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King palm for $4000 value at $17,000

BigFrond
BigFrond
in DISCUSSING PALM TREES WORLDWIDE

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Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

I can buy that same palm, loaded on my truck, for $400 or less.

I DIG PALMS

Call me anytime to chat about transplanting palms.

305-345-8918

https://www.facebook...KenJohnsonPalms

He is either really stupid or he confused King Palm with CIDP.

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

Hey... I have a 15' King palm at my place.... be HAPPY to have someone pay me $4000 for the priviledge of digging it up! :)

Dave

 

Riverside, CA Z 9b

1700 ft. elevation

approx 40 miles inland

I can buy that same palm, loaded on my truck, for $400 or less.

I knew there was a disparity between Cali and Florida prices,but whoa!

Scott

Titusville, FL

1/2 mile from the Indian River

USDA Zone COLD

Maybe it's the King of all palms. Now that's different. Only the Emperor of all palms would be more.

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

I don't believe it! $4,000 for a you-dig-it king palm??? I was offered $1400 for my 2 coconuts with the curved trunks and he would dig it. Something is really out of wack here.

Palmmermaid

Kitty Philips

West Palm Beach, FL

Craigs' list is full of scammers! Like a few people have said, he's either identified the palm incorrectly, or he's looking for a fool! But you know what they say, "There's one born every minute"!!! Besides, a King palm (Bangalow) is chancy at best w/ surviving transplant without root-pruning.

Orlando, Florida

zone 9b

The Pollen Poacher!!

GO DOLPHINS!!

GO GATORS!!!

 

Palms, Sex, Money and horsepower,,,, you may have more than you can handle,,

but too much is never enough!!

I payed 29.00 for this one i did not have to dig it up.

I am constantly seeing people selling the landscaping right out of their yard. Many times it looks like they are trying to sell anything and everything before the bank becomes the new owner.

Jupiter FL

in the Zone formally known as 10A

Somebody should tell the seller (and his moronic palm appraiser) that April Fools is still six months away!

Mad about palms

Believe it or not....we have a nurseryman up here in the Bay area who moved a huge Jubaea to his nursery and planted it. It has to be 40 feet or more and it's beautiful and in perfect health. He was offered 60K and turned it down. I have no idea how much it cost him to move it to its present location, but it was a major undertaking.

Dick

Richard Douglas

i have a bunch of 5 gallons i cant literally give away! i must be in the wrong market!

People's audacity in this regard is boundless.

I once had a couple tell me they'd let me dig Trachy sprouts for $20 each . . . . (small seedlings)

I politely declined -- :floor: -- then peed myself laughing in the car home . . . . :blink:

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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Actually, I can refuse it pretty easily...... :lol:

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

My favorite tree mover routinely buys CIDPs taller than that for about $1,000.00. It's costly to dig them up, crane them to his nursery, put them in the ground, and take care of them while they wait to be purchased by someone. Then the process begins again to get the huge palm to its new home. By then, the homeowner will need to shell out about $8,000 to $10,000.00 delivered and planted.

I've gotten King palms with 8 feet of fat trunk free for the taking. I've been lucky enough to never lose one after transplanting. That Craig's List ad is silly.

Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

zone 10a/9b

sunset zone 16

300+ palms, 90+ species in the ground

Las Palmas Design

Facebook Page

Las Palmas Design & Associates

Elegant Homes and Gardens

A fool and his money,,,,,,

In my post I sometimes express "my" opinion. Warning, it may differ from "your" opinion. If so, please do not feel insulted, just state your own if you wish. Any data in this post is provided 'as is' and in no event shall I be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, damages resulting from accuracy or lack thereof, insult, or any other damages

I can buy that same palm, loaded on my truck, for $400 or less.

Have you ever transplanted one successfully?

Ed Mijares

Whittier, Ca

Psyco Palm Collector Wheeler Dealer

Zone 10a?

Palmfreek,

Did you mean you have 5 gal. Jubaeas or kings?

Dick

Richard Douglas

Kings....

want them they are all yours!

I actually called Leo yesterday, he hasn't returned my call... Maybe he already sold the palm. :hmm:

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

No, I was busy and couldn't get to it. I mean, I heard the guy was busy and couldn't get to the phone.

I actually called Leo yesterday, he hasn't returned my call... Maybe he already sold the palm. :hmm:

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

I called him and set him straight in a nice way. His friend told him that it was a king palm but it isn't. From the description he gave me I believe it to be a canary. He is emailing me a photo so I can ID it for him and tell him the TRUE value of the tree. It's funny but I'd rather help him out than mock him. You can't blame people that are uninformed.

Dave Hughson

Carlsbad, Ca

1 mile from ocean

Zone 10b

Palm freaks are good peeps!!!!!

I get calls every day of people trying to sell their palm trees. You must understand that people often think they are sitting on a "gold mine". They hear stories about what someone paid for their palm. And, they want that money. I get so many calls that I wrote an article to fend off the phone traffic:

I want to sell my large palm tree Most people seem to just read the title of the artricle and call me. If they just read for about 10 seconds, they would see I don't dig specimen palms. .

You will note that, in California, dug King Palms have a very high mortality. That limits their value tremendously as they are such a risk. Out here, few if any relocators have the experience of Ken Johnson and tend to be guys who "have crane; will dig". And, we don't have the greenhouse environment that one sees in Souther Florida. So, one could spend money on a King and get nothing but an additional charge for its later removal.

Re this ad, remember that if you fish for suckers, sometimes you'll catch a big one.

Phil

Jungle Music Palms and Cycads, established 1977 and located in Encinitas, CA, 20 miles north of San Diego on the Coast.  Phone:  619 2914605 Link to Phil's Email phil.bergman@junglemusic.net Website: www.junglemusic.net Link to Jungle Music Palms and Cycads

Do you think it can be shipped to reunion island? ;)

http://ebopalmiers.canalblog.com/

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