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Tiny is an understatement, complete and utter problem child in the garden. Iam ripping my ones out. Variegated or nothing for me in the rhapis department.

I was expecting that, pretty well much not a chance in the ground in my climate. And one cool greenhouse in the shade may get built for just such palms in the low area of my property. Crazy to think I would be going for a that sort of greenhouse, go for 90 percent shade cloth 😂 A container palm for those Southern growing Tasmaniacs and the Mexicans south of the border!

Here is an Ai rating of Hedyscepe canterburyana

Be careful not to paint them all with the same brush. G undata subsp undata (G weberbaueri) will be very tricky in summer for you. Hates consistent heat. Will need the coolest, wettest spot to be a chance. Most Geonoma are very tropical and will love the heat as long as the moisture is kept up.

Chucking a few more seeds in, a little rps order of some healthy looking seeds. The socratea have started to germinate so that’s a positive sign. And I know the Geonoma live in my climate so I just need to germinate a few more for the collection.

Iam quite impressed with the tashiroi, coming out of winter looking like it was a spring festival. Not too worried about winter the least, pretty good for a seedling.

Kerriodoxa and a nice Areca vestria orange looking pretty good!

Back in the day they would have been snapped up. Here in Australia you can’t even give them away. That said if I was to go to the markets and sell my exotics, with a Joey next to a foxtail the foxy would sell not a problem. And the odds of taking the Joey home would be very high. The general public see the foxy and they think yep I want a palm and I see them around the place so the foxy it is , and the Joey comes home only to grow bigger for the next trip to the markets. If only they knew! Richard

Thank you.

They seem to prefer wet high humidity conditions, the cool conditions is a great bonus for growing them out of there habitat. It took me a couple of loses in growing them before I worked them out, the same with iguanura palms. I have managed to germinate a few Geonoma weberbauri from rps and it looks like iam having good luck so far with them popping up with more on the way.

Thanks for checking in after hurricane Lala. We had strong winds and 18.5” of rain but thankfully not too much damage. A limb on the monkey pod tree snapped and several palms had fronds torn off. A few small palms blew over but they’ve been propped back up and should be fine. Thankfully our area of the island did fairly well, it’s the southern part of the island that received a lot of flood damage.

I've tried saw Palmettos in the past and I could never get one to grow, but I decided to try again and this time I decided to create artificial drainage with drainage gravel, I replaced all native soil with sand and equal parts garden soil and then topped off with pure sand. And for the first time I have a saw palmetto that's actually growing and not rotting away. I've included the drainage I've created. It's a lot deeper than it looks in the image,the idea was to make water quickly drain away down Hill.

Oh yep, they do become a tiny problem eventually

Phoenikakias: I ordered a few different palm species from that Germany-based supplier a few years ago and also didn't have any germination success... except for one (1) single seed of Dypsis (Chrysalidocarpus) onilahensis that sprouted. Too early to tell if it'll be the droopy or the upright leaf form.🤨

If i could send you one I would! I did see a one on palm talk in the for sale, but unfortunately no postage to California! Richard Track it down and get it sent to wherever you can, then repost to your address or better still drive a million miles to get it. That’s if it’s still available in the for sale column! Richard

It's only a temporary condition, they roll pretty fast once they get moving!

Looks to be a fat trunked hybrid, with some strong filifera traits. Leaves are not quite divided enough, but do have some minor split ends. Nice palms! Major splits on 13 year old filifera 14 month old also showing up. That is the fourth leaf after the strap leaf.

There has been a lot of cloud cover, thunder, and lightning here. The only thing we didn't get was the rain.

They should trim the hedge so the Parajubaea can be seen better.

And that's the nub of the issue really - the huge range of A cunninghamiana. It would seem more incredible to me if the Eungella population was not at least a distinct sub species to the palms at Batemans Bay in southern NSW...nearly 1600 km to the south...a similar distance to that between San Diego and Seattle. The population at Eungella is further isolated by around 200km of Brigalow, ie seasonally dry woodland pretty hostile to palms, so there can't have been much, if any, gene flow from other populations since the formation of the Brigalow belt. It's a fascinating scenario, and would be great to get some scientific input at some point...we need a botany grad looking for a phd thesis!

@Keys6505 Anything interesting from Floribunda? I just placed an order with them.

These are at the corner of N. Delaware and 1st. Thought I would share pictures, as these are starting to clear the hedge in front. Nice old house back there too.

This is as Lakes Park in Fort Myers. Very distinct from Sabal palmetto seen nearby. Leaflet tips don't droop at all, unlike the big S. causiarum types I'm used to seeing. Tons of large seed on the ground - 12mm in diameter x 8mm high. Any info?

I’m also trying Panama tall to see if there is a difference

I can't tell from the photo the size of the pot. I would go up to the next size for now. A cheap nursery pot is fine. Drench it once to help the soil settle in the new pot. For display, set the nursery pot into a decorative pot.