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any updates for july? have the little trees recovered yet? 🙂

Need some help with this one, been chasing an oliviformis for a while now and the specialised palm nursery local to me sold out a year back with no intention of raising any more seedlings. However they recently found this little suffering single stem specimen mixed in with a heap of other palms so gave it to me for free with little hope. Question I have is, what can I do to increase its chances of survival? I’m guessing I don’t want to be pulling it out of the pot and disturbing its roots? Tia.

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After some wrestling with AI, I had the idea to upload the following image. Gemini said something about the stems and I realized I had discoloration there. This is the image of my palm I sent it (it loaded at the bottom for some reason) And it came back with a definitive diagnosis that I've since peer reviewed and I think its actually right. Incredible. Output:: "What you are looking at is not a root drench issue, and it is not a standard manganese deficiency. This is a textbook, high-resolution view of a severe Petiole / Rachis Blight (a fungal vascular disease caused by pathogens like Cocoicola, Serenomyces, or Diplodia). Looking closely at the image reveals the exact mechanics of what is happening to your tree: Image Analysis: What the Photo ShowsThe Longitudinal Brown Bands: Look at the distinct, dark reddish-brown lines running parallel right along the inner grooves of the yellowing stem. Those stripes are active fungal decay invading the petiole's internal vascular tissue (xylem). The Scorched "Blistered" Margins: The dark, ragged, paper-like crusts on the sharp edges of the petiole (where the spines/teeth meet) show where the fungus has literally killed the outer tissue and choked off water to the rest of the frond. The Active "Bleach Zone": Notice how the tissue is a sickly bright yellow around the brown vascular lines and pales out toward the center. Because the fungus has clogged the stem's internal water pipes, the green tissue above it is actively starving of water and chlorifying (turning yellow)."

Jonathan, I would strongly advise that you sow the seeds in individual small pots. I was the fortunate recipient of Richnorm's generosity and obtained 12 sprouts in a community germination pot. When I separated the small seedlings to install them into small pots 10 of the 12 died immediately.

Here's a more recent photo of the ones I have available.

Yes. This girl pushed 3 cones last summer with no flush between those three and this one. She pushed at least one cone a couple of years before the triplets, but I don't recall if that was the first. The munchii had me leaning male but I am a little unsure at this point. These are the first cones on the Encephalartos munchii .

Onszaden.com ships from The Netherlands, it has a few of cold hardy palms there but mostly out of stock. Trachycarpus Fortunei is the only available seeds for now

It’s been a bizarre week. 106f yesterday here in Sugar Land. Ridiculously hot, hottest I’ve ever experienced. Today, we have a tropical storm that was supposed to be a nonevent but winded up causing a lot of rain, lightning, and somehow no wind.

Beautiful beautiful rain totals across the western half of the Houston Metro. Could not ask for anything better! Picked up >1.5" at the garden near Katy 😍. Long slow steady soaking rain

Yesterday was god awful here in Manvel 102° at my house. That evening we had a piece of the violent storm that came through the Galveston county area . Today we had more rain from boring Bertha and a high of mid 80s quite the difference….

I had a small one that had double spear pull sealing it’s fate and it had two leaves at the time that happened, three years later with no spears it still had two leaves so I finally dug her out. How sad it’s beautiful palm In fact, I think I obtained mine from you, Mike.

I got a bunch of very generously gifted R palates seeds a couple of years ago. Absolutely zero have germinated to this day, but strangely all seeds still look solid and unaffected by fungus or mould. Does anyone have any tips on germinating this species? I’m considering starting again and re sowing after a bit of a soak in bleach which has been successful on some other seeds with long viability periods (Brahea sp and some others).

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It looks loaded with fruit.

Syagrus nuts are almost as big as my own. No pores on these.

Nothing unusual this time of year. Mid 90's F for absolute nightly lows are unbearable though for both plants and people. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Hey Rich, I just sowed a few seeds gifted by @tim_brissy_13 via your good self, thank you kindly for organising! Wondering if you've got any advice on germination? I've got them in my normal peat/perlite mix in baggies, at low to mid 20's, does that sound reasonable? Also, do you happen to know anything about the provenance of your plants or where the seed came from?? Cheers, Jonathan

It is one I wish I could successfully grow in the tropics. Just magnificent.

Very old plant in 30gal container $350

I agree with Harry.

My W. distichia kept their shape all along.

Where to buy seeds or palms. The only site i found was rarepamlseeds.com, among us only and 19 year old out of business companies. I'm looking for some variations of Trachycarpus, butia and maybe a butiagrus.

My big orange has nice pigmy dates in 15-gal 2's, 3's and 4's. $80 - I'm tempted.

That is the nursery I was referring to! They are pretty darn good , not as good as when Karl and Helen Doebler were there , but Danny does a good job. The nursery that started my palm journey. Karl used to bring in seedlings from folks in the Palm Society and had dedicated a corner of the greenhouse to sell them. They still have some rare ones now and then . Harry