Palm Maintenance Work.Yr_2010

[Kris]

Dear Friends

I like to invite you all to yet another palm repotting work,And this time the palm in discussion is Brahea Roezii.And this palm is around one and half years old.Like most of the times even these seeds came to me from brother M@x as gifts.

And my sincere thanks to him.

Since i could not find much information about this palm,If you have one growing in your garden or have read some information about this palm,kindly share with me.

And the visual illustrations would follow from the next post.And if you have any suggestions kindly feel free to speak your mind,It could be of some use to us.

And hope you all enjoy the visuals..

Thanks & Love,

krisachar

[Kris]

Here is a still of the hero of this thread...

Close-up of the terracotta pot..

The base of the pot with the drain hole,you can see here roots comming out and air drying..

Now we started to water this pot heavily,So that it would be easier to remove this palm from that pot just by truning that pot upside down,by just taping the base bottom of that pot..

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[Kris]

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Now lets see the soil texture of the Kris soil mix,The soil you see here in the following still has coarse grade washed river sand and some amount of coarse grade perlite.That's it !

Here you can clearly see the dug up pit which is slightly larger than the terracotta pot seen in the previous post.

Now here's a visual of the Brahea without its pot,you can see the root development,etc..

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[Kris]

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A clear still on the palm's root development !

Kindly note,before placing this plam into that plastic pot,we have made ample use of perlite,So the plam roots rests in this perlite bed

Now we gently lowered this baby into its new home..

A close-up of the pot's soil & the palm !

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[Kris]

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Now all the vacant spaces & gaps were once again refilled using the same dug up soil of this pot..

And in this still you can see that we have added some Neem based manure,bone meal & seaweed granules as top soil dressing.

We started to water this palm so that all the soil settles down leaving no airpockets between the palm roots system & the pot's soil layer all around And the added nutrients react & enrich the pot's soil

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[Kris]

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Once the watering work was over,We labeled this plastic pot with help of a cryan pencil..

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The following stills were taken 3 days after the repotting work !

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[Kris]

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A close-up !

This is a still just to show that the old terracotta pot is still intact..Which could be reused for future plantings of young palm seedlings !

Well that's all for now folks,more updates later.Hope you all enjoyed the step by step palm repotting toturial.

Thanks & Love,

kris achar.

[Dave H]

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A close-up !

This is a still just to show that the old terracotta pot is still intact..Which could be reused for future plantings of young palm seedlings !

Well that's all for now folks,more updates later.Hope you all enjoyed the step by step palm repotting toturial.

Thanks & Love,

kris achar.

I'm not familiar with Brahea Roezii ? Looks like B. Armata... I'm always in the market for a cool new Brahea... So what-ya-got there Kris ?

[Dave H]

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A clear still on the palm's root development !

Kindly note,before placing this plam into that plastic pot,we have made ample use of perlite,So the plam roots rests in this perlite bed

Now we gently lowered this baby into its new home..

A close-up of the pot's soil & the palm !

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Why do you do the perlite bed ?

[Kris]

Dear Dave

Thanks for visiting this thread,And even iam not sure as to what Brahea this one is ? And for our hot wet tropical climate i have seen that Perlite does magic..The palm does not rot easily nor do they get affected by bugs,insects or fungus infection..

And these palms are in our roof top garden,the floor tiles get severely hot during our summer season,i feel this perlite layer would act as a termal buffer between the roots & the hot soil within this plastic pot.But this is purely my assumption,and iam not sure.

And iam eager to see Rosy colour some were in this palm,since the name B.Roezii sounds like that...

Lots of love,

kris

[Kris]

Here's an Update !

Love,

kris

[sonoranfans]

Here's an Update !

Love,

kris

Very nice kris, that little brahea baby is looking pretty!

[Kris]

Dear Tom

Very glad to hear from you & for visiting this thread.

Thanks & Love,

kris

[Kumar]

Too slow growing for me Kris - and Writing the names with chalk on the underside of the pot is a very good idea.

Edited September 30, 2010 by Kumar83

[Kris]

Too slow growing for me Kris - and Writing the names with chalk on the underside of the pot is a very good idea.

Dear Kumar

I feed our palms here with Di-amonium phosphate in liquified form in our winters & also coconut palm fertilizer made specifically for 25 years plus aged coconut palm trees.Since these are all are chemical based use it only in trace quantities.i.e one regular spoon of fertz for 20 to 25 liters of water.And once the plams accept this then you can do this every 20 to 30 days.

And the white markings you see on those plastic pots are from camalin crayan pencils avaliable in all the local stationary book shops etc...

Love,

kris

[Kumar]

Too slow growing for me Kris - and Writing the names with chalk on the underside of the pot is a very good idea.

Dear Kumar

I feed our palms here with Di-amonium phosphate in liquified form in our winters & also coconut palm fertilizer made specifically for 25 years plus aged coconut palm trees.Since these are all are chemical based use it only in trace quantities.i.e one regular spoon of fertz for 20 to 25 liters of water.And once the plams accept this then you can do this every 20 to 30 days.

And the white markings you see on those plastic pots are from camalin crayan pencils avaliable in all the local stationary book shops etc...

Love,

kris

Thanks Kris - at present I use a mix of clay and sun dried cowdung - it gives superb results - that too only before the mango fruiting season. But I will give this a try next month.

[Palmick]

Dear Dave

Thanks for visiting this thread,And even iam not sure as to what Brahea this one is ? And for our hot wet tropical climate i have seen that Perlite does magic..The palm does not rot easily nor do they get affected by bugs,insects or fungus infection..

And these palms are in our roof top garden,the floor tiles get severely hot during our summer season,i feel this perlite layer would act as a termal buffer between the roots & the hot soil within this plastic pot.But this is purely my assumption,and iam not sure.

And iam eager to see Rosy colour some were in this palm,since the name B.Roezii sounds like that...

Lots of love,

kris

Hi Kris !

It's Brahea roezlii (not roezii), after a guy's name. Nothing to do with rose colour, so being.

And it is regarded as a Brahea armata synonym nowadays. Here's the link:

http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do;jsessionid=D4FAE97EC248880E0960A5BAF4B6CC9E?accepted_id=24005&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=24005&status=true

Very smart repottig technique, btw.

Regards

[Kris]

Dear Miguel Tavares

Thanks for the information,And iam very glad you visited this thread....And also wish that these palms tolerate our coastal & tropical humidity.

Lots of love,

kris

[Kris]

Here's a video update !

Love,

kris.

[mjff]

Another beautiful new palm in your collection. Very nice Kris! Just one question though, are you trying to dethrone BS as the container ranch king?