Hello all! Just. Question. I am in the Phoenix area and last year I planted a beautiful royal palm. I noticed the base of the trunk was starting to Crack. My instincts were telling me that it's normal since the trunk is expanding. Today for a moment I thought, could this be sun damage? It is planted on an Eastern exposure in-between two homes. Hopefully it's normal and she is just getting chunky! Thank you for your time. 

Satakentia liukiuensis was recently rated one of the top landscape palms for SFL. But it is very difficult to find even at specialty nurseries and impossible BB garden centers. I currently have 3 growing in my back yard jungle but had problems with them in the past. My advice is DO NOT be in a rush to stick it in the ground. Take time to grow it to at least a 7g pot before planting it. My largest is still a juvenile pushing 7-8' tall and ready to form a trunk. Read article below:
http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Satakentia_liukiuensis
Satakentia liukiuensis Seedlings: $2.00 each. Minimum order = $20.00   NOTE: I am listing other palm seedlings and you are welcome to mix & match species
Shipping = $10.00  No shipping outside the US. No shipping to HI
Seedlings will be sent without pots and soil, with roots wrapped in damp orchid moss, clear wrap and foil.
Payment via Paypal. PM me if you are interested
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Juvenile Satakentia

Last year my Archo maxima produced a bountiful crop of seeds and is working on its 2021 crop. I potted up some of those seedlings and need to find them a new home. In the US Archo maxima is one of the rarest of the king palms. See article in Palmpedia:
http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Archontophoenix_maxima
Archonotophoenix maxima Seedlings: $2.00 each. Minimum order = $20.00   NOTE: I am listing other palm seedlings and you are welcome to mix & match species
Shipping = $10.00  No shipping outside the US. No shipping to HI
Seedlings will be sent without pots and soil, with roots wrapped in damp orchid moss, clear wrap and foil.
Payment via Paypal. PM me if you are interested
Photos

Mother Palm

I have multiple pots of Dypsis pembana that have been growing for almost a year. They spent all winter outdoors unprotected and laughed off all the cold fronts threw at them. I have said many times this is the best landscaping palm to come along in many years. It clusters but sparsely - both my adult palms have 3 trunks. They have taken down to 28.5F without even cold spotting and are solid zone 9 palms. They grow fast and look great.
http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Dypsis_pembana
Dypsis pembana Seedlings: $1.00 each. Minimum order = $20.00   NOTE: I am listing other palm seedlings and you are welcome to mix & match species
Shipping = $10.00  No shipping outside the US. No shipping to HI
Seedlings will be sent without pots and soil, with roots wrapped in damp orchid moss, clear wrap and foil.
Payment via Paypal. PM me if you are interested
Photos

Mother Palm

Last year I had seeds of Sabal mexicana generously gifted to me. They are nearly a year old and trying to escape their pot. I don't have room for all of them so I am offering a pot of 15+ of them. Learn about this coldhardy large trunking Sabal through the link below:
http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Sabal_mexicana
See sale details below:
Sabal mexicana strap leaf seedlings, 9-12 months old: 15+ @$25.00 for the lot     ONE LOT ONLY
Shipping = $12.00
Seedlings will be sent without pot and soil, with roots wrapped in damp orchid, clear wrap and foil.
Payment via Paypal. No shipping outside the US. No shipping to HI
PM me if interested
Photos