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You go shopping unsuspectingly just before midday and someone taps you on the shoulder in the discount store and it's the store manager, who I know in my case. Come on says I've got something for you for 4.99 usd. Wow, I thought, a Cocos nucifera at that price 🤗🌴 He had reserved it for me ...

Still repotted in a larger pot and watered. Baby grow and thrive 😀

I’ve bought dozens of palms on eBay and a few on Etsy. Have been exceptionally happy with all the purchases but I would never do business with any seller with lower than 98% positive feedback. It’s not difficult to have an even higher feedback than that. I’ve sold hundreds of items on eBay and my feedback is 100% positive. 84.7% feedback is deplorable.

https://palms.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PALMSv64n1p035-042-Dransfield-Ravenea-cycadifolia.pdf

The hookeriI in my garden seem to be enjoying the cool weather conditions

Palms are growing like weeds with the plentiful rainfall this summer. The Bismarkia both recovered well from 100% defoliation (15°) F guessing in January my baby mule I brought home from Florida is taking off like crazy and I included a picture of my silk floss 😄.

Couldn’t agree more Jim. A lot of my new collection is from eBay. Only once have I been stung with complete garbage and dead palms of a said variety yer right I thought. But it’s the sellers lose not mine, I simply won’t buy from such a seller again. Iam happy to spend good money with a seller who offers quality rare stuff! I have a 100 percent feed back and pride myself on sending out quality plants 🪴

Do what my wife does string em along waste there time. Then say no thanks 🤬scammer’s!

I picked this one out of my seedlings because it had a little variegation on its first few leaves. But I never expected it to continue on as it got bigger. This morning, I saw a new leaf open and was quite surprised.

Me too. I can't wait until they reach a certain hight to provide more shade in the backyard , at least the Butias will take over providing shade at that time when my Washies grow to a point where they don't block the sun anymore . Took some more pictures. Unfortunately the St Augustine grass didn't recover as much as I hoped for but that's just cosmetical for now.

A nice looking palm with unusual stilt roots. A cool tolerant winner that was a zone push about 3 years back. It paid off giving it a go, it seems to getting stronger each new leaf, a nice little palm to have in the collection with unusual traits.

I hadn’t been into greenhouse number 2 for a while so best pop in and have gander! All looking good a few little winter upsets but nothing to worry about all good in there until next visit! The little white band on the Joey seedlings is light bleaching upon transplanting them out of the plastic bag over the styrofoam box.

It gets better Iam building another one ☝️

A diseased rotted trunk on any tree, including a palm tree, can cause it to fall. An otherwise healthy palm tree is very unlikely to fall and they often withstand hurricane force winds.

You GO! Keep us apprised! The RGV needs Chambeys!

Here’s an update, the poor babies got over having their growing points whacked. Resilience!

Yes large corporations are destroying the planet gor profit in bank accounts and at the end of the day it is only digital numbers they look at.our grandparents would look at us and wonder how became this way. The animals and plants that have become extinct is heartbreaking.

Here's mine about to open up a new leaf in the next couple of weeks.

Three little Chams that have slipped under the radar that have me beat as far as identification goes, yes I could drag out the Don hodel bible, but thought you know what let’s see if the gurus on palmtalk can come with an idea. A much bigger brains trust than my crocodile brain. And yes I know the rules one must provide sufficient photo evidence to get a worthy identification response. Thanks in advance!

I made a concerted effort to NOT plant too close together but I messed up anyway and planted a borassus Aethiopum within 15 feet of a beccariophoenix alfredii. That was a huge mistake since I loved both palms and ended up editing the borassus as they grew together. WIth (2) palms that grow to 30' wide, 15 feet of separation is not enough to limit crown damage. My second messup was planting a bismarckia in a low spot that always collected water. It looked OK but after a very wet august 5-6 years ago(22" rain) the weevils smelled the stress and killed it quickly. I hav3 a second biz that is 35' and doing great in a high drainage spot where water doesn't collect. No weevil action on it. My third most foolish mistake was planting a caryota mitis withing 4' of the house. It was fine until 8 years later it had grown (8-9 4-7" caliper trunks and was slapping the house in wind at 25' tall and still growing over the house. I could see in my mind all dead trunks falling after flowering onto the house. The result was another edit. I had a bunch more fails on mostly smaller palms and seedlings in containers, like trying to dig up a small copernicia hospita planted in a shady spot. It was shocked/stunted for years and now lives, but its a lot slower/smaller than the two I didnt plant in shade and dig up. I have had great successes too so I have no regrets. Expect to fail, but try to limit the numbers and keep getting better with the plan.

Hi Marcus, I am growing palms in the northern suburbs of Dallas. Our area is good for palmettos, windmills and pindos. There used to be lots of Washies around here but 2021 pretty much wiped them out except for a few survivors.

I must and want to say at this point that what you are planting and doing actively for nature is wonderful, we both think, coming from little Switzerland, Lake Constance. And I think that in any climate, it is not a matter of course what you have all created in your wonderful gardens and continue to plant. It is a miracle in itself, and I (Sabine also) am grateful to be able to be part of it.

Yes. How true, Than. I'll try without a magic wand—maybe I'll find instructions in old Harry Potter films 😁 Yes, sometimes miracles happen. At least I'll try my best.

Epidendrum raniferum in bloom again.

Thank you, I planted them today in a group planting so hopefully some seeds in the future, it shall be known to me as genoformis!

What seeds did you collect and germinate from the garden in Naples?

No heating only plastic walls to keep out the cold draughty air, with 50 percent shade cloth hung on the outside to reduce the brightness. I have a lot of rock retaining walls and a lot of rocks in the ground for thermal mass.

I have managed to keep two bondaria alive. Two seedlings from two batch’s of 100 seeds so not a good ratio from 200 seeds. Still lucky to have the varietie in the collection and they shall be treated as lucky special little palms!

Tim, they look like the ones I’m growing.

This is therapy letting me know I’m not alone in my habits. 😅 1. I definitely leave palms in pots way too long. 2. Collecting way too many palms with nowhere to put them. (I guess that’s why they are in pots too long.) I have slowed down on the palm hoarding a bit. 3. I definitely have planted too close together. I recently had to pull two R. Sapidas that were planted too close to B. alfredii’s. More editing will need to be done down the road as well.

Updated photo of the cone.

It cut off but my concerns were about their negative feedback for shipping much smaller plants than pictured and packaging plants with puppy pads and breaking them to make them fit in flat rate boxes and you'd have to run over this with a car to get it into a flat rate box.

I used a packet of something like this on a pine tree stump that was by my entryway. It eventually rotted it until removing the wood felt like pulling Styrofoam out of a box, but it took a while.

I actually do really like Ficus Auriculata, and have two of them in the yard. But they are not at all hurricane resistant. I really like the huge leaves, which is probably one reason they are NOT hurricane resistant. As far as stump remover goes, I have only ever done the manual extraction method. But I have been told to use the stump remover in a bottle stuff and supposedly it works. Supposedly the potassium nitrate ones work to rot stumps in 1 to 2 months.

Great to see you back on here Knell. Great photos as usual! I was going to say R cycadifolia had been formally described since this thread started. It is certainly very different to the true R louvellii and every other Ravenea species so it seems there’s probably been some mix up of ID or seed. The only further contribution I can make to this thread is this photo of R louvelii taken at Sydney BGs in 2018. They look very different to the photos I’ve seen of R cycadifolia.

Exactly.👍 Just shipping charges alone are going to be over $40 USD for a plant that size shipped in its 3 gallon pot. That doesn't even count the cost of a box, packing materials, tape, time, and a trip to the shipper... For that total price,I would guess you'd be receiving a bare rooted 1 gallon plant.🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Oh I ain't buying it. I just get bored when the pills kick in. I'm terrible with the phone solicitors too. I'll keep them on the phone for like 10 minutes sometimes.

John to get your money they will answer all the questions with what you want to hear! Get some seeds and grow your own pocket money to sell on eBay. I sell on eBay!

I spent way too much time reading their feedback, but I try to avoid sellers that have over 100 negative feedback in a year and less than like 96%. Most of the negative stuff is about the plants being a lot smaller than pictured, packaging being awful (puppy pads????), and one person said they folded a fiddle leaf fig to get it to fit in a flat rate box. Maybe after I take my night night meds I'll message them again and ask them all of those questions again. Or maybe I'll ask them if they're a real nursery so our Orlando palmtalkers can go buy a bunch of $30 Butias.

Oooo very niceeeeeeeeeeee

Thanks for the link! Awesome example of convergent evolution...faking a cycad, even the seeds are large and cycad like. Are the palms above in your garden?

Unfortunately we can't do anything, the powerful of the earth (the multinationals) continue to destroy our planet and the habitat of plants and animals, and this is very sad.

I like to share the love of plants regardless of what country you live in. And by sharing seeds is a great way to get plants. It’s the plants themselves that are giving the generosity, and in return we get the ornamental beauty and benefits of growing plants. The plants are the ones that know how to keep there genes alive by offering ornamental beauty they get to be moved around the world. They are the smart ones in this situation ensuring their survival. We are just the distribution hub for them.

It definitely becomes a highlight when you find that one special little seedling. I lucked up a 3 years back with a lanonia dasyantha in amongst 500 seedlings!

Thank you Mr. Rare for posting on PT. You are always welcome here and everyone would certainly enjoy seeing photos of your exquisite collection. It was a financial stretch for me the year I took the plunge and became a benefactor level member. I believe in the mission statement of the nonprofit IPS and the new option of benefactor travel is icing on the cake. My first (and likely only) trip to Peru next month will surely be exciting and I look forward to multiple other adventures already in the planning process by our hard working IPS president ASHCVS! Thank you Andy!

Washingtonia Filifera and W.Robusta are really taking off this year. These are planted in our front yard.

4 of the 5 last soldiers!

If a deal looks too good to be true,it probably is.🤷‍♂️ The seller doesn't offer ANY details about the item. 1. Is that the actual plant that will be shipped? 2. What size pot is it currently pictured in? 3. Will it be shipped in the pot to avoid root disturbance? 4. Did the seller grow the plant or just a reseller? aztropic Mesa, Arizona

@Bkue @Golden10 I grow them and have many seedlings for sale here in Longwood FL, z9b. Available for pickup. Cunninghamiana, tuckeri, maxima, and alexandrae. Send me a DM for anyone interested.