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Oh I have met peachy in person and her wit and humour is as sharp as tack and spot on, you won’t fool her in a hurry!

Sorry for bringing back an old thread whilst doing research but I could not help but lol at this 🤣

Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles (CRB)

Bunch of stuff coming alive in the garden. I’ll post quite a few times here in the coming weeks/months. Love this time of year. Admittedly I don’t know the cross but I believe it’s Longifolius x Princeps. Could be Lehmannii x Princeps as it’s very blue. Who knows….its happy tho. Last year was a 2 Leafer, this year it’s 4. -dale

Not sure if they'd go after them if nothing else around. Maybe in a year or two things will settle down. At 83 I'm beyond major landscaping changes or adjustments to the physical area.

This is the Palm Society yea?

The only thing fast about this post is how quick customs took my money!

I think there’s a healthy dose of sarcasm in both of alzo’s posts. Don’t think I’ve ever heard of B dumasii or P sargentii being described as anything approaching fast.

V. Manuvadee. A favorite blue. been looking for this one for years to replace the one I lost to cold one autumn. Just shipped from a wonderful grower in HI.

The only trick to growing sargentii is getting old watching them grow!

Maybe you're thinking Archontophoenix. I wouldn't call a palm that grows 1 new frond a year as a juvenile fast! They might be quicker in places like Hawaii and Thailand where everything seems to grow fast. Check this thread: Here's my P. sargentii six years from seed. Its first three adult leaves were burnt in January's brief freeze.

That's a hard one...has it ever flowered?

They look pretty rough Phil, do you reckon they're survivors of a cleared littoral rainforest?

It's curious to see how much the Alexandra palms have grown in 8 years, while the Purpurea palm is much smaller in 7 years, even though they're the same species! I didn't know that the Purpurea palm loses some of its color in the crown when exposed to sunlight. Yes, I need to look into the climate here more closely. In winter, I notice they stop growing; we even get down to almost 0 degrees Celsius on some days... and in the middle of summer, being near the sea with the humidity, I notice they grow quickly, even on hot, humid nights. What fertilizer do you use on your Archontophoenix palms? I've heard about Osmocote. Now I use this

Look’s ptychosperma, archontophoenix?

That’s so sad you can’t even grow one of your loved palms. When I know how much we all love to grow palms. They are such beautiful plants Mother Natures gift to the horticultural world. This is one reason our bio security is so strict, the crb is one example of bio security gone wrong with your government letting you down when you comply with the rules they don’t!

Yep it’s basically a fine I got for doing something wrong that wasn’t even my fault in the first place , I had all the phytosanitry certification. I would not dare import anything without the correct paperwork heaven forbid one strike with customs and wherever you go it’s into the room for a full body search. 🔍

Thrinax excelsa:

I recall well that aspect of his conversations.

CRB? AN acronym used by at least 8-9 sources "CRB" most commonly refers to a Credit Reference Bureau (financial data), the Copyright Royalty Board (US government), or CRB Group (engineering/construction). Other definitions include the Commodity Research Bureau Index, Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle pest management, or the former Criminal Records Bureau (now DBS in the UK). What CRB are you referring to?

I heard they move fast as lightning