Jubea Trunking Age

[Joe NC]

On 10/26/2020 at 8:02 AM, climate change virginia said:

20 YEARS now thats a long time im gonna be 33 by then just for it to be the size of a sabal minor

So just read more of your posts and realized that you are 13, thats great!

I think you are looking at the Jubaea being slow growing as a negative thing, when it is actually exactly what you need!

If I were you, I would not focus on trying to plant anything that is going to need any special effort (protection from the cold) in your family's yard.  Unless you can get one of your family members hooked on the palm bug like yourself, once you no longer live at home (it will be faster than you think and even high school will be over!) it probably won't get the attention it needs.  Pick something bulletproof for your area like Sabal minor and needle palms.  Enjoy growing them from seed, and then set them free in your familys yard.  Experiment with some of the things that might be possible, but don't get too attached... Also grow some of the faster subtropical plants that are probably marginal in your area (bannanas, etc.) to help you learn about zone pushing (and because they are fun to grow).    

This is were the Jubaea comes in.  They are slow for sure, and can take up to 2 years to even germinate from seed!!  You can then grow it in a pot for a very very long time (eventually a very large pot, but still moveable).  Take it to college with you, move it around the country with you (if that is what you do) as an indoor/ourdoor houseplant (possibly giant houseplant).  I'll assume that by the time you are 33 and that Jubaea is 20 years old, you might have a better idea of where you are going to be.  Maybe own a house, and have your own yard to plant it in.  This house might be in texas, califorina, or right next door to where you live now?  If you end up in minnesota, well....  Either way, you will have a plant that you have taken care of for the last 20 years, and a huge jumpstart on gorwing a Jubaea compared to if you waited until you were 33...   

[climate change virginia]

18 minutes ago, Joe NC said:

So just read more of your posts and realized that you are 13, thats great!

I think you are looking at the Jubaea being slow growing as a negative thing, when it is actually exactly what you need!

If I were you, I would not focus on trying to plant anything that is going to need any special effort (protection from the cold) in your family's yard.  Unless you can get one of your family members hooked on the palm bug like yourself, once you no longer live at home (it will be faster than you think and even high school will be over!) it probably won't get the attention it needs.  Pick something bulletproof for your area like Sabal minor and needle palms.  Enjoy growing them from seed, and then set them free in your familys yard.  Experiment with some of the things that might be possible, but don't get too attached... Also grow some of the faster subtropical plants that are probably marginal in your area (bannanas, etc.) to help you learn about zone pushing (and because they are fun to grow).    

This is were the Jubaea comes in.  They are slow for sure, and can take up to 2 years to even germinate from seed!!  You can then grow it in a pot for a very very long time (eventually a very large pot, but still moveable).  Take it to college with you, move it around the country with you (if that is what you do) as an indoor/ourdoor houseplant (possibly giant houseplant).  I'll assume that by the time you are 33 and that Jubaea is 20 years old, you might have a better idea of where you are going to be.  Maybe own a house, and have your own yard to plant it in.  This house might be in texas, califorina, or right next door to where you live now?  If you end up in minnesota, well....  Either way, you will have a plant that you have taken care of for the last 20 years, and a huge jumpstart on gorwing a Jubaea compared to if you waited until you were 33...   

I never thought about it that way and you are absolutely right. I like how you didn't mention Florida because it will be underwater. Id probably move to Houston and be there with my cousins(we all love palms.) I probably wouldn't need to protect it in 20 years because climate change would help me. But you have an amazing after what you said i'm growing Jubaea.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

On 10/26/2020 at 7:06 AM, climate change virginia said:

I dont know why everyone is talkig about a 2018 blizzard I dont remember that the only one I remember is the one from the polar vortex from 2013-2014 and im on dc east coast that was a warm winter for me.

@climate change virginia

Ronald Reagan airport official temps

1/4/2018 high 27/low16

1/5 21/13f

1/6 20/11

1/7 23/9

Only a handful of species of palms will survive that stretch of weather in the wet, cloudy winter of DC.  Sabal minor, needles, trachy wagnerianus, trachycarpus takil and trachycarpus nanus and mature fortunei.  

If that was a sunny, cloudless day in the dry desert states you'd be able to triple that list of plants. 

[NCFM]

4 hours ago, climate change virginia said:

I like how you didn't mention Florida because it will be underwater.

Well, I don't know about all that. But, Jubaeas aren't known to do well in Florida, they don't like the extreme heat and humidity. 

[climate change virginia]

1 hour ago, NC_Palm_Enthusiast said:

Well, I don't know about all that. But, Jubaeas aren't known to do well in Florida, they don't like the extreme heat and humidity. 

 

2 hours ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

@climate change virginia

Ronald Reagan airport official temps

1/4/2018 high 27/low16

1/5 21/13f

1/6 20/11

1/7 23/9

Only a handful of species of palms will survive that stretch of weather in the wet, cloudy winter of DC.  Sabal minor, needles, trachy wagnerianus, trachycarpus takil and trachycarpus nanus and mature fortunei.  

If that was a sunny, cloudless day in the dry desert states you'd be able to triple that list of plants. 

oh I was in miami that week with my cousins

[climate change virginia]

14 hours ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

@climate change virginia

Ronald Reagan airport official temps

1/4/2018 high 27/low16

1/5 21/13f

1/6 20/11

1/7 23/9

Only a handful of species of palms will survive that stretch of weather in the wet, cloudy winter of DC.  Sabal minor, needles, trachy wagnerianus, trachycarpus takil and trachycarpus nanus and mature fortunei.  

If that was a sunny, cloudless day in the dry desert states you'd be able to triple that list of plants. 

I mean I'm fine with what I can grow. At least I don't live in northern Minnesota.