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Be very careful trying to separate clumps. They are very prone to rot when cut. I've lost enough to rot that I refuse to attempt to separate them again and risk losing the whole palm. Maybe someone can provide instructions on the best way to do so. Hacking at it with a reciprocating saw makes my blood run cold.

I think my bottle was near 20yrs old when it started producing in SO CA.. It's been putting out viable seeds ever since.... Butch

A nice splash of sangria.

Still anticipating the disclosure of the beverage👀

The three each have seed on them so I will have to go back with a pair of lopers .

Two palms on eBay one an absolute cracker of palm worth every cent; the other well iam no expert but I think it needs a proper identification!

is Chamaedorea geonomiformis/tenella ?

A few from the past.

Borassodendron borneense, still growing.

This looks like kebab to me; not sausages. By coincidence I had local sausages yesterday; here in the south of Greece people add orange in the sausages! Personally, I prefer those from northern Greece which are packed with garlic and leek.

Cocheima fraileana.. While Calla Lilies are kind of ho -hum, ..though nice of course, Deep Purple looks quite nice on these. Datura wrightii : Trimmed a little to remove some ground hugging branches a few days ago, and this is i get.. After the sun went down... 1st " Surprise " Plumeria inflo of 2026, Plumeria X " Novelty / Cinnamon Swirl.. " Because it's arms are a touch thin atm, was not expecting anything on this specimen until ..at least.. next year. Lets see how accurate the description for it's highlights are.

At our local restaurant, they're served in a sandwich bun with side of yogurt and coarse-chopped raw onions.

@DoomsDave great choice 😊🥂 To be clear ćevapčići are Bosnian dish in origin but they are prime dish in any grill party in this part of Europe. Honestly my favourite combo is with some cooked leafy greens with cooked potatoes and fried egg aside but most people just stuff them in pita bread add some diced red onions and some Ajvar. Balkan fast food style. In Bosnia they serve it with yogurt but here the beer is first option This video is how we prepare most veggies for side dish

I had considered a quick, April update regarding how things are looking as it concerns the " much hyped " " super " EL Nino talk but.. A better voice has spoken and ..You'll just have to be patient and wait. Better yet? check out this weeks' thoughts from that voice of reason himself.. As always, you can skip on past the Surf - focused / current pattern centric, first half section of Mark's videos to get to the ENSO -related section ( .. Which runs a touch long this week, btw. ) An interesting side note Mark had touched on in the video? the full article regarding lingering effects from the Hunga Tonga Eruption a few years ago.. https://indiandefencereview.com/hunga-volcano-space-plume-stratosphere-froze/ See ya on the other side of the Spring Unpredictability Barrier in ... June..

Yellow Latania

That’s my memory of the story behind it too. I believe they couldn’t be flexible on the planting time for that reason.

The best I can capture since it is in the corner of banana collection

Looks like a lot of fun!

Bottles take a while and operate on their own schedule. The survivors here will take a few years to flower, but we're not in an optimal climate range for them. There's one up the hill a little further that has/had flowers, but not sure how it handled the cold snap. It has a pretty thick trunk and survived 2010. That means it is fairly old for here. I agree with @SeanK on Adonidia. They typically start flowering somewhere between 4ft. and 8ft of clear trunk.

@Merlyn You've been a busy bee this spring. After whatever decides it wants to live comes back, you should be in good shape as far as spacing goes. If there are some holes that need filled, the sale at St. Johns should help.

I use a mixture of coco pear perlite with a good quality potting mix. most likely the problem comes from watering in summer, it has been a long hot dry summer so I have been watering quite a lot, most waterings in summer had seaweed via a Venturi. I did do a couple of Agrifos systemic fungicide waterings in combination with the seaweed. I don’t think there is any reason Agrifos has had a detrimental effect on the gausia palms. Possibly some leaching due to heavy watering. So that may have been the boron culprit at play. I have seen at work 15000 blueberrie trees burn due to boron being used, the rate for fertigating should have been 200grms not 2000grms. What an argument that was with the boss trying to blame me, in the end it came down to well that’s your handwriting to I would have used a different pen looking for an excuse to blame me. Well I had it in writing, his writing!!!

Plant it

..I should add, 20ft is a general, upper- end height. exceptional specimens, like the one below, can exceed that. Puts the ..much smaller.. specimens in Glendale to shame Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, 09 / 2021: Very unique bark for a " desert " tree as well.