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Where is Wal?
by palmtreesforpleasure- 1 follower
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Today, secret agent Wal and his side kick Donna visited our garden, a long way south of Queensland, We had a great day with Wal taking lots of pictures, While Denise and Donna went of to get material for Donna to make a garter for the bride of the wedding they are attending in Sydney. Wal in secret agent pose, holding onto a Rhopalstylis sapida one side and the porthole on the other, trunk on the left of a Normanbya normanbyi, in front of Wal, is a Cycas mitcholitzii Me fighting of a Wodyetia bifurcata with the front garden behind Wal looking at the front garden below with a bit of ocean thrown in Wal and i, in what Wal called a garden room …
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yellow spotted Pritchardia's
by Steve Mac- 2 replies
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I've noticed a lot of different Pritchardias often have yellowy blotches especially on the older leaves. Is this some sort of common deficency or excess or just usual for the species. On any other palm it would look like too much sun. Is there a way to prevent it?
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ID this palm please
by insipidtoast- 3 replies
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This picture was taken at a small village in Ghana. What kind of palm is it?
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ID fun again
by Ken Johnson- 13 replies
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This one should be easy.
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Palm Maintenance Work.Yr_2009
by Kris- 26 replies
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Dear Friends This gives me immense pleasure to meet you all through this lovely thread,where i have tried to give step by step illustrations for those who are new to palm growing..And each time,i try to improvise new methods which are most apt for our hot tropical climate having high coastal humidity influence.So the medium is constantly kept as porous as possible for easy drainage of excess of water.. Today iam going to show you how to plant or repot a Phoenix Roebelenii x Dacty.And the germinated seeds came from brother M@x.And my sincere thanks to him for those germinated seeds & for his time. http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/uploads/emoticons/emoticon…
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What is consensus on the typical age/height of C. mitis trunks before they flower and croak in FL? I ask as I noticed the two tallest trunks on my largest mitis clump have started to seed. I planted this clump as a 15 gallon about 5 years ago and Id guess tha tallest trunks are ~25 ft tall. The trunks that are seeding I have noticed have hardly added any new fronds in the past year, so apparently all the energy of the palm is going to seed production.
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Palm look-alike question
by Harry- 0 replies
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I've just been offered what appears to be a Macrozamia johnsonii with a 3 foot clear trunk for 800 Euros including delivery (its been growing in a pot for years). Is this a bargain or not? Any ideas/ advise? Sorry no pictures yet. Regards Harry
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Hardiness of Syagrus Botryophora / Sancona?
by spockvr6- 6 replies
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One of the palms on my hitlist to get with some size has been a S. botryophora. I was down to Kopsick in St Pete last weekend and checked out the specimens there and was pretty surprised to see that all of them looked burned. Most of them were 20-30 ft tall and the weather station local to this area (within eyesight) logged a low of 39F in December 2010 and 37F in January 2011. These palms are all in the wide open, but Tampa bay is only a few hundred feet away. Is this to be expected of these palms, or is it something to do with salt tolerance? The S. sanconas looked the same.....also burned.
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Phoenix question
by sarasota alex- 1 follower
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Of 5 species of Phoenix commonly cultivated in Sarasota (roebelenii, reclinata, sylvestris, canariensis, dactylifera), P. roebelenii is by far the most widespread. However if you look at the wild grown weed dates in the area, almost none of them look as if they have any P. roebelenii in them. Most of them display either P. reclinata or P. canariensis characteristics, or a mixture of both with some P. sylvestris. I read on this forum before that P. roebelenii has the most dominant genes in the genus, so why don't I see it in the wild hybrids? Also P. reclinata is the only one listed as an invasive species, and it kind of looks that way. But the other ones grow here pretty …
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very weepy droopy Butia capitata
by Eric in Orlando- 9 replies
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I spotted this unique Butia capitata yesterday in Clermont, FL.
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Red Leaf
by bubba- 6 replies
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Searched for all things Red unsucessfully. I think the cool brings this out. Larry posted one recently in "Weather/Some good things".
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What's the secret
by Alicehunter2000- 20 replies
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When I visit big box stores it always seems that palms and other plants that have just come from the mega-growers look almost artificial in color and health. What is the secret?...I fertilize, I water, I try and buy good soil. Nothing it seems works as well as what the professionals use. I also notice that high end hotels seem to be in on the secret. Inside potted palms seem to be vividly green and robust. Are they just rotating and buying new stuff every month or are they using some sort of high nitrogen fertilizer? What gives?
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very stiff and flat leafed Chamaerops humilis
by Eric in Orlando- 1 reply
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In my previous post about the tall robust X Butyagrus, in the background is a nice clump of Chamaerops humilis, Mediterranean Fan Palm. Here it is closer, the leaves are very flat and very stiff
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Palm Maintenance Work.Yr_2009
by Kris- 10 replies
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Dear Friends Today let's see the repotting work of Chamaerops Humilis var.Arborescens (Single trunk Form).The Seeds were sent to me by brother M@x.They have all germinated well for me.But i have realised that they are a bit slow growers compared to the regular ' Mediterranean Fan Palm.' At the moment the climate is much better than what we experienced last month,So we felt we repot this baby,and see wheather their is any marked improvement in its grouth rate. And from the following post you will have vivid illustration as to how we went about doing this repotting work ? Hope you all enjoy seeing it & give your valuable suggestions...So that we can improve i…
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Palm Maintenance Work.Yr_2009
by Kris- 11 replies
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Dear Friends This gives me immense pleasure to meet you all through this lovely thread,where i have tried to give step by step illustrations for those who are new to palm growing..And each time,i try to improvise new methods which are most apt for our hot tropical climate having high coastal humidity influence.So the medium is constantly kept as porous as possible for easy drainage of excess of water.. Today iam going to show you how to plant or repot a Chamaerops humilis x Vulcano..And the seeds were from brother M@x.I must say i did get more than 90% germination on those seeds.And my sincere thanks to him for those fresh seeds. http://www.palmtalk.org/forum…
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Metro-West Royals
by Jason in Orlando- 6 replies
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Sorry if this isn't deserving of a new topic, but here are a couple of photos of the above mentioned palms from today 1/16/2011: They are generally in pretty good shape considering how much cold we've had here in Orlando. Some damage, but nothing looks critical.
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whats attacking my seedlings!!!
by fan palm- 3 replies
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hi all, does anyone know what could be causing my condapanna seedlings to brown off? it starts off as small brown indented spots and then over a couple of weeks spreads through most of the leaf? cheers Harry
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ID Needed Please
by _Rich- 5 replies
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My tagging/labeling efforts weren't so great back when I first caught the palm bug. I bought some seeds from our local palm & cycad society's seed bank. I still have packing slip for what I bought - but would like to hear from the experts as to what this sprout is from my list. It's gone pinnate now and I have my own thoughts but would appreciate everyone elses' views. I've narrowed down the list from 10 to six - as I am quite certain that it is not these....Now for the potentials: Dypsis decaryi, Carpentaria acuminata, Dypsis leptocheilos, Archontophoenix alexandrare, Roystona borninquena, & Archontophoenix cunninghamiana Pictures are fair but I'll apolog…
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Palm Cold Protection that has worked
by BlufftonSC- 9 replies
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I have a 12' tall majesty palm out in the open and on the NW side of the house. Each year I bungee the fronts together, wrap one strand of C9 lights around it and mount a single flood light to the trunk right at the crown. I created a bag out of picnic table cloth material (plain fabric on one side, vinyl coated on the outside). The 12' long bag is just duct taped and stapled to close it up on all edges. I mounted a 2.25 inch PVC pipe into the ground close to the trunk. I just slip the bag over the palm and the pipe holds it up. Then I bungee the bottom of the bag tightly to the bottom of the trunk. So far her majesty has survived down to 20 degrees for 10 hours and that …
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is this rhapis thailand
by Vidalii- 5 replies
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i picked this up at a local nursery for $25.00 it was unamed could it be rhapis thailand as described by lynn mckamey ? the large leaf one is tenzan (excelsa) regards martin
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Potted Coconut collection
by Walter John- 20 replies
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I have two, how many you got ?
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My New Palm Garden
by bgl- 1 follower
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After having the D-8 bulldozer roam my two acres for three full weeks it was good to finally be done with that and get a driveway in place, and be able to drive in and begin on the next exciting phase: planting palms! Here's the first truckload arriving on my new (somewhat temporary) driveway: two Dypsis prestoniana, seven Clinostigma sp. Hawaiian hybrid and four Lemurophoenix halleuxii. In the second photo the palms are ready to be offloaded in the back part of the property.
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Self cleaning palms
by dalmatiansoap- 1 follower
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What palms are self cleaning? Can U help me to make a sort of list? I know that Kings are but I dont know does it stands for all Arcontophoenix? Whats with all others?
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Archontophoenix alexandrae or not?
by Rafael- 2 followers
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As some of you know (thread "nursery new acquisitions", travel logs), these days i went visiting a distant south portuguese nursery. Between other acquisitions, i brought back these two, wich were labelled as a. alexandrae. But i am wondering if that was a correct id. of both. Any input?
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Palm Maintenance Work.Yr_2009
by Kris- 22 replies
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Dear Friends Welcome to this thread,where you can find step by step illustrations of the repotting procedure we have followed,in repotting of the Copernicia alba/Caranday Palm. And i must first thank joseph's(Ortanique.Com)for sending these seeds & few other seeds as gift for joining the IPS.And i have got around 90% germination rate from the Copernica Alba seeds sent to me.And the visuals that you are going to see in the following post is of a sapling rised from those seeds ! As i always keep telling that,the illustrations are all self explinatory..but in case you have any doubts,please feel free to ask.. Thanks & Love, Kris