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@Merlyn So for a "light" fertilizing, would you go with maybe a half pound of the Sunniland 6-1-8? Damien

Yes. That is a multiple planting of Chinese fan palms to give a fuller appearance to the pot. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

🤦🏽‍♂️Oyy vey, While the lesson stands, Looks like i flipped the 2nd and 3rd #s w/out even noticing a pretty bad error.. and hoodwinked myself, lol. Soluble, 30% K is a touch high, even for K -hogs though.

My brother in palms, you gotta let it go If you’re moving to south Florida where coco’s grow, you can buy a healthy one a similar size and save yourself the hassle. I empathize with you on the loss of plants and palms. I’ve probably spent around 4-5k on palms and tropicals. I live in zone 10a but that was only recently changed in 2023. I was 9b before. I do have a fear that all of my beautiful specimens will die in a cold snap. It’s the gamble for zone pushing. Congratulations on the new home. I bought one in November, the 6.5% interest sucks but hopefully rates come down again in the near future.

@Darold Petty has a little grove of them in his front yard, so I think it'll be OK if the roots can breathe.

Sorry but just for my own knowledge. Am I correct on these being Chinese fan palms? I see Jim did refer to them as such but just in case he was referring to my posting.

Yea I’m pretty surprised they held up better than the windmill palms, but I did use christmas tree lights which helped a bit. Yours looks great too.

Repotting is exactly what we are in the process of doing. I was a little worried about possible overcrowding causing some kind of root rot. Thanks for the encouragement to both of you.

Bummer, I know your pain. Today it's been raining all day , and tomorrow looks like another day of rain. It feels like I've had more rain in the last week and a half than the last 8 months combined. This weekend we're warming up to the high 80's so with all this rain, it's going to be a wee bit muggy.

You're overthinking it... The palm looks perfectly fine and has no disease. In the real world, you are going to see occasional brown spots,dried leaf tips, bug chews, wind damage, oldest fronds yellow, etc. Absolutely perfect specimens are rare, are usually greenhouse grown, and will incur the minor imperfections you note if placed outside. Rainstorms can never over water it. 🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Definitely time to re-pot those Chinese Fan palms into a larger container. Don’t worry about those minor imperfections on the petioles.

Satakentia liukiuensis

Yep...just pulled spear on six three gallon potted mules and two more schizzophylla. These will be treated of course and I'll hope for the best. Still no sign of life from my three Beccarriophoenix alfredii...

Pleurothallis ornata

This actually came to mind right after i'd posted.. Santa Barbara and P.V. are sister cities so, someone up there might have some ideas ..obtaining seed to be planted at say lotusland or the Huntington at least.. Is a starting place for wider, future introduction, depending on how they'd do in each location of course. As far as permits, guess i need to look into it but, ..could be some added < and un- necessary > challenges, or could be as simple as getting a collection permit / any additional paperwork that might be needed, and declaring properly collected / packaged seed at customs when returning.. Spend a week or two down there gives someone plenty of time to process any seed ( Removal of any fleshy material around it / etc ) ...I'm talking about a handful of seeds, not sending in the plant nerd calvary to load up bags of it, lol. ..And obtaining them from urban grown specimens, not collected from virgin habitat ..unless allowed in certain spots under said obtained paperwork. A different discussion for another time obviously, but, ..what gets me is this palm ( ..among others ) ..and a number of other interesting trees / etc that could work in local / regional landscapes sit just 4 to 900miles south of here ( little more out there, little less using Tucson's location ) A bird could fly about the same distance in a day.. ....Is about the same distance as traveling from Golden Beach in S. Ore., to Yuma.. Or from Napa / Santa Rosa, to the border crossing in Nogales, AZ Yet i ..or others here.. would have to go through hoops to obtain questionable quality / ID' ed seed from a seed company in .....Europe... which seems to be able to obtain seed from down there w/ little -assumed- issue? Something smells ripe about that.. ..Again though, different discussion, for another time.. Interesting thought.. As a smaller statured sp., could this sp. be faster than A. cohune, or some other Attalea behemoths? There's a street view close up of a specimen growing in a park ( Isla Cuale / Gringo Gulch ) that gives an inferred idea of trunk size compared to both the planter it is in / other surrounding, man- built landscape features, which to my eye, seems comparable to some of the skinnier -trunked Phoenix, some Dypsis , or Kings rather than being massive, like A. cohune, Jubaea, or even a Royal, ...which grow pretty quick for a big palm, imo.... If that's true, it could imply a faster growth rate.. ..Or at least one that is " steady, but always moving along" A ..." planted now = a few inches of trunk in 8 -12 years" - under ideal conditions- kind of thing.. like Phoenix, rather than taking ..decades.. to form -any- deg. of trunk.. A thought.. Ultimately, if getting seed here were too difficult / expensive of an objective to overcome, perhaps planting them in areas closest to the border.. TJ, Mexicali, San Luis, and Puerto Penasco = all would be close enough MEX - side locations for getting an idea about how they'd do on this side of the " fence ." In some cases, there are parks ..literally across the street... from the border wall ..or next to a river that crosses it.. where they could be trialed. Rodent " agents " and north bound storm runoff could get any seed across the line. Imagine border patrol resources being used for patrolling for border crossing, palm / tree seed transporting rats and squirrels, Honestly, don't think getting this interesting palm into cultivation / wider cultivation here would be ..impossible.. If Cordia dodecandra / and some other interesting Mex. specialties i've seen people talking about in various circles recently can get into a grower's hands on this side of the " border " ..without all the tape involved in ordering from ...thousands.... of miles away, it's probably just a matter of time before this palm makes it's inaugural debut in some gardens here ..without the help of water ..and /or furry transporters.

Can someone tell me the name of this palm? It has produced its first Inflorescences; I'm hoping this will help in its identification. Thanks.

Those are some pretty mature Sabal and Butias . May I ask how cold your winters get? Usually , the type of palms you have are pretty cold hardy for zone 8b. I assume freezing precipitation over a long period of time could be the culprit. Those palms can withstand brief dips into the mid-upper single digits ( some cases even lower ) in most cases when it's a dry cold with a quick warm up in the afternoon.

Beautifully lustrous!!

Exactly!

Cattleya mossiae coerulea 'Blue Bird' x C. mossiae coerulea 'Herrerae' Watering day in the orchid room, so glad to find this cattleya in bloom: also, the color really intensified on that vanda I posted a few days ago.

Looks good. Washingtonias are so easy to take care of and they even don't mind being neglected either. In full sun, regular watering and fertilizing , they grow extremely fast in my experience. Most rewarding palm in colder growing zones.

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I think the low quality of the photo makes it appear worse, here's a better quality shot of the canopy, you can see clearly the difference between the old leaves where they are missing leaflets or have been trimmed, damaged in a previous much harsher winter and recent foliage which is green to the end.

Ok please forgive me if I’m posting in the wrong section… newbie here. 🙋‍♂️ Thanks in advance for the help. So firstly, I reside in Niagara Ontario Canada and long for the poolside summer days to be back lol. With that being said, I recently took a trip to an open nursery and to my behold I seen this beautiful palm which I believe is a Chinese fan palm. Please correct me if I am wrong as the the lady at the garden store could only identify it as a fan palm. Now my dilemma. The first picture attached is of the palm at the garden store. It had some very light tip browning which I did not see as an issue and looked a good green colour. I could not help but think how good this would look beside our pool in the summer and be brought indoors for the winter. In the meantime it sits our sunroom but we introduced it to the outdoors for a couple days just to give gradual exposure. 2-3 days at most. Cold was definitely not an issue because the days spent outside were 68F or 20C plus. We had a bit of an early warm front move in temporarily. For the majority of the time it remains indoors where it currently is. We’ve only had it home for 2 weeks but as you can see by the other pictures it looks to be struggling. Burning tips, frond spotting and even spotting on the stems. It looks diseased. New shoots are continuing to grow fine, it was only fertilized at the garden centre which is still currently visible. I’m just wondering if this is overwatering, underwatering, pest (nothing visible) or the fertilizer. I know not to overdo it with watering but it did sit out through a good rain. I’m refraining from watering in the meantime. Please I need help. Any recommendations are welcomed. We don’t won’t to lose her. 🙏😊