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Date: Saturday, June 6th, 2026 Time:10am – 2pm Location: A Private Garden in Melbourne, FL Details: The tour will feature a new garden that contains over 50 species of both natives and exotics. The garden is planted on grade and has measures in place to control run-off to combat drought. Vendors are welcome. We will have a plant auction at the conclusion of the meeting. Please Bring: An Umbrella A chair for comfort A palm, cycad, or companion plant for the auction *** Please reply with an RSVP to cfpacs.membership@gmail.com if you plan on attending to receive the address. ***

Good grief no, I got seed back in 2010, so it took awhile to germinate and get them to plantable size. Hawaii fast, but not that fast. Tim

Like all the farmers say, "There's always next year". It was an unusually warm winter in the Phoenix area, and it pretty much decimated the stone fruit crops in the valley. We have 3 apricot trees, and a nectaplum, and not a single flower on any of them for the first time ever.🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Jim, you can go ahead, my friend, and post the list of palm trees you ordered. Come on, my friend, you should manage to get those precious varieties that Floribunda has in Hawaii, like Merojejya or a Joy. And what about the palm trees hidden in the South American rainforest? Jeff explained to me that he has a Tahina Spectabilis, but it will still be a while before it produces seeds. He explained that the Merojejya sometimes produces many fruits and other years none at all, or only a couple. It's an interesting tropical and exotic laboratory he treasures. Any minute now, the CIA or NASA will come and film a movie in his Botanical Garden.

I just made another order of never before tried palms. Can’t wait to get them.

I am going to guess that the stick RP's will actually have a more vigorous bloom this year but latter than normal. Although they look like dead sticks, you can see the beginning of green growth at the tips and the beautiful red will come soon thereafter. I have never seen them not bloom and generally the warmer the winter, the less vigorous the bloom.

Bummer I guess mine isn’t going to bloom this year!!

My guess is that our stick trees may not bloom until June. With your mild winter, most kept their leaves and are already rolling!

Not very long at all to germinate 5 to 8 weeks, bottom heating 30 degrees Celsius, coco coir perlite mix just slightly damp for germination. My growing medium is 60 percent coco peat, 30 percent good quality potting mix, 20 percent perlite, with volcanic crushed rock powder. I don’t overwater them as seedlings they don’t like too much water especially in winter. I also use Agrifos a systemic fungicide for root disease. I have some in my garden in black sandy loam soil.

Those are fantastic results, how long did germination take? Are you using orchid bark substrate?

These palm trees aren't very popular, but they have a very tropical, delicate, and elegant appearance. I only managed to germinate 10 seeds of Ptychosperma schefferi, purchased from RPS Germany. Only 3 palm trees survived.

You could be right on that one, the only source of that plant was from the germinater Merc psillakis. I did get a bit of his stuff, so you might have cracked the case thanks Tim.

As my European friends say, having tropical or delicate palm trees in a cold climate means their palm trees will spend their entire lives in pots. So they looked for ways to bring home such exotic luxury.

You'll have to remove all the soil and replace it with non-desert or clay soil. You could try leaving this palm tree in pots for its entire life. It certainly won't die. You need to determine what caused its death. It could be the hard soil underneath (like clay) that didn't promote root growth, or it might be suffocating.

Looks like Hawaii. Growth happens every day of the year in Hawaii. Helps to be tropical, not far from the equator.

These are two local specimens This tree has very dense wood:

My first RP has just started its bloom cycle. The second one always follows, and I can see that it has tons of buds!😊 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Thanks