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The leaves can be big and heavy. Here’s one of my baueri.

Lol I waste precious time keeping mine still in a pot!

That's going to be a difficult grow in that area. There are several reasons Adonidia merrillii are called Christmas Palms. One is because they tend to set red fruit around Christmas, the second is because, prior to the last 20 years here, they were usually dead by Christmas.

An absolute amazing couple of flowers, Mother Nature never stops putting on a show. And this year on the disticha both the flowers have come out together. The male and female have certainly done there thing. This event has taken five flowering seasons for both to appear together. This could be the year I get seeds!

The 11 year old Trachy really exploded this season. It’s also beginning to bend south toward the sun. I didn’t do any before or after measurements but it seems to have grown 1’ or maybe a bit more. The top 1/3 of the canopy is all new. The winter help it gets are some lights wrapped around the crown and only turned on in teens or single digits. I also wrap the base of the trunk in black landscaping cloth to draw in the sun’s radiated heat on sunny days. The Medi grew extremely well, too. Going to have to get creative with the protection this winter. It seems t be outgrowing what I’ve used so far. The McCurtain is really quite a no protection wonder. Literally zero winter damage with zero cover for 8 or 10 winters. It’s got a blue tint to it I really like. The Needles just keep on growing with zero protection. The small Trachy that will be treated like the big one. And the Brazoria…not the greatest for my region as the leaves damage starting in the teens but it pushes new ones out pretty fast and they’re huge! Oh yeah…that “accidental Butia” that turned into a seeded Brazoria (see lower left bottom corner of the small Trachy pic) I’ll just cover with leaves when temperatures hit the 20’s F. Hope everyone’s summer produced a lot of growth.

Some more palms to pot up, chamaedorea quezalteca, a few dypsis prestonia and some Crysophilla warscewizianus followed by a nice tray of Johannesteijsmannia altifrons. Should give something to water this summer.

Planted 1 gallon size in 2021. Doing well in partial shade.

@Jim in Los Altos I do the same with Archontophoenix Alexandra’s and Roystonea . Much more predictable fall zone. Harry

I usually saw off a frond when it’s yellowing on all of my Rhopalostylis. The boot hangs on a little longer that way giving it some time to dry out a bit and lessening its weight some. Dave, you’re right, they’re HEAVY otherwise.

Sometimes if you really want to experiment with rare palms you just have to spend the money. My experiment was a failure but the information I gleaned may help others succeed.

Very colorful palms , both seem to have the nice , healthy look . It’s a good thing we are a world apart , I don’t think Australia or America could handle it if we teamed up! The mad palm growers working in @happypalms secret greenhouses. If other PT’rs joined in it would be a green revolution! UNSTOPABLE! Harry

Not a problem theres around 80 in the greenhouse up the back on the right, best to get them early morning or late afternoon, it’s getting hot now so early morning is best to work in. Good luck on your rps order.

Westside of Jax....no chance!

A few tepijilote in a group never hurt anyone. Going for seed production with the ornamental affect as bonus. An easy one to grow, just add water and a bit of shade!

Couple interesting palms in this lot, the triphylla a complete small understory palm, to the hypohorbe being just as beautiful standing on its own in just pure beauty. Some wonderful palms to have in any garden.

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Bismarckia is a palm that grows deep, expansive roots. We have these planted all along the I75 where it meets the I275 near my place. They seem to sit for a couple years before kicking in. Some are in poor drainage soil and they take longer. Our rains this year appeared to kick in the growth in some of those that have been in 3 years or so. Transplanting a large palm with plenty of trunk seems to always take extra time as they cut back the leaves and roots. Sabal palmettos with 8- 12' of trunk were put in the landscape plans in quite a few of houses near me. They sat for a few years before filling out to a full crown. The expectation that you can buy a large palm and have it look like an established large palm in 2 years is unrealistic for bismarckia, sabals, even royals dont replace a crown so fast without a reestablished root system. A palms ability to feed is largely determined by the size of the root system and the fertilized area. With a transplant you have a small root system that will take years to grow to size.

Seeds are funny , I just tried sending seeds out to UK and when I filled out the customs form the post office said I need a permit . Then , the package to Thailand went through no problem. International shipping is so variable from country to country. I think I will stick to U. S. ! Harry

It came to my notice today and I tried to capture in picture this event, but I fear the attempt was unsuccessful. Anyway I tasted this dew and was indeed sweet.

That’s what the bees are after! Most of my mature palms( Syagrus , Butia) , when they flower , are covered with honey bees. Even the very tall Syagrus , you can hear them busy collecting the nectar. 🐝Harry🐝

My dypsis utilis, young and old both got a comparison look. Or vonitra.

One of my Coconut palms caught my eye today

After a long wait… finally have a couple of seeds that are germinating. Hopefully more to come. Woohoo.

Near the ocean it's a roll of the dice. West side? RIP 😞

There’s a few reason why palms might look healthy but not put out much visible growth. Even for fast growing species, after transplant often the first year or so will be spent mainly putting down roots so above ground growth is slow.

And by the way... this palm above is NOT Brazoria. I have two of this mystery palm in my yard and they were being sold as Sabal 'minor' possibly var 'Louisiana' back in the day out of Florida... huge specimens in big 30-55 gallon white bags. I first saw them at raintree nursery in Silverton Oregon, bought two, and then ended up returning them because we ended up moving to Louisiana before I could plant them. Knowing Sabal minor notoriously does not transplant at large sizes, I wonder how many of these big bagged specimens actually lived. Then on our move to Louisiana, we stopped at a little hobbiest-level nursery in Tyler, Texas and purchased a 3-gallon version of this same palm. He also noted the source of these 'Louisiana' variant was a grower out of Florida who sold many in large white bags. In my opinion is way too costapalmate for typical Sabal 'Louisana'. Also, no matter how heavy the snow/wind load these fronds never will break downward at the hastula the way "Louisiana' and 'Brazoria' will. These are extremely heavily built palms-- way stiffer and stouter than my mexicanas, which are a massive palm in their own right. The leaves are more cold hardy than mexicana and palmetto but not as much so as Sabal minor or true "Brazoria'. Seed stalks are straight up and held above the foliage like Sabal minor variants would do but seeds are a bit larger than normal minor but nowhere near the size of Sabal mexicana. I tend to think this is either some sort of Triploid Sabal minor variant or a hybrid between sabal minor and a large Caribbean sabal. Here is a photo of the larger of my two:

Here’s another macrocarpa red flush. It’s extra colorful since the weather has been overcast the past week in California. I’m hoping that this hookeri will be a reverse watermellon because it’s always had a ton of green in the crownshaft and some pretty distinct striations/markings 🤞

Rhopalostylus Sapida taking off vertically. I also noticed a flower spathe emerging. Growing in Dana Point, CA.

Here is my Brazoria— been in-ground about 18 years from a 3 gallon.

There is a California based burger joint that is setting up shop in Tennessee. They already have the palm trees.

A new company has recently planted 4 huge Christmas palms in the west side of jax. they look really healthy with a full crown of leaves and thick trunk. The Google Maps photo (took the photo of the actual palms themselves), the Google Maps photo suggests they were planted after April. Will they, or at least one survive?

It’s only took 6 years (from emigrating) for me to plant a palm in the ground!!! Had to resist the urge to put two or three in this spot, but eventually common sense prevailed and I went for a solitary Cyphophoenix elegans. Due to poor sub-grade, entire bed was excavated 0.5 m deep and replaced with good quality soil mix, topped off with a decent helping of tea tree mulch. I’ll continue to update this thread as each new species goes in.

Well , at least we don’t have coconuts to worry about! Harry

Here are some S. xbrazoriensis at Montgomery Botanical Center (forgive the picture quality, it was raining pretty heavily)

papaya are like the easiest seeds ever to sprout. There’s no best method tbh I always just toss them in dirt and keep them wet, they sprout very quickly doing that when it’s hot. They sprout from the compost all the time.

Time spent growing palms is great , whether in the ground or pot! Very nice job, it is a bit more challenging in a pot. Harry

It looks like Pteris tripartita.

Whoa damn

I was told with transplanted palms - first year sleep, second year creep and third year leap.

I won’t tell peachy if one clumps! But a great palm bamboo like stem and a nice lime green colour leaves. And easy to grow. Richard

Agreed. Probably most energy goes to root development prior to expanding the canopy.

No. This was a total waste of time and money. And palms.

Agree, they'll not survive below 28°F without protection. I had a couple of smaller Adonidia survive 27°F wrapped up in Christmas lights plus they had some overhead canopy while these do not.

Not likely long term palms for Jacksonville.

Steve, it was great to hear from you, you once sent me Chamaedorea microspadix seeds, now I have so many in the garden and I produce a lot of seeds here

A lovely looking palm in a class all of its own. Not particularly a fan of hybrids, this one git into the collection many years ago and was created by Wanttana Summowong. The flowers will be removed if and when it flowers, just to prevent any. Ross contamination, not that there are any others flowering.

Ok I will leave this one up to the jury as to whether it is variegated or not variegated. But I do germinate a lot of seedlings and the odds are leaning towards………

Not a palm this time, but my Musa Velutina is putting on a show.

I'm sharing some photos from my friend Gastón, from Argentina, when he visited Chile last year. He was able to take a photo with the Juania Australis palm tree in Viña del Mar.