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I actually do have some updates that I posted in another thread here. I just posted new update on them!

Let me start by saying winter was ROUGH, whatever that was needs to not happen again 😂 Things are pretty good so far, it’s been so dry, I guess we aren’t getting any April showers. Bragg Blvd Washie Seed Grown from Texas This one looks the most rough because my Christmas lights cooked it a bit but it’s growing out the damage

Two 3-gal juvenile palms exposed to 27°F. One protected with a cotton shirt experienced 60% foliar damage. Another unprotected in a more exposed spot suffering from a nutritional deficiency had zero damage! Both pushing new growth after first rain of the year.

Here's another photo of a bottom branch. This one has its own "thing" going on, with several leaves dead on one side. Is this unusual? Generally speaking, would magnesium sulfate help with the yellowing? Or is it too freshly planted for something like that? Thanks, Damien

You won’t really know until she flowers for sure, but she does look pregnant, never tell a lady she looks fat or ask are pregnant if she’s really not. So for now Jim just tell she looks good!

My twenty+ year old C. Decipiens (formerly known as Dypsis decipiens) is bulging in its crown shaft. It’s never flowered before and, for those in the know, do you think an inflorescence is hiding in there?

Thanks for the advice greatly appreciated. As you suggested I might go with just a few suckers if any have a few roots. The sterile medium sounds the go. I just did a Areca vestria to see how that goes it’s sitting in a shallow tray of water with seaweed solution. Thanks for the tips!

in Royal National Park, just south of Sydney.

Areca songenthensis, dypsis baronii black petiole, both looking good!

A new plant in the collection. And the easiest way to grow something that’s new is plant it in the ground.

Somewhere around here, you'll find the loonngg thread regarding this discussion with lots of info to digest.. Regarding This, Only organism that acknowledges state / international " Borders " are a certain group of humans.. Rest of the living world, inc. most humans, does not. Oceans, and limits to climate related adaptations are the only barriers that limit what lives / grows where.. Another angle to this story is that, ..in another recent thread, this one here.. Washingtonia species were recently lumped together, so.. What you ..and everyone else.. in CA and other warm -enough parts of the west.. are seeing when you see robusta, or hybrids, or pure filifera sprouting ..everywhere.. is that particular form of the species expanding it's range, helped in large part by humans bringing it into cultivation.. Other parts of the U.S. are close enough that robusta would spread afar on it's own over time.. The true invasive?, the tree saplings in your first shot.. Unless they are CA Walnuts, most likely, they are Chinese Pistache, ..or possibly Tree of Heaven < though the leaflets don't look right for that menace, imo > ..Note the first part of the common name/ epithet portion of the scientific name < chinensis >.. Is a reflection of where they originated, though some newer cultivars are hybrids w/ other sps from other parts of the old world. Plants brought here from there / other parts of Asia, ..or Europe, Africa, and / or AUS. generally don't have the " checks and balances " organisms around that keep them under control in their respective areas when released into cultivation in the US.. Thus, they can spread and negatively alter New World ecosystems. The reverse often occurs when plants introduced from the Americas escapes cultivation in x or y place in the old world. Excluding island regions like Cuba, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, plenty of checks and balances around that evolved alongside Washingtonia - whatever to keep them in line, no matter where they're grown in the Americas.

This was a nice event - well planned, many vendors. It was nice to meet @Fishinsteeg234 and would have bought some plants but my yard is in such terrible shape. I really need to get it cleaned up before committing to any new stuff.

Wow, I'm amazed and speechless! It's fascinating and beautiful to see your three Alexandras growing so healthy and fast together! In my area, it's also somewhat dry despite being only 500 meters from the beach, but the winds are sometimes dry and quite strong. Perhaps the advantage of having them together is that it creates a small microclimate that helps them. Could you also share a picture of your adult Purpurea and whether it requires any special care? Does it grow as quickly as a Maxima or Alexandra? For a moment, I thought your Alexandras were Maximas because of the minimal leaf curl. I have a friend who also has an Alexandra with quite straight leaves. I'll tell you more about it in another post, because I think you can advise me on how to create a small microclimate for my palm trees. I'll send you photos of my tiny 4m x 4m garden, but... the space I have available for planting is only 4m x 60cm!

Hot dry spots at that. I have given up trying anything else up there so cycas species it will be. Another problem in that part of the garden is the rocks there is only shallow spots left for small planting holes.

Looks good @iDesign here’s an update on mine that was posted back in 2019 on this thread. I planted it in my “new” Garden in 2021. It’s now multi trunks, flowering and massive! Full Hawaiian sun, close to sea level. Maybe 100 ft elevation. Size 10 sandal for scale: here it is from the outside of my fence: And here’s what it looked like in 2019 after digging it up from my old garden. It stayed in this pot for 2 more years til being planted in 2021:

Coffee Grounds for sure.. Worms / other decomposers in your soil will love it. You can also mix up a " Tea " containing a table spoon of Molasses to a gal. of water and apply that.. Both will enhance beneficial microbe activity in the soil as well. Bananas ..and everything else related to them ( Gingers / Heliconia, Strelitzia genus Bird of Paradise / Traveler's Palm < Ravenala > ) use a lot of K, so, ..on top of the easy to access options above, Applications of Sul - Po - Mag, or Langbeinite ( Pure, high - K source mineral ) are probably a good idea too.

They are slow growing that’s for sure, the one I have has just started flowering after 27 years. No seeds yet. I love the bending trunk look giving that tropical island appearance.

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Soft soil that is soaked, high winds. The palm may have had a root disease with dying roots therefore not enough anchorage to hold it up. But most likely high winds in a big storm in wet soil.

Let the soil dry out, sprinkle cinnamon on top of your soil, hydrogen peroxide yes. But your palm is to wet in the soil solarisation is what you need combined with air flow. Place your palm outside in the shade if that’s possible. It sounds like your palm has been over potted, and there is sour soil at the bottom of the container. You could repot your palm into a container that is just the next size up of the root ball. Some fungi are good like mycelium, let the palm dry out.

What would you recommend? Coffee grounds?

It's a beautiful specimen, my friend. In Miami, they sell them as luxury palm trees, alongside Medjool and Zahidi date palms.

Great stuff ....If you want any Bananas produced to take " chemical -y ", ...and destroy your soil, ..the foundation from which all healthy plants are built.