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good morning Meg I sent you a DM asking about the application of the Dithene that I finally found. I mixed 1/8 tbsp with 16 ounces, and sprayed all the leaves and branches. Should I have done that or just sprayed 1 to test?? And is it necessary to super soak, or does a gentle spray work? I have 8 ounces left of the mix, which I will spray in a month or so?? Or do I save that for next fall? I fertilized it with Langbeinite and palm food 3 weeks ago or so.

I have a fertilizer injection system that I've been using for a couple of years. If memory serves the, I've been using Peters brand water soluble fert with 10-4-12 ratio, somewhere thereabouts. I don't use standard granular fert much, as it really needs at least some overhead watering, which I don't really have.

Continued from my previous thread here: The current progress on them has each not showing green new growth on each trunk and green on the existing fronds. There is a lot of really dried and drooping brown fronds at the lower end of each of them. Is it time to start cutting or is it still not safe? I have the fertilizer ready to go as well to put around the base. Handful on each trunk is the advice I got so if thats right I'll do it later this week and get it watered in. Main concern now is what to do with the brown completely dead fronds on these things to try to start sprucing things up out there as they look quite bad at the moment but also dont want to do anything that will harm their recovery so looking for some opinions on what to do. Here are the photos. Tree 1 has the most drooping down now with several of the fronds touching the ground. Tree 2 and 3 have similar brown at the lowest part of the trunks and those will be on the ground soon as well. Tree 1: Tree 2: Tree 3:

If you mean to leave them in the buckets outside for the growing season, protect them from wind or they'll topple. But surely you will have bigger plants to overwinter if you plant them now and dig in fall? Big stalks root just as fast as the little ones. Much harder to lift, though!

My graminofolia seed came from south America originally twice. The person i got them from has sinced passed away. I was aware of the papers above and the crosses. Many years ago i was sent a Chamaedorea schippi, it has been the slowest chamaedorea i have grown. The C graminifolia in Australia came from the seed i brought in. They do not have rhizomes like rhizomotosa, ,brachypoda or stolonifera. I will take some pictures to show the difference Regards Colin

Richard 2 is the way things are, either he wants to be in charge or he thinks cutting leaves is good for the plants.

Jonathan, I'm amazed at you! Cutting hair, yes, but cutting off a finger, no.

I reckon @tim_brissy_13 needs two, one in his backyard and one by his driveway!

Ours should be fine first thing I did after the cold is have TPC our property management for grass spraying do a palm fertilizer treatment in liquid form and then they put the Lesco down that helped but we had to do right after and then we gave the trees a few weeks before removing the damage burned fonds i always keep a bag or two of Lesco Palm tropical 13-3-13 and put down monthly and now quarterly they’re gonna do the liquid fertilizer as well

It could be worse I suppose, imagine him with a chainsaw!

That thing is a monster! I had no idea they got that big...thanks for posting @Tomas.

Go snip a bit of his hair off Richard, he might get the idea. Or maybe a finger...make it harder to use the secateurs!

Not as scary as @peachy rampaging down your driveway with a shovel to dig them out! Lucky escape I say!

Lucky Hawaii growers! It can rain as much as it wants in my garden!

Oh, I survived ok... But I did have to get a new dog to guard my Hedy and Lepidorrachis. This breed is probably not as scary as a Pekinese though!

Gibraltar range one trust me!

The Illawarra one may be a good one but you want the one from the Gibraltar range west of Grafton in New South Wales Australia. That’s the toughest cold climate one around and quite a spectacular one at that, place it in a warm spot and they grow quite fast!

Whack it in the ground, they take all sorts of conditions just add water. I just planted a group of three in very harsh conditions, I didn’t even water them no soil amendment just heeled them in. Give them 3 years and they’ll be looking good. But I assume you will tending your newly acquired Chambeyronia, so give it all the love it will take, amend the soil, water it in and locate it in 50/50 sun shade. There easy to grow up there with Bangalow palms but most of all dont fuss over it treat it like any other palm you have.

What is exactly the regimen you use for this sp?

I live on a hundred acre community with ten neighbours. We all chip in and do a bit of maintenance around the property. So I thought I might plant a few plants at the front gate near the letterbox. And for the life of me i cannot understand why one neighbour who shall remain nameless, continues to maul and devastate the plants with a pair of scissors, thank goodness he doesn’t own a chainsaw. It’s just blatant vandalism in my opinion. What possesses a person to cut perfectly good leaves of healthy plants!

An afternoon potting up a few germinated seeds. Along with a couple tubes of chamaedorea adscendens, syagrus picrophylla. And one lone pholidiocarpus.

I will happily take them if you can ship to Europe? Will cover postage costs Thanks Richard

A nice Joey, followed by a iguanura sanderianum, and a iguanura broad leaf. All three got my attention in the greenhouse.

Paul I see what appears to be a giant bird of paradise in the background. They provide shade but can get messy. Instead, I used banana plants for quick growing shade west of my juvenile palms when planting my garden. They can be removed easier than the bird of paradise when the time comes but still provides some shade and wind break. I don't know how they will perform up there but thought it worthwhile for you to evaluate. Good luck with the Chambeyronia.