Dypsis decaryi growth effects of too much shade
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By TheMadScientist
Yesterday Saturday 7-24-2021, the second stop on a 2 hour drive, was to pick up these seedlings and meet another great person involved in palms @The Germinator. For the record, Ed, I will be bringing you additional cash, you will see why. This is a current sale and there are plenty more, this is the quality you will be getting. The donor palm in the background and community pot in the foreground was more than I expected. Today Sunday 7-25-2021 turned out to be a 9 hour marathon to transfer the seedlings from the community pot to individual 16 oz. growing cups with 4 drain holes. I was mixing peat moss, perlite into a batch, my palm soil has mixed dry leaves and dry horse manure composted over a 10 year period, mixed equal portions, add water just less than standing water consistency. With the community pot out of container on it's side, each seedling was easy to separate without breaking roots. These were advanced at that point where some of the seeds were done contributing and would fall off hollow. Most roots were slightly longer than the height of these cups requiring me to lay the first couple of inches around the bottom of the cup, then dropping the moist soil around the held base packing such to eliminate all air pockets. I hand squirt water to clean previous soil off the seedling. I did these in a 15 quantity batch to use an old milk crate to transport to the patio for the family photo #2. I had to stack all of these on my shelves before it got dark or the bunnies would make quick meals of them. Photo #3 & #4 should make it through the night.
original sales photo by @The Germinator
My NEW Family portrait
Shelf somewhat protected from too much sun, I need a plan for wind events
Shelf with remainder of seedlings...the 2 liter plastic contain some HEDY's & 3 plastic tubs have R. Baueri's
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By Kellie
Hello Palm People,
Please help with advice on this poorly managed wonderful triangle palm. It is a 25 foot Triangle Palm in a small garden in SoCal, likely rooting in the rising ocean water table. It's still in decent health despite the landlord and next door neighbor carving off fronds starting 5 years ago that has resulted in the remaining, now much higher fronds, being unable to drop on their own naturally. The old frond bases are about 8 layers high and a good tree trimmer couldn't or wouldn't remove them, he just sawed them closer to the trunk which is an improvement, aesthetically but not functionally.
Another tree trimmer refused the work saying it was too hard to remove the remaining bases of the past years fronds and they only seperate from the palm trunk when they are very dry which takes years. In the meantime, dead fronds droop and I fear for the whole process to begin over again, with the neighbor and landlord hacking at this self-cleaning palm.
Can someone advise me on: 1) if I should work to remove the attached old frond bases 2) if so, how to do it? What tools to use?
Thank you!
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By subsonicdrone
just thought i would share the difference between the archontophoenix which i slammed directly into the sun in the spring vs the one which ended up in a shady spot
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By chocolatethunda
Hi all,
I finally received seeds I ordered from rarepalmseeds.com here in Aruba (small island in the Dutch Caribbean).
I would very much appreciate some suggestions on methods for germinating and care after the germination. I will keep updating the thread as they grow for future references.
Below are the suggestions I'm most eager to learn about of the seed type (Dypsis Decaryi)
Soil Medium for germination? (perlite, peat moss, coco coir?) Soak in water? (how many days, fungicide bath?) Does the sinker/floater test apply to these seeds too? Heat mat? Depth of Pots and soul medium after germination?
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