As you can see from the photo, most of the leaves are going brown and dried from the outsides. we are trying to mist daily and only water when first two inches of soil are dry. any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi & welcome! What a great window for a plant to enjoy!

From this angle, it looks like a giant plant in a tiny pot. It's probably not, maybe add a pic from the side?

The amount of roots, combined with their ability to gather moisture and deliver it to foliage will determine how much foliage a plant is able to sustain at 1 time. In a very rainy area, banana plants have tons of leaves. If it stops raining for a while, most of the lower leaves will turn brown and shrivel as the plant absorbs their moisture to sustain itself.

We can investigate to see if the soil is getting too dry and the roots do not have moisture to deliver to the foliage, or if the soil is so soggy that it's making the roots ill/rotting them, so they are unable to do their job of delivering moisture to the foliage. Which do you think might be happening?

Hi there

Thanks very much for getting back to me. I've attached a photo which better shows the size of the pot relative to the plant - perhaps not as small as it appears in the first photo!

The soil does definitely feel on the dry side (we have been watering about once a week, having had the plant about a month) so perhaps we should give it more water (though conscious we are going into winter where it shouldn't need as much)? We are worried about giving it root rot as you say so unsure of how much exactly to water it each time.

Best
Rob

My pleasure! That does look more proportionate than the 1st pic. When you water, all of the soil should get moist. Repeat before the soil has lost all of the moisture, just not so often that the soil is always soggy. If you remove the inner pot when you add water, so excess can drip away, you won't have to worry about excess water making the roots ill.

It looks like is needs more sun. We grow musa in the yard year round here. They grow in full sun (which in Florida means intense hot direct sun for 8-12 hours a day, and they do need good air movement. The problem most people have trying to grow musa indoors is overwatering that rots the corm