Yes I killed it

[waykoolplantz]

I am blessed to have a great climate and a great palm meister....the palm i doubt i will ever be able to replace is 

https://palmpedia.net/wiki/Leopoldinia_pulchra

whats yours

[kinzyjr]

I still miss my original Jamaican Tall coconut:

[JohnAndSancho]

I've killed 10 Kentias. Also killed the first palm I ever bought, a $12 Majesty. Also a Licuala Ramsayi and a C. Macrocarpa that I stupidly bought mail order in January from a seller who ships bare root. Also killed a Lytocaryum Weddellanium off eBay that I didn't know was shipping bare root. 

 

Also killed some crotons, a Calathea, lots of parlor palms, a coffee plant, and a few I've forgotten. 

[Billeb]

My kill list includes: 

-Roystonea

-Hedycepe Canterburyana

-Archontophoenix Alexandrae (1 stem of my multi) 

But I’m new here, there will be more!
 

-dale

[Little Tex]

Kill list

-Livingstona Chinensis

-Phoenix dactylifera

-Sabal Mexicana

[Palmarum]

I am still a bit fuzzy on whether 'yes, I killed it' or 'I didn't know enough and it died' is the same thing or not.

I think it may come down to intent, either good or bad. Anyway there are a few things of note on my list, but one item that always comes first to mind is...

- My very first Red Sealing Wax Palm.

A small one gallon plant that was super rare and very expensive at the time. I was so worried about something bad happening to it while outside. It could fall over, get stepped on, mowed over, dry out, etc. To take the best care of it I kept it inside...

My cats ate it.

Ryan

[bubba]

But why?

[Merlyn]

I've lost about 55 palms over the past 3-4 years, the vast majority were seedlings purchased bare-root.  None of them were totally irreplaceable, but the rarest was definitely an Elaeis Guineensis v. Idolatrica, i.e. the "whole leaf" form.  I bought 3 seedlings from CFKingFish and 2 just slowly withered away and died.  Fortunately the third is growing happily...but without a couple in vicinity I might never get any new seeds.

[kinzyjr]

A total kill list would be too long for me to even list.  It's at least 3 x the amount that are currently alive in the yard.  You live and learn - or blow a lot of money and have nothing to show for it.

[JohnAndSancho]

Somebody on here once commented something along the lines of "if you ain't killing you ain't growing" - was that Death Camp @DoomsDave?

[Billeb]

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Somebody on here once commented something along the lines of "if you ain't killing you ain't growing" - was that Death Camp @DoomsDave?

Sounds like something he’d say! 

-dale

[SubTropicRay]

I had a big Sommieria leucophylla that died overnight a few years ago.

[Than]

On 4/28/2022 at 3:59 AM, JohnAndSancho said:

I've killed 10 Kentias. Also killed the first palm I ever bought, a $12 Majesty. Also a Licuala Ramsayi and a C. Macrocarpa that I stupidly bought mail order in January from a seller who ships bare root. Also killed a Lytocaryum Weddellanium off eBay that I didn't know was shipping bare root. 

 

Also killed some crotons, a Calathea, lots of parlor palms, a coffee plant, and a few I've forgotten. 

What did Kentias perish of?

[JohnAndSancho]

30 minutes ago, ego said:

What did Kentias perish of?

Don't really know. All of them looked healthy one day then turned crispy and spear pulled the next. 

[Butch]

Butch

[Matt in OC]

Geez, where to begin? The one that will haunt me: a gorgeous 1 gal. Cyphokentia moratia. 

[PalmatierMeg]

My only Pseudophoenix ekmanii that died not long after Hurricane Irma.

[Looking Glass]

10 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

My only Pseudophoenix ekmanii that died not long after Hurricane Irma.

Ugh….   That was a big, little guy.  What killed it?  Debris trauma, or water?  

[BS Man about Palms]

I need the sad face button, not a like button..

[redbeard917]

I sprouted some Chamaedorea microspadix and one of them had nice variegation. I could kick myself for not babying it more.

[96720]

If you are zone pushing you are killing plants!!! I say my job is to kill plants!!!

[PalmatierMeg]

16 hours ago, Looking Glass said:

Ugh….   That was a big, little guy.  What killed it?  Debris trauma, or water?  

Rot. Between rainy season storms and Hurricane Irma we got 35" of rain in less than a month

[GottmitAlex]

I really killed 5 Washingtonia filibustas. (Removed 4 of them with a chain and my old Ford Ranger and decapitated the largest and left it as a tiki.)

 

Killed 8 cocos (green Malayan dwarfs, maypan, couple of Jamaican talls, pacific talls for sure and my beautiful red rangiroa/haari Papua dwarf.)

Killed 2 P. robelinni 

Oh yeah, a B. fenestralis

And as for the ones I don't remember, I ask for forgiveness. Mea culpa.

[96720]

You could have sent some of that rain our way!!!

[WaianaeCrider]

Bought in 2008 and killed a year or two later due to neglect

Arenga undulatifolia

Beccariophonenix alfredii

Beccariophonenix madagascariensis

Calyptrocalyx elegans v. boalak

Calyptrocalyx julianettii

Calyptronoma rivalis

Carpoxlon macrospermum

Chambeyronia hookeri

Clinostigma samoense

Dypsis fibrosa

Dypsis psammophila

Hydriastele kasesa

Hyophorbe indica red

Mauritia flexuosa

Oraniopsis appendiculata

Polyandrococos caudescens

Actinokentia divaricata ---  Gal

Allag optera leucocalyx -- 4"

Archontophoenix purpurea --  Gallon

Areca ipot -- Seedling

Areca vestiaria (yellow crownshaft) -- Seedling

Arenga australasica  --  Gallon

Asterog yne martiana  --  Gallon

Balaka microcarpa  --  Gallon

Basselinia pancheri --  Seedling

Bentinckia nicobarica  --Gallon

Burretiokentia hapala  --  Gallon

Burretiokentia vieillardii  --  4"

Calyptrocalyx pachystachys "mottled"  --  4"

Calyptrocalyx polyphyllus  --  Gallon

Caryota ophiopellis (snake skin)  --  seedling

Copernicia hospita (blue form) - first leaf  --  Seedling

Deckenia nobilis  --  Gallon

Dypsis albofarinosa (was sp. white petiole)  --

Dypsis baronii  --  Gallon

Dypsis rivularis (true form, pink c.s.)  --  4"

Iguanura geono miformis  --  Gallon

Marojejya darianii  --  4"

Phytelephas macrocarpa  --  Gallon

Pinanga caesia  --  Gallon

Pinanga speciosa (purple crown shaft)  --  Gallon

Ptychosperma cuneatum  --  Gallon

Ptychosperma waitianum  --  4"

Ravenea lakatra  --  4"

Rhopaloblaste singaporensis  --  4"

 

[miamicuse]

not intentional but I am pretty sure this Veitchia Joannis is dead.

[Darold Petty]

In 1997 I lost a whole flat of seedling sized Geonoma weberbaueri due to dehydration, within my greenhouse, and I have never obtained this species again. 

[Phoenikakias]

On 4/29/2022 at 2:48 AM, kinzyjr said:

A total kill list would be too long for me to even list.  It's at least 3 x the amount that are currently alive in the yard.  You live and learn - or blow a lot of money and have nothing to show for it.

I am a serial and serious palm killer too!

[Phoenikakias]

Pushing the envelope alone is a considerable potentially killing factor.  But if one has additionally to bombard perpetually every single warm month marginal, non crownshafted palms with chemical sprayings because of the lurking weevils and moths, then this is really after some years a game changer!

[Johnny Palmseed]

17 hours ago, miamicuse said:

not intentional but I am pretty sure this Veitchia Joannis is dead.

Looks a little dry.

[Phoenikakias]

46 minutes ago, Johnny Palmseed said:

Looks a little dry.

Interior I bet is already quite mushy.