🍌 ‘Super Dwarf Cavendish’ Banana Plant

One of the best choices for limited spaces: compact, decorative and capable of fruiting in a container.

Why choose this variety?

Super Dwarf Cavendish remains very compact while retaining the foliage and fruiting potential of a true banana plant. Young leaves often display red-purple markings.

• Ultra-compact and suitable for small spaces.
• Excellent candidate for very bright indoor growing.
• Young foliage often marked with red-purple.
• Small dessert bananas possible under optimal conditions.

Banana flavour

Ripe fruit has a sweet Cavendish-style flavour and tender texture, and is generally smaller than commercial bananas.

How to keep the plant more compact in a container

• Repot gradually instead of moving directly into an oversized container.
• Limit the final container size reasonably, recognizing that this can reduce fruit production.
• Provide abundant light, avoid excess nitrogen and remove unnecessary suckers.

Important: do not cut the top off the pseudostem to reduce height; this removes its growing point.

Growing in Quebec and other cold-winter regions

• Light: full sun or a very bright location, ideally 6 to 8 hours or more.
• Temperature: optimal growth between 20 and 32°C (68 to 90°F); bring indoors before temperatures fall below 10°C (50°F).
• Watering: keep the growing medium slightly moist during active growth without standing water.
• Growing medium: rich, airy and very well draining.
• Fertilization: feed regularly during active growth.

Shipping and preorder information

The availability selector shows the expected shipping or pickup period. Preorder plants are reserved for spring 2027.

Tip: repot gradually to make watering easier to manage and encourage healthy roots.

Appearance, growth, colour and time to fruiting vary with light, warmth, container size and care.