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It seems I might have to get up to the Gibraltar range and get a few seeds, only a short drive away from home!

One plant that I definitely thought and read that would not take the cool weather was the piper magnificum. Taking temperatures down to 2 degrees Celsius and sitting in the back part of the greenhouse without much warmth in winter. It came through last winter like it was a spring break. So much so I had to buy another plant, iam quite confident it would live in the ground given enough water in summer in my climate. So don’t believe all you read this plant is cool tolerant! Another zone push winner!

Ante, those had been given to me as seedlings by Dražen Travica. Very robust plants, but slow growers because of the lack of adequate water and the competition with older and more established palms and bananas. Alone the fact that they survive and grow bigger at any rate is a plus. The seem also quite easy regarding soil consistency. 9

Each new leaf on the dypsis basilonga just gets better and better, followed by y a nice young Dypsis utilis leaf and don’t forget the vonitra Dransfeildii for putting on a nice new leaf for a bit of colour!

Spring is entering gradually and new growth starts appearing on Bismarckia and Nannorrhops. Which one is more blue in your opinion?

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Tell him it’s a Sentour that he really wants!

Hoi Mazat, what was the min temperature this palm has been exposed to? Mine in the ground was exposed in the aerial part to 1C but looks much better than yours.

A nice fat Ferox cone, and an unknown cycas with a nice flush!

A nice young standelyi leaf!

Got it thanks

Iron and potassium deficiency cause for some reason they are there but not available to the plant. Second picture displays a palm in trouble. If you let it so it will sooner or later get infected by root fungi, which are always there but not harmful to a robustly growing palm. Start with a good dose of sequestrene eddha and, were I you, also a dose of root fungicide tolclofos-methyl. But latter is up to you. Former is indispensable. The fact that you have experienced a rainy winter supports the theory of iron deficiency.

She is a bit light lime green yellow looking. Most likely at first look nitrogen, but a complete NPK with trace elements should give her a bit more green, could even be in a hot spot but being a syagrus I doubt that. Some good old blood and bone with a good feed of chicken poo should do the trick if you want to go organic!

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About the best I know off is mandelas gold, is all they have come up with over the years with a strelitzia reginae.

@happypalms from your experience, do you think this is N or Mg deficiency?

So they say...but I think she's OK!

Or is that a non sequitur?

Thank you. If I were to choose between overwatering or overfertilization I'd go with overwatering. We think we didn't overwater it, but considering it was in a dark place, it probably didn't drink enough and we could have overwatered it. We had a soil moisture tester, but it wasn't too long. Today I received a new one, with 12" probe (15-16" total length), hopefully it will help check the bottom of the pots and avoid overwatering. I've also moved it to a brighter spot, as bright as it can be here at 40 degrees north latitude in March (not bright :)) Could it be K (potassium) deficiency though? I think it has similar symptoms?

Post Greenhouse Shrink

Current Stats (06:33 AM, March 24): Outdoor Temp (Arbon Stachen 425m, solar-ventilated Bresser) 0.3 C / 32.54 F 92 % humidity Balcony Temp 443m (4th floor, shaded Intertronic): 6.2 C / 43.16 F / 53 % Pressure: 1021 hPa

Thank you very much Richard 🤗

Thank you very much Harry 🤗

Here's an older pic of mine that I tried to skin 😂 It just ended up looking like a trachy at the end. I might just keep doing it just to see what it looks like.

God if I had your garden I'd even sleep there!