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Beccariophoenix alfredii 8 years growth. 1 2
by Stevetoad- 3 followers
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I planted my beccariophoenix alfredii October 16th 2011. It was a tall one gallon. I wouldn’t call it fast at all but it’s gone from about 1 foot to about 15 feet. Post em if you got em
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bird nest inside a palm
by miamicuse- 0 replies
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Saw a bird nesting inside a palm near my house. What is the size of the hole inside the palm to make this nest? Do you think the bird could hollow out a healthy palm or the palm may have been significantly weakened to invite the birds?
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Desert palms
by 2palm- 10 replies
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i live in west Texas so i'm sure you can guess how hot it gets here. (113°) my majesty palm is not doing well in health and i don't think it will make it through the summer. if it dies i will get a new one. need suggestions for palms that won't burn to a crisp. i know date palms in all but im not sure of any others and im trying to fine other options. love to hear you suggestions!
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tallest Serenoa repens I have ever seen-15ft
by Eric in Orlando- 1 follower
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I came across the tallest Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens) I have ever seen last Saturday. It is growing south of New Smyrna Beach in the Canaveral National Seashore. It is easy to find. Go down A1A into the CNS and then make a right onto Eldora Rd. (River Rd.). It is at the north end of parking lot 7. This is the parking lot before the Eldora ghost town. The main stem is about 15-16ft tall and is growing into a Sand Live Oak (Quercus geminata).
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Chamaedorea adscedans seedlings how too
by happypalms- 4 replies
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One special little chamaedorea the adscedans in my garden producing good amounts of seeds for me easy to grow and propagate bottom heating coco coir perlite mix 30 degrees Celsius around 3 months time some wonderful little palms when juvenile they are something else to look at on mass and quite different to adult palms also a easy one to hand pollinate just simply observe your male plants daily looking for pollen usually by just tapping the flower to see if any pollen comes out then you collect the pollen in bag and place it over the female tapping the bag to get the pollen dusting around but do it daily until you use all your pollen or ideally using a artist brush and li…
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PACSOA back issues
by happypalms- 4 replies
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Lucked up on eBay with some old PACSOA issues always a treat to read now all we have to do is convince the PACSOA to start printing them for there members increasing the society’s popularity spreading more vital information for the palms of the world bringing awareness to more plant enthusiast
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first big palm order and it's progress 1 2
by flplantguy- 3 followers
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My Floribunda order is on the way! Three boxes😳, coming tomorrow night. They will get a couple weeks worth of summer heat before it starts to cool to more typical temps they knew before. I have read plants remember heat stress for the future when it occurs again, so I'm hoping they get a taste and are ready in spring. I will be documenting their arrival and performance over time here while I prepare them for planting. Most are in pots already, but a few will be potted into a basic cactus and citrus mix while they adjust and I learn their quirks. I will show the successes and failures as well as what I think happened. Chime in if you have thoughts or questions and all …
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BigBox finds in TampaBay area:
by TampaBayRay- 4 replies
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Pretty surprised to so Licuala, Cocothrinax, and RedLatana at my local L👌👌👌s bigbox store in Brandon on Causeway get get yall one! I went for the Buccaneer i seen last week, its gone
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Interesting Seedling Growth
by Johnny Palmseed- 4 replies
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I was noticing that my C. Lastelliana were putting out what looked like quad leaves compared to my Pembanas which are bifid. Today I noticed that they are actually tiny pinnate leaves. I have not seen palms produce a pinnate first leaf before. Is this normal?
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Hi all I have opportunity to purchase this palm for great price. We love palms but we are not experts. I posted few pics here. Our concern is if this palm is healthy. It is big (and old) On the bottom is very dark (black). Is that cause of concern? Thank you
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NC Date Palms
by NC_Palms- 1 reply
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Two of my date palms that I am growing in my zone 8a garden in NC. the first pic is P. sylvestris and the second is P. reclinata. Both do well but often get damaged each winter. I don't add any supplemental protection for them. I am also growing P. dactylifera here but this palm HATES cool wet soil. So winters here are a challenge.
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Sommieria leucophylla let’s see some more of them
by happypalms- 6 replies
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My little Sommieria is growing stronger with each new leaf it will be preciously protected for winter with every trick in the book to see it lives through winter
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Another mail order fix of some chamaedorea Metallica
by happypalms- 6 replies
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Purchased a couple of Metallica champs for the garden they will be group planted I have some good specimens already in my garden but you can never have enough chamaedorea in the garden especially this beautiful little palm there wa# also two Caryota maxima in the order as well I also have two giant specimens in my garden so I know they grow well
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Post your Areca vestiaria palms 1 2
by bubba- 1 follower
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I got more information from the nursery man, who planted this palm in November 2019. I inquired about the use of various fungicide's recommended by connoisseur, Steve Stern. None of these has been used on this specimen. That stated, it would probably help substantially if they were used. During this time frame, the minimum temperature recorded at PBIA was 37°F. Low 40°F (43F) temperatures nearly every year at the airport during this time frame. At all times, the median temperature well exceeded the necessary Koeppen temperature required for tropical rendering. In fact, most months median temperatures were closer to 70°F than the required 64.8°F. This palm is lo…
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A biig thanks for @Matty B for showing us in California what is possible. Maybe he will chime in and reveal his sorcery…. I mean growing experiences. Not wanting to hijack Bubba’s Satekentia in California post. I hope other growers in other non-tropical localities share their experiences and pictures. My experience so far… In January Winter of 2016 / 2017 I bought 2 small, yellowish one gallon Satekentia from KW Palms & Cycads in Lake Elsinore. The two palms were small and cheap so why not Then in July of 2018 I was reading a post in PT. Matty B stated that his Satakentia seemed like it could take more sun than he had thought at firs…
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Save the Date
by Cindy Adair- 2 followers
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coconut Coconut Palm in my Garden
by shark- 5 replies
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This is my green coconut palm in my garden, it's about 1.7 meter tall and it's been growing for about 2 years. I grew it since it was a seedling. I bought it from an online shop with a price for only 1 dollar! Yea it's really cheap in here because i'm living in a tropical country. Then about the watering, i just watered it everyday and give a sunlight. For the soil, i mix it with my clay soil from my garden, organic soil, and composed leaves. It's really beautiful to see it actually, plus the emerging light green leaves. And also, it has almost no problem at all with the coconut that i grew from seedling, maybe just like some little sunburned leaves or anything. Overall, …
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Potting up a couple of lanonia dasyantha tubes
by happypalms- 8 replies
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Had a few dasyantha tubes that needed to be potted up into some 140mm containers they are starting to exhibit there mottled look a lot stronger now with some age I try not to fertilise the dasyantha to much it keeps them to green losing a bit of the mottling that’s my observation but every grower is different and soil types are all different in different regions of the world these ones will be sold when there ready
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22 years in the making
by redant- 7 replies
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This is the main drag down the palm jungle. Good thing I love being outside and working in the yard, it's a huge amount of work. There is so much more to see then just the main path, so many beautiful palms from every corner of the planet. iphone11 and people know how to improve the quality on video, choppy and blurred from time to time. Hope you all enjoy
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Transplanting a few hyophorbe vershaffeltii sprouts
by happypalms- 4 replies
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You just never what you get with a eBay purchase but I did have some luck with these hyophorbe seeds I purchased eBay is ok sometimes but buyer beware I usually buy from known sellers that I have had good germination rates with but how do you know the first time you purchase well you don’t hence buyer beware a nice palm the spindle easy to grow and quite tough a very predictable landscape palm
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Potting up some Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons tubes
by happypalms- 0 replies
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A couple more joeys to pot up you go through different stages of favourite palms joeys have always been top of that list right next door to Kerriodoxa two amazing palms that grow very well in my climate the mix I used this time was a composted pine bark river sand well composted commercial compost with perlite along with some native plant Nutricote they were given some lime one week ago and copious amounts of water constantly the plant in the photos with the white tip is from when I transplanted them from the etoliation process but absolutely one of my favourite palms
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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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Hey everyone, I have a Phoenix Sylvestris being shipped to me as we speak from California and I should have it in the ground this weekend. I've searched around the forums for a lot of information but I have a few questions I haven't been able to answer. So I'm gonna see if anyone can help here. I've seen several people say not to fertilize the first year to make sure the roots grow strong, so I'll be doing that. But I was wondering if anyone has any idea how much to water a brand new Phoenix? We get a decent amount of rain where I am, especially in spring, so I was just wondering if anyone had some advice about how many times a week etc? I'm orderi…
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Help!! Pindo Palm spear pull… is it gone :((
by ThePalmGuy101- 1 follower
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Hey everyone! New to the forum, been a collector of palms since I was a little kid, now I’m 21 and collect for myself. One of my jelly palms in my front yard has suffered a spear pull, and the leaves have begun to sag, but not turn brown. Any chance of survival? Not too harsh of a winter in terms of snow, but I know what really gets them is the temps and frost/wind chills. I’m in Zone 8A, on the coast of Virginia in VA beach.
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