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Is it Roystonea borinquena?
by Alexberm- 1 follower
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It is in the garden in Thailand.
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Help ID This Coconut Pest
by agroventuresperu- 3 replies
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Some sort of scale? They are on the undersides of the leaves, and looks like they excrete a black substance that ends up on top of the leaves. Lots of ants, so it appears there's some sort of mutually-beneficial relationship going on. Any organic solutions? It's the only coconut on the whole property I've ever seen with this problem. The coconut is probably the fastest-growing specimen we've ever had. It's in a spot that has access to more fertility. Lots of compost and sawdust has been placed around it during the past couple years. It's also received the same additional inputs as all the other coconuts this past year: ulexite, dolomite, gypsum, and potassi…
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Bismarckia nobilis from seed - progress 1 2
by D. Morrowii- 3 followers
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I struggled a bit to get my first Bizzy to sprout and only 1 did from this batch which I think was my second or third try. The first pic was taken April 3rd and the second was taken today October 3rd 2021. 6 months of growth from when the first leaf broke the surface give or take a day or two. Maybe a minor achievement to many but I’m kind of proud of this little palm lol. After maybe 3 months of trying it finally worked, Next milestone will be a palmate frond hopefully soon!
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Walking in the garden in an hot afternoon
by Alberto- 1 follower
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20240316_122211.heic. in fact I' m testing . I don' t know why suddenly I cannot post pics anymore , only this:
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C. onilahensis--keep or remove offset?
by Foggy Paul- 1 follower
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Hi all. Our C. onilahensis has been in the ground about three years now. It was very slow but is starting to pick up, probably helped by the past two good rain winters. We planted out two, a five and a one gallon if I recall correctly. The five gallon has always been bigger of course, but the one gallon is catching up. My question is about the five gallon. It has four offsets, the smallest of which doesn't seem to be oriented very well in relation to the other three. Would you let it develop or remove it? The one gallon plant has three very solid looking offsets. TIA for all suggestions. The plant overall: The offset in question: Another view: …
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What Is The Absolute Hardiest Coconut Variety? 1 2 3 4
by PalmTreeDude- 1 follower
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What is the Hardiest variety of coconut? About what tempatures can it take?
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Repotting a couple of lanonia dasyantha
by happypalms- 6 replies
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Doing a spot of repotting of some tube stock dasyantha into 140mm containers quite a fast growing palm from seed in comparison to a few other slow varieties once past the sprout stage
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Planting my lanonia magalonii
by happypalms- 6 replies
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It’s planting time for some of my new varieties of palms this time a lanonia magalonii that was in a 140mm container once again with good roots the usual treatment amended soil along with irrigation and some loving attention when I can get around to it should keep this palm pretty happy iam pretty confident in the cold weather not being a problem
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Thrinax radiata/Florida Thatch
by bubba- 27 replies
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I have been looking for more Florida Thatches after a recent post. I find that they many times are severely trimmed.Take a look at these shots and give me your thoughts.I also included the original shot.In one shot you can see the top of the Breakers.
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Sabal Palmetto
by Borosbobo- 3 replies
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Hey! Can you guys send me a picture of your sabal palmettos? I’m from Hungary and I have a 2 year old sabal palmetto grown from seed and Im trying to convience my dad to plant it outside. I want to show some to my dad so if you guys can send me pictures of your palmettos I would appreciate that!
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Spotted a trunking, outdoor Spindle Palm / Hyophorbe verschaffeltii in Jacksonville Beach!!!
by CodyORB- 1 follower
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I was on a walk today and found this gem hiding next to a hotel. Excellent microchip late (canopy, concrete, beach nearby). Gorgeous white crownshaft!
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Brahea sarukhani?
by Alberto- 1 follower
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I lost the tag of this very slow growing Brahea , but I remember vaguely it being B. sarukhani... What do you think? 20240316_122837.heic 20240316_124716.heic 20240316_124703.heic
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Allagoptrea arenaria seeds picked today
by happypalms- 0 replies
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Lucked up with some allagoptrea arenaria seeds today as luck would have it I purchased 100 seeds from RPS with a good germination rate only to get a few seeds this season of my own palm when it was flowering I used a paintbrush on the flowers in hope off helping Mother Nature not sure if it worked or not but I did get a few seeds so iam pretty happy it’s one rare palm in my area I placed them In spagnum moss using the baggy method on a heat mat 30 degrees Celsius it has worked this way before so when your on a good thing that works stick with it getting one back on the rats I placed the seeds in the rat trap until they matured I figured if they can’t get out of the trap t…
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Hello! I’m located in Mexico City, which has a mild weather with ultra rainy summers, definitely NOT a cocos nucifera territory. But turns out I was just driving by and ran into the weirdest palm, it looked big, thriving and certainly similar to a COCOS NUCIFERA and i just couldn’t believe my eyes because it was big. I made a small investigation and turns out that palm tree has been there for a long time, since 2016! It was a small baby and it’s been growing ever since, now in 2020 it really got bigger but there’s no street view imagery, i promise I’ll bring current pictures, but here’s some detailed views of the palm tree and how it’s evolved throughout the years, is …
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Rhopalostylis chatham island finally flowering
by Tassie_Troy1971- 7 replies
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Germinated in March 2010 my Rhopalostylis sapida Chatham island form is finally flowering The seeds were sent to me from Pogobob in San clemente California and his specimen was the best Rhopalostylis I've seen ! Well then I saw the big one in Darold petty garden was impressive
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ovobontsira
by mike in kurtistown- 2 replies
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This post is a response to a question I received on Facebook, and I am responding in PalmTalk because of the facilities for a more lengthy response. It involves growing a species of Dypsis (now Chrysalidocarpus) identified as ovobontsira in offerings from RPS that I sowed in June 2009 and in September 2013. The only seedling survivor of the 09 seed batch was planted on March 2019 and has grown well. This is what it looks like today (lawn chair for scale): I found another seedling in a seedpot that contained very different palms, obviously misplaced. Looking at my records, I saw that I was raising "orange crush" (now Chrysiladocarpus paucifolius) which the…
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C. ovobontsira sp. Metallic or Vatovavy Blue ?
by realarch- 1 follower
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Just a beautiful palm, nice color and scale. Dropped a frond a few days ago which is always worth looking forward to. Note the leaf nodes, pretty fast grower. Tim
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Bismarckia nobilis (Post Yours) 1 2 3
by SoulofthePlace- 8 followers
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It's about 6 years old, growing slower in the Azores, and is wobbling. Probably because the planter has a tall rock bottom inside on one side occupying more than half of it and then it slides down to a deeper ground which has got no bottom and it was planted a bit on the high side, exposing the roots for 1/2 inch or so, so perhaps the palm pushed itself up a bit and never released its full potential roots into the soil. I added sand under it and I hope the roots will be released or I may have to stake it. Would staking it potentially damage the sensitive roots?
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Show us your Majesty palms!! 1 2 3
by ruskinPalms- 7 followers
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These are one of my favorites. They grow well for me with plenty of water and fertilizer. This was originally planted in probably 2015 or 2016 and was in a 2 gallon pot with 3 others. I let them all grow in the ground for a year or two but then decided to edit out 3 of the 4 so that I could get a big, fat trunk going. Show off your Majesty Palms!
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Observed: Leaning crown syndrome in Queen Palm today.
by BayAndroid- 2 replies
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I'm visiting Pismo Beach and I observed this Queen Palm with leaning crown syndrome.
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Planting a couple of joeys in the vegetable garden
by happypalms- 0 replies
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With a couple of joey palms to spare I thought why not plant a couple around the vegetable garden it will be a moist area and receive some attention while gardening along with the good soil plus the garden will look super tropical now all I have to do is wait ten years
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Dypsis carlsmithii gets planted
by happypalms- 0 replies
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Time to start planting some of my new palms starting with a dypsis carlsmithii it was growing in a 200mm container had good roots coming out of the bottom of the container what better time than now to plant given a couple of years in the ground it should start to look good in the position it’s in it will be irrigated and mulched giving it a head start in life
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San Diego Coconut Trees
by SouthernCATropicals- 3 followers
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I’ll document my SoCal coconut tree journey here. Getting anything bigger than a shriveled up coconut sprout in California is almost impossible for a variety of reasons so I ordered 3 coconut sprouts. I currently have 3 coconuts of unknown varieties. The first was “front yard coconut”This is the earliest photo I have of it but it came in August 2023 half dead with one greenish leaf. This is it now dec 18 2023. It has grown but the growth has been quite slow and undramatic. When I transferred it into the ground in august it really had no roots at all. I’ve read that they eat their coconut for a while but that was strange to see I’ve been fertilizing nothing. Hopefull…
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Need Bismark advice
by Mark S.- 2 followers
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My bismark is approx 15 years old and in just the last couple years has been throwing out an occasional dead fron. It otherwise looks healthy. Any ideas on what might be causing this? IMG_5634.HEIC
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Buying a couple of plants again
by happypalms- 8 replies
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Did a bit of mail order shopping for plants this time a lanonia magaloni and a philodendron billietiae not sure how the philodendron will go in the cold time will tell