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Lemurophoenix Care Tips

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I'm having trouble loading images. But my lemur palm seedlings are forming brown tips. I keep their soil wet because of a thread in here that suggests doing thos similar to what my neoveitchias and carpoxylons like. I keep them in dappled/indirect sunlight in a hot, humid, glassed area. All three have nice new spikes coming out (reddish). 

How much water is too much? Any thoughts about maximizing care for these much appreciated.

Cheers,

Ben

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What is the humidity source? I have not grown these from seed myself, so I don't have any specific suggestions, but I wonder about them sitting in damp soil on dry concrete.  Maybe someone with experience can build on the question?

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
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2 hours ago, Kim said:

What is the humidity source? I have not grown these from seed myself, so I don't have any specific suggestions, but I wonder about them sitting in damp soil on dry concrete.  Maybe someone with experience can build on the question?

I have them in in container dishes/trays. I set them in the photo-spot just for a group pic. I have basins for humidity from evaporation. Humidity does drop some on hot days when I open the door so the heat doesn't get too intense, but I think it stays pretty high generally. 

Could be salt burn from your water I water potted plants with RO water with occasionally adding fertilizer!

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2 hours ago, 96720 said:

Could be salt burn from your water I water potted plants with RO water with occasionally adding fertilizer!

I've been giving them spring water. What's RO water. I have not fertilized them...yet.  Good idea?

Spring water should be good RO is reverse osmosis our water is bad so RO water removes all the bad stuff!

I'm not an expert at growing in pots, but my first move would be to report them in a much bigger deeper pot -- if I felt that they needed more water.

I think that the leaf spots could indicate a root problem especially if they are sitting in a tray of water.  But then I could be wrong and it could be a transpiration issue caused by "salts" -- from the water -- collecting in the leaves. 

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46 minutes ago, rprimbs said:

I'm not an expert at growing in pots, but my first move would be to report them in a much bigger deeper pot -- if I felt that they needed more water.

I think that the leaf spots could indicate a root problem especially if they are sitting in a tray of water.  But then I could be wrong and it could be a transpiration issue caused by "salts" -- from the water -- collecting in the leaves. 

What you are saying makes good sense to me. I will examine the roots and most likely up-pot them. I continue to operate on the assertion that these are high water utilizes. They have put up well with a lot of water thus-far.

Thanks for your input. 

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