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New palms for me-lots of photos

Cindy Adair

By Cindy Adair
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Cindy Adair Grand Master

Cindy Adair

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Just getting the permit was an "adventure" but ultimately they arrived in 8 days and as you can see, in perfect condition. I should have photographed the roots, but they were in excellent shape too. They exceeded my expectations.

I began with the idea of adding 2 more silver Joeys to my one, as at that time Floribunda didn't offer them and neither did anyone else I knew of.

I was delighted to see the L. cordatas as that one was high on my "wish list". Sorry, I don't think they have any more of the Joeys or cordatas, but I believe they still list the mapus. Of course they may offer more spp. at any time.

The (12!) mapus were an afterthought as I'm happy with the one I have, but couldn't resist their sale price and photos and since I was going to all that trouble and paying for shipping (and my birthday is soon) I added them too. I'm glad I did!

Couldn't be happier!

I'll be emailing the nursery to be sure it's okay to list them under the proper location on this forum. I don't know why they would object to my quite favorable rating, but still I prefer to ask permission. Until I hear back, you can PM me for the nursery name if you want more details.

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Pedro 65 Grand Master

Pedro 65

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Cindy, Beauitiful Choice Choice Choice :greenthumb: , great feeling when Palms on your wish list arrive and are yours to look after and grow, enjoy your early Birthday presents forever :) Pete

Bill Austin Grand Master

Bill Austin

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Cindy you scored BIG TIME that cordata looks great looking forward to seeing some info on the nursery they came from. Oh and happy BDAY.

avanza Proficient

avanza

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Shipped with very healthy palms.

Very professional nursery.

happy birthday

Thank you for post this.

Alicehunter2000 Grand Master

Alicehunter2000

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Very nice

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

Cedric Experienced

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Oh happy birthday, I think I asked about shipping and how it works out with bare root, these look in fantastic order. Is the nursery far outside of America?

I saw some nice L cordatas and mapus for sale Bangkok last week but passed them up as I was sure they were too tropical, think I made a mistake anyway. Is cordata forgiving of slightly cooler winters or strictly tropical?

Cerdic

Non omnis moriar (Horace)

doranakandawatta Grand Master

doranakandawatta

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WOW, I would like to open such a parcel!

It's Christmas in April but I just passed new Year 2 weeks ago, (singhalese and tamil New Year) in Sri Lanka!

What is the medium in which the palms are traveling?

Do this nursery also sell seeds?

Do you believe I could send seedlings of Doranakanda the same way to US Palmtalk friends, or to you? (If one day we have a species you dream about).

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

Cindy Adair Grand Master

Cindy Adair

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Oh happy birthday, I think I asked about shipping and how it works out with bare root, these look in fantastic order. Is the nursery far outside of America?

I saw some nice L cordatas and mapus for sale Bangkok last week but passed them up as I was sure they were too tropical, think I made a mistake anyway. Is cordata forgiving of slightly cooler winters or strictly tropical?

The nursery is in Malaysia so quite far from America!

I think Licuala cordata is pretty tender, but this will be my first chance to try and grow it. Maybe others on this forum can better answer your question.On my farm it doesn't go below sixty or above 90 and other licualas do well so I'm hoping for the best.

As to shipping bare root, These were devoid of soil as required by export laws, but the roots were still moist in sphagnum moss and the plastic which may show in some of my photos. I've received other Joey and Licuala palms this way before and they did well, but I don't know about 4 months in Virginia before I can get them to Puerto Rico. At least we are past any chance of frost here for this year and we usually have high humidity as well. They will still stay in my greenhouse so I can control watering and protect from wind.

Cindy Adair

Cindy Adair Grand Master

Cindy Adair

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WOW, I would like to open such a parcel!

It's Christmas in April but I just passed new Year 2 weeks ago, (singhalese and tamil New Year) in Sri Lanka!

What is the medium in which the palms are traveling?

Do this nursery also sell seeds?

Do you believe I could send seedlings of Doranakanda the same way to US Palmtalk friends, or to you? (If one day we have a species you dream about).

I'm not sure if they also sell seeds. I see they offer wholesale items though.

As to mailing plants, they seem to travel very well although 8 days is the longest transit time I've had so far. It's the export laws on your end that could get you in trouble without the proper forms. Also our import laws that could get us in trouble on the receiving end. I had all the proper forms on both ends and this went without a hitch. Without (or even with) officials can destroy the plants or even fine both parties.

Some countries are much more strict and I'm sure small packages travel all the time with no one checking. I didn't want to get my name on any government lists or have the plants confiscated and killed. This nursery required the permits anyway. I now know a lot more about the import requirements after a couple of false starts. Happily the nursery was willing to hold off on shipping my items until I figured it out!

Cindy Adair

Pedro 65 Grand Master

Pedro 65

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Cindy, I would be amazed if the Joeys keep going, hope Im wrong but the back 1 of the 2 looks like its thrown in the towel, all the best with all your haul. Pete :)

NApalm Mentor

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Those palms are great but how about that greenhouse! Its huge! !! They should be very happy in there until planting

ariscott Grand Master

ariscott

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Joey doesn't like root disturbance usually... good luck....

Ari & Scott

Darwin, NT, Australia

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Congrats on the score! Are you taking these down to PR?

-Krishna

Kailua, Oahu HI. Near the beach but dry!

Still have a garden in Zone 9a Inland North Central Florida (Ocala)

Cindy Adair Grand Master

Cindy Adair

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They will get inspected again here and then head to PR on my next visit in August. I wouldn't want to torture them with my care forever in Virginia.

I have 6 Joeys growing fine on my farm so far, one silver, 1 "Joey on a stick" and 4 diamonds. The largest one I carefully kept in a pot from Florida to Virginia to PR (the silver) is the only one that has taken years to decide to live and grow. The others were all shipped bare root from Hawaii to VA to PR and never missed a beat. I would assume Hawaii would be more similar to PR than FL so that may account for some of the adaptation time.

I killed a lanceolata in my Virginia greenhouse before even getting it to PR. It was never bare rooted. I flew it with me from CA to VA, but it was a bit yellow from the start. So that species is still on my wish list. PM me if you know of any for sale, please.

In PR, the cattle did chew on leaves of my silver and one diamond, but so far so good even with those.

Happily both of my new silver Joeys look really healthy to me. Must be my bad photos. If any of these die it will be my fault and not the nursery's as the roots and leaves all looked great upon arrival. I won't really know how they'll work out until months after they are planted on my farm in August....

Several of you have asked questions via PM re the permit so I'll try to post more details on that in a separate thread.

Cindy Adair

realarch Grand Master

realarch

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Oooooooh you palm obsessed individual, your new stuff looks like they're ready to kick some serious 'you know what.'

I bet you spend more time in that greenhouse tending to your babies than you do anywhere else. ;)

Tim

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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