On 1/11/2023 at 7:36 PM, Billeb said:

Like pretty much everybody else said, I believe it’s a community pot of Lanceolata. Definitely not Lutescens or Pembana. Both those look different as juveniles. Even at a very young age, Lutescens are heavily speckled. Here’s a 15G I planted out 3 months ago that I hacked back a lot to only hold 3 trunks so it’s more contained. They get super full and dense with offspring if they are let to run wild. 
 

It’s time to separate those things into singles by the way. In the next few months would be a good time. 
 

-dale 

I must admit, I am nervous to separate them. I’ve killed a handful of palms trying to separate them before. Maybe I was too aggressive?
 

They were fairly rootbound in a small 6 in pot prior to this. I just reported last week. Does it handle being moved relatively well? 
What would happen if i don’t separate them? 
 

Thanks for the help everyone.

10 minutes ago, Emarohl said:

I must admit, I am nervous to separate them. I’ve killed a handful of palms trying to separate them before. Maybe I was too aggressive?
 

They were fairly rootbound in a small 6 in pot prior to this. I just reported last week. Does it handle being moved relatively well? 
What would happen if i don’t separate them? 
 

Thanks for the help everyone.

Mine was a pretty big group before my Silky Saw got involved. I bought it knowing I wanted to cut it up so I had no intention on saving anything besides a couple of the biggest “trunks”. I left a pretty big rootball and just cut the offspring off at the base and left the roots. This likely ensured the ones left had ample roots. 
 

If it was just planted, it’ll be able to dig pretty easy. I’ve moved things that were in the ground for nearly 6 months with no ill effect. 
 

If you don’t separate, it will continue to clump heavily. That’s not the look I wanted for that location. 
 

-dale 

Dypsis cabadae planted 27 years ago in a 1 gallon container. 25 + ft looking down on the 🥭 mango tree 🌳 

On 9/16/2020 at 11:40 AM, Tracy said:

Of the clumping Dypsis species I'm growing, Dypsis pembana has been both the fastest and largest in terms of trunk diameters and in overall height.  I have one D onilahensis which has been faster in gaining height, but don't think it will ultimately get as large as tall as the pembanas and definitely has a narrower gauge trunk than any of the pembanas.  The only thing that has been slow about the Dypsis pembanas I have grown is their size and age to flower.  I have had stunted inflorescence but this year one of my solitary is actually producing flowers after a decade in the ground from a 7 gallon size.

I completely agree with you. My Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) pembana was given to me last July as a seedling and it has more than quadrupled in size in less than one year! It’s the fatest growing palm in my palm collection.

Think I planted 3 in 2005 not realizing they were clumping. One clump died some years ago. Growing NICELY here and even some seedlings popping up. Pictures are from 2009 and 2022

Pembanas get big. These were planted about 15 years ago from 1 or 2 gallon pots.

Here’s the bases of the trees above. Conan, The Guardian of the Garden^TM provides scale.

15 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

Pembanas get big. These were planted about 15 years ago from 1 or 2 gallon pots.

That’s a beautiful, big specimen! I’m guessing it will eventually grow to 40 ft or more in California?

My friend has a 7 or 8 year old clump of Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) pembana in his Fallbrook garden. The clump is probably almost 20 ft tall.