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banana plant care help?

so i placed it in a different location for a day and it was in direct light through the window
if it matters i think it might be a dwarf musa banana plant
but i dunno, i bought it and all the thing said was banana musa sp
it is this in the little green plastic semi-pot it came in. i need to get it into a real pot but i dont have the money etc
anyways. every leaf is turning brown and shriveling. from the bottom and continuing up
how can i save it. its still basically a baby unless it is a dwarf i guess.
it grows new foliage from the center that the others make its kinda cool but different.
i dont want it to die what can i do
is misting okay for it, should it be in front of my window or somewhere beside it like it is righ tnow
i live in a basement but the windows are about half way up not at the top so it isnt a really small rectangle window, it's a decent size.
how can i save this 1!!!???
im in alberta so no, im not planting it outside

All Banana plants are in the genus Musa, that's the general family name for banana plants.

Alberta is awfully dry, humidity levels don't even register on residential hygrometers which would usually display 5% as that's the lowest that the displays will read but perhaps that isn't the problem. Perhaps there isn't a problem at all since lower leaves tend to turn brown anyways as their function turn from being leaves to being the stem of the plant.

Banana trees need a lot of sunlight, well drained soil and lots of water. That little basement window isn't going to be enough for a banana plant.

The usual approach in a cold climate like Alberta would be to plant it outside during the summer and then to cut it down to just the rhizome (root), bundled in burlap and kept dormant in the basement through the winter. It's a lot of work to have a banana plant in northern latitudes. Even the Dwarf Cavendish will grow to about 13 feet in height (the regular Cavendish grows to 30 feet in height).

The Cavendish banana which is the current grocery store banana is facing extinction by Panama Wilt Race 4 much as the larger and better tasting Gros michel banana was wiped out by Panama Wilt back in the 50's and 60's. For a while, the banana companies were in a panic because unlike when the Gros Michel effectively went extinct, there is no suitable replacement to the Cavendish. For a few years, they were feverishly test marketing red bananas and mini bananas (which are only ripe when they turn black) to see if the public would accept those as a replacement but then a group in Honduras managed to cross a Gros Michel with a Brazilian wild apple banana resulting in the Gold Finger which looked like the Cavendish but tasted like an apple. At that point you saw test marketing of the Gold Finger bananas, since then they've been successful at crossing the Gold Finger with the Gros Michel resulting in FHIA 17 and FHIA 23. FHIA 23 has the appearance of a Gros Michel but the taste of a Cavendish and now these two options are considered close enough that the public shouldn't notice the changeover. You'll already seeing that depending on which plantation that the bananas are from, the size of the bananas in the grocery store has recently varied a lot, the larger ones being the Gros Michel type FHIA 23. All of these crosses are Tetraploid whereas the Gros Michel and the Cavendish are Triploid sterile mutations hence the difficulty in breeding and as Tetraploids their flesh is less dense and more watery than that of the Cavendish or Gros Michel but it seems that people can't really tell.

If your plant is a dwarf cavendish, take care of it cause the cavendish will soon be commercially extinct.

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