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While some varieties do it sooner than others, What you're seeing this particular specimen doing is a perfectly normal response to weather conditions during the cooler months. Leaves will fall off on their own. If you want to prune off any remaining green leaves, leave the leafstalk ..where they attach to the trunk. They will fall off on their own later. Do this with all of my specimens that refuse taking a winter season nap ...which all but the evergreen types of plumeria ( Singapore / crosses with lots of singapore blood in em ) should do. NO fertilizer / any extra water while they nap this time of year either. You have a few years of growth ahead before considering any pruning.

Sorry for your losses, Harry.

This was my R. Sapida the year it got hit with the Death Ray of 2018 . Within two years , it was dead. The heatwave also killed one of my Howea Foresteriana. I believe it would have survived had it had some shade . It was noticeably less robust than the Chatham Island form that I see on this thread. Harry Sorry , this is one of the only pics I could find of the palm. I grew it from a 4” seedling band . ‘Once it got overheated by the heat wave , it did this and died shortly after.🙁 Understandably , I really don’t like this picture. This was two years after the other pic. It was a slow , painful process. Harry

Fabulous pictures Thanks Jim

I will pay well for fresh seeds of the suckering, mountain form. I don't want the single trunk. I have been ripped off three times by internet sales, so the seeds should be from southern California with an image of the parent plant. I have three 15-gallon sized plants in my garden. These were brokered by the late Dwight Reis, but no flowering yet from these palms. Thanks

Nice to see that Tom, I hope the 3-gal blue hospita I got from @NatureGirl last month performs as well! It didn't stay in the container long. 🙂 I planted a strap-leaf green hospita I grew from seed at the same time.

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Awesome Bob I germinated mine from your original specimen https://youtu.be/NCFZ5hi1-3E?si=Rl5mdy1jbar8PvfV

Here are some of the more colorful palm trunks in my Northern California garden. Post yours please! Howea forsteriana Rhopostylis baueri Archontophoenix purpurea Chambeyronea macrocarpa Archontophoenix myolensis Chanaerops costaricana Rbopalostylis sapida ‘Chatham Island’ Rhopalostylis baueri Rhopalostylis baueri Chrysalidocarpus decipiens Wodyetia x Veitchia Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti Howea forsteriana Chambeyronia hookeri Euterpe edulis Archotophoenix alexandrae Phoenix roebelenii Caryota urens R. sapida Hedescepe canterburyana Chamaedoea tepejelote Bentickua condapanna Dypsis rosea Chamaedorea species Euteroe edulis ‘Orange Crownshaft’ Chamaedorea elegans C. radicalis Livistona australis

They are not very easy to find for some reason. Seems like they were a one time seed dispersal around 15-20 years ago

Such a beautiful palm, for sure. The night shot is pretty spectacular. It should be more widely used in California, but we don't see it much. What is the availability of plants, any idea?

A year and a half after the first pic, this hospita is growing much faster than I thought. Its nearing 6' tall overall. Much faster in ground than in a container.

Hello, I planted this plumeria in the ground early summer and it nearly tripled in size, got a fat trunk and bloomed, however after the early November frost this year I noticed the typical rust fungus that these get. which has affected almost all the leaves on the plant My question is, I would hate to lose the growth as you can see it has sprouted off 3 new branches and the base has gotten tenderly wider: should I remove the leaves and wait out through winter. Is it a goner? Should I prune at all and when should I prune? These are still new to me so any advice is much appreciated.

This is an old image of mine, grown from a 1-gallon start.

WOW! That's amazing. the few I tried turned into gopher treats.

Those are beautiful! Thanks for posting.

Stunning palm Bob, looks perfect. Still don't seem to see many of these. I didn't know this species could bifurcate, do any other Ravenea spp do this?

I don't have the answers, unless it's volume sales. They're gonna sell a lot more storage totes than nursery pots. I've even looked at larger nursery pots from Greenhouse Megastore, and through a specialized retailer like them, the pots themselves are relatively cheap - but the shipping is absolute murder since shippers charge TONS for anything larger than 1 cu/ft. Your same question applies to the 5 gallon buckets though, I'm using maybe a dozen of those as planters right now too - and there's a lot more plastic in those too plus the "assembly" where some kid in China has to put the handles in them.

I also want to thin to help with hydration in these once again droughty times...

I had one I grew from seed and got through 2 winters outdoors here at 41 deg S. Sadly, we had an incredibly wet start of the year and June/July and I think it got root rot and died. I think if I could get a good variety I would have a chance though, what do you think does best in cooler climates? Avos grow easily here, and a number of varieties are available commonly, but mangoes not so much. Do you keep yours in a greenhouse?

Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana. Looking stellar this morning. Tim

12 years ago I planted this palm and for some odd reason it bifurcated about 5 years ago

Yes they are more robust and seem more durable. Here’s another photo of the one in my former home