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I’d be all over the S glaucescens and A rousselii if you were in Aus Len. Nice job getting them to maturity and offering seeds. Beautiful palms!

What’s “stored well”?

Just ordered Parajubaea sunkha. Thanks for offering these!

Just added a few Parajubaea sunkha and Syagrus glaucescens seed packs.

Hello, My 2nd generation Inga Hoffman cunninghamia has produced a new crop of seeds. My last crop was in late 2024 and '25 was a dud year. This year was gangbusters so I have lots of seeds. Inga Hoffman lived in San Leandro, CA and ran the IPS seed bank for many years. she sourced seed from and had (still there as far as I know) a beautiful cunninghamia at her property. The parent seed was sought out and collected by her when she was on a trip to Australia, collecting seed, and she saw a cunninghamia growing up high, higher- and more importantly colder- than where a cunninghamia should be growing. They ventured up to the location and collected seeds. The resulting offspring is the tree that she grew at her home in San Leandro, and its cold hardiness was tested and proven in the '89 freeze. It survived. I'm not sure of the damage but I do remember scarring down low- only a few feet up-on the trunk from that year. I don't know how cold it got in Castro valley but it was definitely the low twenties. I was 1 hour east and I can say that it got into the teens. It was a very cold winter. Anyways, these seeds are from an offspring of that tree at Inga's place. I'd like to get like 5-10 cents per seed. I'd prefer US only but I am willing to do international. I've had an experience where the guy that bought seeds never got them and they showed up at my house 6 months later after travelling all over the world, apparently; and I had to make several calls to the customs office in that city to answer a bunch of questions to no avail. Hours of time wasted to try to help a guy out.. Very disappointing for both parties. The biggest thing is I'd like to be covered for shipping. I have 5x7" padded envelopes and shipping is going to be like $10 in the US so I'd like at least that. I'll give the seeds away within in reason; I'd like to be able to distribute these seeds around a little bit. Seeds have been cleaned and soaked in hydrogen peroxide. I have probably 700 seeds so PM me, I'll get back to you and first come first served. Thanks for your consideration! I can do Paypal or Zelle or if you want to mail me cash or check that works to, but that's like 14 seeds for the cost of a stamp!

I ended up planting the E. munchii and the E. Horridus x Arenarus.

Here is my fiji currently after 100% defoliation.

They're holding 5-6 apiece. The Atlantic Tall is slightly more recovered than the Maypan, but both have a long road ahead of them assuming they survive next winter. Atlantic Tall: Maypan:

Here’s one in Pearland, Texas. Seed from a South Texas palm . The wet humid climate bleaches the blue a bit.

Update from Pearland Livistona decora, Ravenea rivularis(Majesty) Archontophoenix tuckeri #1(4 feet of trunk) Hyphaene petersiana: Bismarckia nobilis#1 Livistona australis: Acrocomia totai: Archontophoenix tuckeri #2: Butia sp.: Beccariophoenix alfredii : Bismarckia nobilis#2: Sabal uresana: Medemia argun: Livistona nitida, Copernicia alba(8 feet of trunk), Butia sp.: Copernicia alba#1(more sun, 8 feet of trunk): Copernicia alba #2(more shade, 2 feet of trunk ) Queen palm:Mule Palm (Butia x Syagrus): Butia x Parajubaea torallyi: Phoenix theophrastii “Golkoy”:Phoenix sylvestris: Ravenea rivularis(Majesty):

That little bit less precipitation actually makes a difference especially in winter. South Salem had more Washingtonia in the ground than the Portland area. During those polar incursions you are right about Portland getting that terrible east wind through the gorge. Fortunately I was more protected than NE Portland, but it still could affect me. Portland would get snow and I would get rain or mixing. What I can say is that even when you go down to Salem the average winter temps are colder which gives it that half zone rating lower. It would be frosty and frozen in Salem and further south and it wasn’t at my place. Hopefully your palm is able to tolerate the climate. I don’t think you will have to worry so much about winter damage but more so it having a growth rate equal to or greater than the aging out of older fronds. Keep us updated.

Got it from a reputable farm and they sale that size often.

Our municiple supply is 7.3-7.6 depending. Soil was tested as 8.1 three years ago. But that was a spot in my front yard; I have nearly an acre so I don't know the distribution across all soil I have, nor how it changes with depth. Given the known averages, feels like a safe assumption. I'm agreeing with sonoranfans; I think irrigation has washed away usable nutrients. The fertilizer I used has water soluable iron, manganese and magnesium. Hopefully that helps it recover. Epsom salt worries me a bit; I've read the line between enough and too much is really narrow.

Tracy, I just went outside and photographed both the F. abutilifolia and the F. glumosa. Both have grown quite a lot over the nearly 11 months since the above photos, although the F. abutilifolia sure seems to be looking around for some rocks to snake through. I suppose at some point it might decide to be an upright tree? Maybe not. But it has beautiful foliage, a nice lemon-yellow tinge to the bark, and loves the extreme heat out here. The same toughness of character can be attributed to F. glumosa, although that one would be a model student in any teacher's class, neatly confined to their seat with a sense of great propriety! I'm fascinated by the woolly and yet glossy-green foliage. F. abutilifolia: F. glumosa:

The Talls apparently recover faster than the dwarfs after winter which I didn’t know until recently, how many frawnds do your survived coconuts have now?

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More fell afterwards, but its just not summer on the escarpment without at least one major flood event.

I checked on the website and it says that they just ship in USA😓🤦🏻‍♂️

If you have had no rain, I suspect watering issue, not fungus. Fungus typically occurs from being wet, as in overhead irrigation. You may just have smaller areas where the irrigation water runs off and now that there is no rain the moisture is not spreading in the soil. No moisture means no feeding on nutrients Concrete block wall never caused a problem for me in Arizona's sonoran desert. But the soil there was alkaline. Really high calcium soils cannot be practically treated for pH. If your soil test does not call your soil calcareous, pH can be shifted safely and gradually with sulfur pellets which gradually break down with microbe action and will neutralize calcium if you add enough. I added a few hundred pounds over 3 years and didnt see any evidence of a pH caused Iron deficiency after that. You could temporarily shift the soil pH by adding some dilute Epsom salt solution as a short term emergency action. Get a water can and put down 10 gallons of 1 heaping teaspoon every 2 gallons. This will alter the local soil pH temporarily so micronutrient uptake can occur. All the symptoms, actions, and observations considered, I would do the Epsom salt add some chelated iron fi that is in the nutritional spray. Bioavailability of micros at soil 8.5pH has copper, Zinc, boron, manganese, phosphorus, and most of all Iron are not very bio available. Even at pH 8 only phosphorus become sufficiently bioavailable. There is a lot of potential there for complex deficiencies if your soil is pH 8-8.5. Lack of water will aggravate a soil pH problem further by reduced feeding. The palm nutritional spray should be added just after the Epsom salt pushes the pH down (temporarily). I would get a soil test for calcium and pH and start reading on soil pH amendments. A short, fast pH adjustment by say Ammonium sulfate may shock the palm and it could get a setback. Sulfur is the safest way but takes time. Epsom salt is more mild in shifting pH than ammonium sulfate or ammonium nitrate though it adds the Mg which is probably a good thing in high calcium coil as palms prefer a low Ca to Mg ratio of about 3.

You say it is an alkaline soil. Do you know the pH? Have you had it tested? Also, what is your water’s pH? Severely out of balance pH situations can cause deficiencies where some nutrients become unobtainable to the palm. It is possible that they looked fine before but actually had deficiencies that you didn’t notice. Have you changed anything in your care routine recently?

I recently visited Isola di Brissago and I spotted your palm on my way to the ferry. Brissago_1567156.MP4

$1 each, 20 minimum order. plus $9 shipping, US only. Includes USDA inspection out of Honolulu. Only have 120