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Sabal minor Blountstown Dwarf flowers for 1st time

PalmatierMeg

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Several years ago I came across this tiny Sabal in the online catalog of a NC nursery. When I posted my find on PT, members bought all the stock left. Since then, the nursery has been unable to acquire more. The cool thing about this tiny palm is that it never grows taller than 18". Its leaves have a spread of less than 90 degress - more like 60. It is a true "rock garden palm" with all the hardiness of its larger kin. I know of at least one person who keeps one in a pot and had it flower.

Last Wed. we arrived home from a 2-week trek through Colorado and Texas to find our sprinkler system's GFI blew and we hadn't had any irrigation. In addition, hoped for rain never materialized (still hasn't) and I'd lost a lot of plants in pots. Bummer.

But while checking out the front garden I saw my Blountstown Dwarf was sending up its first inflorescence. Almost made me forget all my dead plants. Anyway, time for photos. Has anyone on this forum who also bought one had it flower yet?

Sabal minor Blountstown Dwarf in flower - 6/4/13

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Neat little Palm Meg. Maybe it will give you some seeds!

Perry Glenn

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PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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Neat little Palm Meg. Maybe it will give you some seeds!

I hope so but will they be viable this 1st time? BTW, congrats on your Jubaea and hope it seeds. That is an awesome palm species but totally ungrowable for me.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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I like this dwarf!

Last I repotted several seedlings. I hope they will look like your someday

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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So Meg, did it set seeds?

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So Meg, did it set seeds?

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Flo

Indeed it has - not a lot, perhaps a couple dozen. But my source (which I can't openly name because it doesn't belong to IPS/PalmTalk) now has strap leaf seedlings back in stock. I just bought 3 to plant one my garden lot.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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I took the following photos of my little Blountstown Dwarf's seeds. They are still green but should ripen in late Oct into Nov.

Sabal minor Blountstown Dwarf

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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Here are the 3 dwarf seedlings I received last week.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Nice.

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Super cute! Meg, what is the next step for those babies?

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There are several mature Wodyetia bifurcata in my neighborhood--that helps determine my zone, right? :blink:

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I will eventually plant them on my garden lot. I hope they flower and set seeds together.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

Kim Grand Master

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Really nice little palm! Nice color and looks pretty in flower. Perfect for the micro-gardens of California. A mass planting of them would look cool, "carpet palms".

Kim Cyr

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Really nice little palm! Nice color and looks pretty in flower. Perfect for the micro-gardens of California. A mass planting of them would look cool, "carpet palms".

Kim, their nickname is "rock garden palm".

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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On 8/28/2013, 4:32:43, PalmatierMeg said:

Here are the 3 dwarf seedlings I received last week.

 

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Cool to see what the plants looked like when you first received them, Meg!

PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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My original mother palm is the same size now that it was 4 years ago: 12-18" tall and 30" wide.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Great update. Does it flower yearly?

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14 minutes ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

Great update. Does it flower yearly?

Usually but not always. It flowered the past two years but not in 2017, probably due to our drought conditions.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Did these arrive with bare roots? I'd like to replace my Sabal "Louisiana" which recently kicked the bucket. It was a bare-root palm, went into shock instantly, but stabilized, however it never grew more than a centimeter in two years, the entire crown pulled last month, and that was all she wrote. My bare-root Kentias on the other hand had no shock whatsoever, growth was apparent within 12 hours after being planted.

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1 minute ago, cm05 said:

Did these arrive with bare roots? I'd like to replace my Sabal "Louisiana" which recently kicked the bucket. It was a bare-root palm, went into shock instantly, but stabilized, however it never grew more than a centimeter in two years, the entire crown pulled last month, and that was all she wrote. My bare-root Kentias on the other hand had no shock whatsoever, growth was apparent within 12 hours after being planted.

They arrived in their small pots. I don't think PDN ships anything bare root.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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all the ones I got from you are kicking ass  meg!

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

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How are these doing Meg?  I may just get one of these little guys to keep in a decorative container.

PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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Doing great. My mother palm hasn't flowered so far this year but she sometimes skips a year. I have her offspring planted around the yard and a couple set seeds for the first time last year and are flowering again.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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