Little Geonoma atrovirens nice bit of colour

[yhegd76]

The colour of the new leaf on the atrovirens is amazing. An absolute stunning palm, seemingly easy to grow water and humidity, it’s not to fussed on soil as long as it is free draining. But one palm definitely worth growing in any collection. It seems to be a lot brighter red longispina the underside of the leaf yet a darker almost black on the leaf surface.

[Jim in Los Altos]

Everything I’ve read about this stunning palm is that it’s one of the more difficult species to grow being naive to cloud forest regions of the Amazons. Photo below is not mine. 
 

[happypalms]

I have three of them and they dislike dry conditions and lack of humidity, they prefer a cool place in the greenhouse, none in the ground yet. I soon worked out not to grow them in a hothouse thinking they needed super cool protection in winter quite the opposite actually, it’s the hot dry no humidity they dislike. The two in the picture I have a water jug full of water for a bit of extra humidity and they are sitting just of the ground on a pallet which I keep wet underneath. Not sure if I ever will plant them in the ground they are to rare and precious to kill. But if you to see some real hum dingers  check out @realarch he’s the one that will give any palm grower palm envy in a blink of an eye, being one of those lucky Hawaii growers that look at there palms and they grow a foot with each look! 

[Tropical Toni]

6 hours ago, yhegd76 said:

The colour of the new leaf on the atrovirens is amazing. An absolute stunning palm, seemingly easy to grow water and humidity, it’s not to fussed on soil as long as it is free draining. But one palm definitely worth growing in any collection. It seems to be a lot brighter red longispina the underside of the leaf yet a darker almost black on the leaf surface.

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[donpachino1983]

5 hours ago, happypalms said:

I have three of them and they dislike dry conditions and lack of humidity, they prefer a cool place in the greenhouse, none in the ground yet. I soon worked out not to grow them in a hothouse thinking they needed super cool protection in winter quite the opposite actually, it’s the hot dry no humidity they dislike. The two in the picture I have a water jug full of water for a bit of extra humidity and they are sitting just of the ground on a pallet which I keep wet underneath. Not sure if I ever will plant them in the ground they are to rare and precious to kill. But if you to see some real hum dingers  check out @realarch he’s the one that will give any palm grower palm envy in a blink of an eye, being one of those lucky Hawaii growers that look at there palms and they grow a foot with each look! 

I wonder how these will do in florida 🤔

[happypalms]

52 minutes ago, donpachino1983 said:

I wonder how these will do in florida 🤔

Good question they take temperatures around 2 degrees Celsius in my climate, dont repot them in winter is my advice or fertilise in winter or let them dry out, good luck!

[kinzyjr]

Interesting first post by the original poster.  Either my mind is playing tricks on me, or I recognize the writing style from somewhere.  🤔

A person from Dallas who spells color (American English) colour (UK, AUS)?  Where's Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot when we need them?

[happypalms]

31 minutes ago, kinzyjr said:

Interesting first post by the original poster.  Either my mind is playing tricks on me, or I recognize the writing style from somewhere.  🤔

A person from Dallas who spells color (American English) colour (UK, AUS)?  Where's Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot when we need them?

Well at least it wasn’t me 🤣