Another 500 Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons seeds sown

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I can’t help myself I had to buy another 500 Joey seeds seeing as I love them that much. It’s a ten year project to grow the best I can over those years and beyond into retirement for a couple of palms to sell. An investment into my retirement fund hopefully one day iam sure in ten years or more the market in my area will have changed as it is slowly changing now. With more people moving into the area building a lot of houses and retirement plans The seeds are sown in coco coir perlite mix and will be placed in the hothouse one box I placed on top of heat mats just for fun. I have germinated them before without heat mats just fine there quite tough Joey palms very forgiving in most departments except for watering let them dry out and it’s game over. I also purchased 200 licuala paludosa just for fun to grow a few on the side I like slow growing palms there my preference in palms. Fast growing palms I don’t really have the patience for constantly repotting and the maintenance involved in the cultivation of them it’s just to much work 

[Harry’s Palms]

I think you will have the market cornered on these! The Palm market here has evolved over the years . More folks are moving into other genus and species . It used to be almost all ( with the exception of the collectors)Queen and Pygmy palms with a dollop of King Palm . Now there are other ones popping up . I can see Australia becoming the new home to the “Joey”! Harry

[Jonathan]

You can rebrand them as the 'Happy Palm'!

Like the Kiwifruit in NZ.

[tim_brissy_13]

Ok Richard I think it’s time for an intervention. How many more Joeys do you need?! 😆

In all seriousness I hope this results in many Joeys being spread around subtropical and tropical gardens all over Australia. Great work!

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21 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I think you will have the market cornered on these! The Palm market here has evolved over the years . More folks are moving into other genus and species . It used to be almost all ( with the exception of the collectors)Queen and Pygmy palms with a dollop of King Palm . Now there are other ones popping up . I can see Australia becoming the new home to the “Joey”! Harry

I certainly hope so. But the growers up north have most part of the market sown up. Iam in for the long haul in the subtropical market hopefully. Soone or later the Joey market will be covered in this subtropical region in this part of the world. 
Richard

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13 hours ago, Jonathan said:

You can rebrand them as the 'Happy Palm'!

Like the Kiwifruit in NZ.

Not a bad marketing idea there Jonathan you could be onto something there. Now how do I corner the Joey market in Tasmania 🤣

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9 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Ok Richard I think it’s time for an intervention. How many more Joeys do you need?! 😆

In all seriousness I hope this results in many Joeys being spread around subtropical and tropical gardens all over Australia. Great work!

I thought that as well I need therapy seriously but hey you can never have enough joeys you know that, only problem is Melbourne is of the target sales group unless….. One thing I know there will be no shortage of joeys in my area. What day is the intervention meeting so I can be there early for it. 🤣