How much sun?

[ericstevens73]

Caryota Gigas, Caryota Urens, Rhopalostylus, Chambeyronia.

Sun is different in different locals Beach/Desert.  I get HOT, Blasting sun 6AM to 9PM in summer.  I have Gigas and Urens in full sun.  Look Yellow, is that from sun or heat or both...  I understand Rhopy and Chamby like shade when young , but will they ever agree with my area?

Eric

[DoomsDave]

Hmm.

For what it's worth:

I'm in Inland Orange County, just south of the Los Angeles county line (hear the bajos) and it gets hot inteh summer, here, too, though nothing like you get.

We have a lot more coastal influence, which matters because the cloud cover blunts the hard-edge of the inland sun a lot.

the Rhopy and Cahmbey DEFINITELY will want more shade where you are.  They're both in the shade in the Huntington, which is further inland than me, and gets a lot hotter.

C. gigas and urens, I'm not so sure.  Urens I suspect will take the sun well, since I've seen them in San Bernardino in full sun.  I've got a gigas here in the sun, and it's good, and I've seen others that also look good.

dave

[ericstevens73]

Thanks Dave...  I thought as much, as all my reading attest to the Urens being needy of the sun.  It's the dry  heat in conjunction with the sun that I'm most concerned by.  I appreciate the fact that you too are in a similar climate (though you do have a little more access to a few palms that simply won't grow here due to your morning marine layer and cooler evenings - My brother lived in LaHabra till recently, moved to Ontario, about a block from the airport...).  I know your climate pretty well, and wish for your evening cool down (its 11:19 PM and still in the upper 80's outside, was 103 today.  

Anyhow, thanks for the insight and I'll just have to wait and see what happens with my caryotas.  I'll wait till I have more shelter from my canopy plantings prior to planting out the others...