Cycad cones and flushes

[DippyD]

There’s some cones, there is some flushes but people often ask how do i propagate suckers/offsets or how do i pollinate a cone, how do i know when it’s ready etc….. today i removed a couple nice offsets from one of my female E. Dyerianus plants. A fairly easy process depending on plant location and soil. These happen to be in easy digging soil. I removed the excess dirt around the area of the offset. Today my tools consisted of a hammer and crowbar. Simply placed the crowbar between the offset and main stem and a couple love taps later we have a beautifully removed female dyerianus sucker. I treat these in a fungicide and add a rooting powder to the exposed areas on the offset. Place in perlite or pumice and give it a good water in. Sit back and wait for your roots to grow…. 

[Dan64]

Dioon edule,  “Palma Sola” pushing up its first

 Encephalartos cerinus with a new frond

 

[Tracy]

55 minutes ago, Dan64 said:

Dioon edule,  “Palma Sola” pushing up its first

 Encephalartos cerinus with a new frond

 

I am a little suspicious about the identity of your Encephalartos cerinus based on the relative width to length of the leaflets.   I don't recall mine at that age and whether wider leaflets are just a juvenile trait, so I could be wrong. 

My boy has had a little green tip poking out, threatening to flush for about a month.  No changes thus far though.  You can see the leaflets are relatively narrow in the leaf photo.

[Dan64]

It’s a juvenile thing 😁 I totally trust the place I got it from

[Dan64]

1 hour ago, Tracy said:

I am a little suspicious about the identity of your Encephalartos cerinus based on the relative width to length of the leaflets.   I don't recall mine at that age and whether wider leaflets are just a juvenile trait, so I could be wrong. 

My boy has had a little green tip poking out, threatening to flush for about a month.  No changes thus far though.  You can see the leaflets are relatively narrow in the leaf photo.

Here is a really big adult female at Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach 

 

[Tracy]

The offset on the main caudices is flushing.  It is like a wort on the otherwise perfectly symmetrical main plant.   Perhaps I should see it ss a beauty mark instead?  A chunky monkey Encephalartos longifolius male.

[Urban Rainforest]

I can see how this Cycas Siamensis “Silver form” got its name. I wish the leaves would stay silver like this but they usually start turning green in a few days after this stage.