waykoolplantz Posted July 6, 2020 Report Share Posted July 6, 2020 I got 10 seedlings from the first batch available. Biggest full sun...look at petioles stretch on partial sun which may actually make it taller 15 3 Quote The Palm Mahal Hollywood Fla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waykoolplantz Posted July 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2020 I gave one or two to Dr Balasky...my friend who builds schools in Madagascar...Greg K ..seen here..took one home and i gifted one to The Gifford Arboretum at The University of Miami. Almost lost this one...Greg saved it 6 1 Quote The Palm Mahal Hollywood Fla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy Adair Posted July 6, 2020 Report Share Posted July 6, 2020 Wonderful photos and information. Thanks! Great job with the seeds. Quote Cindy Adair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Posted July 7, 2020 Report Share Posted July 7, 2020 Wow, some real monsters you have there, Mike! I’d love to see this thread filled with domesticated Tahina photos and Tahina Donor banners. The largest in my garden, below, planted July 26, 2010, now roughly 11 ft. tall. The broadest fans are about 7 ft. In diameter, or slightly more. For scale, the rounded stone set upright is almost exactly 1ft. In height. The only problem I had was a sudden drying up and browning of a newer leaf. Threw everything at it and it seemed fine, then happened a second time several months later and took same action. No problems for a couple of years now. Volcanic eruption nearby didn’t bother it. The baby Tahina was planted by my son-in-law December 31, 2015 from a 5-gal. pot. Experience has shown they kind of remain one size even if kept in a pot for a few years. But plant them in the ground and they begin to grow. At 4 1/2 years in the ground, this one is pushing vertical leaves, moving beyond the horizontal leaf infant stage. There isn’t much soil in this spot, but the palm looks healthy. 9 3 Quote Kim Cyr Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow All characters in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted July 7, 2020 Report Share Posted July 7, 2020 Nothing like having the climate and space to grow one!! Quote Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waykoolplantz Posted July 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2020 Kim...maybe its just me but i love the look of the smaller too..when you see the fan from above. 1 Quote The Palm Mahal Hollywood Fla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgl Posted July 7, 2020 Report Share Posted July 7, 2020 In early 2008 when I was still running my little palm nursery here in Leilani Estates, I ordered 100 seeds from Rare Palm Seeds/Toby Spanner. 86 of them germinated around May 2008. I only lost three or four of the seedlings so ended up growing up the 80, or so, survivors to bigger sizes. I sold a number of them to others here in Leilani Estates and one or two sadly were too close to the volcanic eruption of 2018 and didn't make it but I believe all the rest are doing fine. I have eight in my two acre garden and they all seem very happy. My experience with them is that they are tough plants (no sensitive roots for instance), they love heat (and will grow faster in an environment that gets more heat than Leilani Estates) and will respond well to being planted in deep soil, something that's missing here in Leilani Estates. Here are two photos of some of mine. Photos by Kim. 8 2 Quote Leilani Estates, 25 mls/40 km south of Hilo, Big Island of Hawai'i. Elevation 880 ft/270 m. Average rainfall 140 inches/3550 mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike in kurtistown Posted July 8, 2020 Report Share Posted July 8, 2020 At the same time Bo got his 100 seeds from RPS, I bought 10. Seven germinated. I first planted four in April 2012, then not knowing what to do with the remainder, I crowded them a little and planted two more. The last one I sold to local friends. Most have grown like rockets, and pics of two of the largest, taken by Tim Brian (realarch), are below. Providing scale are myself and Hilo Jason. The palms were trouble free in the nursery. 7 3 Quote Mike Merritt Big Island of Hawaii, windward, rainy side, 740 feet (225 meters) elevation 165 inches (4,200 mm) of rain per year, 66 to 83 deg F (20 to 28 deg C) in summer, 62 to 80 deg F (16.7 to 26.7 Deg C) in winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Searle Posted July 9, 2020 Report Share Posted July 9, 2020 All great pictures everyone! I will post what I have soon.... Jeff Quote Searle Brothers Nursery Inc. and The Rainforest Collection. Southwest Ranches,Fl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmatierMeg Posted July 10, 2020 Report Share Posted July 10, 2020 I was given my Tahina circa 2016 by a palm lover in Fort Myers who did not have room for it in his yard. They hate being potted long term and need to be in the ground. Tahina spectabilis, 2020, Cape Coral, FL 2 2 Quote Meg Palms of Victory I shall wear Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise) Florida Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal Elevation: 15 feetI'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realarch Posted July 13, 2020 Report Share Posted July 13, 2020 Great to see such healthy specimens growing in so many places. Mine came from Bo's stock way back when. Thanks Bo! Mine, after a few years, decided to grow sideways and I thought it was going to uproot itself and fall over. Well, it finally started to straighten up, but it's still as wide as it is tall. Pretty impressive none the less and a Beccariophoenix fenestralis was removed to give it more room. Tim 4 3 Quote Tim Hilo, Hawaii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Searle Posted July 16, 2020 Report Share Posted July 16, 2020 Here's my biggest one here in Southwest Ranches, Florida. From one of the first batch of seeds that came in. I also have 9 others planted, much smaller though. 3 2 Quote Searle Brothers Nursery Inc. and The Rainforest Collection. Southwest Ranches,Fl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waykoolplantz Posted July 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2020 Jeff...get in the pic for scale. Quote The Palm Mahal Hollywood Fla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Searle Posted July 18, 2020 Report Share Posted July 18, 2020 So today per Mike's request I took a few more pictures. I also needed to trim some leaves off. I tried hard trying to hold the one leaf but it was damn heavy and couldn't! Lol 6 4 Quote Searle Brothers Nursery Inc. and The Rainforest Collection. Southwest Ranches,Fl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinzyjr Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 @bstoller's Tahina in St. Petersburg, FL from the Remarkable Palms in Tampa Bay thread: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/61172-remarkable-palms-of-tampa-bay/&do=findComment&comment=904895 Quote Lakeland, FL USDA Zone (2012): 9b | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (1985, 1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a | 30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dypsisdean Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 On 7/18/2020 at 1:04 PM, Jeff Searle said: So today per Mike's request I took a few more pictures. I also needed to trim some leaves off. I tried hard trying to hold the one leaf but it was damn heavy and couldn't! Lol Crazy cool Jeff - it looks to me as if these palms may turn out to grow even larger in cultivation. Quote Kona, on The Big Island Hawaii - Land of Volcanoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max974 Posted September 13, 2020 Report Share Posted September 13, 2020 Plant in December 2011. Tahina spectabilis by Pâquerette19, sur Flickr 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 I thought they would end up looking like Bismarckia. But they are much bigger in stature. How could such impressive palms not be known to the palmy community for so long? Quote Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthFLA Posted November 26, 2022 Report Share Posted November 26, 2022 (edited) My Tahina is about 25ft overall after just a few years in the ground. I planted it in my swale (North Miami) and now the neighbors are complaining because it hangs into the street. Someone offered me 10k, sight unseen, at the SFPS palm sale at Pinecrest Gardens last weekend. It got me wondering how much it's worth. Any idea what the market rate on Tahina is these days? Edited November 26, 2022 by SouthFLA 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnAndSancho Posted November 29, 2022 Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 On 11/26/2022 at 4:44 PM, SouthFLA said: My Tahina is about 25ft overall after just a few years in the ground. I planted it in my swale (North Miami) and now the neighbors are complaining because it hangs into the street. Someone offered me 10k, sight unseen, at the SFPS palm sale at Pinecrest Gardens last weekend. It got me wondering how much it's worth. Any idea what the market rate on Tahina is these days? $10k? I'd do horribly unspeakably things for $10k. But that's me and I have no Tahina. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinzyjr Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 It was $4,000 for a 100G/36" at MBPalms in June 2021. Quote Lakeland, FL USDA Zone (2012): 9b | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (1985, 1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a | 30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnAndSancho Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, kinzyjr said: It was $4,000 for a 100G/36" at MBPalms in June 2021. I'd also do horrible unspeakable things for $4k. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilo Jason Posted December 1, 2022 Report Share Posted December 1, 2022 Here’s the largest Tahina I’ve seen here in Hawaii. This is in a private garden 12 miles north of Hilo. Pictures are a year old so I will try to get updated ones soon. My wife for scale! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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