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Thought I’d ‘bump’ this topic and add a few recent progression photos. This Lemur has really grown in the last few years and is such a magnificent palm. In one of the overall shots there is a shovel with an orange handle for scale. Tim

She is a bit light lime green yellow looking. Most likely at first look nitrogen, but a complete NPK with trace elements should give her a bit more green, could even be in a hot spot but being a syagrus I doubt that. Some good old blood and bone with a good feed of chicken poo should do the trick if you want to go organic!

That’s the idea of it, you’re only going to upset the apple cart, just to keep the peace and whole idea of community living, I suggest we stick with the idea of a utopian society where palms are everywhere and the temperature never drops below 18 degrees Celsius. In other words peace love and happiness and we can all get groovy! Richard

Curiosity got the best of me. Let's see if either sets seeds. I'll try to go up on my roof a few times each week to continue crossing pollinating while nicolai is in bloom

I’m thinking you should plant Calamus radicalis along your front entrance. If he tries to go near it you will find him in the morning tangled up in it. A palm that fights back.

Syagrus is not very tolerant of salty soil, magnesium antagonizes potassium and in our soils and rain pattern and water quality potassium deficiency is much more likely. We ain't living in Florida with coral substrate and frequent rain during summer. Have you looked in the web for magnesium deficiency symptoms in Arecastrum? It is a very widespread and common sp in cultivation, therefore it is very probable, that you find very specialized information.

Hoi Konstantinos, I always value your expert perspective, and I know that your long-standing friendship with Gyuseppe is built on exactly this kind of deep botanical passion. 😊 To give you some technical data: The plant survived short periods of -4°C to -5°C on the balcony this winter. Crucially, there were no ice days (Tmax stayed above 0°C), allowing the plant to recover daily. This confirms that the 'Balkon-Fortress' at 443m provides enough protection to prevent the core from freezing. You are right to be cautious—the Swiss Pre-Alps at 443m are a different world compared to the Mediterranean soil. However, my 'Balkon-Fortress' creates a very specific micro-climate. My Intertronic station recorded 18.1°C yesterday on the wall, while the air was much cooler. The best proof is the plant itself: a fresh green spear is now emerging from the center! It seems the 'Arbon-Sog' is more powerful than expected. I’m happy to keep you, Gyuseppe and all updated on this vertical experiment! Best regards, Mazat PS: Ich schätze Dich sehr und freue mich jedes Mal auf deine Inputs.

It seems I might have to get up to the Gibraltar range and get a few seeds, only a short drive away from home!

Ante, those had been given to me as seedlings by Dražen Travica. Very robust plants, but slow growers because of the lack of adequate water and the competition with older and more established palms and bananas. Alone the fact that they survive and grow bigger at any rate is a plus. The seem also quite easy regarding soil consistency. 9

Each new leaf on the dypsis basilonga just gets better and better, followed by y a nice young Dypsis utilis leaf and don’t forget the vonitra Dransfeildii for putting on a nice new leaf for a bit of colour!

Spring is entering gradually and new growth starts appearing on Bismarckia and Nannorrhops. Which one is more blue in your opinion?

A nice young standelyi leaf!

Raised beds work, plus you can garden on top of a rock shelf with a raised bed. The garden in the pictures is sitting on top of a rock shelf with raised edges to hold the soil in place. Only disadvantage is it gets dry, I don’t think I will be planting any joeys in this garden!

Keith Zimmerman may have sent me seeds, back around 2017. I believe I got 6/15 Lisa’s. Not positive on the IDs. Surprised they’re still strap leaves. Here’s where what I have left. They’re in 15 gallons. Palmettos: “Lisas”:

I admire your determination, keep up the faith and happy gardening. Even to obtain such palms must difficult for you, let alone have winter thrash them around. But it’s a joy when they live rekindling your gardening hopes!

I got a new Syagrus today. I made a raised bed, filled with acidic sandy soil and local alkaline soil + some acidic compost and sulfur pellets. Looking at the tree I realized how chlorotic my other Syagrus are, those I've had in the soil for a year. Despite the acidic soil I have added, the humic and fulvic acids etc... probably it lacks Nitrogen? So, this time I'm trying a raised bed. Let's see. I am attaching photos of the two trees.

Up for grabs are 24 onilihanses seeds. Free to a good home. The first enquirer who wants them will get them. One lot of 24 seeds only.

I live on a hundred acre community with ten neighbours. We all chip in and do a bit of maintenance around the property. So I thought I might plant a few plants at the front gate near the letterbox. And for the life of me i cannot understand why one neighbour who shall remain nameless, continues to maul and devastate the plants with a pair of scissors, thank goodness he doesn’t own a chainsaw. It’s just blatant vandalism in my opinion. What possesses a person to cut perfectly good leaves of healthy plants!

A similar color fade occurring on this Cymbidium. The freshly opened flowers on the newest inflorescence are significantly darker than on the older more mature flower stalk.

Than, it is mostly our own fault, not the plant's. Usually genetically weak plants die already as seedlings. So doing 'anything' equals to nothing really necessary for the plant's well being. That is plant philosophy lol

Oncidium Tsiku Marguerite HOF

Hmmm... it just rained so I guess the Mg has already leached into the soil. Not much I can do now but I won't add salts again. Thank God I only gave 50gr and not 100gr as recommended. Tomorrow I will apply Fe-EDDHA and repeat in 20 days.

It makes sense now. With -4 in my garden i woud be left with only few palms alive, among them certainly not Chrysalidocarpus.

Epsom was a mistake. How did you come to this solution, recommended by someone?

One plant that I definitely thought and read that would not take the cool weather was the piper magnificum. Taking temperatures down to 2 degrees Celsius and sitting in the back part of the greenhouse without much warmth in winter. It came through last winter like it was a spring break. So much so I had to buy another plant, iam quite confident it would live in the ground given enough water in summer in my climate. So don’t believe all you read this plant is cool tolerant! Another zone push winner!

Hoi Mazat, what was the min temperature this palm has been exposed to? Mine in the ground was exposed in the aerial part to 1C but looks much better than yours.

A nice fat Ferox cone, and an unknown cycas with a nice flush!

Iron and potassium deficiency cause for some reason they are there but not available to the plant. Second picture displays a palm in trouble. If you let it so it will sooner or later get infected by root fungi, which are always there but not harmful to a robustly growing palm. Start with a good dose of sequestrene eddha and, were I you, also a dose of root fungicide tolclofos-methyl. But latter is up to you. Former is indispensable. The fact that you have experienced a rainy winter supports the theory of iron deficiency.

Or is that a non sequitur?

Thank you very much Richard 🤗

Here's an older pic of mine that I tried to skin 😂 It just ended up looking like a trachy at the end. I might just keep doing it just to see what it looks like.

There’s a few small Zamia species getting around, furfaracea can get a bit big, actually Stangeria eriopsis would fit well in there. If not some gazzanias or gerbera flowers if it’s a hot sunny spot, plus the wife will love you for it. If watering is a situation then a plant called pig face a great ground cover with fantastic flowers. Richard

I would imagine it would look like a clean trachy. Also on a related note has anyone skinned a saw palmetto? There are tons of tall ones out there surely someone has thought of it.

Depending on what era you live. Although Medusa had the right idea, so did Hercules!

A secataur? Isn't that one of those things with the horse body and a man's torso? I bet they'd make terrible neighbors.

Perhaps a nice small Zamia Fischeri row would look better, giving that fern like look and very easy to maintain. And you do realise that wife is always correct I assume, no foxtail means no foxtail! Richard

Thanks. Good to know. The common denominator is dropping off by themselves.

You said it community, not only that he goes and lights a bushfire and goes to the pub for a drink, meanwhile we are fighting his fire so it doesn’t burn down our houses, while he gets drunk, give him community service more like it!

Cmon gyuseppe it’s a palm mafia thing, you swimming with fishes, and if you don’t share your palm seeds they cut your finger off in Tasmania @Jonathan and that’s getting a good treatment on a good day, Ive heard of stories of what they do in Tasmania, they are very uncivilised in Tasmania must be the cold weather that does it.

Okay so cut the fronds that are completely brown? Cut back at the trunk? Some of the fronds are brown at the ends but have green middle stalk parts, not sure the right word, but like this: Leave ones that look like this alone? I'll start with cutting the ones that are fully brown and laying at the bottom.

I have a fertilizer injection system that I've been using for a couple of years. If memory serves the, I've been using Peters brand water soluble fert with 10-4-12 ratio, somewhere thereabouts. I don't use standard granular fert much, as it really needs at least some overhead watering, which I don't really have.

Go snip a bit of his hair off Richard, he might get the idea. Or maybe a finger...make it harder to use the secateurs!

Microcarpa stay green and are ripe when they naturally drop off the tree Cocoides turn a purple plum colour and are ripe when they drop

Reinhardtia latisecta. Tim

Excellent question! And, alas, no answer. The only reference I found to any kind of strelitzia hybrid was on the Wikipedia link regarding a hibe' between S. regina and S. augusta. dave

You're right Giuseppe...its probably a bit extreme. I'll stick to growing palms and leave the law enforcement to others!

Jonathan, I'm amazed at you! Cutting hair, yes, but cutting off a finger, no.