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I have a lot of container palms and Butia is one of my favorites. The day to day might be slow but they're pretty steady throughout the whole year, even when the unforgiving heat causes other plants to halt, struggling to survive. This progress over time is enjoyable.

 

Summer 2022

I pick up this pair of young pindos from my favorite local nursery. There are no clear winners in the lot so I just grab two without much thought.  In hindsight, I think I should have paid a little more attention to whether the arch in the leaf twists sideways. I don't know if they keep certain characteristics their whole lives or not, but so far these have and I prefer one to the other.

The staff says they grew them from seed and if memory serves, they are at this point 2 or 3 years old.

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We’ll call this one A. It’s a little more wispy than B, and it will maintain that trait for at least the next few years, maybe always.

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This one we’ll call B. It has a more compact crown than A. It may be hard to tell from this photo but it will become apparent with new fronds.

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Summer 2023

One year in. The trunks have about doubled in diameter but height remains roughly the same. During spring they are moved into tall pots where they can bake in the sun from first light to last. To my surprise, those barrel pots are already full of roots so I have to do some cutting and shoving but I finally get the round peg stuffed into the square hole.

For a while, A looks a bit droopy after the upgrade but those new spears keep coming anyway.

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Unfortunately, I do a bad job eyeballing the amount of dirt for the pot upgrade. B sinks and I don't want to rough it up anymore so I let it be for a couple years.

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After taking these 2023 pics I chop a lot of lower fronds off. There are some dark blotches on the stems that don't seem to affect anything, but why take a chance?  While cutting them apart I realize they'll end up looking like the Game of Thrones chair if I use regular loppers instead of a reciprocating saw. And I really don’t want that! So I decide to make the cuts vertical, as close to the trunk as comfortable. 

 

2024

The pindos have kicked into gear and are putting on a little more height. They're thicker. During April I bring home a mule from the same nursery that's bone dry and very leggy. It's only just making its first split leaf. Turns out it’s going to be a rocket.

Here they are at Christmas, starting to look more appealing. 

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B

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Summer 2025

Earlier in the year I was away for a couple weeks and a handful of potted Sabals lost their fronds for lack of water. Were the butia affected? They don't show it! Now they are pushing multiple spears at once. A first for these two. As the trunk diameter increases some of the lowest leaf bases split in half.

No fronds have been trimmed this year but it's tempting every time I mow the lawn.

 

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B

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The mule is already reaching higher than the pindos at maybe half the age.

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Great pictorial on these palms . It looks like “ B “ is going to be a silver / green one. Harry

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Before things really got hot this year I removed the pots to backfill and raise the soil level. All my palms in tall pots fill the entire space with roots, but the mule was already circling at just a year in!image.jpeg.b73cd591c8a03e221d1d45f9720d8696.jpeg

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16 hours ago, 5am said:

Tengo muchas palmeras en macetas y la butia es una de mis favoritas. Puede que el ritmo diario sea lento, pero se mantienen bastante estables durante todo el año, incluso cuando el calor inclemente hace que otras plantas se detengan, luchando por sobrevivir. Este progreso con el tiempo es una experiencia placentera.

 

Verano 2022

Compré este par de pindós jóvenes en mi vivero local favorito. No había ninguno que se llevara bien, así que me quedé con dos sin pensarlo mucho.   En retrospectiva,  creo que debería haberme fijado un poco más en si el arco de la hoja se curva lateralmente. No sé si conservan ciertas características toda la vida, pero hasta ahora estas sí y prefiero una a la otra.

El personal dice que las cultivaron a partir de semillas y, si no me falla la memoria, ahora tienen entre 2 y 3 años.

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A éste lo llamaremos A. Es un poco más tenue que el B, y mantendrá esa característica al menos durante los próximos años, tal vez siempre.

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A ésta la llamaremos B. Tiene una corona más compacta que la A. Puede resultar difícil notarlo en esta foto, pero se hará evidente con las hojas nuevas.

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Verano 2023

Un año después, los troncos casi han duplicado su diámetro, pero la altura se mantiene prácticamente igual. Durante la primavera, los trasplantan a macetas altas donde pueden asarse al sol desde el amanecer hasta el final. Para mi sorpresa, esas macetas de barril ya están llenas de raíces, así que tengo que cortar y empujar un poco, pero finalmente consigo meter la estaca redonda en el agujero cuadrado.

Por un tiempo, A parece un poco decaído después de la actualización, pero esas nuevas lanzas siguen apareciendo de todos modos.

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Lamentablemente, no calculé bien la cantidad de tierra para la mejora de la maceta. B se hunde y no quiero dañarla más, así que la dejé así un par de años.

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Después de tomar estas fotos de 2023, corto muchas hojas inferiores. Hay algunas manchas oscuras en los tallos que no parecen afectar a nada, pero ¿para qué arriesgarse? Al cortarlas, me doy cuenta de que acabarán pareciendo la silla de Juego de Tronos si uso una tijera de podar normal en lugar de una sierra de sable. ¡Y no quiero eso! Así que decido hacer los cortes verticales, lo más cerca del tronco posible. 

 

2024

Los pindos han cobrado impulso y están creciendo un poco más. Son más gruesos. En abril traigo a casa un mula del mismo vivero que está completamente seco y muy larguirucho. Apenas está brotando la primera hoja. Resulta que va a ser un cohete .

Aquí están en Navidad, empezando a verse más atractivos. 

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B

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Verano de 2025

A principios de año estuve fuera un par de semanas y un puñado de sabales en maceta perdieron sus hojas por falta de agua. ¿Se vieron afectadas las butias? ¡No lo demuestran! Ahora están desarrollando varios tallos a la vez. Una novedad para estos dos. A medida que aumenta el diámetro del tronco, algunas de las bases de las hojas más bajas se parten por la mitad.

Este año no he podado ninguna hoja, pero es tentador cada vez que corto el césped.

 

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La mula ya alcanza mayor altura que los pindos, con aproximadamente la mitad de edad.

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Those palm trees are beautiful. They will grow beautifully, my friend.

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6 hours ago, 5am said:

Before things really got hot this year I removed the pots to backfill and raise the soil level. All my palms in tall pots fill the entire space with roots, but the mule was already circling at just a year in!image.jpeg.b73cd591c8a03e221d1d45f9720d8696.jpeg

Root porn

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Butia do really well in pots even long term.  They're pretty variable too - I grew a Butia from a very silver mother.  It stayed green throughout its life.  I've noticed my Butia and mule both have worked on widening their girth first before going vertical.  Yours are definitely working on the root system!  😃

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On 8/24/2025 at 11:54 PM, Harry’s Palms said:

It looks like “ B “ is going to be a silver / green one.

Thanks for pointing that out, I hadn’t noticed! The color difference is so subtle that it didn’t register before. Could it change with age or will they pretty much stay as they are?

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Mine was just starting to show the color at that age . It ended up silver . When it was a strap leaf seedling it was green. HarryIMG_3776.thumb.jpeg.67dc8fe1434a32a539ce36e6e74c6c97.jpeg

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