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Dypsis Big Red Flowering

neoflora

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My Dypsis Big Red is flowering for the first time! One has already opened! It is sending another flower up on the other side!

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Just gorgeous! 

5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

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Sweet Ron! I was wondering when someone's would. Since I figure you were one of the original collectors back in the sixties I was betting that you'd be the one.. 

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Bret

 

Coastal canyon area of San Diego

 

"In the shadow of the Cross"

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THAT. IS. FANTASTIC!

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Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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So, if this is one of the first to flower in cultivation, what would be the process of getting pictures and / or herbarium samples to the people who decide what is what in the plant world? It would be nice not to have to refer to this as "big red" forever. With all due respect to Mardy, of course.

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Bret

 

Coastal canyon area of San Diego

 

"In the shadow of the Cross"

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LJG Grand Master

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Looks great Ron. Did yours get more red over time? Mine is about to trunk and is black. 

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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Beautiful. Dypsis sp Big Red is a new one for me.

Meg

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Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Whoa 

I thought Big Red was a kind of “chaw.”

So nice to see it’s something so magnificent.

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Good Job Ron - looks like a winner for SoCal. I hope mine gets that great red color. Now it is mostly black as well.

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Mine is actually almost black when wet! As it has gotten bigger it has turn more red! I remember the habitat picture it was almost black as well! Somewhat ironic that it is flowering with the passing of Alfred a couple of months ago!

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Damn Ron!  So nice.

 

Matt Bradford

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Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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LJG Grand Master

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Ron, hope it ain’t like Lepto. Have you heard of anyone getting viable seed here in SoCal off a Teddy?

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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i don't know of any teddys flowering here! Mine is more than twice the size of the Big Red and hasn't flowered yet!

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That is great Ron.that is one palm I would love to grow My teddy is flowering for the first time here in normal heights ? I don t know about viability yet . I hope so try and take a better picture when I can access the neighbors yard later

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On 4/4/2018, 10:34:22, DoomsDave said:

Whoa 

I thought Big Red was a kind of “chaw.”

So nice to see it’s something so magnificent.

No DD, Big Red is the greatest football team in human history.  GBR!

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LJG Grand Master

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3 hours ago, neoflora said:

i don't know of any teddys flowering here! Mine is more than twice the size of the Big Red and hasn't flowered yet!

Gary has some that have like 5 old flowers on them and none took. Mardy had a few flowering ones and no seed. 

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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LJG Grand Master

LJG

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Teddy bear. He doesn’t have a Big Red. 

In other news, my BR is now trunking :)

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Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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In Hilo, Hawaii, leptos (teddy bears) are used frequently for commercial landscaping. They flower and produce seed. That's where I got the seed for mine, which are now flowering, but no seed yet.

 

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Big Island of Hawaii, windward, rainy side, 740 feet (225 meters) elevation

165 inches (4,200 mm) of rain per year, 66 to 83 deg F (20 to 28 deg C) in summer, 62 to 80 deg F (16.7 to 26.7 Deg C) in winter.

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joe_OC Grand Master

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Following up on the 'Big Red' inflos...Did it ever set seeds?

Huntington Beach, CA

USDA Zone 10a/10b

Sunset Zone 24

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BS Man about Palms

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Really great news.. here's hoping! I think this past very hot summer helped a lot!!

 

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Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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LJG Grand Master

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Nice Ron. I think the setting seed says a lot about this palm being different from Lepto. Your sets seed pretty early, yet with the hundreds of Leptos growing in Cali, who has got seed off one of those.

By the way ron, Christmas is coming, maybe time to get off the iphone3? 

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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Ha Ha Len, Yea i took them with a iPhone 7 resized on my laptop . Then took a pic with iPhone again off laptop then put back on computer! why they are so fussy! lazy way!

 

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