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With the ~1.2 inches today, that puts the total between 7.3in. and 8.4in. We'll know the final tally after tomorrow.

Matt, Mine was from Jack and Arlene of Bluebell Palms in Anaheim. Maybe mi e is from same lot as yours. This one had a sucker that died a long time ago.

Guessing those aren’t C macrocarpa 🤣

I just had success with a couple Chambeyronia Hookeri. I also have about 10 C. Macrocarpa seeds n soil waiting to sprout . I will say that Chambey’s have large seeds and very large sprouts when they show themselves . I didn’t use bottom heat so it took months for them. Good luck with your latest batch , Richard. I told Dave the other day , “ Richard could probably get rocks to sprout!” 😂Harry

I checked my baggies. Mostly stems and seeds.

It would have justified a pint of VB in the PM

You’re not alone , Jim. I had a beauty ( Wodyetia Bifurcata)for 7-8 years with about 7’ of trunk . One year it started pushing shorter fronds and looking poor , eventually it died . The other one I had died within a year of planting , I have tried everything to save them. I have a palm friend a few blocks away that has one that is huge and healthy ( producing lots of viable seeds!) . He also had another one that did exactly what mine did . I tell people “ hit and miss” for these . I have two small ones that I bought from a private grower who was getting rid of them because he lost so many . He said “ I quit !” I got a great deal and they are plugging along slowly . Some gardens have really nice Foxtail palms , I just haven’t figured them out yet. Harry

We didn't see any tree-size adenium. There were so few dorsteinias that I can't characterize their scale. The tree cucumber, Dendrosycios, was tree-size, however.

I’d love to try some! I’m new to palms, and would love to try my hand at germinating palm seeds. I’m a big fan of fan palms.

Dave’s “ Droopy” , from our trip to his jungle. Harry

Help!! We've had these 2 queen palms for about 5 years. On both trees, the older fronds always collapse at the base while they are still green. The new fronds always come out fine and look healthy. I have noticed that they start getting some brown spots where the bend occurs, not long before they collapse. This is definitely not freeze damage or even wind damage, as this has happened to every single frond on both trees for several years. Has anyone had any experience with this? In the pictures, I tried to show the dark spots at the base, and also show the older fronds that collapsed and then turned brown (I usually cut them down right away, but we have been out of town for a couple months). Any help is greatly appreciated!

That would be something special . Dave has quite a few varieties down at his place , my favorite being the Chrysalidiocarpus ( Dypsis) Onilahensis “ Droopy” . A truly stand out palm in a Genera with many spectacular species , including that one of yours and @WaianaeCrider . Harry

I have a decipiens about that same size that also set seed for the first time this year. This thread has given me some hope - a rat decided to do me a favor of cleaning all the seeds of their fruit while they were still green, but had stopped noticeably getting bigger. The fruit was soft and apparently tasty, but the seed were still green. I didn't realize they stayed green. So maybe they were ready? I did cut a few open and they had beautiful white endosperm, but I could not find an embryo in the two seeds I cut, which was really surprising to me because the seeds look perfect and developed quickly during warm weather (may to July pretty much). I will just put the rest in a baggie and hope that at least some are OK. Matt

I had a Wodyetia growing right next to the Foxy Lady and it always struggled to grow for years. Several other Wodyetia trials went poorly too. Pure Veitchia never worked for me either but the hybrid just keeps cruising along.

I am an avid collector of cycads and really enjoy Cycas Cycads. Do you happen to have any others available for sale along with these beauties?

Cycas debaoensis - 1st leaf of the year (late July) of the three I have in-ground. Growing out from under the shade of my Trachycarpus princeps. My hope is that any leaf-chewing insects ignore it and choose more tasty plants.😉

I could only imagine a palm garden of nothing but Dypsis species, no other palm except for the whole dypsis genus could you imagine what that garden would look like. Richard

I wasn't sure since I've def veered away. The seedlings are still there, they're just surrounded by non palms.

It does, but I've grown to prefer community pots with a baggie over them after seeing @teddytn videos. Less roots to untangle. Nothing grows sideways. These are stragglers from seeds i got last year, just some Minors.

What a great looking palm!

This looks great Jim! Unfortunately I think wodyetia performed better for me in Fresno. This hybrid really dislikes the extended 60/40 temps we get from Nov through February. Tons of spotting and leaf die back - even absent any frost. I rehomed mine to someone in LA at a 15g size. Sometimes I wish I would have planted it anyway instead of rehoming it.

Looks great @Brandon39.5 we did swaps on plants a year or so back and the double you gave me doesn't look as good as yours. Mine is smaller and not quite so lush green in colour. Its outside on the terrace for half the year and indoors the rest. I dont use any additional heat when its inside

Raining on and off today everything is soaked good The bucket says about an inch last 24 hrs and its still raining good enough to get good and wet in under a minute, should have put the gore tex shell on. I emptied it again to see what accumulates today and tomorrow.

It’s the beginning of soil making on lava in the background of this Metroxylon is a pile of trash tree. It will take 2 to 3 years with the pigs help to get turned into soil so I’m just gonna keep throwing debris behind this bloke. We are building the soil up for a nearby rainbow eucalyptus, but the palm will benefit as well..

It’s looking like Cycas cairnsiana to me