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Black Bag of Doom - and new life!

DoomsDave

By DoomsDave
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A good palm friend gave me a bunch (1,000+) of seed from his massive Dypsis plumosa which had dropped 90% of its seeds to the pavement before they ripened.

I tossed some of them into a garbage bag, which allowed a bit of rain water in and

 

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Many had sprouted!

 

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Congratulations, Dave. I've tried larger specimens of this palm twice but they gradually declined over the space of a year or two then croaked. Maybe it's my sweltering climate or my alkaline dreck soil or even nematodes but this species doesn't seem to like life here.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Want some (unsprouted) seeds?

If yes I’ll send!

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2 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

I've tried larger specimens of this palm twice but they gradually declined over the space of a year or two then croaked. Maybe it's my sweltering climate or my alkaline dreck soil or even nematodes but this species doesn't seem to like life here.

If big didn't work, try small.  I got a couple of two leaf seedlings at one of our Palm Society meetings which I put in the ground a couple of years ago, and I've been amazed at how fast they have grown.  The beauty of the little ones, is that if you fail, the investment isn't much beyond a little space and effort.  Perhaps smaller will acclimate better to your soils or whatever it is that the larger ones struggled with.  I would be surprised if heat is your challenge.  This is one Dypsis which doesn't open new leaves for me in winter.  My larger one which started as a 5 gallon and has ringed trunk holds about 3-4 unopened spears in Spring.  They will open when weather heats up in very fast sequence, but the oldest spear came out last Autumn, and was followed by the rest over winter with none opening.  Third year I've seen it with this palm, so I know it wants more winter heat to keep the growth consistent.

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33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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16 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Congratulations, Dave. I've tried larger specimens of this palm twice but they gradually declined over the space of a year or two then croaked. Maybe it's my sweltering climate or my alkaline dreck soil or even nematodes but this species doesn't seem to like life here.

Mine melted down as well. I think they prefer a drier climate. Got them to one gallon size in the shade, then the Dypsis of Doom set in :violin:

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

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Always doom and gloom. Beethoven's sonata No.8 comes to mind. 

I bet there are species you can successfully grow in your neck of the woods.

Regards.

5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

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15 hours ago, GottmitAlex said:

Always doom and gloom. Beethoven's sonata No.8 comes to mind. 

I bet there are species you can successfully grow in your neck of the woods.

Regards.

A lot of Dypsis, esp. larger species, do not like FL's sweltering climate. What we can grow is far outnumbered by what we can't.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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