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ZPalms Grand Master

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I saw this on youtube earlier and I thought it was cool and thought I'd share, It's not often people make time lapse of palm trees, I'll come back to this forum in a year from now and post the 2nd part 😂

 

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Thats pretty cool! 

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JLM Grand Master

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You see them grow everyday, but its never like this. This is really cool, and i cant wait for part 2 next year!

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Palms - 1 Bismarckia nobilis, 2 Butia odorata, 1 BxJ, 1 BxJxBxS, 1 BxS, 1 Chamaerops humilis, 1 Chamaedorea microspadix, 1 Hyophorbe verschaffeltii, 1 Livistona chinensis, 1 Livistona nitida, 1 Phoenix canariensis, 2 Phoenix roebelenii, 2 Ravenea rivularis, 1 Rhapis excelsa, 1 Sabal bermudana, 3 Sabal palmetto, 4 Syagrus romanzoffiana, 5 Trachycarpus fortunei, 4 Washingtonia robusta
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ZPalms Grand Master

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3 hours ago, JLM said:

You see them grow everyday, but its never like this. This is really cool, and i cant wait for part 2 next year!

I want them to do a washie so bad, it would be so cool 😍

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I love it! thanks for sharing this awesome vid.

I've recently acquired a Medjool/Dactylifera sapling and your video helped me identify how old mine is. It's about 6 months old based on your timelapse.

What kind of setup do you have? Did you take a pic everyday and just combined them into a video?

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ZPalms Grand Master

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3 hours ago, jgi27 said:

I love it! thanks for sharing this awesome vid.

I've recently acquired a Medjool/Dactylifera sapling and your video helped me identify how old mine is. It's about 6 months old based on your timelapse.

What kind of setup do you have? Did you take a pic everyday and just combined them into a video?

Oh it’s not my video, I’m just sharing it from YouTube. I do agree it does help to know when you can expect what stage of growth palm is from the video! 

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We had Medjool dates at Christmas 3 years ago. I got a pit to grow. It's about 18-20" tall today

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ZPalms Grand Master

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1 hour ago, Quasarecho said:

We had Medjool dates at Christmas 3 years ago. I got a pit to grow. It's about 18-20" tall today

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I didn’t really realize how moderately paced these trees are, I thought they would be more vigorous, looks great! 
 

I should sprout mine 🥰

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They don't grow fast - at least early on. I do put mine out in the spring and bring indoors in the fall. 

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On 3/12/2023 at 6:52 PM, ZPalms said:

I saw this on youtube earlier and I thought it was cool and thought I'd share, It's not often people make time lapse of palm trees, I'll come back to this forum in a year from now and post the 2nd part 😂

 

Just watched this video earlier!

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ZPalms Grand Master

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This isn’t the date palm but any time lapse of palms is cool and wanna share it here! 🤠

 

 

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ZPalms Grand Master

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It's that time again! I saw part 2 is out, so here it is! 😍

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ZPalms Grand Master

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Its that time once again! I saw part 3 was out! 🤠

 

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Amazing videos. I watched year 1 and 1.5 but year 2 and 3 brought some crazy growth. Could be that it got a bit etiolated from lack of direct sun but it still got huge for an indoor palm. My 2 year old dates are not close to that height yet 😂

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ZPalms Grand Master

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53 minutes ago, TropicsEnjoyer said:

Amazing videos. I watched year 1 and 1.5 but year 2 and 3 brought some crazy growth. Could be that it got a bit etiolated from lack of direct sun but it still got huge for an indoor palm. My 2 year old dates are not close to that height yet 😂

I was thinking the same thing! 😂

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Phoenix dactylifera has very aggressive roots and will grow like no other if given a parcel of sandy earth to grow in and plenty of overhead sunshine. I've got about 20 of them germinated in 2020, some are in 20 to 30 gallon containers, some still in grow bags, in Phoenix, Az.  all from supermarket medjools. Hopefully we will have a male tree in the mix or else I'll have to buy one from one of the growers in Imperial Valley.  I read that male trees are only 1 in 100, but a single male tree will pollinate a whole grove of females.  Interesting palms for sure. 

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On 11/7/2025 at 7:00 AM, stingray said:

Phoenix dactylifera has very aggressive roots and will grow like no other if given a parcel of sandy earth to grow in and plenty of overhead sunshine. I've got about 20 of them germinated in 2020, some are in 20 to 30 gallon containers, some still in grow bags, in Phoenix, Az.  all from supermarket medjools. Hopefully we will have a male tree in the mix or else I'll have to buy one from one of the growers in Imperial Valley.  I read that male trees are only 1 in 100, but a single male tree will pollinate a whole grove of females.  Interesting palms for sure. 

Male trees are planted 1 in 100 as they don't produce fruit, but can pollinate many female trees. As far as I know, seedlings have a 50/50 chance to become male or female.

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