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You can grow “10A” palms here but they really need to be fast growers to have a chance long term because of all the freezes/frosts and hurricanes. They need to grow fast, recover and be ready for the next calamity. C.macrocarpa might be a little too slow for them climate here unfortunately…

Those are fine examples! Didn’t folks used to refer to this palm as Mt. Lewis or something? The Sullivans here have a beauty , unfortunately too tall to see the crownshaft. Harry This has been there a super long time. I believe the palm on the left is the Archontophoenix. The garden is very old. Not sure what the large one on the right is. These were taken a while ago when I was gathering seeds.

A little warm ( 95 -102F ) ..and humid (57 -61deg Dew Point ) out there atm ( 2:33PM ), thanks in large part to clouds overhead ..but not a bad way to end the week. Unfortunately, come next week, we're gonna pay for this weeks' break in the heat.. Yepp, Like it or not, looks like we're going to burn thru another round of 110 /110+'s by Monday ..Per the current forecast, ..and they may hang around thru next weekend. As you can see, rain chances head back down, ...for the valley at least... at the same time as well. That said, the forecast beyond Wednesday or Thursday isn't totally set in stone at this moment, so, We could see rain chances return / heat get knocked down again by the weekend, if some of the less ridge-y forecasts pan out ..compared to those that want to keep the 4c ridge strong and over AZ a bit longer. Dash of salt for the day, as we look into the end of the month /..and Summer.. and the first 11 days of Meteorological Autumn / September. Discussion: The way things have been going with the extended forecasts = NO guarantees ...Which equals: We shall see.. With that said, <* ....and still not a guarantee *> ..keep an eye on the forecasts.. While it will get hot again next week, ..for a few days at least... things could start to get a lil' more interesting around here the closer we get to the final days of the month / start of September. Even beyond next week, while we might have a few more 109 /109F+ days left in the tank, we are closer to the end than the beginning of " Nuke season ".. Cross 'emm fingers.

My macrocarpa got damaged and mostly defoliated by frost during the big freeze. I don’t think it went much below 30F during all that but my back yard is very sheltered from north winds. So you’d think that is great, right? But, wind sheltering leads to frost. So I had tons of frost and frozen dew damage. None of my palms died but lots of frond damage and slow recovery for palms like C. macrocarpa, Cocos and others. Fast palms like what is sold at your big box store like Wodyetia, C. lutescens etc do well and keep getting sold because they do better here after damage from cold or hurricanes because they grow back fast if they aren’t dead

Not to mention hurricane force winds ! Last year we had too many Santa Ana events. It seemed like every week they were howling . I live on a south facing hill and I’ve had 90mph winds before up here. Keeping the gardens safe is a chore. Every gust I hear at night gives me pause. The palms get shredded sometimes if not burned to a crisp. Harry

Hope all goes well out on the Big Island.

5 percent humidity omg, that would be like living in an oven in those temperatures. No wonder they don’t live, the only relief from that sort of heat is sitting in the river!

Hi everyone, I’m looking to hear about your experiences with foliar feeding on palms, especially regarding species-specific quirks or sensitive new growth. Here is my current situation: I’m growing 5-year-old Beccariophoenix alfredii in pots (approx. 30 cm / 12" pot diameter for a 60 cm / 24" canopy) on a south-facing balcony (part-shade). The soil is well-drained, and I use soft tap water. The newest emerging fronds have been coming out very pale / light green, while the older fronds remain a healthy, dark green. Nitrogen deficiency can be ruled out, as well as root-binding. Since the soil and watering seem fine, I suspect a trace element imbalance — specifically a relative Manganese (Mn) or Iron (Fe) uptake bottleneck during fast summer growth. I’m using a high-quality specialty palm fertilizer (RPS), but to bypass any potential root/substrate absorption barrier, I’ve decided to start a foliar feeding regimen: Sprayed at dusk / late evening to prevent leaf burn. Applied at a diluted rate (approx. 1/4 of the recommended soil dosage). Focused on the undersides of the fronds and the emerging spear. My questions: Has anyone here successfully treated pale new growth on Beccariophoenix alfredii (or similar species like Dypsis / Archontophoenix) using foliar sprays? Did you use a standard chelating micro-nutrient blend (EDTA/amino acids), or did you need a pure Manganese spray? Is foliar feeding also a good idea for my tropical understory palms? Kerriodoxa, Joey, Calyptrocalyx... Thanks in advance for sharing your insights and experiences! Best regards, Matti PS: The last post I found about this topic is 16 years old...

Bonjour, quelqu'un aurait il des graines Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi à vendre ? Cordialement.

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Oh yeah, and they do pretty good in at least up to cat 3 hurricanes which is a plus here lol.

J'ai pour projet de les conserver pour plus tard pouvoir les reproduires, voir faire des hybrides, pour me faire un complément de retraite. Désolé de répondre tardivement, je n'avais pas vu votre message, je suis nouveau sur le site, je le découvre petit à petit chaque jour.

Wodyetia is so popular here because it actually grows well enough here to look good, is plumose pinnate crown shafted and is self cleaning. It has taken the queen palm’s place. Queen palm’s die from disease here. So do most Phoenix species. In my very marginal 9B/10A humid subtropical climate, Wodyetia does better than most other crown shafted alternatives. Yes, Roystonea is very close to being native here and does great too and I do have one and only ONE because one dropped frond cut up more than fills a standard sized trash bin. Roystonea is a much, much larger palm than Wodyetia. Wodyetia is actually more frond hardy in a freeze/frost than Roystonea but Roystonea wins the ultimate cold temp death match. All palms have pros and cons. I’ve come to realize that maintenance is huge as palms mature. Wodyetia seeds like a beast in my yard. Cool at first, but those seeds are like golf balls and weigh a ton… So why are they so popular? Beautiful, cheap, hardy and mostly easy to maintain. What’s not to like?

Just got this today and can’t wait to see it grow. It’s endemic to Laos like the name implies. It’s going to get a wide base to the stem like C. clivicola

J'ai pour projet de les conserver pour plus tard pouvoir les reproduires, voir faire des hybrides, pour me faire un complément de retraite. Désolé de répondre tardivement, je n'avais pas vu votre message, je suis nouveau sur le site, je le découvre petit à petit chaque jour.

Do you know if they have any that are in public or would they all be in private gardens?

The seedlings from these plants lacked any white under the leaves or the little whiskers on the midrib that cunninghamiana has. Any thoughts.

I was looking at some rainforest in north qld the other day and spotted these palms. Lots of purple on these ones.

It looks like Lala will deliver some heavy rain and wind to our friends on the Big Island and at this moment there is still disussion of it making landfall on the Big Island. Here is hoping it skirts you and no damage from wind and/or rain.

everything dried out since last sunday, no precipitation but the irrigation system got its once a week water thurs. But today at 1pm till 3pm we got once inch of rain. Clouds from noon till now have kept it a little cooler, currently 80F and weather radar looks like we might get some more and and to the north of us.

Today things that look like hurricane projectiles caught my eye but I couldn’t reach all of these and they’re quite heavy…

That is Handroanthus ( Yours pictured appears to be the large form of H. impetiginosus that is sold in 99.9% of the nurseries here ) ..One of several, former Tabebuia species no longer a member of that genus. ..doing that thing they do sometimes here. Have a small H. impetiginosus ..One of it's shorter, regional varieties that has been a pot for years. Gets blasted by mid / afternoon sun, esp. this time of year ..and is green as can be. ..Will hold off leafing out after briefly dropping old leaves in Feb or March, until it gets hot.

You have nailed it. We grow a Wodyetia here because we can not grow a Normanbya, latter dies fast due to the lack of needed air moisture during summer.

There’s some growing here, though they don’t have the grandeur of the ones from the tropics. ‘SouthernCATropicals” looks to be growing one pretty well and I believe that he is in central San Diego. They have been reported in Santa Ana, Del Mar, and further inland desert areas (Indio?). A lot of us are growing Beccariophoenix Alfredii (or one of the other Beccariophoenix species) as a substitute.

If it hasn't been in long remove it, dig a hole much wider, mix in expanded shale, and then mound plant. Make sure the base of the palm is at least a couple of inches above the soil. Better yet would be to create a raised bed garden. I never plant anything at ground level, always a least a couple of inches above the soil line if not more. I'm still surprised they are doing terrible, I've always found these to be an easy palm in the ground. My whole yard is gumbo clay, and I always amend to improve drainage and plant high, and I do experience minor flooding during intense rain storms. When I first moved to Texas I learned the standard practice when planting is to add compost and expanded shale, and that applies to the hill country as well. I followed the advice and its all been good.