Guihaia argyrata growers

[Alberto]

5 hours ago, Jonathan said:

They're looking great Alberto, how old would they be now?

I don' t know exactly, +- 15 yo

[yachtingone]

Harry it gets full morning sun, afternoon shade.  Most of its life it got little to moderate water.   Now I give it quite a lot of water especially when it is warm to hot.  It likes being watered!

[Harry’s Palms]

Thanks. I just started watering mine more . It is in a dry , sunny location so I may just mulch around it and treat it like most of my others. Earlier this year , as I said , it looked like it gave up after just lingering for so many years . The first few years it looked good so I will add some fertilizer to the mulch although winter is coming , we still get days in the low eighties here. Harry

[Phoenikakias]

On 12/23/2016 at 8:31 PM, Phoenikakias said:

Here are my two specimens. I do not pay much attention to them.

 

On 10/21/2024 at 4:04 AM, Harry’s Palms said:

@yachtingone Does yours get shade? Also what watering schedule. Harry

Those below are today pictures of my two plants. Have not grown up dramatically or at all in the last 8 years! But they have started suckering. That said, I have both male and female plant, which bear distinctive different traits, not aure whether there is a matter of sexual differentiation or just natural variation  Namely the male suckers profusely, the female barely, the male has inconspicuous to none stem spines, the female has this feature pronounced like Rhapidophyllum, the male has less pronounced white scales on the leaf backside, female leaves have a thick white layer, which initially is somewhat bronze in color and whitens up later, as the leaf ages.

Male in foreground, female in the background

Female stem fibers

Male stem fibers

Female suckering habit

Male suckering habit

And a naturally sprouted seedling, perhaps the way it pops up from below the stones is instructive about needs of the sp in cultivation!

[Phoenikakias]

On 12/23/2016 at 8:31 PM, Phoenikakias said:

Here are my two specimens. I do not pay much attention to them.

 

On 10/21/2024 at 4:04 AM, Harry’s Palms said:

@yachtingone Does yours get shade? Also what watering schedule. Harry

Those below are today pictures of my two plants. Have not grown up dramatically or at all in the last 8 years! But they have started suckering. That said, I have both male and female plant, which bear distinctive different traits, not aure whether there is a matter of sexual differentiation or just natural variation  Namely the male suckers profusely, the female barely, the male has inconspicuous to none stem spines, the female has this feature pronounced like Rhapidophyllum, the male has less pronounced white scales on the leaf backside, female leaves have a thick white layer, which initially is somewhat bronze in color and whitens up later, as the leaf ages.

Male in foreground, female in the background

Female stem fibers

Male stem fibers

Female suckering habit

Male suckering habit

And a naturally sprouted seedling, perhaps the way it pops up from below the stones is instructive about needs of the sp in cultivation!