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Off the top of my head: Caryota obtusa, tribear, rhopalostylis sapida, ceroxylon, verschaffeltia splendida, mealybug, roystonea, ravenea juliettae, Dypsis prestoniana, a hyophorbe….

Thanks everyone. Im watering every 3-4 days 15 gallons per watering. I know the width and depth of the planting hole. That amount of water according to my calculations is equivalent to a little over 9" of rain a week. This pic is exactly 2 weeks after planting. I noticed the 2 center petioles had shot up so I untied the palm. This pic is from exactly 3 weeks after transplant. Camera angle hasn't changed and notice petioles have pushed above camera range The frond fanning out was obviously one that was cut and I noticed after I cut the twine that it was ready to expand before harvest It's trying to establish. Also the fanning frond is very green. It just looks yellow in the bright sun.

They seem to do best with atleast half day shade, atleast starting out. The tree canopy also helps during the winter, I’ve found they aren’t as hardy starting out as they are at mature sizes.

Love the Moorei here is mine over in Alvin it’s been in the ground for a year in relatively deep shade. Will miss it when I move to Florida lol 🥲

lol I was looking for the pots! I wish i could find a Micrantha locally, such cool palms

A few from west of Austin: Brahea decumbens, still green: Trithrinax campestris: Chamadorea radicalis: Sabal minor (Warren ,Arkansas): Brahea moorei: Various Sabal uresana: Chamaerops humilis argentea:Serenoa repens

Got snowed and sleeted on in early hours of this morning during 5k trip to the city centre. Also noticed a recently planted R. Baueri is opening its new huge spear here at home. No snow settled at home on the Otago Peninsula. Forecast low of zero tonight which is very rare. Likely to remain above zero at home.

Interesting. I’ve got a bunch of air layers to do. Maybe I’ll try the same experiment.

Haha yep same way.

Nice one Scott. I'm hoping monostachya will be a more cool tolerant alternative and so hopefully a better grower, once they speed up a bit! Also, have you tried Arenga micrantha? Seems a good alternative to engleri, growing nicely for me now. You might be able to get seed from @richnorm maybe??

How would this do in San Diego?

It's an extensive list that's for sure...but it could worse!

Mine was that size (close) when I got it but I had a few full length fronds left on.. it is thriving here in okc.. however, it is water water water.. you will not kill a sabal mexicana by watering it

Trimmed the garden kinda hard one last time before I move away . I wish it would rain the past two weeks have been hot asf … L.Decora x2 Triple trunk robusta Filibusta trio

Actually, I waited over two months after the seeds turned black, then harvested them and sent them to you. You said many sprouted. If anything happens, my Chamaedorea K. are producing more seeds this year.

Yes I do apply some root hormone when I initially started to air layer onto the air layer site after I removed the bark and before I wrap it in spagnum moss and foil. However I heard from others that this is not necessary not in south Florida. I did some tests last year some I added the root hormone some I did not and I did not observe any appreciable difference.

Wait till you see what happens when we don't get those two nights a year...sometimes for several years in a row 😅. You'll be hacking with a machete trying to control the overgrowth. Came across extra nice split leaf the other day, the compactness and extra ridging/splitting really gives it that dinosaur look

Hi all, I am new to the palm love and would love to grow my collection! If you could own 15 different palms what would those be? I already have a Fallensis, Old Man’s, lipstick, chambeyronia, licuala mapu, and Catechu. Tahina is not an option. Thank you all! I’m in Miami btw

No problem with full sun, unless you live in the desert, and that not because of sun's intensity but rather of the constant situation in every season.

Your weather also seems more suitable than mine. I am definitely reconsidering the planting location

I've gotten 6 inches of rain in three days 🙂. This would normally be excessive in short duration but it was so dry, the earth will soak it in.

Memory may fail me, but I do think that I had sent to you seeds together from several palms and perhaps I had been thus intending to include in a single postage as many different seeds as possible. So perhaps the glaucifolia seeds had not been really ripe by the time of collection. I mean skin color of the fruit is not a sufficient indication of maturity. Skin may be black but inner flesh still green and still very difficult to remove. I you can remember I have prompted you not to be hasty, based only on skin color, by the collection of the klotzschiana seeds. Better wrinkled like raisins than still immature. Imh experience Chamaedorea seeds from fruits, collected wrinkled, are the most fertile. Perhaps this was the case also with the seeds I had sent to you...

I like it when they have fronds that are at least all the way down to where they are horizontal. The river walk ones look pretty good, I haven't seen any around here with that many fronds. They look more like the ones you posted in Schertz.

My larger plants are holding their own, but my oldest plantings are a little over 2 years old, and most is 1 year or less so I have to be more on the water than I plan to in the future. Unfortunately I have no canopy to work with, so heavy mulch and dense plantings plus watering is all I can do. I buy plants just about every weekend to help plug in where I have exposed mulch. I do use a lot of the native perennials as temporary fillers as they are super cheap (<$2) to buy and generally can take the heat. I will be honest though, about half the natives I don't like or don't grow well here in Houston like they do in Central Texas. Technically they aren't actually native to our area, so this may be part of that. Many get so leggy and overgrown and just look messy, or are temperamental for some reason or another. The tropicals and subtropicals perform better than just about anything, but we get those 2 nights per year that cause so much damage. I have a Thaumatophyllum (Philodendron) that I don't water or anything, its about 6' tall and 8' wide and gets blasted by the sun and still looks great. I keep the natives because they are cheap and they help the wildlife, but a lot of them I end up removing because they look like crap. The propaganda that gets pushed on these plants is ridiculous. Just like any other plant they all have their own special needs and requirements and certainly are not a "Set and Forget" thing.