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17" yes or no


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Hey Guys, My Christmas Palm Seedlings are 11 months old. Out of 10 seedlings, Four are quite tall. The fourth frond on them is 17" high from the soil line. Is this a normal height for a Christmas Palm seedling at 11 months? Is it lanky or gonna be a big tree?

 

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Hey palmlover, I'm no expert but I'm going to say right now they look like they might become a bit lanky. I have grown A. Merrilli palms from seeds for a few years now. I grow mine outside in direct sun and they are more compact than that. Are yours grown indoors? Your palms look stretched like my palm seedlings that are grown in heavy shade. 

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4 hours ago, HtownPalms said:

Hey palmlover, I'm no expert but I'm going to say right now they look like they might become a bit lanky. I have grown A. Merrilli palms from seeds for a few years now. I grow mine outside in direct sun and they are more compact than that. Are yours grown indoors? Your palms look stretched like my palm seedlings that are grown in heavy shade. 

Hi, Yes they are indoors, and under bright grow lights, I am thinking they weren't low enough.. I really don't know

 

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Yes very stretched due to lack of light. I’ve had palms that have never seen daylight and get so tall and stretched they fall over and need stakes 

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Concur with others.  They are very etiolated (stretched out) due to low light.  These are FULL SUN palms, and there is almost no way to reproduce that indoors, without a pretty expensive lighting set up.   

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