Growing Dwarf Banana Plants. Why we rather plant dwarf banana varieties instead of tall varieties 🍌 Dwarf Nam Wah & Dwarf Orinoco *They hold up better in the wind *They fruit quicker and more frequently *Easier to maintain *Easier to harvest the ripe bananas Save this post if you are shopping for bananas If you only have room to plant one: go with the Dwarf Nam Wah Back in the day we had a large Saba banana variety crack our Loquat tree in half after a storm Bonus: Another smaller sized banana