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After growing my Plumeria 'Maya' for over 10 years, I became frustrated that it had never bloomed, and therefore never branched. I decided to top it this year. Things went well, the top cut rooted, and the stump has produced 2 new branches. But the weird thing is....the new plant is...different. The variegation pattern is vastly different...kind of like going from Monstera 'Thai Constellation' variegation to Monstera albo variegation. Th eleaf form has also changed...the old leaves were rounded...the new ones are pointed! I'm not complaining....now I have 2 very different Maya's. But I am wondering why this happened? First 3 photos...old plant #4--new top cut #5--new branch on stump

I finally got a sabinara in the ground, with two weeks of winter left it’s time to ramp up planting a few new palms, ones that are new to the collection and i don’t have in the ground. It was raining as I planted it so absolutely perfect conditions to be planting in and well worth getting wet. Five years time things will be looking pretty good with the sabinara in between a darinii and a cycas multipinata for a nice back drop to the magnifica one of my holy grail palms! A few of you will know that feeling of planting such a palm!

A very interesting batch of seedlings this time across the potting bench. I will say some real beauties in this lot, a few cocothrinax seeds donated by @palmtreesforpleasure Mr Wilson thank you, iam sure you know where they will go into some botanical gardens around the place. The usual chamaedoreas along with a few lytocarum insignis, a few hypohorbe red indica and thrown in for the tropical look some lanonia dasyantha. All will go into some special places and gardens in the future! IMG_1975.mov

A nice tropical looking palm. One that will have some interesting colour in the years to come, adding more of a tropical feel in the subtropical climate!

I love my garden just as much as you John if not more. I look at the garden pictures around the globe with bright green lawns and think I would live that look and do love that style of gardening but unfortunately living in the bush it’s not going to happen especially in my climate. So I just went with the jungle look or rainforest garden that I have always wanted, work with the elements you have. If I was living in a desert iam sure I would have a succulent garden! Ps I can’t stand mowing lawns never did like it, being made as a kid to mow lawns what for I thought, I would rather be fishing I thought as kid!

Welcome to palm talk a world of palms and more. You sound like your are off to a shaky start with palms. I happen to grow a couple of palms so I have an idea of what you are experiencing. Firstly pictures help a lot even a doctor wants to see scans and X-rays before some sort of diagnosis, but I shall assume your little palm has been indoors and absolutely demolished by spider mites due to lack of humidity and dry conditions. It shall need to placed in a moist environment and in a place in the shade outdoors. Obviously if you are experiencing cold temperatures bring it inside of a night. Hose your little palm down and wipe the leaves gently with a damp cloth, if you need to spray your palm with a insecticide chemical just go and buy a pre mixed insecticide for roses at your local hardware store or a local nursery. Follow the instructions on how to apply. Then let your palm rest up in the shade for a month before doing anything again. Now soil is a different matter and can be as complicated as you like or as simple as you like, coco coir 60 percent, perlite 20 percent and a good quality store purchased potting mix not a cheap one, and stay away from miracle gro products please. The mixture will be free draining, so watering won’t be a major headache for you but let the top inch of soil dry out before you water again. Good luck and read a lot of palm talk post and dont be afraid to ask questions that’s how we all learn.

A unique palm sometimes referred to as one of the South American Licuala’s. First time I’ve noticed seed on this one, totally missed the flowering. Whether they will be viable not…….we shall see. Tim

When they don’t like the cold a palm will let you know in one quick winter real fast. You gotta try, it’s kinda like giving a long distance relationship a go when you both live halfway around the globe from each other, you just gotta give it a go if you don’t try you will never know and be left with that what if question! Well you just have to try, that way you will know and won’t be left asking yourself what if!

You have just finally identified the grass I am having issues with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are destined to mow lawns John. It’s a horrible thing mowing lawns, here’s a dollar go mow the lawn and earn your pocket money. Yes I agree with getting a work ethic at a young age, but nowadays they call it child slave labour. You have to love your parents god bless them they tried for good reasons!

I’m looking forward to seeing this one grow that’s for sure, very special that’s somewhat new to cultivation in Australia. You just cannot beat the rain, it’s one element in life that the whole entire planet needs for survival, and definitely the best time to plant a palm that’s for sure! Richard

Bulbophyllum electrinum var Calvum

Welcome to Palm Talk . As @happypalms said , any diagnosis would be proceeded by photographs of the subject palm . Also the type of palm ,environment , bright light , low light , average day and night temps , etc. watering habits also affect the health of the palm. Mites are usually easy to remedy by wiping them off with a wet paper towel ( a dab of dish soap in a bowl of water helps) . I try not to use chemicals unless the pests become persistent . Harry

A very nice addition to an already lovely garden . I love being in my garden in the rain , the soothing sounds as the dripping of rain drops and the fresh smell of healthy soil and mulch. I can’t remember ever planting much in the rain but definitely a good time to pull weeds. Harry

Not sure if they're the cause of the central fronds dying, but I think those caterpillars in all the junk are palm leaf skeletonizer. I had the same question last October when they got to one of my Sabals. https://idtools.org/palm_symptoms/index.cfm?packageID=1111&entityID=3334 https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/leeco/2023/11/02/palm-leaf-skeletonizer/

I could only imagine how many, if it’s anything like I have I know the feeling. When it comes to my garden it’s an investment for my retirement years!

Here’s a few. Doesn’t get too hot in Huntington Beach so I have quite a few plants that aren’t flowering. -dale Jungle Jacks Purple Jack Looks pink but it’s definitely purple in person. Color fades quickly too Confetti aka. Barbados Showgirl Bought it from an old lady collector. Tag said “Orange & Yellow (Never 4 Sale)”. No idea the name Standard

Give me a look at it. Packaging is the key but it will most certainly survive. This lot in the picture are of to England from Australia , so fear not your little Sabal should survive!

Head space is something we all need to be aware of, the back of the mind is a great place to visit and have a look around, but we just have to remember to come back out of there. How some of us deal with things that go wrong is different from person to person some just shrug it of and get on with it others have a bit more difficulties with moving on. But at least you have freedom now and lots of cats along with sancho plus your palms. They will save your sanity palms, my garden saved me during a divorce health issues and the world ending in the pandemic. I started up my palm nursery again and iam moving forward in my life finally but it took 5 years. We all go through tough times some tougher than others!

That’s the one the good old hilux a true solid car you can’t kill them, the surf a great model car.And don’t forget the good old Nissan navara pre 1990 models a good car, after that year there crap. And I will send the nurse around for you!

At least now I know I'm not alone......

One day I just decided I didn't want to drink anymore. I didn't have any hard fought battles or anything other than family issues, but I'm not gonna get into that. I just did the old man thing and went to work and came home and got plastered and fell asleep watching baseball every night. Never had any physical issues, but it was habitual. Looking back on it now, I had a beer fridge in my bedroom before I got my own apartment. Before I got into management and was working the 3p-11p shift, if the overnight person was running late I would have someone pick up a 12 pack for me. There was a daquiri stand a block away from my apartment, and I went there so often in the summer, the girl working there knew my car - they also had a special on the flavor of the day, but she knew my favorite flavor and she'd always add extra shots to it because I always tipped her. There was probably a dozen times when I was absolutely wrecked and I ran out of booze, so I'd walk across the street to the glorious Habib's Food Mart #2 and buy a couple Four Lokos. Speaking of those, I knew one of the 7-11's mispriced the "gold" flavor at $1.50, and 2 of those would get me right when though it's probably the most foul tasting thing I've ever had. I looked up the sugar content on those, and my god man - so I found a box wine that was low sugar and 13.5% alcohol and was $15. That'd last me 3 days. Tasted awful too, but it did the trick and Instacart would bring it if I didn't want to leave the house. I didn't trust myself with liquor. Before all of that, it was at least a 12 pack a night. I weighed 283 at one point. I still have size 48 pants. It was more of a habit than an addiction for me, but it was like every night for 14 years.

Procatavola Key Lime Star (C. Lime Sherbet x Brassavola nodosa.

Sounds like your on the growing situation sorted well. It will grow well for you once it’s tucked in. Foxtail palms are everywhere you look in my home town the council use them as street trees to good affect!

Hi all, This princeps was planted out last summer. The new leave shows the typical colour. I love it. Eckhard

Welcome to PalmTalk. Pictures will help! Here's a long thread of what I did as a single guy living alone in a studio apartment. I had a bunch of stuff on the patio, too, but I was in a much warmer climate. This was in East Texas, and I had a lot more money to play with back then. I would advise against using a cooler - unless you want to use it just to hold some pots. Don't be afraid to use nursery or grower pots, or cut up soda bottles. The important thing is drainage, and a cooler just isn't going to give you that. Lighting and humidity are gonna be really important, too - get yourself a clean spray bottle for misting - it'll add humidity and humidity keeps mites away. LED grow lights are great, but there's so much junk out there - and the prices on the good stuff have skyrocketed. I think I paid $15 or $20 for my biggest GE bulb and they're like $45 now, but there's other cheaper options. Sansi are nice, and I've got a 4 foot Barrina tube that's great too. I'm hardly an expert, I'll be the first to say I don't know what I'm doing - but I've a little over 5 years of experience growing inside. Scroll through that thread and let us know if you have any other questions.

Previous post about my Dioon Oaxacensis was last month. Couple pics of during the flush and complete. 20 frond flush on this guy so it’s happy it seems 🤙🏻 -dale

15 months sober is worth applause, ...but is just the start of a long journey ahead.. ...Is worth sending the sunshine that lights the path of moving upward -and- forward.. however. As someone once explained it to me many years ago, Quite vividly, " After 2 years of escaping it, you're still standing just outside the " gate " " ( The Gate = Their view of escaping the " habit " ) " ...Very easy to return to that false sense of comfort standing behind it, once again, might provide " " While distant, even after 20 years of freedom since your escape, the gate is still in view. If you've made it that far.. Don't let the worst of storms seen and those that will lurk somewhere, out on the horizon tempt you to return to the corral, as you continue to inch closer toward... ..or now graze within... more rewarding pastures " An intriguing view, but very sound advise.. While dropping the ( dumb ) booze crutch was pretty easy 15 years ago, for myself at least, the good thing about anyone deciding that the time has come to toss the can or bottle in the trash, for good, these days, is that you are far from alone on this hike.. That said, how motivated one is to keep hiking, is squarely on one's self.. Many can cheer on the participant in a marathon, but only the motivation within the legs on the track can complete it. I always articles i see discussing the steady, overall decline of alcohol consumption / Rise in popularity/demand of booze- free places to gather and socialize / Alcohol - free alternatives. these days simply because, ..the world is far more vivid and alive when the view of it is clearer, even in the rain. ⚡

Hey Gyuseppe, I’m really sorry to hear you went through such a tough time, but I’m so glad you got through it. That’s life, right? Just when we least expect it, something comes along to test us and make us wonder if we’ll make it. I’m cheering for your full recovery, new gardening adventures, and a trip to Portugal soon!

Noticed these white areas on the Brahea fronds that looked bleached, upon closer inspection the underside has all this junk on them, what in the world? Something is munching on the leaves, I found what looks like a small caterpillar in all the junk. There are several fronds showing this damage. but that’s not even the world part…….. The worst part is I also noticed the central fronds are all dead, I have them a tug a week or so ago and they held on tight, but today they pulled right out, so I have spear pull in August, with no apparent cause. Could the caterpillars have chewed up the growing point also? Can it be saved?

Ehhh. I wanted to say I don't post a lot of personal stuff on here, but I guess I kind of do, at least a little bit. But this one's kind of a big deal, and I didn't even realize it until I glanced at my phone in the middle of some family drama - but today marks 15 months since I've had a drink. I'm not putting that on here to seek praise or attention or anything, but I'm putting it out here to thank all of y'all for the donations, the advice, the knowledge, the pictures of your gardens, the pictures of your pets, and the personal conversations. I'm not saying it's everything, but it's helped. So thank you to all of y'all, and thank you to the mods and the IPS for building this community for all of us. Ok, that's enough sappy stuff. Let me see if I can go find another conversation to derail 😂

They're tough little plants. I guess there's a lot of first timers going on - a friend shipped me a bunch of philodendron cuttings and she didn't know you needed to get the moss wet. I'm getting ready to split up some whale fins, repot them, and send them to Miami. There's a company called Pirate Ship that does deep discounts for priority mail and UPS, and I might need to borrow my friend's account for this. But these are sansaveria and I could stick them in my pocket and walk them down there and they'd be fine. As far as splitting up, I think you'll be fine. I sprout my seeds in baggies and I'm constantly moving them and checking them and flipping the baggie so the moist side is down which means a big freaking tangled mess of sideways growing roots and they're fine. Pulling them out of the community pots next year is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuck though.

They really seem to love some quick vertical growth over thickness 😂

I'll never buy anything but an older Toyota again. I loved my Tacoma. A 10mm, 12mm, and a 14mm and you could tear the thing down to bare frame. It was worthless as a truck after all I did to it, and it was scary as hell to drive in the rain with the engine mods and no traction in the bed, but I put a killer stereo in it and it looked cool. I can tell you literally every modification I did to it, and every part I replaced. This thing absolutely ate wheel bearings and ball joints, and it sounded a lot faster than it actually was lol. I bought a Lexus GS300, my dream car, to drive around and kept the truck and I'm glad I did because it got totalled out. Then I bought a Venza during COVID and it was comfortable but it wasn't what I wanted - but at the time you had to buy what was available and the truck just wasn't safe to drive every day.

When you don't: ** Use any pesticides, except right around front / back door frames ..mainly to keep our giant cockroaches outside where they belong / Black Widow #'s in check / from entering the house. Crickets, and the occasional Gecko, are allowed to hang out whenever they find their way inside however. ** Constantly fret over how much some insects munch on leaves / flowers. Can't help but shake my head, laughing a bit, whenever someone gets worked up into an " it's the end of the world / sign of the Apocalypse " type of frenzy over the sight of some tattered leaves / flowers. ...Boo Hoo /s Our Heat/sun intensity damages far more things than any " bad " bugs ever do. Bugs gotta eat too. Plenty to go around. Leaves and flowers will grow back. In a healthy yard, the good bugs will keep the not so great bugs in check. Birds / Lizards keep everyone in check. ** 85% of your landscape consists of plants that benefit the animals that evolved with them. Is fun to sit back and observe which plants most animals utilize aand which are ...for the most part, totally avoided.. ( Easy answer: they use Natives, 99% of the time ) You end up with... Lots of critters, all year round and rarely any trouble w/ bugs.. Neighbor's outdoor Cat Circus is for more of a negative issue than any pesky insects.

You said it! The seedlings arrived today dead as a doornail. It took 56 hours to go the final 45 miles! It's probably more the seller's fault though - the roots were wrapped in sopping wet paper towel and put inside a ziplock bag. Now I need to figure out how to make my first eBay refund claim! 🙄

The old plumosa is in flower again, aka fakey. Sold originally as ambositrae in Australia when it was first introduced about 30 years ago. A super tough dypsis this one dry tolerant cool tolerant and grower tolerant! I do get viable seeds that are a very nice looking seedling. Easy to grow and germinate.

I've got a rehab seedling I'm trying to nurse back to health. It ain't pretty like these, but it's green... At least in the middle.

Red Latan already pushing another one. I think it's happy to not be in that decorative pot and I think it likes the new light setup. One of the Trachy hybrids from @N8ALLRIGHT Yes, I post a pic of this Philo Congo Rojo every week. You know why? Because I love it, and because it throws a new leaf every week. Philo moonlight is catching up. I love these things. Fishtail. It had a variegated leaf when I first got it from @Barry, but this damn thing is getting HUGE and rootbound. Palmetto is growing fast! I had 2 sprout, the other one es muerte. I really wish the rest of these things would sprout, like these guys 👇 An absolute 💩 load of Mexicanas. Both of the Sabal Maritimas donated by the @Sabal King are pushing new spears. Pardon my mess, I'm organically killing off the grass, but we all know what it means when we see a frond dying off like this.... It means it's pushing out an absolute monster new one. I really can't wait until Spring when it's safe to throw this thing in the ground. Butia x Lyto from Patrick. 9 degrees, in a pot, unprotected. I'm so glad I didn't sell this one or leave it behind, it's special. Absolute effing unit right here man, I wish I had 10 more of these. This thing is gonna be a gd monster.

Moving along nicely, still in a one gallon pot. How's yours doing @Palmensammler ?

Garden looks great. You didn't waste a lot of time.... Anyway yeah, a quick Google says these moths go all the way to Illinois and Massachusetts, and I'm hardly a moth expert - but if you asked me to describe a moth, it'd look just like these. And most of the articles I read talked about what great pollinators they are, unless you're growing Canna in your yard. I can't really think of anything that needs extra pollination here honestly, and while I've got nothing but time I can see that as getting old fast. I still think the idea of seeing a 7 foot flower (obviously talking at least next year if not the year after) towering over a 10 inch palm would be funny, but nobody is gonna see it except me and the dog unless I start making videos again. Lol I think I averaged like 7 views last time. I dunno. Thanks for the heads up though, keep cranking out the videos, and go have some Taqueria El Rey for me. The 3 Amigos with 2 Cuban and one fish with a cantaloupe juice always brought my mood up.

This is earlier this year when the new fronds were developing and the red started becoming more pronounced. Harry It is a double and both have the red petiole. Harry

I have a small Dypsis that was labeled Basilonga. It has been in the ground over a year and growing steadily but slow . I suspect it may be a Saintlucia due to the dark red or maroon petiole with oversized green leaflets . Last time I posted it someone informed me of the possibility. Either way I am happy . Beautiful , Richard , it will be years before I see anything like that! Harry ‘This was right after I planted it last year. You can see on the right plant , the red just starting to show . Now , the new fronds , both have a deep red color.

Rhopies also move pretty easily when they're small, ie pre trunking. I've probably dug up twenty, preparing for the move to the new garden. Trunking sized I'm sure could be a different kettle of fish. One day I'll post a list of all the palms I've dug up and moved, so it can be entered in the permanent record books of absolute gardening stupidity!

Your climate is ideal for them. My summer temperatures are a bit higher than yours but nights are similar and my full sun decipiens is vigorous. I have a full shade one too.

Hurricane damage has it in a crown recovery stage. It may take another grow season to replace all the leaves lost.

I have one other Fayetteville but with a face made for radio. It's decided to head south and grows obliquely in that direction.

I got one more Fay-Wash that I grew from Jesse's seeds, if anyone wants it.

That's awesome and looks very healthy. I acquired a T. princeps which is now two years old. It's starting to show some early signs of coloring. Yours give me optimism.