PALMS IN POTS
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Time to upsize potted B. alfredii
by GottmitAlex- 4 replies
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Just picked up fifteen (15 gal.) containers I also brought in several bags of potting soil. Tomorrow is going to be a fun day. From 3 and 5 gallon containers I'm up sizing to 15. (Skipping the 7 and 10 gals). I was looking for the 15 gal. Containers on ebay and amazon, however they are very, very expensive. So I took a trip to a nursery in TJ and they were selling them at $5 USD a piece. I obviously liked the price. The nursery folks did inform me that the price was expensive due to a shortage of the containers. Anywho, the alfies will get a new lease on life.
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Weird Worm Things In Slime on Soil
by PalmTreeDude- 5 replies
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So I looked at the top of the soil that I have my Sabal minor in and there is a weird slime. I thought it was mold or something so I put it in the sun (to hopefully kill it) and when I put it in the sun I noticed it looked like it was sparkling, like water in a lake. I looked closer and there are these tiny worm or maggot things in it. Does anyone know what these are and how to get rid of them? Are they harmful?
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Homemade fertilizer for palm
by Ilovepalm- 1 follower
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What do you think about such homemade fertilizer for palm? Will it be appropriate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNwX-NBPAMw&app=desktop
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Spiny palms in pots, show us your monster!
by GrumpyGrower- 22 replies
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Hello palm lovers, I have to say, these palms are not too much favorite but I think they deserve it! Show us your spiny palms, here is my Verschaffeltia splendida: Seed came from my friend in Singapore, I have to say, it is one of the fastest palms in pots and spines are very dangerous! Happy growing palm lovers
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Dypsis For Outdoor Pot?
by Butch- 1 follower
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I have a 41" pot (15 cu' or about 472 L) pot that I would like, maybe, a dypsis to fill... I had a majesty that went belly up (Overwatering) in this pot at this location... It will get partial sun, growing in to mostly sun... Multi or single I don't care... Looking at ambositrea, baronii, lanceolata, onilahensis... Maybe anything else you could suggest... This will be drip irrigated (broken drip head repaired)... I don't know how well these palms do in pots, so I'm asking the experts ... The palm faces east but the sun will be partially and sometimes blocked by a trailer... The location will be in the far pot in the pic... It is past the eves, so no over head protection …
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Palm tree parting gift
by Rickybobby- 1 follower
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With my having almost 100 seedlings and many many more to come. I do plan on selling some seedlings and more mature ones with some of my favs I keep and others I give as gifts. I also give seedlings away to my friends and visitors who are plant people. I thought this picture was funny as my friend joe came to visit and he left with a young trachycarpus fortunei and was so stoked to have his first palm seedling i cant hog them all to my self my home and wife can’t sustain that lol but I’m glad I have inspired some of my friends as they see my basement grow area and are amazed that a dude like me does this hobby!
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Help! White fungus on my seedling!
by MoldyKingCoCo- 9 replies
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So I have sprouted a coconut palm and it was doing well for the first few days. But now the seedling is covered in a white fuzzy fungus, and the coconut also has a few patches of it as well. I am using the plastic bag method for germination due to the fact that the coconut is without its husk. So I can't really lower the humidity or the sprout will die right? Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!!
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Adonidia help
by Rickybobby- 18 replies
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There are 3 palms in this pot one of the latest new fronds which has been green and healthy I just noticed looks burned. Any ideas. Not enough water? The room it’s in is around 80f all the time humidity 40. It was a shade grown palm and outside it got cooked so I brought it in a month ago to recover and it had been doing awesome. It also gets misted many times a day and sometime I turn a humidifier on.
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Potted coconut soil mixture
by Rickybobby- 9 replies
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This has been a tough one for. Was using promix hp with sand. The sand would just turn to muck and the water would sit there. I’ve thought of going to our family farm and getting sandy soil from there but many pesticides etc have been used in the area and I worry it will hurt the palm. I did worry because my original soil mix was rotting the very small top roots growing out of the trunk so I took the coco out of the pot. The main roots look very white and healthy. So I added in some bark nuggets wood mulch and pro mix. Now the Water drains through very well. Anyone else have any ideas for a potted coconut. Thanks
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Hi, I was just wondering if it is okay to leave out seedlings of Needle, Trachy, and sables during heavy rains. I have them in 3x14” cones and have only been watering them indoors. I know palms love rainwater but do you think tho will be too much for the new roots to handle? Thanks!
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My potted palms and soil issues
by Rickybobby- 2 followers
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Ok so my potted palms I have shown In numerous pics and whines all came from Florida and came in nursery specific soil. The palms seemed to be doing very well. They were all potted up just slightly ever so slightly to decorative pots. I used pro mix hp. Which is peat moss mix and perlite. I understand the soil issues people talk about on this site. I’m struggling to find a lot of the ingredients. I have a lead on clay pebbles. (Very expensive it seems as well for the numerous palms I have) the fine pine bark chips don’t seem to exist here. More like large mulch nuggets. Too large. So my rant. I live in Ontario Canada. When I add some pro mix to the tops of the palms when …
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strange seedling without roots
by Alcibiades- 14 replies
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Today i found some germinated seeds in my bags. One of the jubaea chilensis x butia odorata F2 seedlings looks really strange. The seedling had almost no visible root system and did only grew upwards. I do not have experience with jubaea or butia odorata seeds. I never saw similar growth with any other seedling i ever had.
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Can fine shredded garden mulch be used in soil
by Rickybobby- 0 replies
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Like it says bark chips hard to find here. I have very fine shredded mulch in my gardens. Can that be used with sand and soil in my pots to help with drainage and airation?
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Potting Soil in So Cal
by el-blanco- 1 reply
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Does anyone have a good source for potting soil in Southern California? I use to drive up to L.A. to OTY soil. They have a great mix. However, they have a 3 yard minimum . I just need 1 yard at a time. Looking for something nurseries would use. My end use will be palms and otters tropical plants. Thank you! Jeff
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Chamaedorea woodsonia
by Alicehunter2000- 16 replies
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Never posted on the Pot Forum before so here it goes. Got a couple of these from Floribunda 2 years? ago. They are not setting any speed records but they seem to be doing ok in full shade. Anybody got any bigger ones in pots?
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Why compost is a bad choice?
by cisco- 1 follower
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Why compost is a bad choice for palm trees? I need to be able to tell other people why compost is not good for palm trees. What can I say to them? Can you help with that? I myself do not use it. In Finland, all Palm trees are growing only in pots.
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Is my Washingtonia filifera in trouble?
by lthanlon- 11 replies
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Two weeks ago, I received a 2-foot tall Washingtonia filifera. The nursery took great care to protect it from cold during shipment to me in Chicago; a heat pack had been placed at the base of the palm. The fronds were wrapped in paper and undamaged. I placed the palm in a southern-exposure window where it receives direct sunlight all day. I've tried to match the daytime and evening temperatures to that of Twentynine Palms, California, and have been mostly successful. Daytime is about 70F; nighttime around 65F. I also have a low-wattage seed-germination pad under the pot. The temperature is set to 65F and maintained through a sensor placed in the soil mix. These …
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Repotting Howea
by Onum- 1 follower
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Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum but I've been following your posts for some time. I need your help please in repotting a Kentia palm, about 1.4 meters height plus a 23 cm pot, roots coming out through the bottom. Soil looks like a combination of bark and very light soil so very good drainage. I have it since I bought it so not sure about exact ingredients. I water about once a week in the summer and about once every two weeks in the winter. As you'll notice, there are 7-8 Howeas in one pot, a bit crowded, so my other question is: do I need to split them when repotting or should I just keep them as they are until growing larger? being conscious about palms i…
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Lytocaryum weddellianum
by Ztorch- 1 follower
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This guy has been doing great inside!
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Butia x Jubaea F2 seedlings
by Palmensammler- 1 follower
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Hi all, today I started to divide my community pots and while doing this on my Butia x Jubaea seedlings (thanks to TCHP - Joseph) I found 16 seedlings but 5 twins. Hope they will grow fast. Will be interesting to see if the twins grow in same size and shape or if they become different. Eckhard
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Chambeyronia triples in pot?
by Adam_NY- 1 follower
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I'm thinking about adding a Chambeyronia to my collection and got to wondering whether it might be a good idea to do triples in a pot. Would there be any issue with putting three of this type (either macrocarpa or hookeri) in a single pot? I would start with 2-3 footers shipped bareroot. How would I best pot them up so they grow a graceful curve over time (close together straight up, close together angled slightly, a few inches away from each other)? Also, I'm in downstate NY so these will be outside in shade/filtered light in the warm months (summer can be quite subtropical) and winter protected in the cold months. Would these be happier during the winter in the…
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Nannorrhops ritchiana in a pot
by Grasswing- 1 follower
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Hi everyone, I want to share with you my potted Nannorrhops, one of the oldest palms that I have. It is an extremely slow species, but to be fair, it didn't have the optimal conditions all the time and I neglected it a bit for quite some time. This one is 7 years old and despite having still undivided leaves, it has some suckers already (if it is right to call them suckers). Here are some visuals, enjoy! Regards, Ondra
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Bringing humid seedlings outside
by Rickybobby- 5 replies
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I really didn’t want to do this. But my tropica more humid palms. Sabal cane bottle solitaire Bangalow etc I had in the house. Around 77f and 40 percent humidity. I wanted to grow them to be used to more indoor temps since they will be inside 6 months a year. But today I caved. Outside is 92 f and 70 percent humidity everyday for a few weeks. (Finally) my foxtails and Bismarck’s are out there too. I just wanted to let them grow like weeds. But I’m worried that doing this will make them less hardy in the long run. My dates. Windmills and Cali fan palms are growing like weeds inside and we know they are more suitable for inside than the others
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Potting up Hyophorbe lagenicaulis
by JT in Japan- 13 replies
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I had some good root growth over the last year with my bottle palms. Time to put them into something bigger. I'm wondering if this is their last pot; it's pretty heavy now. Does anyone have any really developed bottles still in pots? Like with the really bulbous bottoms they are famous for?
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Watering and fertalising
by palm789- 0 replies
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How many times a week,should I either water with or without rooting hormone and apply seaweed extract to my Trachycarpus fortunei, princeps,nova,chamaerops in the extreme heat,I'm confused on what to do as it's rare we get very hot weather in the uk.advice needed
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