The Farm

[Tad]

I am not sure what the color difference is but I do recall somone saying it made some kind of difference.

[Tad]

This is the green one, they have grown quite well, I wish I had planted them sooner and expect great things from them this coming spring and summer.

This bed gets watered by the same constant feed program that goes on inside the shade house so they really should take off after our winter.

[Exotic Life]

Hi,

I'm following this treath every time i see him up the board, and i love to see those picture's of the farm. I hope that i have got ground with palms like that over some years for my own!

Those queens, are you buying that in or do you sow them self, let them grow to a little palm and then plant them like this?

Robbin

[_Keith]

I guess I should have replied sooner as well.  This is one of my favorites threads.  Keep it up, even more detail is welcome.  Heck throw in a little homelife too.

PS - And next time the Cane Toads are in the mood, put the sounds on that other thread.

[Tad]

Robbin the queens in the last pics we grow ourselves here from seed,

I am working on some pics right now but wont post them till the project is complete.

thanks for your support!!

[Tad]

fixing to drop a load of robellinis to a local landscraper

[Tad]

9 doubles and 1 triple

[Tad]

after the flood irrigation

[Tad]

Some small sabals headed to San Antonio

[Tad]

loading sabals

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[deezpalms]

Wow Tad you really need to give those Sabals a hurricane cut huh? Do they grow in much quicker that way?

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(deezpalms @ Dec. 11 2007,18:53)

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Wow Tad you really need to give those Sabals a hurricane cut huh? Do they grow in much quicker that way?

this is how the customers ordered them, we dont hurricane cut much here in Tx

[Tad]

small meds for order

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Roberto trying to look coool

[Tad]

almost done

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washies going on the load

[Tad]

almost lunch time!!!

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Sergio hooks up the truck,

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Kris this pic is for you!!!

[Tad]

unloading after lunch at the cemetery,

[Tad]

40 Florida sabals 10 to 12 foot trunks, 65.00 bucks each, its just tooooo cheap!! I know they are swamp weeds but they are really nice if you use them in the right way.

[Tad]

another shot for Kris to get his truck fix on with!!

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The cemetery

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these sabals are also headed to San Antonio, different customer tho

[Tad]

Kris eat your heart out a supermodified dodge diesel 4X4, computer chimped out 3 different ways

[Tad]

big exhaust kit

[Tad]

xtra gauges for monitoring exhaust temps etc...

[Tad]

getting ready to irrigate the cemetery, which is alos going to include a palm farm

[Tad]

time to start planting.

[Tad]

sabal palmettos and sabal minors

[Tad]

...more to come later, I have one big project I a working on but it will have to wait till completion to show

I hope y'all enjoy this stuff!

[freakypalmguy]

Totally cool to see this palm action. Keep em coming Tad.

Matt

[Alicehunter2000]

Did I miss something............why the Florida sabals? Did you truck them in for a specific job?

I agree the price for them is the best deal in landscaping! Unbelievable actually.....if you stop and think about the labor involved in digging and transporting......not to mention the value of the trees themselves.

And Dave, they cut them like that because the survivability is increased with less fronds for transpiration. I have also noticed with my own sabals that the smaller the rootball upon transplantation, the quicker the growth of new fronds.