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I have more pembanas, they are not too much work. I dont like losing palms but its a part of growing them the last 25 years, so are edits. THe hurricane damaged so many palms(30?) it was very discouraging. Most of the biggest ones were stripped of almost all their leaves, the pembana was one of them. I have 4 potted 5-7 gallon pembanas that came from the fruit of the solitary one just falling into pots with soil. I've already planted 2 out this past month. My recomendation, never plan to have just one or two palms, get a dozen or more so there is encouragement after setbacks.

Great post! I planted a Bizzy on my hill , it only took a little over a year for the gophers to find it and eat the roots right up to the trunk! The Sabal is still there. What is said about speed of growth after trunking is my observation as well . Most of mine , with the exception of the Bizmarkia , were very small palms . Once they started trunking , it seems like the growth rate sped up. Harry

If it doesn't kill em it'll make em stronger! This one we know, Wallisia cyanea, but man, you've set me some ID challenges with the others Richard...and thanks again.

There were some folded leaflets close to the tips(<3"), but I was told the hooks were more definitive of jubaea blood. The hooks are temporary, a stage, so if you don't have them it may just be it has grown past that stage. Stiff petioles are another jubaea trait. I bought mine as a 15 gallon and it was recurved but the petioles were not easy to bend as a butia. I also have a (BxJ)x J which has the more symmetrical leaflet arrangements and less recurved petioles than my BxJ. I was tol that in northern california there are areas where jubaeas and butias grow in fields and they naturally hybridize. This is where my B x J came from.

one of my first fig hybrid seedlings (oppcar) produced its first figs at less than 2 years old… it probably helped that i had grafted it onto a ficus carica in a 45 gallon pot. so far it seems like they are very graft compatible. the problem was that the figs started falling off prematurely. when i cut them open i discovered the culprit…worms of black fig fly (bff). its pretty rampant here in southern california. ficus carica cultivars aren’t equally susceptible to bff, so i’m sure the same will be even more true of my fig hybrids. here’s my full post on the topic… fig hybrids and bff. on a global scale, root knot nematodes (rkn) are a much bigger fig problem than bff. i recently started a couple experiments attempting to inoculate some of my hybrids with rkn… left: ficus ulmifolia x carica top: ficus opposita x carica right: ficus fraseri x carica, and ficus ulmifolia bottom: ficus racemosa x carica center: ficus carica with rkn according to google search ai, it should take around 8 to 12 weeks for rkn to fully colonize the pot. lots of suspense in the meantime. my full post on the topic… fig hybrids and rkn. if anyone is interested in growing my fig hybrids, i’m auctioning some for the first time ever. here are the exact seedlings… from left to right… ficus fraseri x carica ficus racemosa x carica ficus opposita x carica ficus ulmifolia x carica ficus fraseri x carica ficus racemosa x carica ficus opposita x carica ficus ulmifolia x carica included in the auction is a cutting of a variegated male carica that i discovered on the side of the 10 freeway just outside downtown los angeles… here’s my blog entry with all the descriptions and pics of all the figs included in the auction. looking forward to seeing many “edimental” (edible and ornamental) figs in the future. i might be a bit biased, but i’m pretty sure that, out of all the fruits, figs have the most potential.

I get that feeling of the game shifting under your feet, so sometimes I take a breather and follow something totally separate just to reset. Keeping up with England Premier League results has weirdly helped me enjoy college ball again, since it gives me the pure stats-and-play focus without the portal drama. It kind of takes the edge off so the Saturdays don’t feel so heavy.

Richard, overhere the competition between plants for getting enough sunlight is heavy! Palms like Chamaerops humilis and Cycads like the blue Encephalartos, Dioon and Cycas serpentina are fighting for the scarce space!

Wowo interesting

I have found this little book is quite useful!

Yeh, most broms I've tried seem to do well for me and I'm sure they would for you too Jonathan. For the most part all I've had is minor frost burn in winter from ones in more exposed positions, but they've always grown out of it. I've read somewhere that pups from a plant tend to do better than the parent, especially if it's coming from a warmer climate/greenhouse, and I think there's something to that. I believe it is an A recurvata cultivar, but I've no idea what it's called. I got it from a friend recently who gets much harder frosts than me and it does well there. The leaves were very bright red when I got it, then they turned green and the red flower came out, it was quite a transition!

Why not a palm seed thread, we all love our palm seeds, and with so many of us harvesting our seeds from our gardens, or purchasing them. It’s a great way to get seed identification for those who may have there doubts about did I get the real deal. Chamaedorea tenella Mother plant And the rats had been stealing them so harvest time!

No these are gone already

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If it is coning then your olfactory senses may pick up the scent you’re describing. Everyone has a different sense of smell, perhaps you need to get a job as a smellier! I love the smell of dynamic lifter a chicken poo based fertiliser to me it smells like chocolate which it it is most definitely not chocolate 🍫

A couple more pembana floating around the garden!

A nice Chambeyronia and the Geonoma atrovirens seems to ok in cold wet conditions (for now) still not freezing conditions to kill palms yet, but they will come sooner than later those 2 degrees celcius mornings.

I’m so sorry to hear about your single-stemmed Pemba palm blowing over! That must’ve been a horrible feeling after investing so much time. Also, thank you for all the information! I’ve never grown this palm before. I do know my friend’s C. pembanus (Dypsis pembana) grew to about 20 ft in 7 to 9 years. He said it was well-watered, but didn’t get much fertilizer. I know, Bismarckia and Archontophoenix species can grow extremely fast here, especially when given lots of water and fertilizer.

If it was me I would move back to Hawaii and live in palm paradise! Iam impressed @tim_brissy_13 And that propagation medium looks familiar 👍you got some bargaining material there @happypalms 🤣

A couple more floating around the garden. The first picture you now have @Jonathan so we will see if that refrigerator you live in can grow this beauty of a brom!

The iguanura genus, I was quite surprised when I discovered they would take a little cool weather. A zone push winner that I lucked up with. The only thing that they really require is water and lots of it in the ground, I sit them in shallow trays of water they are one palm that doesn’t tolerate dry feet. It took me a little time to work them out but I got there! iguanura sanderianum Iguanura wallachiana Iguanura paddle leaf

Ceroxylon parvifrons popping up from rps seeds another great batch of seeds!

It’s exciting to see them coming, first thought is well I got viable seeds that’s a good thing, second is unreal I got another variety of palm and finally iam glad I got 100 seeds and now have 70 of them!😂 Richard

Close but no cigar, it’s light bleaching. I have it on my Johannesteijsmannia. When I first seen it I was not thinking variegated, and if it was variegated well the bank account would be a lot larger having variegated joeys that is for sure!

I was sprouting some Mexican fan palm seeds man they took 2 weeks or so to germinate but they growth so fast once they poke through 😭. No wonder they are considered a weed tree. Anyways is this variegated or just one weird leaf Nd it will revert to regular leaves after this one? I’m curious have any thoughts?