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Archontophoenix maxima before and after

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DoomsDave    7,956

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Here's an Archie maxima in June of 2008, and today.

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DoomsDave    7,956

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Some of you have gotten a few free seeds from the maxie pictured.

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RedRabbit    1,365

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It's amazing it could grow so fast in Ca where you get so little rain. 

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1 minute ago, RedRabbit said:

It's amazing it could grow so fast in Ca where you get so little rain. 

it takes lots of irrigation for them to form that famous fatty trunk for us in California.

 

Nice palm Dave!!

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DoomsDave    7,956

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5 minutes ago, RedRabbit said:

It's amazing it could grow so fast in Ca where you get so little rain. 

Where nature fails, man succeeds!

With water anyway.

Ladies, too  . . . .

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Panamajack    79

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Wow, beautiful, beautiful palm, Dave!

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Briank    589

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I like that species vs all your Tukeri. Just my taste.  Maxima & Beatrice my fav. 

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Palm Tree Jim    977

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Well done DD!

And i'm sure the plants are loving this rain we are getting.

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Cikas    407

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Beautiful palm!

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Tropicgardener    275

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Some great growth there....... I have planted a few in my seasonally boggy creek just on a year ago. They are certainly rockets when compared to our local form of alexandrae.

 

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Dave-Vero    605

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Mine, after a happy summer, is returning to slightly ratty leaves in fall.  It got doused with palm minerals last week.  

 

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What a rocket! I would need a rather large greenhouse to attempt one here ha ha. 

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