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Hi all, Back in late 2017, myself and some fellow palmtalkers took a trip to the big island of Hawaii. We had a number of people there on the island that graciously showed us their gardens, which also included a trip to Floribunda. I remember one of the regulars that we met at Floribunda mentioning something to the effect, “man, you really got Jeff on his A game today“, which I thought was funny. Anyway, the following day we went over and saw the garden of Bill Austin. He was just a wonderful, funny guy. I remember standing by some beautiful clumping Chrysalidiocarpus, and Bill reached down on the ground, grabbed a fistful of seeds and said “here take these with you“. So I dutifully brought them home, germinated a bunch of them, and they turned out to be largely solitary, with a red growing point. At this point, I thought my memory must be faulty, and I poured through all my pictures and could find nothing that even remotely resembled them. I gave most of them away and kept one for myself. It’s been a slow, steady grower, that split a couple years ago, and is still only shoulder high. Lo and behold, I’m looking in the “for sale“ forum a couple days ago and I see some palms being sold as psamophilla x leptichielos, (being called a Sandy Bear palm) that are identical to the ones that I sprouted. Anyway, here it is in all its relatively diminutive glory…Thanks for looking!

A few more red fronds , anyone? Finally some blue sky to show off the colors. IMG_5250.mov …and a backlit Chrysalidocarpus ‘Dark Mealybug.’

You say it's a busy sidewalk. If it impedes walkers, maybe they have a point. As far as I know, a sidewalk is normally owned by a city, and is intended for public use. I remember my days as a young mother pushing a stroller trying to make it safely around obstacles. I never would have contemplated cutting anyone's bushes, but it seemed inconsiderate of some homeowners not to maintain a reasonably clear walkway. You might consider your liability if anyone were hurt by a spiny robelenii. I removed two that were leaning way over the sidewalk at my house. I see my thoughts are in the minority here.

All of the new plantings and some well established palms are tucked in well after a long hot summer. Another couple of years with this lot and there will be quite a few new palms well established in the garden!

Obstruction of the sidewalk is not necessary for mindless vandalism. During my tenure as chair of the Lakeside Palmetum I witnessed adolescent "persons" twisting off fronds with their bare hands, a Juania broken off at ground level, and initials carved into the waxy, white coating on Ceroxylon trunks.

A couple of nice chamaedoreas chose to stand out for a moment in the garden.

Would be really interested if 2 particular Madagascar mysteries could be studied; Ravenea glauca - Isalo vs Andringitra. Are they different forms of the same species or each unique species. Chrysalidocarpus onilahensis - drooping/weeping vs upright/stiff (and vs sp bef/slick willy). PoM seems to lump all together but appearance and seed are very different. In the case of C sp bef, growth habit very different too.

Yeah, Than. I’d do that for your plant and change the potting mix—meaning I’d adjust the mixture to get it just right. I think your plant will appreciate it. And yeah, it always takes some effort, but you’re good at it, and besides, your partner can help out. If I were closer, I’d be happy to do it for you 🤗

Well, that’s kind of a great revelation. I had been to Bill’s garden many times and never knew this hybrid existed. Like so many gardens, the amount of material is so extensive that no matter how many visits, one always sees something new Tim

The Archontophoenix purpurea and C. onilahensis will also rot in my opinion, in your wet spot.

Back at again buying a few for the garden. heterospathe scitula linospadix minor gardenea tubiferaantrophyum callifoliumAll potted before winter gets here, any new tropicals to the collection won’t get potted up from now on, going into winter it’s not good for them!

No hard feelings just reciprocity lol

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWU8yM-Dbgh/?igsh=aTl1a3J2eW93NGg5 Don't get all snooty and act like this is the first post about peeing on this forum. This place used to be fun. Anyway also got myself another Ensete Marrelli and it's already showing the same problems the last one did. This time I took the fabric off the root plug so that ain't it. And I've got 2 sprouts so far of the Musa Acuminata Papua Yellow seeds from @Bigfish - I didn't notice them at first, then saw them and got excited, now they barely move. And it's almost time for me to take another Dwarf Cavendish pup off....... And I've got a lot of holes to dig.

Those will all rot I think.

@Skenny Get the light saber out.

Skenny, yes, cut off all the completely brown parts right away. It needs air for oxygen and the sun’s warmth and light. Be sure to leave the other green and yellow fronds; their energy flows back to the heart. As Merlyn, PalmasNorte, and Harry already mentioned. Yes, fertilizing is good—just as Merlyn explained. I’m not familiar with that brand of fertilizer, but he is and has had good results with it. Keep your chin up—plants thought to be dead often survive; she’ll come back! Good luck! Warm regards from the far north on Lake Constance, Switzerland Mazat

Perhaps you could eat the gopher! He ate your bizzie it seems only fair! Richard

Still going strong, thanks to our mild winter. I'm curious to see how it does above the roof!

A flash of red getting around the place!areca vestria dypsis lantzeana dypsis louvelli

Post some of the palms on signs and billboards. Driving around Harlingen I see several daily. Here's a few.

Not Carpoxylon. I’d stop short of saying this is a 100% positive ID since the lighting makes it a bit difficult, but looks like Satakentia liukiuensis to me.

I see both sides of this . I don’t have a sidewalk on our little hillside cul de sac but my garden overhangs a few inches into the street . I try to be respectful and trim whatever encroaches too far . I communicate with both neighbors who happen to love palms . “ If something is too much , let me know and I will trim” …..they let me know and I take care of it immediately. I would be happy if the world was covered in palms but others don’t share my enthusiasm. 🙄 Harry

never thought about using a straw, that’s actually really smart for getting it into the holes that are hard to directly pour into.

As others have said/asked, consider if it blocks the sidewalk and if so how badly. Based on that you can decide whether or not you have a right to be mad. If it doesn’t then i really don’t know why anyone would do that. You live in miami (right?), a lushly landscaped city, so i don’t see why anyone would just decide to mess with random palms at your place specifically.

Yea , I would think something would eat them . We have snakes , hawks , coyotes , and cats but they still exist. I am vegan so no gopher stew for me ! Harry

Everything looks very nice . I am sure the forest helps keep them insulated from extreme heat or cold . Enjoy all that hard work of planting and maintaining them . This is the reward! Harry

Only a young tree, yet showing some real promise of being a nice exotic Australian native!

I tried the sun thing in the bush, very harsh conditions, and you can see what happens to them 🤣

I guess he doesn’t have 1500 of them to throw around like I do!

@Skenny I can hardly see any green stuff, so keep in mind that the green needs to see the sun to generate new energy. Cutting dead ends off the fronds might help, if the brown stuff really is blocking the sun. For fertilizer I might use about 2-3 handfuls of the Sunniland 6-1-8 per clump. That's a highly scientific measure, obviously. I've used Sunniland 6-1-8 for years, and recently switched to their Pro 8-0-10 Tree/Shrub. It's actually slightly cheaper per pound of Nitrogen and Potassium. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Sunniland-50-lb-All-Purpose-Fertilizer-8-0-10/1000007606

I just noticed a spathe tip poking out from below an old boot on my Burretiokentia koghiensis. The two oldest boots were easily removed and I could see another spathe that was previously hidden beneath a boot. They didn't get an opportunity to fully open since the boots never dropped on their own. These are the first spathes on this specimen.

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

Yep, that's an embryo!

Myself personally bottom heating set at 30 degrees, coco coir perlite mix just slightly damp, using etoliation to help things along. If the seed is 5mm in size you bury it 5mm if 10mm you bury 10mm and so on. Oh and patience.

It never ends when you’re a collector of plants. There’s always a new palm I discover that I forgot I had! Cyphophoenix elegans chamaedorea tenella dypsis species Crysophilla guagra chamaedorea arenbergiana hypohorbe indica

A nice outdoor chamaedorea elegans, being used as screen plant for the gas cylinder! And a socratea rostrata still growing well!

You want em in pots, I got em in pots!

Dear friends on Palm Talk, I am back from the ice age, literally in every sense. Like everyone else, I've been going through a rough patch, and not just because of the freezing cold weather here. But as always, I'm picking myself up and staying positive in my feelings, thoughts, and actions, because nothing else will help... I'm also looking forward to the extremely interesting posts and communication with everyone here. I really appreciate it and am grateful to be a part of it. Mazat

great, Richard

A few nice looking rare palm seedlings. They are always a welcome sight little palms, knowing one day they will be part of the garden. They have to start out somewhere, so pots it is!

Welp the tissue culture died. I don't think the extra 4 days in New Jersey helped it. I cut my Ensete down to a nub. Hoping it grows back from the corm, I didn't notice that it was wrapped in that stupid plug fabric until it was too late. Big blue Java is on the floor, latest leaf is 14 x35 Red Dacca needs to go on the floor now too. I got my first pup off one of the Cavendish and it's already growing. I've been fighting spider mites for a minute now and it seems like (please don't jinx this) the best treatment so far is to get a damp paper towel and dab full strength neem oil and wipe everything down, and keep cutting off any leaves that feel dusty. They're all throwing a leaf a week so who cares?

Hey all - I'm in New Smyrna Beach on the barrier island and have a lot of nice specimens in my yard so naturally am freaking out a bit, as many here are too. I soaked my grounds over 2 days time leading up to the event hoping that along with the coastal location might help mitigate damage. I put some C9 Christmas lights up around 3 of my palms...2 Ptychosperma elegans and 1 Archontophoenix cunninghamiana. And heating pads around the trunk of my Satakentia liukiuensis . I also brought as much potted material inside my home as possible.....palms, bromeliads, orchids, crotons, & misc. So there was still a lot outside and exposed. I have numerous Archontophoenix palms on the property, 2 Royals, a Dypsis cabadae, large Areca lutescens that was here when I bought the place 30 years ago, 3 large Coconuts planted back in 2017 from 30 gal pots, various Cycads including 2 very nice Queen Sagos, some Dypsis pembana - 2 still in pots and 1 planted, a nice Veitchia joannis, a very nice double trunk Dictyosperma album plus some in pots, a nice trio of very mature Foxtails that I planted back in '06, a nice Hyophorbe lagenicaulis, and some other odds and ends including many that are considered cold hardy so I wont mention those. I just came in from a walkabout on my property and am see damage on a few including the Coconuts, Satakentia, Royals, but the Archontophonix are actually looking stout at this time. Some off color but nothing like the others that are showing damage. I realize we won't know the extent of damage yet for a week or so but wanted to share what I'm seeing in my location. Cheers! My Satakentia: One of my 3 Coconuts. They are all the same size: My Veitchia joannis: My Bottle: My 3 Foxtails: My 2 Royals: My double trunk Dictyosperma album"

Thank you very much, kinzyjr 🤗. You're right, when things get stormy, stay focused and remain positive.

My first ever tissue culture purchase. A friend gave me an invite link to PalmStreet which came with a few coupons so all in I think I'm out $19, it's supposed to be a golden variegated banana. The fun part! USPS normally sends packages to Memphis then Jackson then my local PO. This time it spent a few days in New Jersey for reasons I'll never understand. I'm glad I bought the insulation and heat pack, but the heat pack was burned out long before it came back into the central time zone. I'm super super super sick so I haven't even opened it up yet, it was super cold when it got here.

Yeah ok. It might be time to put stuff on the floor and buy more chains for the lights. The corner by the fuse box - I found an old round wobbly stool and screwed some scrap wood to the top and bottom to level it out and let it hold a clear tote with 2 buckets. WELP the lights on that end have been raised and raised and raised and are only a foot and a half from the ceiling now and WELP Anyway here's some pics of some massive (considering they were pups a few months ago, the Blue Java I literally bought in October) nanners

The 2 tallest Cavendish and big Blue Java are ~4ft tall and the Mekong Giant (2nd from left, unmarked white bucket) isn't far behind.

😂😂😂😂😂 This, sir, is a very fair and good point.

I didn't dream this, did I? Maybe it was just because it was 2020 and people were getting crazy into houseplants (myself included) because nobody left the house? Prices were obscene for these. Or is the aroid community full of homey hookups like we have on here?

Kinda like how the variegated monstera were $1000 for a cutting 5 years ago and now they even have them at Walmart here in BFE Mississippi

Is that the Musa Velutina? I bought some seeds off of Etsy that are suspect at best 😂 God only knows how long customs would hold them and what the tariffs would be at this point. I'm down to try but I really think pups are the way to go with bananas now. Watch me say that and leave him a bad review and then watch all of these sprout overnight 😂