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PIA palm parts - U know what I mean

DoomsDave
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Sometimes palms drop parts that annoy hell out of me.

Like spent infructescences, like that from an Archontophoenix tuckeri.

Maybe there’s some that vex and annoy you?

 

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    Don’t get me started on my Queen palms ! Just kidding , they drop so many seeds and the debris prior to the seeds are a bit of an irritant. Also all the lovely palms with teeth or spines . Beautiful as they are , getting poked and cut ain’t no fun. Oh what we do for our obsession. Harry

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    Washes are like weeds, when they start fruiting. And worst of all seeds are round and small and can be easily carried every where by gusts, such as potting medium and water tanks. 

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    they fall,many seeds of butia,washingtonia,  sabal, livistona chinensis, syagrus romanzoffiana, and these grow like weeds, and my wife has to uproot them

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    10 hours ago, Phoenikakias said:

    Washes are like weeds, when they start fruiting. And worst of all seeds are round and small and can be easily carried every where by gusts, such as potting medium and water tanks. 

    Here the Washie seeds get eaten by coyotes and pooped all over.

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    Life would be better, Dave, if you went back to the RED Converse !   :mrlooney:

    San Francisco, California

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    The trouble with a lot of palm parts is the extra work they require to process. 
     

    The Archontophoenix “beard” in the OP doesn’t fit easily anywhere including in the fireplace.

    @Darold Petty I recall you noting a time or two how the abscised leaves on your tall Rhopalistylus eventually gave rise to liability issues.

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    Trachy inflorescences hang in the fibres for about 3 years.

    4 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

    Here the Washie seeds get eaten by coyotes and pooped all over.

    Less evil than magpies feeding here regularly on Livistona chinensis seeds and painting blue afterwards entire balcony!

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    7 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

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    @Darold Petty I recall you noting a time or two how the abscised leaves on your tall Rhopalistylus eventually gave rise to liability issues.

    I used 'bungee' cord to tie up the fronds so that they could not fall uncontrolled.  Eventually,.. I was at the very top of a 28 foot extension ladder !   (Scary !)  When they became too tall for this ladder I had them removed.  This was doubly painful, as they were surely the tallest of their kind in northern California, and the tree service charged me $2000 to remove them !  :unsure:  

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    21 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

    Don’t get me started on my Queen palms ! Just kidding , they drop so many seeds and the debris prior to the seeds are a bit of an irritant. Also all the lovely palms with teeth or spines . Beautiful as they are , getting poked and cut ain’t no fun. Oh what we do for our obsession. Harry

    Argh the queen palm commonly known as as the shin breaker Harry. 
    Richard 

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    4 minutes ago, Darold Petty said:

    I used 'bungee' cord to tie up the fronds so that they could not fall uncontrolled.  Eventually,.. I was at the very top of a 28 foot extension ladder !   (Scary !)  When they became too tall for this ladder I had them removed.  This was doubly painful, as they were surely the tallest of their kind in northern California, and the tree service charged me $2000 to remove them !  :unsure:  

    Those were EPIC! Hope you plant some new ones!

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    I still have three adult Rhopalostylis, and will just live with the frond drop.  Where the two tall ones were I have now planted a Brahea edulis,  it won't get tall in my remaining lifespan !

    San Francisco, California

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    On 1/19/2025 at 6:07 PM, Darold Petty said:

    I still have three adult Rhopalostylis, and will just live with the frond drop.  Where the two tall ones were I have now planted a Brahea edulis,  it won't get tall in my remaining lifespan !

    Along your sidewalk or driveway?

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    No, these are all in the rear garden.

    San Francisco, California

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    1 hour ago, Darold Petty said:

    No, these are all in the rear garden.

    With that awesome view!

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    I agree with Dave about getting rid of the spent infructescences,  But the seeds from my Dypsis lutescens dropping in to my pool drive me nuts... I used to be pretty good about keeping infructescences trimmed back, but at 77 it's not done near as much as it should be... The palms are in a difficult spot to get to, so getting someone to do it would be a hassle... I also kept my queen trimmed pretty well, but climbing on my roof is a no-no now, so it's getting pretty nasty...

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    On 1/19/2025 at 7:22 AM, gyuseppe said:

    they fall,many seeds of butia,washingtonia,  sabal, livistona chinensis, syagrus romanzoffiana, and these grow like weeds, and my wife has to uproot them

    what a hard work it is to remove all these little plants, which grow by themselves, livistona chinensis, sabal bermudana, palmetto, minor, syagrus romanzoffiana, butia odorata

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