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Another lot of gifted seeds of some beautiful trees. My main interest has been palms over the years learning a lot about. I have always been interested in trees and shrubs but now iam taking a particular interest in them, it might be a grower challenging oneself, taking a particular interest in such trees. But all I know is there’s a lot to learn as a grower, I guess I will never stop learning about plants and growing, and that’s a good thing!

As a thumb rule, we never fertlize heavily a palm, unless we are sure about the nutritional deficiency, plant grows in sand and rainfall is very frequent. I usually go with 10 gr in 10 lt water and repeat after half to a whole month.

A couple more floating around the greenhouse iguanura pycnostachysCalyptrocalyx doxanthus licuala hainensis Geonoma panamensisCalyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana kentiopsis pyriformis bentnickia condapanna

My biggest Hedyscepe canterburyana that I grew from seed from the beauty in pogobob old garden is finally setting seed. Last summer when Tim from Hawaii was visiting it flowered but the seed aborted.

Curse old man winter, I actually started a bit more on the new greenhouse today. Running out of room in the other two 🤣 Richard

Dosage says 5-20 gr for a bush, so I thought 30gr would make sense for a young tree... Also I thought EDDHA Fe is not toxic unless 10x the recommended dose. I applied it at noon, two days ago. It's rained since and it is also raining now.

Not in that lot of pictures, but I do have one in the ground going well, might be the carpoxylon you’re looking at!

Sit back and watch them grow and then enjoy beauty. Richard

Looking fantastic Did I see a small Hedyscepe 😳

I have no idea as to what this plant is it does resemble a mussa species but thats all I know. Thanks for looking..

30 - 35 gr for just one plant?! What time of the day did you apply?

Hmmm. I gave less than the recommended dose, about 30-35gr and I was planning to repeat with the same dose in 3 weeks. What's your regime?

Fe is toxic in overdose. And it is oxidized quickly. It would be better if you used from the start the Chaufer at a reduced rate and repeat application after a while.

1g pot with coir, perlite, a pinch of Mykos covered in a baggie with a mat set at 85°f.

I'd have never thought that these, or anything else would survive such conditions, WOW.

I'm biased. Needs redone though... AI art is trash.

Why not? It's Fe EDDHA

How does one tell the difference between the 2 ? Any literature on the differences in a Botanical Key would be greatly appreciated . Best wishes Ed Brown

What caught my eye today was rather intresting, palm related as well, this little monkey of a rat. Whom I shall say was lucky to get away his life today, especially after eating a dypsis minuta!

Oh wow that’s a beauty, somewhat repotted a bit high in the container that’s for sure, perhaps it may need a new container but it will have to be a deep container. Repot it up to the base of the palms, there are a lot of roots exposed there. Whoever repotted it last was way off getting it correct, mind you though it’s an interesting feature the way it is. I suggest a deep container but one that’s not too wide. I don’t know how much of a root ball it has, but it definitely needs a bit of soil around those roots!

Absolutely beautiful that’s what it is!

Bizzy update: We have something emerging other than brown. Its not green or silver, but at least its not brown. Continuing to monitor its progress. And yes, those are frisbees in the background. I will pick them up and move them, but the dogs like to put them back there, so I guess thats just where they will be lol

The older flush that it is holding was stunted compared to prior flushes for some unknown reason. The other one has longer leaves and I think this new flush will go back to normal. The Encephalartos laurentianus on the other side of the wall really sets the bar though. As it's flush gets a little further along I will remove the older leaves as they are getting progressively more horizontal. Too much spread on the old flush.

Heres mine from last year. This damage occurred after a historic snowstorm, which dumped 7-10 inches at my location and I had an ultimate low of 12F. Despite full cold protection, the fronds still burnt to a crisp. First photo is from April 17th, 2025. They were still recovering from spear pull at this point. I had not cut anything yet. By May 4th, 2025, I had cut as much dead stuff off that i could. I did cut a lot of green petioles which maybe i shouldnt have done but whatevs By June 9th, 2025, I had trimmed them again to get rid of the half fronds once it had grown out to a decent point. And finally by November 6th, 2025 they looked the best they have ever looked since planting. The point of all this is, these guys dont need much to make a full and very quick recovery. Plenty of water, fertilizer, and well timed trimming can go a long way.

I got the bulbs from Holland. They're sprouting not on the heat mat, I've saved the heat mats for the Thai Giants. I paid $51.50 shipped for 2 bulbs. Good sized bulbs, too.