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Potting up a few Ceroxylon parvifrons. The root systems on these things are impressive already. Skipping my standard 50mm tubes and 70mm pots for these ones, they are going straight into 90mm containers.

Yeah I’d say that’s right. That Burringbar grove is on a slope which aids drainage. I’ve found it’s often the cold and wet combination that’s the issue. When I started growing palms, many species were thought not to cope with Melbourne winters, even things like Chambeyronia macrocarpa which is now known to be pretty much bulletproof in a variety of planting positions. Species like Bismarckia nobilis and Chrysalidocarpus decaryi languish in boggy soils here especially if not in full sun, but give them a sunny, well drained position and they don’t even flinch in winter.

Yes that looks fine . That pic was very tricky. Dig down and check soil moisture and see if roots look healthy otherwise give it time

@Banana Belt I see this a lot with local Sabals. The ones in natural forests here are usually full crown but all the fronds below about halfway down are dead and crispy brown. But they fall off complete with the boot in time and leave a completely smooth trunk. Only the Sabals in people's yards still have boots, for the most part. It's probably because people cut off the frond and then gravity doesn't pull the boot off, like you said. I routinely cut off brown or cold-damaged fronds for cosmetic or clearance issues. But I try to not tear off boots until they are ready to fall off. If I'm pruning stuff and the boots just peel off easy then I'll peel them off until I find one with some resistance, and stop there. The only exception is stuff like a Bottle palm, where I use a razor knife and super sharp shears to carefully snip off the old boots. I might clean up old boots on a Bismarck or Alfredii for similar cosmetic reasons...and because the giant flying cockroaches ("palmetto bugs") love to live in the rotting old boots...

I've had a sago for about 15 years. It seemed okay, with a new flush about once per year. Although the fronds often seemed to dry, turning brown at the tips of the pinnules, and the vibrant green turned more of a yellow-green. I was told it needed more shade (which it finally now has from an adjacent mule palm). A few years ago, my wife hired someone to prune our trees, and they only left two layers of fronds, which I thought was too little. It stopped flushing for a few years, along with the pups. No new growth at all. Someone told me he thought it was dying. Last year, I tried to nurse it back to health with more water and high-nitrogen water-soluble fertilizer, not that I know what I'm doing, but it worked. The pups started to flush first, and after years of no new growth, it started to flush two months ago. Questions: 1) For the fronds drying and turning brown at the tips, could that be due to under watering, as opposed to not enough shade? 2) Someone told me that sagos need very little water, and he turns off irrigation to his sagos for 6 months of the year. How do I know if I am over or under watering my sago? 3) The pups have been thriving, and now even my pups have pups. Do people usually let the pups grow, or do they "de-pup" their sagos?

Worth a shot but you get snow don’t you! 🥶

Encephalartos Kisambo flush progressing nicely

A good indicator with a lot palms, in this case pinanga genus, coronata no worries so a lot of other pinanga varieties are going to do well which I have found out in my climate. Calyptrocalyx the same you just have to find which varieties will tolerate the cool some do some dont. But through zone pushing you find them , pick a genus that has survived in your climate and in some cases there are a lot other varieties in that genus that will live. Oh a heated hothouse, let me dream, dreams can come true. But so far there nightmares of dead palms.🤣

Encephalartos “true blue” Arenarius pup throwing a 5 leafer. I have only tried to propagate 3 Encephalartos pups and I’m batting 1000 so it seems pretty foolproof. I started this one about a year ago from a softball sized pup so patience is the name of the game.

I probably would if it didn't require protection, I have such a handful of palms that I already have to maintain through the winter and my acoelorraphe is as much as I could possibly handle as of now when it comes to marginal clumping palm. 😂

Here’s a tray in the hothouse doing well, I think it’s the cold and wet combination doing them in @tim_brissy_13 , I have seen temperatures drop to 2 degrees celcius in burringbar, my temperature at the bottom of my property this morning was 2 degrees celcius this morning. It’s the cold wet conditions that do them in not air temperature.

Most of us grow palms for their aesthetic value and for me and many of us, dried up brown persistent fronds are a detriment to that. A lush green garden versus one that has lots of dead hanging foliage, hmm, which one do I want to look at and be in? Fortunately most of my palms are self cleaning but many, such as Parajubaea, Livistona, Syagrus, Trachycarpus, Phoenix, and others are not so I trim off yellowed leaves. Rhopalostylis, on the other hand, often shed their oldest frond while still green and quite heavy. The stems and old boots of virtually all the palms that are trimmed here, fall off readily, many right up near the palm’s canopies with just a few exceptions. I don’t think leaving the dead fronds hastens trunk “cleaning” appreciably.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DawFBSXtAqw/?igsh=MXdqZjNrcTBzNzVhdA== I have failed you, Palm Gods. But I am appeasing the Aroid gods. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DawFzYjtIlU/?igsh=ZWkzdHRmNDQ3ZzB0 Oh and y'all saw I bought a bottle palm right?

I’ve seen a grove of Vershaffeltia doing well in Burringbar which isn’t too far from @happypalms . Think damage wouldn’t occur until much below 7C. Richard - do you get significantly colder than Burringbar? I’d have expected Vershaffeltia should do ok in your greenhouse at the very least.

Hopefully your palms hold up well. I hate those sleeper freezes. Waking up to white everywhere is beautiful but totally alarming.

I'd be interested in some...

Hopefully that’s the lowest you get this winter then. The lowest I’ve had over here is 0.5C back in June with some crunchy grass in exposed areas. Statistically the coldest for my area is from June 21 to about July 21. Had a cool one this morning with clear skies and it’s 3.5C at the moment with the sun about to appear but back to clouds and rain from Thursday. 21C forecast for tomorrow. A touch of spring.

Pinanga rumphiana looks like a win to me. Verschafeltia was a bridge too far for you. A proper tropical. I think 7C is their damage temperature. Now if you had a heated tunnel house then you’d be ok with them.

I just changed phone and I am unable to log into Palmtalk.org "successfully". First of all, no issue logging in from the desktop Windows 11. Second of all, no issue logging in from my old mobile device that was a Google Pixel 6 running Android 16. Now, with the new device, that is a Pixel 10a, running Android 17, I did the login with the email & password, and I got this error screen. Error code 2S119/1 whatever that means. I am using the Google Chrome browser, not the app. BUT it does actually logged me in, but it hit a glitch somewhere to cause that error, and thus was able to complete the login 100%, which caused the password manager to prompt me if I want to save the password, and since I can't save the password, I need to login every time I access the site. To test this further, I logged out, and logged in a second time, a third time, same error. I tried it on two other browsers, Firefox and Opera, and got the same issue.

Ooof! I think they might have killed it this time.🤦🤷‍♂️

They are beautiful. I only have two *Rupicola* from RPS. They are purebred. I hope to see them grow up healthy.

If I knew you bought them, I would have sent them to you for free.

I just had delivery of Phoenix rupicola seeds (probably from an Indian source?) I ordered (via a fellow PalmTalker) from RPS. I'm trying to maximize the chances that these will be unhybridized, unlike some seeds from USA sources. Time will tell...

Here’s a pic of that Brahea . Harry ☹️

The plumeria didn’t even try to come back from the ground ?