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I am a beautiful woman, but I don't believe my beauty is made up of from my outward appearance and nor do I believe that is how most of you view women. I believe Bubba's intentions were to encourage women to be an active part of this forum, to encourage women to feel comfortable enough to post. So my advise in attracting additional beautiful women to Palmtalk is to stop making posts about the sounds of Uranus... And if there is going to be a pagent for a Mr. and Mrs. Palm Universe, don't bother. WE ALREADY WON!

I thought in the interest of learning, just like John over in Spain did with "topping" seeds, I would post something I started doing as an experiment that has worked well. I started a palm "terrarium" if you will. Anyway, I was anxious to get some of the new seedlings from J. Marcus, but was hoping they were larger. I got what was avail. at the time. Several seedlings were bare root and/or just spears emerging. It was also just at the end of winter, beginning of spring so I was worried about their overall well being, but the order was placed anyway. Once here, I potted them up and was not sure where to put them. My little greenhouse was packed and the temps went from very cool to very hot each day. I decided to pick up a large Tupperware type tub and put many of them in there and keep them upstairs in my addition. For soil, its just peat and perlite that I recycled from germinating several Jubea's from. Here you can see the care in which it was placed..

Hey Guys! got some new palm vids of my new Chinese fan Palm! i know it needs watering... just watered it right now lol ok here is the link, http://www.youtube.com/user/zack10024 :) :drool: :D

It's like Adam and Eve in the garden, but with formal clothes on and a palm tree instead of an apple tree, and their names are different, nevermind.

I'm sure the pharamone would be simular to what I use. The trap design on Youtube is much more slick than mine. In mine, you would think they maybe could escape. But they can't. They are slow and unstable flyers and I think they lack the level of control to fly up through the hole they just entered.

Hey guys! here some palm vids i madE! more like... 8 videos haha any way if you have a youtube channel subscribe to me!!! more to come! link below, http://www.youtube.com/user/zack10024 :yay: :yay:

Yeah... we won.

Perhaps this thread could use another photo of a fruiting Corypha from San Pedro Sula, Honduras

What are these mythical Syagrus litoralis(silver queen)palms you speak of? Litoralis means close to the SHORE,so I would think that a palm of that name would be less cold hardy? Me thinks that silver queen was an inventive nursey name to sell palms, because I defy someone to identify a silver queen by the appearance of the palm. There is considerable variation in characteristics and looks of queen palms. Having said that I am fairly certain that some queen palms from certain providences might be more cold hardy than others! Hopefully some will recover, it was a bad winter to say the least!

Arent all these three species very close in the looks with each other? What differentiates them? I have always wondered how to tell these apart

Looks like Liv rot to me. The footstool palm. Jim

Hi Kris, from what I've read, the palm weevil actually comes from India. However, in India has a natural predator - some flightless bird - so therfore you have very little to worry about. There are no natural predators outside of India - we now have them everywhere. The traps I use are a simple bucket that has a funnel shaped lid. They are attracted to the pheromone bait and, once inside, they can't escape and starve to death. I have been catching 15 or 20 per week since november. I expected that to slow down during our coldest time but it didn't.