My Ice Cream banana are growing leaf after leaf. Not very tall but I don't think they are a tall tree to begin with. Just a lot of compact leaves. The one who gets most of the sun and in a pot has grown 10". The one is some shade and in the ground about 6". Every time a new leaf fully opens, there is another leaf ready to shoot out. I think that is fun to see! I think I haven't been feeding often enough? Once a month? ONce a week? Really? What kind of fertilizer??