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Question About Dypsis baronii

Jim in Los Altos

By Jim in Los Altos
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Jim in Los Altos Grand Master

Jim in Los Altos

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My seven year old D. baronii had five lush healthy stems before the January freeze. A few weeks after the freeze, the spears pulled out of all the stems except the largest one (4 feet tall). Subsequently those stems died that had the spear pullout. The largest stem is pushing a new leaf. My question is will new stems ever form or will this palm remain a single trunk plant for the rest of its life?

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

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Jim,

My guess is that you're in un-charted territory on this one. (After all, how many people plant these in areas that see the mid 20's?   :D )But my hunch is that it will remain solitary from this point on. Is the big one pushing growth again?

Bret

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I'm not positive on this but.......I think that once a stem gets to be a certain size it dosen't sucker again.  The suckers usually originate from the side of the younger stems that don't have any or much hard wood on them.  But then again I seem to remember Dean saying he didn't think one of his D. lanceolatas would sucker again because it had several feet of trunk on it and then I think it eventually did.  I don't know....where's that delete button......

Matt Bradford

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Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

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9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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Hi Jim

Hopefully with a little TLC it should start making new suckers for you soon.

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Thanks all for your insight. I'll just wait and see what happens. If it remains a single, that's fine. This is a pretty cold sensitive palm and nothing planted near it suffered any ill effects from the freeze including many small Licuala elegans, and two Chambeyronia hookeri. If we have a freeze like this in the future, I will at least throw a cover over the baronii.

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

zone 10a/9b

sunset zone 16

300+ palms, 90+ species in the ground

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Reviving this thread..

Jim,

Did your baronii recover after the freeze and start to clump again?

Jason

Menlo Park, CA  (U.S.A.) hillside

Min. temp Jan 2007:  28.1 deg. F (-2.2 deg. C)

Min. temp winter 2008: 34.7 deg. F (1.5 deg. C)

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I left out a small 3 gal clumping baronii in a windy, unprotected place in the yard this year in the 2007 Anartic Freeze (that lame, gutsy attitude that if it can't handle the weather then so be it).  Hmmm... There was not a hint of re-clumping or or growth. :-(

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