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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

Does anyone else have experience with them turning like this? I am trying to decide whether or not to plant one up against a south facing wall.

Double unlucky... Those two will eventually dry up once they run out of seed power. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

That Jub' is a nice specimen, aye?

I recently sprouted some seeds I that I got as Nenga but they might be Pinanga. Two of the three seeds sprouted but they came out all white. I've seen sprouts from variegated palms come up all white but the mother plant was normal green. Has anyone seen this happen with either of these types of palms? Is this just something that this species does and then it greens up or did I just get double unlucky?

I never thought the *Jubaea* was so magnificent. Thank you for your wonderful contribution, sir. With your permission, I’ll see if I can place a dinosaur next to that exotic *Jubaea*. 🌴🌴🦜

Did you already know the sex from a prior cone?