A couple of philodendrons

[happypalms]

Some nice growing philodendrons to have in the collection. All are destined for the garden! 

[SeanK]

When I saw the title, I was going to ask about Monstera. I see you have those also.

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1 hour ago, SeanK said:

When I saw the title, I was going to ask about Monstera. I see you have those also.

I have a few different monstera as well the variegated ones. I only started collecting them a few years ago.

[JohnAndSancho]

Reminds me I need to pot a few up and see if anything is ready for cuttings. Love Philodendron, my Congo Rojo is probably my favorite plant in my arsenal. 

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2 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Reminds me I need to pot a few up and see if anything is ready for cuttings. Love Philodendron, my Congo Rojo is probably my favorite plant in my arsenal. 

Jose buono is a good one for you and burle  marx both easy growing, and are quite tough. What’s the name of your nursery? 

[JohnAndSancho]

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

Jose buono is a good one for you and burle  marx both easy growing, and are quite tough. What’s the name of your nursery? 

Sancho's Green Paws. I've been updating on YouTube pretty regularly. I've got a nice Burle Marx, a Moonlight, a couple Billitae, a really rough looking Brasil that I neglect, and I just scored a White Princess and Pink Princess for $5 each. 

 

YouTube.com/dbljzzl 

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54 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Sancho's Green Paws. I've been updating on YouTube pretty regularly. I've got a nice Burle Marx, a Moonlight, a couple Billitae, a really rough looking Brasil that I neglect, and I just scored a White Princess and Pink Princess for $5 each. 

 

YouTube.com/dbljzzl 

Do you send international 🤣 start growing anthurium vietchii as well get some small seedlings or seeds! 

[Zone7Bpalmguy]

Are there any hardy philodendrons to zone 7B -8? Thanks.

[JohnAndSancho]

21 hours ago, happypalms said:

Do you send international 🤣 start growing anthurium vietchii as well get some small seedlings or seeds! 

Lol I'll send anywhere in the world but customs is gonna gas it and hold it forever. Didn't I read a story where they held someone on here's palm for 2 years? 

That's part of my plan though. I'm starting tons of tropicals now, got the bananas so they can grow pups for me and sell the pups, got the palm seeds so I can wait 15 years until they're sellable sizes, I'm sowing the seeds of all the fruit I eat (lol I'm gonna have so many mango and papayas), sell the cuttings of the native stuff, then around this time next year I can invest in some shelving for the smaller anthuriums, philodendron, alocasia, more colocasia, etc etc and keep growing the fruit trees too. I've got a business plan. 

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1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Lol I'll send anywhere in the world but customs is gonna gas it and hold it forever. Didn't I read a story where they held someone on here's palm for 2 years? 

That's part of my plan though. I'm starting tons of tropicals now, got the bananas so they can grow pups for me and sell the pups, got the palm seeds so I can wait 15 years until they're sellable sizes, I'm sowing the seeds of all the fruit I eat (lol I'm gonna have so many mango and papayas), sell the cuttings of the native stuff, then around this time next year I can invest in some shelving for the smaller anthuriums, philodendron, alocasia, more colocasia, etc etc and keep growing the fruit trees too. I've got a business plan. 

That’s the biggest question I get asked do you post internationally and yes I do! 
Bananas they grow them by the thousands in my area, we had them at work they spent over a hundred thousand in developed and plants then bulldozed the lot a year later. Look into lady finger bananas they are a lot more cold tolerant and much sweeter bananas. Customs have just a seed order of mine for 6 weeks I even phoned them up to find out what is going oh yeah they have been released, so I wait another ten days no seeds phone them up oh sorry it’s still sitting with us incredible how they don’t care. So by the time I get my seeds next week it will be around 5 months from the order date what stuff up this order has been. 

[JohnAndSancho]

49 minutes ago, happypalms said:

That’s the biggest question I get asked do you post internationally and yes I do! 
Bananas they grow them by the thousands in my area, we had them at work they spent over a hundred thousand in developed and plants then bulldozed the lot a year later. Look into lady finger bananas they are a lot more cold tolerant and much sweeter bananas. Customs have just a seed order of mine for 6 weeks I even phoned them up to find out what is going oh yeah they have been released, so I wait another ten days no seeds phone them up oh sorry it’s still sitting with us incredible how they don’t care. So by the time I get my seeds next week it will be around 5 months from the order date what stuff up this order has been. 

I'm growing dwarf Cavendish, blue java, Cuban Red, and I just got a freebie Mona Lisa from a mail order company here. I want to apply for a grant to build a completely self sustained grow house that can be duplicated in any climate and grow anything. I mean I'm low tech AF right now, my humidifiers are literally buckets of water. But I'd like to add solar power, an RO filter, and recycle the runoff from excess watering, this is doable and it's sustainable and I don't know why we don't just build grow houses and drill wells in starving 3fd world areas instead of building warehouses and sending them MRE's. The cost of the technology has come down, we're already building the infrastructure, just send seed and fertilizer and let things be self sustainable until the end of time. If I can grow bananas and papayas and whatnot here in essentially a spare bedroom, being the complete idiot that I am, anybody can grow anything anywhere. Obviously some climates will require varying levels of insulation and battery storage, maybe gas or geothermal power, but the concept is adaptable anywhere and I don't know why we send airplanes full of freaking peanut paste to sit in a warehouse when that very same warehouse could easily be converted into a farm. Hell, go hydroponic if there's enough water. Cycle it all back through RO filters and just keep reusing it. The concept is viable and it makes more sense to let people sustain themselves. Or on a smaller level, everyone in my house is disabled but if I were to grow tomatoes or cucumbers or whatever here, it'd cut down grocery costs and there's things the elderly and disabled can do. Plus there's the mental health aspect and the sense of pride. 

 

Yeah, you can tell I've been working on this proposal in my head for a while. And a lot of what I'm growing/trying to grow, most of it even - comes from store bought fruit and/or plants. The bananas and papayas caught my attention because they grow so big so fast, and palms... Well, they don't - but this all just hit me once after I had taken my night night meds and if it works I'll have tons of stuff to donate to food banks that honestly people around here have probably never had before. If it doesn't work, my idea is still viable and I can grow something else. I even bought a pineapple today just to root the crown and see how that does in here. If it works, cool. If it doesn't, I'm out $3. I know why my coconut failed and I can try that again. I'm gonna need to build more shelves and add more lights to do it all, but it's a 500 sq foot room I'm working out of with a janky ass old propane heater. 

Let me get more space with better equipment, automated drip irrigation, solar panels and battery storage, better fans, better insulation, infrared heaters, some ventilation, and in theory I can do everything except harvest the crops while I'm sitting on the toilet, help feed the community while being virtually independent of municipal utilities and using very little outside resources - you could put setups like this in abandoned buildings in urban areas, food deserts and whatnot, you could do this in actual deserts, you can do this anywhere. The initial costs are marginal when you consider that this could practically go on forever. No chemical runoff, no need for acres and acres of land, minimal threat of pests, wildlife won't eat the crops, the stuff I'm growing is self pollinating and reproduces itself so no need for crop rotation or reseeding, I just started Bokashi composting to reduce food waste in the house and throw that back into the soil, I could add a worm farm - If I could plant chicken mcnugget and burrito trees, I'm set for life. 

 

Anyway, this is a long post even by my standards, and I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this, but like - the technology is there to at least put a serious dent in famine and world hunger, and IMHO it makes a lot more sense to use all the warehouses as grow houses instead of airlifting MREs and peanut paste and it can be done anywhere from Africa to Alaska with adaptations. 

 

And this idea came to me because I thought some plants were pretty and grow fast, and I got into plants because my apartment looked like a cheap hotel that someone stole the artwork from.