Posting 6 palms growing in Puerto Rico daily?

[Cindy Adair]

Some foxtails carefree here. Wodyetia bifurcata

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Hydriastele beguinii 'Obi Island"

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Ravenea hildebrandtii

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Wallichia oblongifolia (used to be W. densiflora). Photos don't show the lovely silver color under the leaflets.

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Ravenea sambiranensis, one of two nearby

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Phoenicophorium borsigianum

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Our governor in PR just notified us that our strict ($5000 fine) lock down will continue past the two weeks that were set to end March 30. The new date is April 12. Also she is dividing the days and allowing odd number plates to three days of the week and even to three. No one gets Sunday. These are for errands only so drug stores, grocery stores, doctor appointments, banks and the PO and social distancing everywhere. Limits on the number inside each place at a time, etc. Beaches closed.

Anybody heard of the license plate stuff being used for the pandemic? Seems to me like for once Puerto Rico is leading the states in trying to not overtax our already stressed healthcare system after lots of personnel left following hurricane Maria.

No worries, I am only going to try to continue "my sixpack (palms) a day" until the original end date of March 30.

Dypsis psammophila is a very nice Dypsis lutescens like plant only much daintier. I wish I had more! 

 

 

 

 

[Cindy Adair]

Another memory plant-seed grown probable Cryosophila nana from an epic hike in Mexico with Directors Gregg Hamann, Laz Prieguez, David Tanswell and Larry Noblick.

 

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Gaussia gomez-pompae

 

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Dypsis mananjarensis AKA white mealy bug Dypsis

 

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Kerriodoxa elegans, trying a couple on this hill. Now 6 planted, at least 4 more awaiting good spots. Such a nice palm!

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Euterpe oleifera grown from seed from my first farm.

 

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Sorry about the not so great mostly distant shots of many of the newly planted palms. Here is where I spent my day. Note my palm design pocketbook lower right which gives some idea of scale.

The horizontal bamboo with stakes makes the very steep hill less dangerous and making the upper tiers took up my morning. So after planting all the palms shown and a few non palms this afternoon, I was just too tired to climb up one more time for proper close ups. 

[Cindy Adair]

This poor palm FINALLY got planted today! Just before hurricane Maria was named, I lugged this palm down the hill from my house intending to plant it the next day.

As you might imagine there were other priorities and I never even got this palm moved to relative safety before the storm hit.  Luckily no landslide there, but no way to water and it was already root bound.

Two years slipped by and although I hauled it back up the hill to wait in my temporary shade house I never re potted it or fertilized it. 

I asked for advice about planting locations once on PT and moved it in the pot to a few places, but then life intervened and it went just outside my shade house. Recently I moved it outside the shade house near a small potted jade vine which of course decided to use it as a trellis.

Well I rescued it once more this morning and planted it in the same place where it survived the hurricane 2 years ago. I didn't do a great job clearing the awful vines, but did climb up and cut down the opportunistic Cecropias which would have grown really big and then crashed on top of it with a strong wind.

So my only Dypsis sp. dark mealy bug is a survivor and when it outgrows its battered leaves it might even be decent looking.

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Cocos nucifera, the mother of many who planted themselves rolling down a little hill. 

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Dypsis ovobontsira

 

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Calyptrocalyx lost label, beginning to clump.

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Calyptrocalyx doxanthus

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Pinanga aristata Showing only one leaf because the older leaf looks pretty ragged. This one I bought as a seedling but I have several sprouts from an rps purchase as well. Loved these on the 2016 IPS trip in Borneo! Many photos in the recently bumped travel log forum. 

 

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Rhapis laosensis

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Chamaedorea geonomiformis

 

 

[Cindy Adair]

Hmmmm.... It seems I posted 8 palms today so only 4 for tomorrow.

 

[Dypsisdean]

Thanks again for all the photos. It's a great feeling when all the hard work is done and it's time to sit back and enjoy the growth. But I hope you know that now you will have to post yearly updates.

[gilles06]

Wow, nice collection! Thank you

[Cindy Adair]

17 hours ago, Dypsisdean said:

Thanks again for all the photos. It's a great feeling when all the hard work is done and it's time to sit back and enjoy the growth. But I hope you know that now you will have to post yearly updates.

You are welcome Dean. Somehow with my jungle the work will never be done, but that's OK with me.

 

16 hours ago, gilles06 said:

Wow, nice collection! Thank you

Thank you gilles06 for looking.

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Caryota lost label. Can you help me name it please?

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Actinokentia divaricata

 

 

 

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Heterospathe brevicaulis

 

 

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Iguanura sp. beak seed? Can anyone help with another name?

 

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Last six pack (of palms) for this topic as today was to be the last day of Puerto Rico's earlier than most strict curfew. Another two weeks starts tomorrow. Getting low on some food items but my license plate ends in an odd number (and grocery stores now closed on Mondays anyway). That means I am not allowed to drive until Tuesday.

Copernicia eckmanii

 

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Tiny Pseudophoenix eckmanii

 

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Dypsis lastelliana one of several

 

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Another gift from Mike Dahme, Oenocarpus bataua. Thanks!

Note the new red leaves on the big leaved Medinilla magnifica in the upper right of the second photo.

 

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Calyptrocalyx sp. South Naru Island

 

 

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Calyptrocalyx elegans v. Boalak

A good start to my inventory of palms planted at my new farm in the last two years. Not complete and lots in pots big enough to plant and more seedlings and seeds too. 

But better than these views from Sept 2017 day after Hurricane Maria:

 

 

 

 

 

[PR00636]

Love it Cindy.  Now it is on my must-haves list.  Thanks for recommending this species!

[Tracy S]

Incredible Cindy. I love your garden. It looks like you have everything one could want in a garden.

 

[Cindy Adair]

Thanks Mark and Tracy.

I have only planted part of my farm. Much is left play in and to clear paths in the future. 

Planted lots more since I last posted here after clearing another big area of most everything, but tree ferns. What a lot of work! I believe I will wear out before I run out of space.

[PR00636]

On 3/29/2020 at 5:08 PM, Cindy Adair said:

Tiny Pseudophoenix eckmanii

 

Is this the little one at the top of your driveway?  I planted three of them on a ridge and the last time I saw them the soil had eroded away exposing the roots.  I will have to shore up the soil this next trip if they didn't tumble down the hill....

 

[Kim]

Wow, you have quite a collection! I see there is a lot of balance between rockets and slugs.  It helps to have some palms where you can see progress quickly while the others plod along.  Your farm is looking really good!