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Completely by accident, but I found Otatea acuminata roots from stem cuttings. I used fresh cut canes as stakes on some of my potted plants. I basically harvested canes from ground level, and cut each cane into 3 foot long pieces. Much to my surprise, not only are the cut canes still green months later, they're also leafing out and rooting at the buried nodes.

Not an expert but I don't think it's cohune.

There's an impressive Trachycarpus Nainital or Bulgaria on E Louisville off seashore ave. Survives winters. There's also plenty of yucca rostratas

Hi folks, Currently on the hunt for a Parajubaea sunhka for a new planter bed. Seems to be rarer than usual right now. Please let me know! In the meantime, here’s pics of one at my house. In the ground maybe around four years from an overgrown five gallon. About 20 ft tall, nearly as wide. Impossible to capture its grandeur in a photo. The daylight pic is from a year ago. It’s grown quite a lot in a year.

Mr. Krause, Welcome to Palmtalk ! You are not in compliance with the "Rule and Guidelines" for the Sale section. since you have not listed the price. The volunteer seedling Phoenix canariensis palms sprouted around the property have no economic value. They are too large for manual transplant, and too small to matter to a commercial tree service. Also, with the beetle threat it doesn't make much sense to plant more of this genus. Large Phoenix roebellinii do not transplant well. The Chamaerops humilis and the Cycas revoluta are available at any size already in a container, and so,... only individuals expecting a free plant would invest transplant labor. I believe that the only plant which might command payment would be the Cycad adjacent to the staircase. For Cycad pricing you can view this website, junglemusic.net. Best wishes !

They both look great! Happy to hear your success.

Whatever it is, she’s a beauty!

Fabulous palm. I hope you get answers from some of our experts.

Well done Richard, keep it up, he who stops is lost.

$9350 on 100 Sabinaria seeds?!!

That’s coming along nicely . A very large growing space . Harry

Those are very nice . How old is that Basilonga ? I have had a double in the ground for a couple of years and have found them to be super slow growing. Harry

The Archontophoenix palms are very root sensitive . Most times new plantings can show a bit of struggle , especially in sunny , hot weather. They are water lovers , for the most part , so keep them hydrated . They will adapt , eventually. Some are faster than others , many factors determine how rapidly. Yours look healthy so , with time , should be beautiful there . I agree that the wood chips would be beneficial , rather than the highly reflective white rock . Harry

Here's our last week of winter, and to be honest, it feels like we haven't really had one this year. Two frosts so light they were gone by 8.30 and a couple of gloomy below 10 degree days, and that's all she wrote, apparently...however I've fallen for that old trick before, so it won't be me starting the summer thread this year! Looking like 19c for the last day of winter, could be a scary fire season ahead.

I did the maths on my sabinara 55 out of 100 plus import cost, $170 they each owe me, to get my money back. So $250 each palm so I make $80 bucks per sabinara and that doesn’t include my growing costs. So really say $60 bucks I make for one sabinara. Which is quite reasonable considering the fact it’s imported seeds. As you say you’re syagrus seed ventures went out the window, and to justify that sort of money, its not a good incentive for one to import seeds. And that’s what the main issue is, how rare is rare. And a palm nut collector will and I have pay top end for that holy grail palm. Sell all my sabinara for $45 each and another grower is going to grow them on and sell them for $250 or higher. It seems you can’t win importing seeds at the going economic rate we are seeing. Being realistic about the whole palm growing and finding that market to supply due to demand!

I think you might have a male hemp plant, which won't produce potent buds but can still be calming. For legal and lab-verified flower,

Water water water. King palms are semi-aquatic and are literally impossible to overwater but very easy to underwater, especially in hot weather. Daily watering would not be out of the question. Wood mulch would be much better and healthier for the palms than the icy white rock mulch.🙂

And how is Mr sancho going?

Agreed.

The poor old kerriodoxa, give me the subtropics any day, you can have those hurricanes.

Nothing beats a nice stroll in a garden and even better if it’s got palms. Some good pictures thanks.

Dypsis basilonga and a couple of chamaedorea tenella, a bit of eye candy!

Good news for this duo of rare palms surviving winter in the ground. Both planted mid summer and they both survived temperatures down to 2 degrees celcius in cold wet conditions. We have two great zone push winners!