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Posting here because Mississippi doesn't really deserve its own topic, but we just had the 3rd warmest and 11th driest March on record, dozens of counties are considered disaster areas, and my county is almost 4" shy of our average. Wonderful time for me to start planting out super tropical stuff. The only stuff that's growing are thistle weeds. Clarke County is not on the disaster list but all the surrounding counties are.

It's amazing, and I love buying from them directly. They do freebie plants every week. Shipping and customer service is amazing. They have a liquid version in the same ratio but lower dose. I give mine 1/2 strength and even only getting 450ppfd of light all winter they turned into monsters. I've also fed it to colocasia and papayas and I notice a huge difference in a week. I've got some 20/10/20 for those now but I swear by this stuff for my bananas. I've got.some stragglers but tbf when I got those from @5am they had no roots at all. I'm not arguing but feel free to peek at my YouTube and instagram - it's legit. @sanchosgreenpaws for both. It's also really funny how much smaller plants look without an 8 foot ceiling above them.

So sorry to hear this. I loved his constant updates he gave and will miss them. He was lucky to have a friend like you.

One of my Royals is almost ready to get her first ring

Exactly, robustas are good skyline palms. If you’re a land developer and you plant rows of robustas, in 20 years you’ll have a beautiful skyline with 40-50 ft palms. But that does very little for the personal garden. Its more of a macro aesthetic for the overall area.

It's another one of those interesting nights where it's in the '50s in one location but it's in the low 40s in the next location, at my house it's around 42f but just north of us it's in the the 50s and south of us it's in the 40s and 50s.

Ceratozamia zaragozae x hildae

Okay...glad I asked! So realistically there's nothing I can safely do about the yellowing right now.

This Lepidozamia peroffskyana male is coning again. Last year it skipped flushing and pushed 2 cones too. It is ironic that when cycads are small, welcome forward to that first cone on a plant. At this point I would prefer a flush over another pair of cones on this particular plant. I have a Ceratozamia that pushed back to back cones and she is just showing a flush. Perhaps it read my mind that coning without flushing could lead to liquidation?

@DippyD do you find that prying is better than slicing with a knife or sharp saw? I have some offsets on a Cycas Multipinnata, a Whitelockii, and a couple of others that I'd like to separate and pot up. Any suggestions on a fungicide for the cut, like sulfur powder or another?

If I were doing it on one of mine, maybe no more than half a handful. Asmall amount is unlikely to cause any burn problems. If you want to be extra safe, Osmocote or fish emulsion are more burn-proof. I have a big bag of Magnesium Sulfate granular. I add that to Phoenix, B. Alfredii, and Copernicia at least once a year. Adding some in about a month may help with yellowing. Adding some now could be a burn risk.

Thank you, Zeeth!

Royal palm recovery on Orange Ave south of city. This is Belle Isle area but away from lake influence.

I would think probably because they are so slow not that I think that is a bad thing!!! The first picture is the first palms that I planted in my new house and gave me the palm big the second picture is of some Washingtonian palms I planted about 5 years later all planted from basically 5 gal!! In a residential area who would want a telephone pole looks nice for the neighbors or a good way to find your house!!!

That's an awfully thin leaf for a Butiagrus cross. Is the other one next to it one of mine?

Very cool find! That's definitely another oddball!

These Dioon's are becoming more interesting to me:

Trachycarpus princeps

That one to the right of the driveway is typical 10 years after a five-gallon pot. Those larger ones would be closer to 20 years. Palmetto is drought tolerant, but it won't grow much. It's a swamp Palm.

I’m hoping my trunks will start fattening up like yours, but that could take many years, if they even last that long.

Yes. Central San Diego.

Three nice rare ones!marojejya darisabinara magnifica cocothrinax eckmanii

Enter the sandman off to never never land!

Bactris gassiapaes, Chambeyronia watermelon and a rather well dressed moth.