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My wife was walking one of our cat on a leash outside (they are indoor cats) and she knocked over my nice tall ceramic pot with a Dendrobium speciosum ssp Pedunculatum in it. The original tiny plastic 3" pot was undamaged and the roots filled the ceramic pot encircling the cobblestones I used to hold the plastic pot at the top. It's new pot will be short and stout when I finish replanting it. I think it will handle the move fine.

I never got one big enough to really take off, so I'm not really sure. I can't say if they would have grown fast or withered away like Meg's experience. I lost basically all my Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus in February, at least down to the roots. Solo ones like Lastelliana, Basilonga, Leptocheilos all died...except for the Decaryi that looks like it may make it. Pembana, Lutescens, Lanceolata and Albofarinosa burnt to the ground but some are resprouting. I'll probably keep a couple of the clustering ones. I for sure would try Onilahensis as a patio palm, because I could move it inside for the 2 or 3 frosts per year. I'm just tired of buying palms, figuring out a great spot for them, and then having them croak from bud rot in a year or so. The same goes for Archontophoenix and Bottle/Spindles, just too high a risk of spear pull and bud rot. Maybe I'm just grumpy from spending a whole week pruning and digging things out, and I'll change my mind in a few weeks...

Possibly a dwarf minor could do that. But otherwise looks very odd. Here is mine https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eVEGtd5lk2o

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I found this photo from March 2016 with a description of Dypsis robusta in the ground. I'm not sure if I had just planted it or if it was a little before this that it went into the ground. The growth over a decade from this picture to the current is accurate though.

Damn. Did you also try the upright? It’s not necessarily a speed demon in my greenhouse, but has a nice deep green color, and is steady. I’ve had success with Pembana and Lanceolata (with the exception of this past freeze) but both in part shade and under canopy. Being 30 miles inland I get a little temp relief in the summer nights, but probably not enough. My thought now is a canopy area that gets full winter sun, and half day shade in the hottest months. Sounds like that would be my only chance for success

Guys, with a new long soil moisture tester I was waiting until the whole soil becomes dry and, strangely, the very bottom of the pot kept being wet. So I thought that maybe it doesn't have roots there to drink the water and I looked into the bottom holes of the pot and I saw fungi there. The question now is how do I treat it? When I was growing mushrooms, I used to use hydrogen peroxide against fungi. Is this what I need to do here, too? Remove the soil, treat roots with hydrogen peroxide and then use new soil? I was going to plant it soon, but I think I first need to kill the fungi.

This one is a 7g, and the rootball is already maxed out. I have noticed the trunk diameter in photos of specimens in Cali are much more robust than the local ones here at Leu Gardens. These are pretty thin to for already working on a trunk ring. Maybe I should play it safe and have another nice potted patio palm

That’s unfortunate. I think I’m right on the north side of Lake Monroe from you. I have a nice microclimate, but that did not help much this winter. Have typical Florida sugar sand, and am on a hill, so at least drainage is never an issue. What did you find their speed to be opposed to Pembana?

What does the whole flower weigh, not including the Spathe. Flowers off the Jubaea in my yard weigh up to 40 lbs when freshly open from the Spathe.

I didn't think this would open sky flowers but I was mistaken. It is a pleasant surprise to see them.

Rhyncholaelia digbyana opening up one of two flowers. Since the flower only emerged overnight it's full fragrance isn't happening yet. They are very strong scented.

Those grassy growths are not part of the palm , at least I’ve never seen anything like that growing out of a Rhapis palm. Your palm looks healthy and I wouldn’t worry too much about the change in location , as long as it gets bright , indirect light. I would remove the grassy stuff when you repot it . To me , your palm looks more like a Rhapis Humilus than Excelsia . The pointy leaf tips are not typical of Excelsia that usually have blunt , toothed tips. Harry Leaf tips of outdoor grown Rhapis Excelsia with some sun exposure You can see the tips are blunt and toothed. I hope this helps. The Rhapis Humilis , which is what I believe you have , would come to a point at the tips.

C nubium is such a great palm to grow from seed. Very robust, I’ve never lost one and relatively quick too. The one I planted in the ground in Spring is now flowering and producing clean trunk and it’s only a bit over 3 years old. Got a bit burnt from our extreme heat days this summer when this photo was taken but it’s just superficial and still growing well. This species has absolutely no problem with long cool winters; I suspect it would do well down in Tassie (and cool parts of SF Bay, etc)

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I’m not sure fertilizing after root trimming while wintering these palms is the right approach . Also , these would benefit a bit cooler environment than 90 f + . Here in Southern California , where we grow them quite easily year round outdoors , I never fertilize them , just copious amounts of water , especially in warmer weather . They look much better in cooler temps , say mid 70’s f to low 80’s with night time temps around 52 - 57 f. It is very typical for these to become root bound when grown in containers , so moving them up in pot size is needed more frequently than some other palms. Harry

A few more across the bench. A nice little Geonoma interupta from @tim_brissy_13 that’s still doing well. And a couple of basselina pseudovelitina growing well. And a hundred percent strike rate on a few Cham Metallica palms from home grown seeds.

Not an expert on Sabal but that seems very unusual. Harry

Very cool palm . Hopefully this species will become more readily available in time. Harry

I don't remember what @Scott W said this was hybridized with but I swear it's half sago half pothos.

.....Best never to move here cuz' you'll do nothing but whine about how boring and lifeless it is.... Saguaro gearing up a bit earlier than they should be here as well.. I see you.. ...... Such a hell-ish place.. Prob. better to live where there are Hurricanes all the time.

...Desert is such a dry and boring place.. Nothing green ..anywhere.. ....Can you find the Egret... ..Sooo Boring... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>