I had a dwarf banana for quite a while (until my father-in-law took care of it) and it grew beautifully. I kept it in normal potting soil in a plastic pot, since it likes even moisture. I certainly would repot yours in about 1 or 2 weeks, after it gets used to your humidity/light levels - one big change at a time. I never misted mine. We've got such hard water that misting always makes spots on the leaves. Dripping water from the leaves is normal transpiration behavior for some tropicals. My big philodendron does the same. Bananas are related to grass; sun + water + nitrogen fertilizer = growth. Use a diluted to ~1/4 strength balanced fertilizer so you don't stress it in other ways or get deficiency problems (plants can get mineral deficiency problems). I don't like to shock my plants by quick start or stop to fertilizing. I taper up and down by using it every other watering for a month or so in spring and fall. I always take dead leaves off indoor plants. Since I can't create a perfect ecology, I'm afraid some kind of fungus or bugs will live in them without whatever would have counteracted it in nature. I kept my banana in semi-sun to light shade indoors and put it out every summer where it got a few hours of morning sun and then dappled sun for the rest of the day. I haven't thought about that plant in years. Writing this is making me miss it. Maybe I'll get another one. Good luck with yours, they're really beautiful plants!

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Are spider mites a given when growing one of these?