These have been in the ground From FB 1 gallons for 10 years now.

Trouble free growers.

Started out in a lot of sun but since getting shaded out.

Nice color in the crown shafts after removing sheaths.

Nice palms, Tom!  Definitely a winner for Southern California.  Is it OK to post pics of mine?

Edited December 10, 20187 yr by joe_OC

18 minutes ago, joe_OC said:

Nice palms, Tom!

Thank You...  10 years and you blink... wow they've grown

Please Post pics. 

Lens is really nice

1 hour ago, TomJ said:

Thank You...  10 years and you blink... wow they've grown

Like life

2 hours ago, joe_OC said:

Beautiful!!

How long in ground?

From what size?

It’s been in the ground 10 years from a 15 gal.  

54 minutes ago, joe_OC said:

It’s been in the ground 10 years from a 15 gal.  

You must be getting plenty of these but any viable seed?

4 minutes ago, Tracy said:

You must be getting plenty of these but any viable seed?

Not yet.

Joe, once you do get flowers, they will set seed. Maybe 1 in every 4 flowers will. I have seedlings popping up in the garden from mine. That’s always a cool thing to see.

Tom, you have some awesome palms in your yard. Your bottle palm is one of the nicest around in SoCal.  

They're a great palm for California. I've had three in the ground for four years up here in the Bay Area and the shaded ones do best. 

9 hours ago, LJG said:

Joe, once you do get flowers, they will set seed. Maybe 1 in every 4 flowers will. I have seedlings popping up in the garden from mine. That’s always a cool thing to see.

Tom, you have some awesome palms in your yard. Your bottle palm is one of the nicest around in SoCal.  

Speaking of nice Len lets see a picture of your Hapala.  The gold standard for happy palm.

Nice palm. Is it ok with hot dry summers?

2 hours ago, gilles06 said:

Nice palm. Is it ok with hot dry summers?

We are very dry here, but mine always have wet feet.

Clay soil holds the moisture as well.

Hardiest of the Burretiokentia for here I think. I have many others growing but not much to look at yet.

Ok good report, seems to be a good candidate for my garden ;)

On 12/9/2018, 9:55:27, LJG said:

Joe, once you do get flowers, they will set seed. Maybe 1 in every 4 flowers will. I have seedlings popping up in the garden from mine. That’s always a cool thing to see.

Tom, you have some awesome palms in your yard. Your bottle palm is one of the nicest around in SoCal.  

Len, have you noticed what the pollinator is on these in Southern California, or do you do something by hand?  Other than a few ants, I haven't noticed any bees around the flowers, which are now dropping off.  The photo below was one of the inflorescence last month at the end of Autumn.

3 hours ago, Tracy said:

Len, have you noticed what the pollinator is on these in Southern California, or do you do something by hand?  Other than a few ants, I haven't noticed any bees around the flowers, which are now dropping off.  The photo below was one of the inflorescence last month at the end of Autumn.

Bees. The odd thing is they don’t show up on every inflorescence like a Dypsis flower for example. 

Len let's see yours. I remember if was beefy

Love the flowers on this palm. 

Dreadlocks.......love em.

Tim

It’s a beautiful palm and the seed germinates incredibly reliably. I collected off three local trees a couple years ago thinking I might get poor germination but I think every seed came up. I have certainly a thousand seedlings from the collection and none have died upon potting up. I hope to share them all through this region of far NE NSW, Australia as B.hapala is easy to grow, just slow at first but it matures with only a short trunk as photos ^ show. The tree is very ornamental and I have never seen old specimens but it appears the species doesn’t grow very tall and is well suited to public places where other Palms like Archontophoenix just end up being a tall pole whilst B.hapala can be enjoyed closer to the ground level. As I live where lots of hippies live too, the name “Rasta Palm” or “Dreadlock Palm” provokes many an alternative person to plant a few ! Enjoy 

I just picked one of these up. How much sun can they take? I’m in south Florida. 

From my experience, they like to “grow into the sun” from shade.

22 hours ago, Plantaddiction21 said:

I just picked one of these up. How much sun can they take? I’m in south Florida. 

I don't think the sun is the big problem with these in S. FL. For me it has been soil, they do not like coral rock. Also seem to be very sensitive to field dig, my field grown ones croaked fairly promptly and efficiently. I finally have three going from pots and in either topsoil/sand mix or if in rock with extreme organics added. Vieillardii has been the same, half a dozen sacrificial goats to get 2 established. Grandiflora never made it out of the pots, salt from Irma got them.