Spring 2026

[Las Palmas Norte]

28 minutes ago, Zone7Bpalmguy said:

Put it this way. The 3g camellias were $12 and 1g were $5-6. I spent about $100, which is extremely unusual for me to do so in a day or two on plants. But it was a super deal! I still have one more to plant but I will wait and see what the weather looks like soon. 

That reminded me of a time I rented a cube truck, took the ferry over to the mainland and loaded it full. I spent $3,500 on plants alone. In all fairness, much of that was re-sold which ultimately paid for all my expenses & plants.

[PAPalmtrees]

1 hour ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

That reminded me of a time I rented a cube truck, took the ferry over to the mainland and loaded it full. I spent $3,500 on plants alone. In all fairness, much of that was re-sold which ultimately paid for all my expenses & plants.

Wow 3,500 is so much money for plants!

[Las Palmas Norte]

28 minutes ago, PAPalmtrees said:

Wow 3,500 is so much money for plants!

I'm not afraid of spending money especially when there's an end game. It would be fair to assume I've spent untold amounts, much of which was during my years operating a home based nursery. I didn't make a ton of money, but I liked what I was doing and it was a niche market selling palms and exotics.

[PAPalmtrees]

5 minutes ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

I'm not afraid of spending money especially when there's an end game. It would be fair to assume I've spent untold amounts, much of which was during my years operating a home based nursery. I didn't make a ton of money, but I liked what I was doing and it was a niche market selling palms and exotics.

Yeah totally. I'm still in high school and I would love to have a career owning a nursery and a landscaping company. I would love to specialize in palms and exotics but obviously that's not what everyone wants in their garden.

[Las Palmas Norte]

2 hours ago, PAPalmtrees said:

Yeah totally. I'm still in high school and I would love to have a career owning a nursery and a landscaping company. I would love to specialize in palms and exotics but obviously that's not what everyone wants in their garden.

High school huh? I started my last year of high school in 1976, 50 years ago.

At the risk of going way off topic, back in the first decade of the 2000's I ran my hobby nursery for a few years before the district decided it wanted permits, certificates and property rezoning. Here's a couple of pics from back then.

 

[PAPalmtrees]

1 hour ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

High school huh? I started my last year of high school in 1976, 50 years ago.

At the risk of going way off topic, back in the first decade of the 2000's I ran my hobby nursery for a few years before the district decided it wanted permits, certificates and property rezoning. Here's a couple of pics from back then.

 

That's really cool! I love the greenhouse did you build it yourself? Me and my dad want to build one.

[Las Palmas Norte]

1 hour ago, PAPalmtrees said:

That's really cool! I love the greenhouse did you build it yourself? Me and my dad want to build one.

It was a prefab galvanized steel frame I bought from a fellow enthusiast. I had to frame the ends, make the doors and buy the polyethylene. I sold it in less than a day for nearly what I paid. Lucky I guess. 

[PAPalmtrees]

2 minutes ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

It was a prefab galvanized steel frame I bought from a fellow enthusiast. I had to frame the ends, make the doors and buy the polyethylene. I sold it in less than a day for nearly what I paid. Lucky I guess. 

Nice! 

[PAPalmtrees]

Won't be planting anything next week but i will be bringing out a lot of my plants for the nicer weather

[MarcusH]

On 2/6/2026 at 6:27 PM, Ben G. said:

I might be able to help you with the radicalis. I sprouted some seeds last year.

We should talk next week. I will have some time away from work.

Sounds like a plan. Give me a call or text me this weekend. 

[JohnAndSancho]

On 2/7/2026 at 12:37 PM, Las Palmas Norte said:

I'm not afraid of spending money especially when there's an end game. It would be fair to assume I've spent untold amounts, much of which was during my years operating a home based nursery. I didn't make a ton of money, but I liked what I was doing and it was a niche market selling palms and exotics.

This sounds awfully familiar 😂 I still can't believe I started with the idea of overwintering literally a handful of plants. Thankfully I don't have an HOA to worry about. My closest neighbors are 1/4 mile away, I've got a lot of land to play with out here and we're so deep in the country they have to pipe in sunshine. I think the cats would shred a greenhouse or a shadehouse unless I used the panels. I've got a plan, I know what'll sell locally and I know what'll go on Etsy or whatever. If I have a good summer and get good news from SSDI I want to start growing from tissue culture - Plants Without Borders has some rad stuff but shipping comes from China and Hong Kong, and they've got a $450 minimum order. And the plants are dirt cheap for the most part - the good news is the $140 shipping is part of that $450 and it covers phyto, customs, all that jazz. It's where most of the sellers on Palmstreet seem to order from. 

[PAPalmtrees]

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

This sounds awfully familiar 😂 I still can't believe I started with the idea of overwintering literally a handful of plants. Thankfully I don't have an HOA to worry about. My closest neighbors are 1/4 mile away, I've got a lot of land to play with out here and we're so deep in the country they have to pipe in sunshine. I think the cats would shred a greenhouse or a shadehouse unless I used the panels. I've got a plan, I know what'll sell locally and I know what'll go on Etsy or whatever. If I have a good summer and get good news from SSDI I want to start growing from tissue culture - Plants Without Borders has some rad stuff but shipping comes from China and Hong Kong, and they've got a $450 minimum order. And the plants are dirt cheap for the most part - the good news is the $140 shipping is part of that $450 and it covers phyto, customs, all that jazz. It's where most of the sellers on Palmstreet seem to order from. 

Same with me i'm in the deep country of the Appalachians here in Pennsylvania so I don't have to worry about any of that stuff and I would love to open up a small nursery on our land

[JohnAndSancho]

48 minutes ago, PAPalmtrees said:

Same with me i'm in the deep country of the Appalachians here in Pennsylvania so I don't have to worry about any of that stuff and I would love to open up a small nursery on our land

There's grants available but unfortunately I'm not much help walking through the process. I do know that if it's related to food and food deserts they're typically more interested than wanting to grow palms, so my broadened horizons fingers crossed help me out whenever I remember to get off my ass and do this. 

[PAPalmtrees]

20 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

There's grants available but unfortunately I'm not much help walking through the process. I do know that if it's related to food and food deserts they're typically more interested than wanting to grow palms, so my broadened horizons fingers crossed help me out whenever I remember to get off my ass and do this. 

Yeah unfortunately. I wonder if you could get a greenhouse grant if you could that would be really cool

[JohnAndSancho]

1 hour ago, PAPalmtrees said:

Yeah unfortunately. I wonder if you could get a greenhouse grant if you could that would be really cool

I've actually got a pretty solid plan and the land to do it, and my plan is to show it can be fully off grid automated and self sustaining for ppl with disabilities.

[PAPalmtrees]

12 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I've actually got a pretty solid plan and the land to do it, and my plan is to show it can be fully off grid automated and self sustaining for ppl with disabilities.

That's a really cool idea!