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Excited to finally see a flower on one of my P. torallyi. This one is 18 years old from germination.

Lovely! I happened to pass this six-in-a-row sidewalk planting in SF's Mission District last night.

I could suggest getting on a ladder with the pole saw on a extended pole, but that involves danger on yhe ladder stuff, alright if you’re 20 years young me at 56 I will leave that for the experts.

This looks amazing, they make a really cool streetscape. I agree with Jim tho, the powerlines are a worry. Congrats on the flowers Jim, will be interesting to see if it sets any fruit. Mine are a few years away still, but Troy has had a couple of years of fertile seeds from his Pt v microcarpa which is a similar age. Fingers crossed.

Now Chrysalidocarpus loucoubensis for those willing to conform 🤣

I have mine done every year . The trimmers can get the spathes out and save the mess . I just had them done ….no mess now!😄 Harry

By doing so you are saving yourself a mess and the hassle of cleaning them up later on, or even better saving yourself a sprained ankle when you slip on the seeds. Also giving your palm more energy on growing by not spending its energy on flowering. The good old shin breaker cocos seeds great to hit with the mower.

@jwitt there’s an empty field at the end of the street I’m considering spreading them out in. If they grow great and if not then oh well. That’s how many I got off that tree, thousands.

I have a hard time doing the separation of seedlings direct sowed into the ground. If they survive, they seem to be setback for a year or two, until roots are reestablished. That said, I have had great success direct sowing. Undisturbed root growth, ultimately important to this species, seems to be a key to success in my climate. Keep the keepers, kill in place the weaklings .... All that said, it never hurts to try, but they grow roots, and roots, and roots. They get "shocky" when small and roots are massively disturbed.

Just an update as my Ampasindavae just cracked open another leaf. Definitive color just like last time. Still super slow but this leaf did grow faster than the last. I’m hoping it picks up speed here in the next year or two. Can’t get the guts to cut off the old leaf so the entire plant looks marginal. Last leaf still looks good. I’m ok with slow, it could be dead. -dale

Neoveitchia storkii $1 each Black crown, gets darker as palm matures Licuaala grandis 10 for $1 Calyptrocalyx sanumb $1 each, (new red leaf shown in picture), only have 43 Archontophoenix purpurea $1 each $20 minimum, $7 shipping, US only, includes mandatory USDA inspection out of Honolulu HI, Mix and Match

Has anyone on here ever germinated Washingtonia Filifera seeds in a community pot and separated later? I’m not concerned about if they will germinate or not it’s more a question of will I kill them all when I separate them? I’ve read they are very temperamental about their roots being disturbed as opposed to sabals which do fine separating from a community pot. I harvested a massive amount off of a 25’ tree in west Texas that survived 2021 unprotected so it is tough and likely pure filifera. Thanks for the feedback.

That lime tree will do well with a bottle of Don Q.

My sunkha first flowered three years ago but has never set fruit.

Yes, it's a concern. Mostly, I see palms allowed to grow past (or through) them here, even large palms like CIDP. But they do get trimmed aggressively where they contact the lines. Not ideal.

Wow, beautiful but what’s going to happen with the overhead utility wires?

^^^^ That’s cool! Harry

I have a limited amount of 3 gal. containers of the rare Itaya amicorum from northern South America for sale. These go for $75.00 ea. They are well rooted in their pots and growing in 50% shade. Available only at the nursery in Loxahatchee Groves, Forida. Sorry, no shipping. Open by appointment only. Call 305 905 2939 or email Palmz@gate.net. for more information

Shedding Light on the Pseudophoenix Decline. 2013: https://palms.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/vol57n1p24_29.pdf When I was down in The Keys, I’d say 2 out of 3 that I saw exhibited at least Rank 1 symptoms…. Islamorada: I don’t think it’s necessarily inevitable, but it is prevalent in Florida. No one is 100% sure of what causes it. Perhaps viral, inciting a subsequent slow fungal rot of mature lower crown tissue that worsens over years. The deepening black rot is the final common pathway to death. It seems to need moist conditions of occur, and it’s plenty wet/hot here a lot of the year. I don’t think @aztropic will ever see it due to his dry conditions. I have 6 growing here at the house. It’s just guesswork, but I’ve done the following to see if it will help: 1) Planting in full sun out in the open, to facilitate drying and airflow, while keeping rotting debris out of the crown and leaf bases, and keeping the plant growing as fast as possible. 2) Idealizing soil conditions with fast draining amendments, and the addition of limestone to keep the pH high/basic. I’m pretty generous with the fertilizer also. 3) Since fungal rot seems to play a role, I paint any wounds, and the lower crown right after a newly dropped frond, with daconil/hydrogen peroxide. I also pour this into the leaf bases. Since I get about 3+ new fronds per year, I do this about 3x per year. So far seems to work, with no ill effects. Someday mine will be too tall to do this. Fungal rot kills a lot of palms here that do well in California and other drier areas. Especially if they are slow growing, like the big dypsis. Dripping wet 85 degree nights for months on end seem to start the process, and they just can’t outgrow a little rot that starts up. Other palms can blast right through it, dropping old frond bases before it can take hold. Some slow growers seem more resistant to fungal issues, like the New Caledonia types. I figure keeping the fronds cycling can’t hurt. I’m also trying to preemptively treat the fungal component by keeping junk out of the crown, keeping the crown dry, and ventilated and not letting fungus take hold at the “V” split of the oldest frond, where the decline rot starts. Will it work? I don’t know. Mine are just juveniles. But so far so good. Contrast these with those from The Keys above….

I had not walked on this street recently until this morning. As my dog and I walked by, It was a Reunion of sorts... a Hyophorbe verschaffeltii.

New new leaves on some young Livistona saribus caught my eye. Some are in the shade and one is colored from the sunshine.

Sure is a pretty palm and showy with the new leaf. Something had eaten part of the previous leaf and I thought I might lose the entire plant. A few hydrogen peroxide drenches seems to have done the trick. Tim

Dypsis basilonga gausia maya chamaedorea microspadix ptychosperma schefferi All four are great palms, that are easy to grow and cool tolerant down to 2 degrees Celsius. Great palms for that tropical look in the garden. These ones are about 4 years in the ground from 140mm containers.

Luck has it as well saintlucei seedlings in six inch pots and seeds coming on my palm. I curse the cold weather killing palms, you finally get a palm that’s rare, beautiful and usually expensive and the cold kills it.

There a beautiful palm. I like your frost protection idea, I don’t get frost but the area I live in does, very rarely we get the black frost in the valley and that’s a cold morning for sure bit that’s only every 15 years or so. And your in luck I have about 80 of them in tubes so I will plant a heap more for you.

I have two small Leucothrinax. In a couple years in the ground, they are very, very slow. Just growing some bigger fronds, without much height gain. They are much slower than Pseudophoenix Sargentii for me. Leucothrinax will stay very shrub-like for many years, while Pseudophoenix gains height and leaves them behind. The biggest one in my neighborhood has maybe 5 feet of trunk and is probably very old, and is much shorter than the Pseudophoenix with the seeds above.

Rarely. It's usually 110F when mine are in flower,so any pollen is already DOA. Only on the rare occasion of a late fall flowering, have any seeds been produced, and then, not in any quantity.🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Exactly 2 years apart (Top one, bottom one died) I had it potted for 5 months before planting in ground in March (bigger one)

That was my first thought ...but they all looked so weepy I wasn't sure.. my mind went to some kind of acacia...thanks for the id..!!

That sure looks like my palm from Blue Bell that was tagged “Ovobontsira” but I think is more Metallic Ovobontsira than Ampasindavae. I could be wrong though since I don’t have any of the latter and am only basing the looks off of the ones I saw in Josh’s greenhouse a few years ago 🤷‍♂️

Looking good!

Usually these commercial outfits look to something low risk.

Yeah, I had four that were grown from seed collected when we vacationed south to Treasure Island. All four were in pots side by side, unprotected, when we had 24F low christmas weekend 2023. Two fried and two stayed green as grass. One I planted in ground under the oak canopy in the east side of my yard and the other is still potted. Mind you the potted one is nearly 3 times the size of the inground one.

@aztropic do yours ever seed out there in the desert?

Richard, those palm trees are exceptionally beautiful! Congratulations!🌴🌴🌴🦜🦜

Very cool my Friend

Very nice. Took a long time to flower, though. It that your mailbox or an EV station next to it?

I dunno John...move to Hawaii maybe? Go the seaweed/fish, weakly, weekly!

Neltuma AKA: Mesquite ..Likely N. velutina, Velvet Mesquite. Honey Mesquite will have larger / wider leaflets. Non Native Mesquites / hybrids involving them, like Chilean and Argentine Mesq. also have larger leaflets. Needs a hair cut ( Whip-y growth trimmed from the bottom up. ) Also looks like some of them need to be thinned / staked to one leader, instead of what looks like 3 ( or more? )

Before I put it in the ground and now

Beautiful Mike. Tim

I really think , for a lot of us growing up visiting Disneyland as kids , The Jungle Cruise ride was an inspiration. Either consciously or unconsciously we fantasize about having our very own jungle cruise….nuthin wrong with that! Harry Our private botanical tour of Disneyland , Anaheim. Jungle Cruise on a small boat modeled after the African Queen

As the number of available plants is limited in Europe, seed growing is the only way for me to get not so common palms. But even seeds are sometimes hard to find. But its always like growing a child, the better it goes the better you feel. Greetings Eckhard

Talk about fast to germinate just past a couple of weeks and there up and running. I don’t think I have seen anything germinating as fast as these palm seeds. Bottom heating 30 degrees Celsius, now that’s moving for a palm seed!

Doesn't seem to be for plants grown in dryer desert conditions anyways. I've been growing this species in the Arizona desert for 25 years now and have about 20 examples planted throughout my garden. Never seen the decline symptoms here.🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Thought I’d post an update of this standout palm. It’s grown quite a bit in 18 months still exhibiting wide internodes. Although the dropped frond doesn’t have the weight and heft of say C. prestonianus, it can still be a hernia inducing lift. Ufta! Tim

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I just got a few of them from florabunda a few months ago . Front and center in the pic, busting out of there pots

I have a few small ones in pots here in Guada La Habra, and they're nowhere close to being as magnificent as yours @realarch