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Looking at this thread again inspired me to venture out for a few photos. Hopefully in a few more years it will look as good as the one that Daryl posted earlier. Tim

Luckily they do well here in East Hawaii, glad I was able to plant a few in the garden. Tim

Nice photos, and I’ll ‘second’ the beautiful palm comment. Tim

The sulfur smell sure tells the tale, root rot. Good luck with the fungicide, construction dirt and masonry will limit drainage and you should amend the site so its drains if you plan to plant a tree there. Every hole you dig should be filled and watched for drain time to determine if you have a "clay pot" in the ground before planting. I had to dig through my top 3 1/2 feet of soil in arizona to get to dirt that would drain well. When I did the drainage test it dropped only half way in 24 hrs and was still mucky bottom at 72 hours. That spot may be an issue for any deep rooted tree unless you can get down to drainable dirt.

I didnt think they could look so good indoors, nice job! They do grow faster in the ground or even in a bigger pot. Mine went into the ground in 2011 about the same size as yours, its 20+ foot overall now.

lol you know I'd take this in a heartbeat if I wasn't so far. I lost my 6 foot, 4 headed speciosa to a sudden and severe mite infestation last summer. I replaced with a small one, so it'll be several years before I see blooms again.

Looks happy!👍 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Hey Mo, I know we already discussed this but just posting here to continue the thread - No issues with cold or sun in Fresno on either the panzhihuaensis or revoluta hybrid.

I've been growing this Adonidia that i germinated 3 years ago here in Mallorca (Spain). I have it indoors on a pot and in winter I put a heat mat below the pot to keep the soil warm and always over 21ºc (70ºf). I'ts doing pretty well, and I'm wondering if anyone else is growing a christmas palm indoors just like me, if anyone does, share a photo of yours! Any tips to make mine grow faster? because I'm not really sure if its too small to be a 3 year old palm.

Yes, I hybridized radicalis x microspadix, producing about 10 seeds, all of which sprouted. The seeds were small. I hybridized microspadix x radicalis, producing only 3 seeds, but all 3 sprouted. It's a shame I lost almost everything while I was in the hospital.

Looks great if the blooms are gone you can't pollinate the resulting unfertilized seeds

Not under my brown thumb, Jim... I managed to kill my 1 and only volunteer in transplanting... Butch

I am not asking for a snake convention here, so yes I do mind them coming after other little critters in my yard. If I keep the ground relatively clear the Owls and hawks will keep the snakes and their prey out of my yard. I am a big fan of the raptors, do what I can to make it their kind of yard with making roosting spots. I get rabbits, no problem, they don't hide in piles of dead matter, but I don't want the snakes, some of which are venomous. My lab attacks snakes in his yard he is territorial. I don't want him getting bit by a water moccasin or bringing to me any dead critters.

I used to be able to get them here in florida but the smaller specialty nurseries that still exist dont carry them and they will probably never be offered in big box stores. I had 2 small ones killed quickly in 2010 @ 28F. I also had a small wodyetia same size that looked like it was going to make it, but it declined after a month and kicked it. The foxy ladies really crumpled up after one night, total brown. Being an F1 cross means that all siblings will not be the same in cold tolerance. Some will lean veitchia some will lean wodyetia. I have my doubts that you can expect better hardiness than a wodyetia, its a roll of the dice. There is a nice tall one in tampa at the zoo, dark green and probably 40 foot or more. F1 hybrids generally do not have consistency in expressed genetics. An S2 would be needed to get consistently expressed genetics and that would mean the F1 would have to be fertile.

Yes me too!! I would need to dig again those pictures from my old hard drive! Here are some of them: Such a wonderful and colorful palmtree 🌴😀 JB

Hard to go wrong with Dypsis / Chrysalidiocarpus . It seems a few species have found their way to my garden in the last couple of years. I don’t have this one , but truth be told , I don’t have enough room for all the species in the Dypsis genera . Harry

I already have huge piles of palm leaves around my garden I mulch what I can, but with a garden the size of mine it’s easier to pick them up and use mulch that I bring in. I don’t mind the critters, it’s the big leaf sheaths that look unsightly and take forever to break down. The mulch I get is from the electrical company’s that do vegetation maintenance for the power lines at a bargain price, so I just get it whenever they have it. Eventually I will have enough to make soil and use that as good layer of mulch. My sandy soil eats it up like it’s going out of fashion (the e weigh calls it the sand monster that eats anything) just look at any permaculture garden and you can see the difference with mulch or any bare patch of earth once mulched it transforms the soil. If you want your plants to grow with little effort mulch is the way to go!

Your post caught my eye!! O. K . where’s my shovel . Time to plant some palms at @happypalms . I’m in for a palm fix. I have a nice Dypsis Cabadae that needs planting , you just motivated me. Harry I have a nice , shady spot for this guy ! “Be free , spread your roots little palm.”

I had one too close to the house that I edited for that reason. It grew so fast and so big I was stunned. I started thinking about the trunks dyeing one at a time and them falling on my roof. Mine had 8 trunks of 6-8" caliper and was over 25' tall and not slowing down to my eye. One winter we had a freeze and it burned like almost every other leaf so it was pretty ugly then. Not very leaf hardy compared with my other palms, they are reportedly more cold tolerant than many of my palms, but less leaf hardy. Trimming the dead leaves was difficult with all the trunks and leaves. I decided the dead trunk falling thing was too much risk too close to the house, so I edited it and have one less problem these days. If I had known how big it would get I probably would not have planted it at that site.

sounds like this was a naturally occurring hybrid. Any attempt to do manual cross pollination in the past? JD

wind, rain would just blow/wash leaves away here. I could use chopped palm leaves as the stems would be heavy enough to hang around. Yes the mulch is digested into nutients like humic acid and it helps to keep a healthy microbiome which is weak in sandy soil. And the faster digestion means more nutrients, but ultimately much of it washes away in rain. So we are needing something like 6-8 cubic yards for 220 square meters of garden and that lasts two grow seasons. I have no doubt the digestion gives fast growth, I see 35'+ tall bismarckia after 15 years from a 3 gallon size. But its also a "mulching treadmill". I don't want big piles of dead palm leaves on my 0.3 ac lot, so critters can have a home. There are plenty of critters wandering around here, I want to keep the numbers down. Chipping palm leaves is not going to be productive they are too soft for chipping. I'm still thinking how I might be able to use them. I have 40+ mature palms dropping at least 7 leaves per year, some as high as 20+ leaves per year(P Rupicola).

They can get a bit more than anticipated , like Arenga Engleri . Sometimes that’s what we want , privacy or natural screen. They do a bit of self thinning when they flower . I cut the flowering stems out and that keeps them controlled. Harry

Nice job growing this in New York City! I assume that's a south facing wall? What a wonderful microclimate!

They do love a bit of water, and shade. A big clump is a bit difficult to keep in order. I thin out the suckers on my one so it doesn’t get out of control. Richard

You need monostachya, I hear that’s cool tolerant!