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Here are some of mine. They all look remarkably decent for coming out of winter, though the winter was pretty warm. If I get the order here correct, the first one is the standard form, seed collected from Hawaii, probably seven years ago. The second one is var rubrum, which is really beginning to look pretty darn nice. It’s about head high. The last one is a small conjugatum/furfuraceum which is slower than slow, but pretty darn tough too. Never cold spots. Definitely seems to be the most attractive of an already attractive genus when it gets bigger. Beautiful palms, especially in the tropics.

This is a good point...its pretty hard for anyone to help you with climate specific advice if you insist on using enigmatic location details. Until further evidence is provided, my guess is your tropical lair is in England, lol.

I wouldn’t add fertilizer but I would keep it well watered. It has been very warm (hot!) in our area too. My wife has been watering every day with a good soaking while I work . Occasionally a King palm can sulk a bit when first planted and the recent high temps certainly aren’t helping . It looks like above average temps are going to continue for a while so keep it well watered and maybe a market umbrella for shade until it shows signs of rebound. I have done that in the past and it helped. Harry

Here’s a photo of B. condapanna seedlings almost ready to be planted out. Tim

31 deg here yesterday morning. 38 this morning. So glad this is over now (as far as I can see)…

It’s strange how the market works itself out, in demand one day every one wants them, then a few years later nobody wants them anymore. Foxtail palms when they first hit the black market in Australia many years ago. It was ask pretty well as much as you wanted for the. Now I see thousands of seeds all over the place, not worth 10 cents or even worth picking up!

This may sound a bit awkward but you have to change what you’re doing, as you say you can grow other varieties not a problem, this is because you are using the same technique. Look at what your doing, and do it differently too what you normally do. This could mean less water or fertiliser, more air or light, perhaps more shade, even your soil mix . Whatever your doing change it, look at your climatic conditions low humidity high humidity, cool conditions. Also a change is as good as a holiday. Bit without change you’re not going to make difference, only get the same results failure. Think like a plant!

Vanda Saidah Nafisah (Kultana Fragrance x luzonica) Dendrobium aphyllum

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I have been observing this palm for 30 years in my home town. Each time I look at it it’s got more seeds than the last time. I germinated some 30 years back. And they are growing well in my garden. Such a pity nobody’s interested in them.

I believe @DTS did this a year or two ago.

It's not a palm, it looks like some type of cold hardy yucca or something similar.

Your climate, wherever you are, sounds similar to mine here in Hilo, although not sure of your rainfall. B. condapanna are vigorous growers here, practically exploding out of the pots after the seedling stage. Your’s appear to be stretched, so obviously not getting enough light. B. condapanna here go into full sun at an early age and I just use a mix of half garden soil and half commercial mix and let them go. We usually get enough rainfall that supplemental watering isn’t necessary. Once germinated, they grow outside under shade cloth before going into full sun. One caveat, Hilo full sun is a bit different because of our cloud cover, high humidity and high rainfall. I’ll have to dig up a few photos and post. Good luck. Tim

40F this morning. I was concerned it would drop lower than the forecasted 39F/40F considering it was already 42F by 10 PM, but the temperature hit 40F and maintained thru sunrise. Highs in the 80s expected this weekend into next week. We will have highs in the 90s and heat index values well over 100F before we know it. Gonna try to use these low 80s days to get as much labor intensive projects done that I can before heat settles in within the next couple of months. Happy planting if you haven't already!

... and considering it's a multi-trunked small-scale palm, hardly worth the effort IMO.

It is the same around here. Many palms of different variety drop seeds and they get ignored , for the most part. The percentage of folks that want to germinate palm seeds is very low , unless the palm is very rare . Even then , the seeds can fall and go untouched. I have been throwing some of my seeds in the bin or letting the squirrels have them . I had a huge amount of Sabal and Brahea seeds at one time but my gardener cut them off before the fruit ripened . Harry

I have never heard of anyone doing it, and I would never do it you would probably hurt yourself and hurt the palm.

At it again planting more plants.Calpytrocalyx spicatusptychosperma wotoboho rothmania longifoliapandanus sp

A good mix I use is coco coir 60 percent 25 percent good quality potting mix and 15 percent perlite, also a volcanic crushed rock powder a few handfuls to a wheelbarrow load. You can tweak the recipe to your preference, it’s a warm mix for tropical plants in the cool climates. Good luck.

My money's on, no.

The flowers appear at a distance from this Peruvian orchid's foliage.

A quick and mostly positive update. Hope those who have had their spirits dashed will find some ideas from the short post below for potential paths forward that doesn't involve only planting a dozen species of plants. The pineapples didn't seem to notice we had a freeze since they were near a concrete block wall. They're getting ready to produce fruit this year. : If you're looking for safer options, but don't want to crimp your planting selections too much, branching and clustering palms like Hyphaene coriacea, Ptychosperma macarthurii, and Allagoptera arenaria are good options that give you more than one shot at coming back. There should be Hyphaene seeds available at the 2026 CFPACS Spring Meeting this weekend: Chrysalidocarpus lutescens comes back even when young. This one is coming back and is not long from seed. Coconuts are on the comeback trail, but aren't out of the woods yet as @pj_orlando_z9b mentioned. Even in the better microclimates in our respective cities, they took a major hit. The stores are running out of Copper fungicide here, so probably good to go get a few bottles of it before gas catches up to it in price. You can see some white fungal growth on the dead tissue. Now that the (hopefully) last cool-off is in the rearview mirror, it's probably best for me to just to remove anything damaged so it doesn't provide a breeding ground for fungus and attract white flies and other bugs. There is another frond behind the one partially visible in the photo that has green on it as well. The Maypan is in similar condition.

I planted this Hospita a couple of years back from a 7g. Soil was loose, and I inadvertently busted off a couple of big carrot-like main roots. Planted in full all-day sun, gave it plenty of water and fertilizer…. no ill effects. It’s now 8 feet tall and has done great. You have to be careful, but I’m not sure Copernicia are really as root sensitive as people say.

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I lost my bet, dang. Just for s..ts n giggles, I'd like to see it. 😂

Could you maybe find the post or ask? That would be. Very interesting to see

It would definitely have to be hardy after this year anyway, thank you

Packing some orchids for the orchid show in Connecticut this weekend: the Nutmeg State Orchid Society. They usually have a very colorful show being in March. Some phals and this 40 year old baggy baby cattleya that must have mossiae in its background. I have at least 5 divisions of this noid and here are 2 in bloom:

Not a Palm but a Yucca.. Possibly Y. filimintosa, which is common up there..

People in Southern California are successfully growing these where night temps can be cold, as in low 40sF. Listing your location as Tropical Lair is clever but not especially helpful when seeking advice. Take your Bentinckia palms out of those smothering "growth house" conditions to an outdoor location where they can get some fresh air and sunlight. Unless you are in snowy conditions, of course. ❓

It might. It also works on rattlesnakes. They turn around and leave before entering the greenhouse or the garage.

Sent an email! Perfect time to plant.

Yes 100%

Good looking hospita! The leaves look huge, like bailey size. Trunk also looks thicker than I thought, based on some mature 25 footers I saw in a miami garden years ago that had 6-7" clean trunks. On the transplant root sensitivity, going from a pot into the ground is not a transplant, far less trauma. I have severed a root or two removing from a pot, no issues. Transplant means many root tips are cut, With palms some roots die back to the trunk when cut and send out another root, some continue to grow the damaged root. I am not sure which behavior is consistent with cuban copernicias. Transplanting a copernicia, digging from the ground and replanting is the tricky one.

The look tells me heat for sure, aim for 55 to 65 at night (65 to 79 is ok too) and 75 to 85 days (can be hotter if nights are cooler) and they will be happier. High humidity of course. I did some digging into some weather stations in their native range, and it's quite a bit cooler than one would think at the latitude sometimes. A grower in Sri Lanka stated ver confidently that they must be at elevation there and the other species at low elevation. Maybe try Bentinkia nicobarica if you can and see how it does in that warmth. It will not tolerate chill at all compared to condapana.

I wrap this one below 25°F and provide heat if in the teens. They are very fast growing in ground.

The Post Office in Bokeelia has a nice one:

Despite what some folks believe, W. filifera can do very well in humid areas. These in the Harlingen, Texas Lowe's parking lot aren't getting a ton of rain but it's usually extremely humid. There are several in the area although the majority are the robusta variant.

My thoughts were that the tap root is supposed to go deep, so a pot is always limited. True. The only reason for growing seedlings in pots is convenience. No plant prefers a pot over the ground, unless the soil is no good. A seed that germinates in the ground will most likely do better than one that was transplanted into the same spot.

Hope that none of the others succumb to whatever it is. My own thoughts are Lethal Bronzing. We've lost thousands of Phoenix species. The typical choice for replacement is Livistona decora locally. Out of all of the Phoenix species, the Phoenix reclinata hybrids in the area seem to have the least issues, followed closely by Phoenix roebelenii. All of my Phoenix have started to flower at the same time, so who knows what kinds of mutts will be produced.

Another flower forming on the dypsis saintlucei!

The palm is planted in the ground. I work as a gardener in a huge mediterranean indoor garden, and this is one of the palm trees. This specimen has never bloomed before, so I was very excited to see these huge flower stalks. I have not found any information of how and when the flowers will appear in these almost alien-like long stalks. I am just wondering about the brown colour. Is it normal?

Judging by the photos, it looks like this is growing indoors in an atrium. Very healthy specimen all the same.

Update: some mature gametophytes.

I’m growing a few of these out here, in central San Diego. They are D. Album var. Conjugatum. I believe they came as small liners from John Light, in Florida, maybe around 2017. Planted them about two years ago, and they’ll get more sun this coming year, with some changes to the yard. Southwest/Western exposure, mostly. They’ve been slower, but steady growers. There is a patio overhang without a gutter, so there’s have gotten a decent amount of roof runoff. Still working out the placement of the rocks.

No blooms at the moment, but still cool... I've been looking for a specimen of this for about a year. All I could find were very small plants for a very large price. I was at a Master Gardener's sale in Ocala yesterday and found this one, about 15" long, really full. Great price. This is one of the 'ghost' orchids...Microcoelia cornuta

Overall, those two palms look healthy. I think maybe there is some yellow on the fronds, especially on the closer palm. So, I think maybe those palms would benefit from some fertilizer. PalmTalkers wiser than me may suggest specific fertilizer. I looked up monthly rainfall in Whangerei, and I think Butia doubtfully ever will need watering in your climate. And, Welcome to PalmTalk!

are butia odorata

Now that was a superb explanation Jon. I had no idea; I just figured that spores acted the same as seeds. Life is incredible..