Benny, so glad to see you have fruits..and THEY SURVIVED!
Vinny, maybe Benny will part with one of his California Gold pups from the 'nanna pic he posted.

Vinny for bringing it inside I would make sure it is a dwarf.

Many people think, ok I will plant it outside in the summer in the ground & dig it up in the fall & bring it inside... Most people don't understand what a 15 Ft banana weighs... I had to relocate one to another place in my yard two years ago. It took three of us to do it & we had to drag it as it was so heavy. Banana plants are about 90 % water I would say.

Patty:
Please see my post March 6:
Here's a part:
"The california gold I planted it too deep and its pup when I dug it yesterday turned into a mush. I can't even find it. Only a trace of dirty dark mud look alike I'd seen attached to the corm.
I will raise the corm as soon as I harvest the banana fruit. " So you see I don't have a pup.
The calif gold is just too new to expect to have a pup. I just bought it around November.
Also that calif gold costs me too much of an arm and a leg. And the guy lived about 150 miles from me(almost 2 hours-drive and I was lost twice (lol). I also had to dig it myself.
But one thing that I could not forget was when my wife found out how much I paid the guy for that plant. I learned my lesson well not to pay by check.

It's going to take many months maybe more than a year before I expect any pup to come up ( I hope).
This time I am just admiring the fruit of my labor.
Sorry guys. stakes are just too high to compromise myself at this time.

If you ask me will I do it again?
I will say I don't think so.

I will just wait for the raja puri and the enano gigante Joe Real promise me for free (lol).

Lazz, you are right about the weight and water-- but the banannas were much lighter after about 4 months of storage.

The digging and storage was really a lot easier than I expected--as I understood it -- you do not need a rootball for storage. If you have a place to store the bananna trees, like a basement or under the house, the medium size trees are really not that hard to handle. It will be worth it if this will consistiently produce fruit.

Thanks Laaz, I just threw my back out THINKING of digging up & moving the IC banana in fall, but that is my plan. The smaller one will stay in pot.