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Some welcome rain is a good start to winter as far as I can see, said the blind man who couldn’t see at all!

I have some those copiapoa cinerea for sale. Please contact me if you are interested,and i will offer you more information!

Heres that monster! Richard

It’s an old Rosebud farm, Rich trapnell palm and iam confident it is a sefritzii!

I have microspadix and it’s a deeper green and more of a green leather look. I may have purchased the palm some odd 30 years ago and yes the memory is not the same, and my memory bank i finally got the combination and unlocked it and according to my memory bank it’s a sefritzii!

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Same as my one tied up to keep it in check. I have another clump In the garden that’s a monster, they can get large that’s for sure. It’s surprising how tough this palm is and a good cool tolerance helps gor those in the cooler areas! Richard

Lepidozamia peroffskyana cone, the biggest one I have seen in a while!

Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana, dypsis pembana, sabinara magnifica, three great palms.

Would you say a dry arid conditions with as much sun as possible for growing this palm. I can provide that but i havent been game enough to plant pslms in that area of my property. Good drainage is not a problem in my garden, or would a spot with some microclimate be best suited. Thanks

That’s warm for midnight, no wonder your palms look so good. Beautiful pictures thanks!

Beautiful picture, and with some luck you may have some seeds. Definitely the climate for growing in your area!

Wow now that’s cracking the combination to growing them, you definitely have it worked out, the heat is not a problem in summer for me. The winter may be a different story for me. Top picture in habitat thanks!

Thank you, the recipe you have provided sounds like the key to success with this palm. Very detailed description of what I should be doing with this palm. And the varietie I have is navassana, so that one problem solved. Thanks again.

Yep. One is in the compost bin and one got cut down to the soil.

Thanks for sharing😁@wimmie, your palms are super cool!, wish i could have one of those right now🙂, well I am planning to buy 2 small sized chamaerops from a local e commerce actually, one palm I'll make it into a bonsai and the other one i'll just let it grow on my backyard😄

There are different varieties of these circulating around here. There is a fat-leaflet one, and a clearly different whispy thin leaflet one, in addition to the various subspecies from around the Carribean. These traits were evident when young. The fat leaflet kind grows faster and more robust for me. The thin leaflet kind seems a little slower. PS ssp saonae is the slowest for me…. It was supposed to be a faster growing ssp. It was planted at the same time but much older, now blown away by its younger partners who have quickly surpassed it. PS….. it’s 83 F (28.3 Celsius) out right now at midnight.

I have a pup that sprouted on mine about a year or so ago that has wide leaflets . It looks completely different than the others . It sounds like this species can be variable. Harry

It’s crazy. They grow those nubbins out, and then…. Bam! They explode open and the flowers grow super fast. Whatever sweet nectar they produce, it must be great. First tons of honey bees come, then tons of other little bees and fly-like things and ants for a long time. Looks like soil they would like. Bet they would like a lot of water and fertilizer during the hot months in that calcareous mix. Mine actually need a lot of potassium and boron, in addition to enjoying regular high end palm fertilizer, and my soil is much better than this, but still very sandy. Mine are on the very edge of the irrigation zones, and get hit 3x per week, but it’s a little light. I’ll soak them with a hose once a week when it gets dry. They can survive terrible dryness and bad soil, but still enjoy some TLC to speed them up.

awesome observation. Do your jubaea x butia or butia x jubaea have folded leaves ? or hooks at the end ?

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Everything special starts small. In this case it is starting small and fuzzy. I am looking forward to seeing what emerges from the fuzz this time and watching it continue growing.

My last connections , other than @DoomsDave was in the early nineties . The Sullivans , Karl Doebler , and John Talman , all of Ventura. John has passed on , Karl retired , and the Sullivans are no longer active. Harry

It might be a bit stretched out from being in a crowded nursery. The curvature of the fronds makes me think hybrid. I have a JxB and BxJ, they are both slightly recurved...but not like a Butia curvature. It might take a few new fronds to be sure what it is.

Howdy! I’m the past President of the Palm Society of Southern California, shoot me a pm if interested. @Darold Petty up in Sam Frank’s Disco can hook you with a Northern California group. @Harry’s Palms maybe you can hook him up with a central California group?