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So nice to see you both! Always nice to spread palmy love and positivity in general. “You all come back now! Hear?”

Hi there, When going to the local DIY home center I ALWAYS start my journey through the palm and other plants section. I am usually doing it when in need to buy a tool or something else necessary for our house, so, I am not a weekly regular but go there from time to time. But today - I am sorry, I didn't take a pic - I came across some roughly two year old coconut palms sold for 9.800 Japanese Yen (60US$) , that is almost the double compared to three, four years ago and completely ridiculous if you know the places were to look for washed ashore seeds... Since my own company already throws germinated coconut seeds away due to lack of need - they have already asked me because they are aware of my hobby - I might consider starting a business over here....😂 One more thing. A couple of months ago some imported C. lutescens (Golden Canes) - in the meaning of shipped in from other parts of Okinawa - were sold for 8.000 Japanese Yen (50US$), a jaw dropping price if you know better - just to be replaced weeks later by local grown ones... ...almost men-high for 2.000 Japanese Yen (12US$). (I couldn't resist despite its commonness... A beautiful palm is a beautiful palm, period...) So, to keep it short, the pattern is so obvious that you just stay patient and wait for the right time or mind your own - alright, just my two cents - Lars

Could be. Investigating further.

Pretty sure not plumosa; those are much more spherical; onilahensis maybe, at least for now.

@necturus that palm looks wild, its great. What part of the city are you in? I've got a couple of B x PJS from Patric. They're at the size where they need to go in the ground. They have changed appearance as they've gotten larger. This one was very PJS looking but now is more Butia like.

Hi there, same over here. It is pitch dark outside at the moment but I got a similar monster in my backyard - and I LOVE it. Since I am situated closely to farms with livestock, my palms are often attacked by the local rhinoceros beetle (Taiwanese version) breeding on the farmer's grounds. While Cocos nucifera, Veitchias and Alexander palms take sometimes serious damage up to mortal level, the Bismarckias - I have got two in the ground - are probably way beyond their 'biting' capacity... I often see them attacked but they must have been really p.... off about the thickness of the leaves. 😅 @aztropic : You got something to compare, like a shovel or a ladder? You fella looks already huge - btw. I always like to follow your comments - so, I guess there is nothing that is going to stop it anyways...👍 All the best - Lars

If you plan to keep it potted , then a bit of shade will help , especially during the warmer months . Choose a light colored pot that is much larger than the one you have. Be very gentle when repotting , they don’t like their roots disturbed . Harry

Interesting to see such a spathe on a smaller palm. Very pronounced for the size. Harry

Nice haul. My recent trip down to La Habra to see @DoomsDave gave me a boost . My buddy Kurt and I came home with the back of his SUV packed! Gaussia , Dypsis Cabadae , Ernie’s ( Dave is usually well stocked with Chamaedorea Ernesti Augusti ) , Ptychosperma , and Kurt got more than me! Nice feeling to adopt new plants for the garden . We were going to place a combined order with Floribunda , but Kurt wanted some larger stuff and he was wanting to meet Dave. I am waiting for cooler temps to plant but the shade lovers will be going in the ground soon. I need to get some Ernie’s in the ground as “ in betweenie “ palms!😄Happy gardening for @happypalms ! Harry

Mine is growing. I have one next to my bed, and others growing in my living room. I realize I have a monster right next to my bed. Just imagine if it were a *Borassus* or a *Jubaea*.

I don't think there are any easy solar ways besides a solar generator which would need to be weather protected and a pretty large solar panel as you need 120 watts or so of total heat and a runtime of 8 hours or more. When you most need it the solar panel would be iced or not have sun.

It’s a very good starting price, sir. Sir, I would pay 500. This palm is unique; it has a look reminiscent of *Phoenix rupicola*. Whoever buys it will be a serious collector.

Archie’s are a bit sensitive for sure , I have had success with moving volunteer seedlings . Maybe it is easier in a garden where the soil is amended and softer. My friend Kurt does it with A Purpurae and A. Maxima from his mature palms . In fact he gave me some for my garden and they are trucking right along. If you just treat them like other palms , they will not make it . That’s my experience , here in a temperate environment. Even potted ones must be treated kindly when planting out or they will sulk. Harry

My thoughts are similar to @happypalms - Some kind of Chrysalidocarpus/Dypsis. Based on the ones I've gotten from you, Chrysalidocarpus plumosas or Chrysalidocarpus onilahensis maybe?

You may notice the year you get fruit it’s dry around flowering. Anthracnose fungus is the culprit, when they are flowering any amount of rainfall triggers this on the flowers. The usual fungicide treatments work well. But there’s nothing better than an organic mango. And if you give that mango to wife she won’t be so chainsaw happy to cut down your tree. I get the same with my tree, and i finally get fruit only to have the fruit bats get them. 30 year old mango tree and only ever gotten 7 mangoes to eat over all those years!

Bit of a push on the seedlings mid winter. But I had the chance to pick 50 Calyptrocalyx pollyphylus, at a very reasonable price for 75mm tube stock so I grabbed them. I have a few porphyllus in trays in the greenhouse already doing well over winter, so this batch should be ok. And while I was ordering a few palms I grabbed a few cordylines rubra and kaui beauty, along with some plumeria cuttings for the garden.

Yes but shy of one inch. Big systems with great hype never fail to disappoint.

Most certainly you can, but you have to sit up at the back of bus on the backseat. Oh and a nice little palm!

You just don’t know until you try, I have not had much experience with decipiens as transplanted seedlings, but I do know every time I dig out a little archontophoenix in a creek bed upon a visit to their habitat, none have lived so I now don’t bother with seedlings just pick up a few seeds. But we can’t be told until we try it ourselves, but they were right 99 percent of the time, it won’t live story🤣 Richard

Alogoptrea arenaria throwing a new flower, viable seeds have been collected from this single plant, and germinating them was easy provided it was a constant 30 degrees celcius.

A great couple of ferns for the garden, blechnum gibbum and dicksonia Antarctica. The blechnum are easy and fast growing. The dicksonia was a purchase as just a stem and no foliage, basically bare rooted. They just need a little attention now and then with a bit of water. And both offering that tropical looking palm that’s so desired!

No idea what’s the name except it’s a real winter beauty!

A very mild winter that’s for sure this winter. 24 degrees celcius at work today and it was 13 degrees celcius in the morning at 6.30. August it may get cold as we are not forecast for any rain, so open sky dry days means cold weather especially around the full moon. I think our friends in Tasmania know what cold is @Jonathan and even @tim_brissy_13 to me these growers are the real cold climate growers. And I guess good old cousin Jack knew what to say to you, like I say to the Vanuatu guys at work, it’s not cold you wait until winter gets here!

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