Parajubaea sunkha

[Fusca]

57 minutes ago, Collectorpalms said:

Too bad! I am wondering how my JxS and BxPT are going to handle the extended summer we are having. They did fine last year, but we are running 5F above last year almost everyday. I had BxPS but due to my own mistakes I lost those. One a ladder fell on, the other got moved in its pot, and didnt get watered. I just mentally lost it.

The sunkha did fine in 100°+ afternoon temps with 70°+ overnight lows with no irrigation and low humidity but didn't grow during those conditions.  I would think that your BxPT would do OK with the Butia influence.  I'm also interested to see how it does - particularly if you get a lot of rain in the next couple of months (as unlikely as that sounds).  I'd keep it on the dry side though.

[Tom in Tucson]

1 hour ago, Collectorpalms said:

Too bad! I am wondering how my JxS and BxPT are going to handle the extended summer we are having. They did fine last year, but we are running 5F above last year almost everyday. I had BxPS but due to my own mistakes I lost those. One a ladder fell on, the other got moved in its pot, and didnt get watered. I just mentally lost it.

My 2 JxQ (from Patric(k)) do well in our extreme heat. Patric(k)'s BxPc and Bp (Butia paraguayensis) x Pc also do well. My fastest growing Patric(k) hybrid is BJxQ. My other hybrids from him are BxPs, By (Butia yatay) x Q and JxB. The BxPs may be just a Butia mutt.

Hi 104˚, Lo 72˚

[Collectorpalms]

22 hours ago, Fusca said:

The sunkha did fine in 100°+ afternoon temps with 70°+ overnight lows with no irrigation and low humidity but didn't grow during those conditions.  I would think that your BxPT would do OK with the Butia influence.  I'm also interested to see how it does - particularly if you get a lot of rain in the next couple of months (as unlikely as that sounds).  I'd keep it on the dry side though.

I " had" a Butiaxparajubaea cocoides (pics) for a few years. It died sometime after 2010.  The pattern of death seems to be a long stretch of drought through most of the summer, and then once a tropical system comes in September, my Butia or Butia hybrids get crownrot. I am pretty sure some died due to my expansive clay soil. If I were able to keep them evenly moist through the year, I might not have an issue. But that does not explain all of their deaths. I think every Butia I planted or anyone planted anywhere near me came to the same death. However, where there is different soil, you can find them. And over on the Brazos, we had 8 large ones, down to 4 after the freeze, and none ever got crown rot there and they are nearly neglected.

Nevertheless, I have a "New area" of my yard that was completely obliterated by the Big Texas Freeze that I want to build up a couple feet of good soil and try there, so for now my jxs and bxpt are in 25 gallon pots. They are growing even in the heat still....

Edited June 16, 2022 by Collectorpalms

[Marius]

On 3/31/2019 at 11:04 AM, Marius said:

I have just planted my first new Parajubaea sunkha. I hope that it will do well in its new spot. 

Update:  about 4 years later

 

[pogobob]

I’m not sure if this one is Sunka or Microcarpa. In ground 12 years from a seedling and gets only rain and watering from nearby potted plants 

[ExperimentalGrower]

2 hours ago, pogobob said:

I’m not sure if this one is Sunka or Microcarpa. In ground 12 years from a seedling and gets only rain and watering from nearby potted plants 

Looks like a sunkha to me. Typically torallyi will be much larger at the base.