happypalms More palms in pots

[happypalms]

On 12/10/2025 at 3:27 PM, peachy said:

My meso is just in the shade house and looks better than yours in the heated place.  Henryana look crappier in winter here and have to be bought early in summer to acclimatise but they do live.

Peachy

Well you got one meso that’s in better condition than mine, as John Cleese would say it’s dead! 
Cold picked it off season by season until it no longer existed!

Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

Some nice ones there . They are looking like they are doing well for you. Harry

[Harry’s Palms]

Doing well in the land down under! Summer for you . Harry

[happypalms]

On 12/9/2025 at 8:59 PM, Phoenikakias said:

How deep are pots and how far from operculum lies the bulb?

The pots are 175mm and about 2cms!

[happypalms]

On 12/9/2025 at 8:57 PM, Phoenikakias said:

I love generally all remote germinators.

Kerriodoxas and joeys are my favourite ones, I first learned on Bismarck palms about remote germination palms. 

[Phoenikakias]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

The pots are 175mm and about 2cms!

You sure about given numbers? 2cm diameter seems unlikely. Also 17,5 cm depth looks to me to little for such large seeds, even when raised. I use much deeper special pots for Hyphaene.

[happypalms]

10 hours ago, Phoenikakias said:

You sure about given numbers? 2cm diameter seems unlikely. Also 17,5 cm depth looks to me to little for such large seeds, even when raised. I use much deeper special pots for Hyphaene.

I must have gotten your question wrong. The pots are 175mm simply because that’s all they would fit into with the large root system. And the other question I misunderstood.

[happypalms]

22 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Doing well in the land down under! Summer for you . Harry

Yep loving the summer, lots of good rainfall as well!

Richard 

[happypalms]

22 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Some nice ones there . They are looking like they are doing well for you. Harry

It’s the MAPU that’s the surprising me, I would have never tried one but had the opportunity to get a few seeds so why not try.

Richard

[happypalms]

22 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I’ve had one in the ground here for well over a year . In my climate they are a moderately paced grower and the shiny , dark green leaves are beautiful . A few months after I planted it , it opened a new frond and the coloring of the new petiole and leaflets was very nice . A friend happened to be walking down the side of my house and out of all the palms I have over there he picked out the Lanceolata and asked what kind of palm it was. Harry

This was right after the first frond opened after planting it. 

I had one that got shade out eventually and it died back. Then to my surprise it came back to life, but it still needs heat and sun but doesn’t get it. I only got seeds about 4 years ago and those ones are growing strong in the dappled bright light. 
Richard 

[peachy]

Every time I have seen large Mapu at the Palm Show, other people have always beaten me to them.  I know they are not hard to find anymore but for the prices they are asking for tiny ones make it too much of a gamble for me to risk. Orbicularis are one of the most spectacular of all the small palms. They amaze me.

Peachy

[peachy]

I can't find mine at the moment. I am sure it is not one of the casualties of the heat wave,  but I could be wrong.  Glad I read this page as I was going to plant it in heavy shade,  thinking they were not sun tolerant.  If I do find it,  (and it is still alive) I have a couple of good spots to put it in now that I know it needs a bit of sun.  

Thank you boys for the info

Peachy

[happypalms]

3 hours ago, peachy said:

Every time I have seen large Mapu at the Palm Show, other people have always beaten me to them.  I know they are not hard to find anymore but for the prices they are asking for tiny ones make it too much of a gamble for me to risk. Orbicularis are one of the most spectacular of all the small palms. They amaze me.

Peachy

Yes that’s the going rate for a MAPU, it’s because the seeds are so expensive for a lot growers. And the MAPU market is what it is, sabinara magnifica go roughly for the same price if not a bit dearer. I just germinated 55 out of a hundred seeds and they were rather costly, so just for to get my money back and make a profit I have to sell them at a high price. 
Richard

[happypalms]

3 hours ago, peachy said:

I can't find mine at the moment. I am sure it is not one of the casualties of the heat wave,  but I could be wrong.  Glad I read this page as I was going to plant it in heavy shade,  thinking they were not sun tolerant.  If I do find it,  (and it is still alive) I have a couple of good spots to put it in now that I know it needs a bit of sun.  

Thank you boys for the info

Peachy

There quite tough and medium paced growing palm if given that peachy attention every palm desires! I have plenty if you can’t find your one. And boys will be boys!

Richard 

[happypalms]

A few seedlings of a different ptychosperma species, somewhat cool tolerant and an easy growing palm, another great one for that mild Mediterranean climate perhaps, taking temperatures down to 2 degrees Celsius. 
I don’t have any in the ground yet but would think by the amount of only just a few loses in the seedlings in this batch is a good indicator of tolerance!  
Another zone push winner. And i think I might appease the gods and make this a thread and therefore document cold tolerance in palms! A handy little thread for all intrested in cold tolerance of new varieties! This should appease the palm gods! 

[peachy]

One day they will flood the market and the price will drop to practically nothing.  I have seen in it happen over and over.  Wish now I had punched out that greedy bugger at the palm show who took every Mapu on the shelf.

Peachy

[Harry’s Palms]

6 hours ago, peachy said:

I can't find mine at the moment. I am sure it is not one of the casualties of the heat wave,  but I could be wrong.  Glad I read this page as I was going to plant it in heavy shade,  thinking they were not sun tolerant.  If I do find it,  (and it is still alive) I have a couple of good spots to put it in now that I know it needs a bit of sun.  

Thank you boys for the info

Peachy

Here , they do great in  shade / fractured afternoon sun , at least so far. Maybe because it is so arid here . We typically have low humidity when it gets warm . It has been very warm this week even though it is December . We call it Indian Summer. Temps are in the mid 80’s  f.    I located the Lanceolata on the southern portion of the shady part of my garden . As it gets taller , it will get just a bit more sun.   I planted all the Dypsis/ Chrysalidiocarpus over there between the mature palms. That photo was taken on a cloudy day , early last year. Harry

[Harry’s Palms]

Great idea , information for those of us in more temperate areas. Harry

[happypalms]

On 12/13/2025 at 3:09 AM, Harry’s Palms said:

Great idea , information for those of us in more temperate areas. Harry

It’s a great way to document all the different varieties that will live and the complete failures, and if it helps with the decision of what palm to try then that’s a bonus. Cold my be a very obvious reason why some palms die in winter, but Ive also had the same variety of palms where only a few died from a certain batch of seedlings, a journal certainly will give a lot of ideas in zone pushing for growers to trial. My winter temps will obviously be a good judge for others to work with. 
While all zones will also have different variations depending on microclimate, so not exact science proven data but a good place to start. 
Richard 

[happypalms]

Here’s a stack of some of the personal collection, there in pots so I can post them in the palms in pots section, trust me when I say personal collection, that they are and their in there, it may be just one or two of a certain variety but their in there ! 

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice selection . I don’t have the nursery that you do so all my potted palms are personal selection. Your private section seems full of some nice goodies there. Harry

[happypalms]

6 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Nice selection . I don’t have the nursery that you do so all my potted palms are personal selection. Your private section seems full of some nice goodies there. Harry

Some rarer than chicken s teeth, one day they will be planted in the garden. 
Richard 

[happypalms]

On 12/12/2025 at 11:42 PM, peachy said:

One day they will flood the market and the price will drop to practically nothing.  I have seen in it happen over and over.  Wish now I had punched out that greedy bugger at the palm show who took every Mapu on the shelf.

Peachy

Well it wasn’t me who brought them all, the palm mafia are still connected to the prices iam sure of that they have to be, once a lot of growers work out there not so cool tender things might change, but I can’t see many mapu going to seed in a hurry in a subtropical climate especially my climate the super tropical stuff slows down a fair bit only getting a move on in the high summer temperatures. But hey if I came Borneo and was put in a subtropical climate I would complain as well. I had the opportunity to move to Manitoba in Canada no thanks as the temperatures got around minus 30 this is not for this little black duck and heaven forbid when it drops to minus 50 with warnings on the news you have only minutes to live if you’re caught out in it without winter clothing, I will stick with my balmy summer temperatures any day! 
Richard 

[happypalms]

A bit of spare time in the busy schedule @happypalms, so time take the opportunity to pot some of the new ones that popped up. When you sow as many seeds as I do there’s always something to put up sooner or later and staying on top the project is a work in progress, it never ends. I did manage to get a hundred percent germination on the Rhopalostylis, so thanks to @Tassie_Troy1971 for those seeds, at least there was no customs bill for that lot of seeds. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Super nice . Lots of goodies to grow . Harry

[Tassie_Troy1971]

22 hours ago, happypalms said:

A bit of spare time in the busy schedule @happypalms, so time take the opportunity to pot some of the new ones that popped up. When you sow as many seeds as I do there’s always something to put up sooner or later and staying on top the project is a work in progress, it never ends. I did manage to get a hundred percent germination on the Rhopalostylis, so thanks to @Tassie_Troy1971 for those seeds, at least there was no customs bill for that lot of seeds. 

Nice work 

Plenty of rain up your way to keep the Rhopalostylis happy 

[happypalms]

6 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Super nice . Lots of goodies to grow . Harry

I got more of them! 
Richard

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, Tassie_Troy1971 said:

Nice work 

Plenty of rain up your way to keep the Rhopalostylis happy 

Yes Iam pretty happy with the amount of rain, some big storms been hitting, all I have to do now is wait ten years for my Rhopalostylis to be on par with sunny warm Tasmania! 

[happypalms]

A couple more to pot up and I was lucky enough to have three more sprouted! 

[happypalms]

Kentiopsis piersonorium It may be too hot to plant in the ground, but it’s perfect summer heat for repotting palms. Calyptrocalyx doxanthus Sabal mauritiformis and a nice Stangeria eriopsis 

[happypalms]

Not many get to see the house collection except for the pics on palmtalk. 
Theres some good ones in there and a couple of common ones as well, with the added bonus of the cicadas as background sound affects! 

 

Enjoy I know I do, most will be planted in the ground over the years, a few will be part of the permanent container collection. 
My collection is relatively new as far as only starting to collect plants again about 5 years ago. There was a few plants leftover from the old collection but most of that got planted some years back. 

[JohnAndSancho]

YouTube is begging for you to start a channel, man. 

[peachy]

After sitting in a box for 5 months my new laptop is finally up and running. No more 15 minute waits for a page to download and then freezing the  moment it does. Now to figure out how to get a video to work on the new one.

Peachy

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, peachy said:

After sitting in a box for 5 months my new laptop is finally up and running. No more 15 minute waits for a page to download and then freezing the  moment it does. Now to figure out how to get a video to work on the new one.

Peachy

And I thought you watched the video and was coming around to raid that said house collection, shame on me for such thoughts. My dear possum would never think about doing that now would she, raiding my greenhouse!🤣

Richard

[happypalms]

4 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

YouTube is begging for you to start a channel, man. 

Not my cup of tea, I just love growing plants!

[JohnAndSancho]

5 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Not my cup of tea, I just love growing plants!

You're making videos. Might as well. 

[happypalms]

3 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

You're making videos. Might as well. 

PalmTalk is my social media limit, I can drive em crazy enough on palmtalk let alone YouTube!

[Mazat]

5 hours ago, happypalms said:

Not many get to see the house collection except for the pics on palmtalk. 
Theres some good ones in there and a couple of common ones as well, with the added bonus of the cicadas as background sound affects! 

IMG_7782.mov  

Enjoy I know I do, most will be planted in the ground over the years, a few will be part of the permanent container collection. 
My collection is relatively new as far as only starting to collect plants again about 5 years ago. There was a few plants leftover from the old collection but most of that got planted some years back. 

IMG_7781.mov IMG_7780.mov IMG_7782.mov

wonderful, Richard 🤗

[gyuseppe]

5 hours ago, happypalms said:

Not many get to see the house collection except for the pics on palmtalk. 
Theres some good ones in there and a couple of common ones as well, with the added bonus of the cicadas as background sound affects! 

IMG_7782.mov  

Enjoy I know I do, most will be planted in the ground over the years, a few will be part of the permanent container collection. 
My collection is relatively new as far as only starting to collect plants again about 5 years ago. There was a few plants leftover from the old collection but most of that got planted some years back. 

IMG_7781.mov IMG_7780.mov IMG_7782.mov

Richard, how much stuff! I absolutely have to come and steal it all from you! But thinking about it, it wouldn't make sense, many species are more tropical for my climate.😥

[Mazat]

6 hours ago, happypalms said:

Kentiopsis piersonorium It may be too hot to plant in the ground, but it’s perfect summer heat for repotting palms. Calyptrocalyx doxanthus Sabal mauritiformis and a nice Stangeria eriopsis 

🤗