Patric Schafer availability

[8B palms]

Might anyone have a recent Patric Schafer palm availability list and pricing. He has never disappointed with his awesome hybrids. I am fortunate to have a few of his less frequently offered now. He is always pushing the envelope with new hybrids so I was just curious. I posted this previously under palms wanted sub-forum section but didn’t have any success, thought someone on forum sub-group might have some info. Thanks in advance. 

[Dwarf Fan]

Interested as well…

[Scott W]

Not sure if he's producing anything new at the moment.  Have you contacted him directly?  coolhybrids@yahoo.com is his email he used for this.

[tarnado]

I reached out to him at this email address years ago and heard nothing back...

[8B palms]

I have emailed him, I know he gets very busy and is often in remote places collecting pollen or high up a palm pollinating. The process is very cumbersome and in California it can get hot quick. First removing all the male flowers, then waiting a few days for the female flowers to reach peak receptiveness and dust them with pollin (collecting it without it spoiling with mold is also a task) and then cover them and reapply pollen on 3 or 4 consecutive days. And then if any seeds set cover them so birds, squirrels or other critters don’t get to them. This is why these hybrids come with a price tag. I am very fortunate to have2 jubaea x syagrus. I was hoping to see if he still had yatay x jubaea. So I am sure he will get back to me when he’s not busy hybridizing. I was just curious if someone might have a recent list he sent them. 

[Scott W]

It was mentioned on this forum that he had lost access to many of the parent trees he used for his hybrids.  My last communication with him was in August 2024 and he had stated he had not been producing and shipping anything but may get back into it that Fall.  As far as I can tell he logged in her a little over a week ago so hopefully he sees your post....

[tarnado]

Holla y'all. Patric emailed me and said he didn't have a list to share, but asked what I was interested in. I mentioned that I lived up in western Washington, and he wrote back that he had B.  yatay x Jubaea and Jubaea x B. yatay "that might survive" up here. 

I was thinking that the B. yatay genetics would not be as cold-hardy or wet-resistant as B. odorata. Thoughts?

[8B palms]

Odorata/capitata are probably slight more cold hardy than yatay. The person who might nous banana joe up in islands of British Columbia. I know they had a jubaea which did well and even began to developed a decent trunk, but the wet/damp weather got to it. I have a yatay x jubaea and would like another one. Where you told any prices?