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Alota Junk in the TRUNK

SanDimas

By SanDimas
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SanDimas

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Driving around and saw this humongous trunk.

The palm trunk is larger than most Ive seen

that's double or triple the height.

This one was only 10 feet high.

The owner mounded and covered halfway up the trunk.

Owner says 1 year in the ground from a 15G pot.

!!!UNBELIEVABLE!!!

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Jim in Los Altos Grand Master

Jim in Los Altos

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Ravenea rivalaris (Majesty palm)? That's a nice fat looking trunk!

Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

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KennyRE317 Mentor

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i believe the growth rate. i bought mine about 3years ago from the supermarket because the wife wanted a house plant, it was a stretched to hell 2gal plant that i ended up leaving outside right off the bat in full sun got burnt to a crisp and i thought it was dead so we just let it be. started growing so i threw it in a 15gal pot a year and a half ago and now it's a full sun 6' tall

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Yup. Its a majestic palm.

This was mounded up like a volcano

covering up half the trunk.

The wife didn't know much what the hubby

was doing to make this palm fatten up like that.

As I said earlier, Ive seen these 20+ feet high

and the trunks are no more half the thickness.

Is this what Ive read on PT when

they say to mound the palm?

Don't plant too deep?

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Kim Grand Master

Kim

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Some palms would die from burying the trunk like that, while others will grow more roots.

Mound planting usually refers to planting atop a mound (not deeply) for better drainage.

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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KennyRE317 Mentor

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Yup. Its a majestic palm.

This was mounded up like a volcano

covering up half the trunk.

The wife didn't know much what the hubby

was doing to make this palm fatten up like that.

As I said earlier, Ive seen these 20+ feet high

and the trunks are no more half the thickness.

Is this what Ive read on PT when

they say to mound the palm?

Don't plant too deep?

what kim said .... your photo would be equivalent to planting too deep since the trunk region is buried.

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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A majestic majesty, obviously not bothered by its ill-treatment.

Some palms don't mind being half buried. I have a Caryota urens and a couple of Archie maxima with two feet (.66 M) of dirt around their trunks above the original soil line.

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Josh-O Grand Master

Josh-O

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RR's do grow faster in the heat. Here along the coast they grow slow

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

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The mounding up the trunk may have helped maintain moister around the roots while the mound remained dry. In a humid environment I believe this palm would have suffered. This palm it a water pig, looks like he has kept his pig hydrated.

Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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Mr.Doom and Mr Moose

You are right. I was asking the wify how the hubby

got the trunk so big and all she said was water.

I still wouldn't believe her wondering about that

"baseball mounding"

as her hubby named it.

I got a 5G recently inspired by another PT post/sighting

of a tall one in SD that looked like a coconut tree.

:greenthumb:

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