozen leaves a week but who cares? They come right back. 

You are brave, I gave up having storing plants indoor plants ages ago, I can never do it again. after my coconut tree died that was it for me, the amount of pest that came with it all was too much to bare, now I have like 2 cactus, neon pothos, heart shape leaf philodendron, 2 air plants and an orchid but the orchid is about to go into a recovery vase.

[5am]

On 2/20/2026 at 11:53 AM, ZPalms said:

I can handle shipping depending on the cost!

If you're still looking in a few months I will surely have some fast growers later this year. Since November I've had 7 or 8 stalks set fruit at about 7ft height so I believe they are dwarf cavendish. I'll be relocating some, and bananas tend to pup when the corm gets nicked by a shovel so I'm expecting extras. I can't call them cold hardy, though. The leaves die completely at the slightest freeze although the stems survived 2 nights at 28F, even the little ones.

[5am]

13 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

USPS' new business model seems to be "how far away can we ship this package from where it's going?"

Sounds about right. I ordered 30 baby palms from Florida while the southern US had good temperature, but USPS' route took them first to Wisconsin, so they died. I will not make any more assumptions about shipping route.

[JohnAndSancho]

12 hours ago, 5am said:

Sounds about right. I ordered 30 baby palms from Florida while the southern US had good temperature, but USPS' route took them first to Wisconsin, so they died. I will not make any more assumptions about shipping route.

That's why I only use UPS even if it's a pain in the ass. I have to drive to the library to print a label or I can pay $4 for the UPS store to print it or maybe the other drop-off point (gun store) can print it if their printer is working that day. Either way it's a 70 mile round trip but I know whatever I send will get there when it's supposed to. 

[ZPalms]

On 2/23/2026 at 8:01 AM, 5am said:

If you're still looking in a few months I will surely have some fast growers later this year. Since November I've had 7 or 8 stalks set fruit at about 7ft height so I believe they are dwarf cavendish. I'll be relocating some, and bananas tend to pup when the corm gets nicked by a shovel so I'm expecting extras. I can't call them cold hardy, though. The leaves die completely at the slightest freeze although the stems survived 2 nights at 28F, even the little ones.

I had a super dwarf cavendish in a pot a while back and it only came back slightly after one winter and then never again, If I knew they were hardier in ground they would be a cute addition to plant!