Ok I shall settle the score and start a on the potting bench thread to appease the palm gods. So it is as follows, on the potting bench you shall see what’s been growing and what reds to be potted up, freshly germinated to anything else that needs to be potted, it shall be gor reference as seedling identification. If anyone wants to identify a seedling, and also as documentation of what and how the plants are growing for the palm talk audience and for my own documentation! 

Looking good Richard 👍 

My potting bench is the top of our trash cans ! Perfect height and size for my small projects . Harry

It works! 

On 2/17/2026 at 10:21 PM, Jonathan said:

Looking good Richard 👍 

You gotta appease the palm gods! 

22 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

My potting bench is the top of our trash cans ! Perfect height and size for my small projects . Harry

It works! 

It seems to work for me I like it, a free potting bench, let me look into my crystal ball, I see bigger and better things to come, you will need a bigger potting bench.🔮

Richard 

On 2/18/2026 at 8:19 AM, happypalms said:

You gotta appease the palm gods! 

They prefer maiden sacrifices, but this is a close second  😂  

On 2/17/2026 at 8:51 AM, Harry’s Palms said:

My potting bench is the top of our trash cans ! Perfect height and size for my small projects . Harry

It works! 

I started using an old dishwasher on the patio but that was before I apparently hit my head really hard and decided to start an entire nursery. Now I use a saggy folding table from the 1970s that's made out of pressboadd and farts. 

Bloody ell @happypalms you seem a bit desperate for some action mate!

4 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

They prefer maiden sacrifices, but this is a close second  😂  

I guess so, lucky I don’t I have an active volcano on hand or I would be thrown into that 🤣

8 minutes ago, DoomsDave said:

Bloody ell @happypalms you seem a bit desperate for some action mate!

The palm gods have spoken and if it’s action they want, action they get! 

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I started using an old dishwasher on the patio but that was before I apparently hit my head really hard and decided to start an entire nursery. Now I use a saggy folding table from the 1970s that's made out of pressboadd and farts. 

Well at least that’s better than doing the dish’s, they did more than pressboards and farts in the 70s, maybe you didn’t hit your head perhaps it was something else you did in the 70s that’s related too psycadellics!🍄

17 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Well at least that’s better than doing the dish’s, they did more than pressboards and farts in the 70s, maybe you didn’t hit your head perhaps it was something else you did in the 70s that’s related too psycadellics!🍄

I was born in the 70s, but I absolutely plead the fifth about anything that's happened since then. I ain't saying nothing without a subpoena or an audience 😂

16 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I was born in the 70s, but I absolutely plead the fifth about anything that's happened since then. I ain't saying nothing without a subpoena or an audience 😂

Nothing wrong with opening the third eye 👁️ 

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

Nothing wrong with opening the third eye 👁️ 

😂 I had an hour long conversation with a tree. I sat underneath it and drank malt liquor and ate Skittles in the middle of the night in a forest. I should have known then I'd turn into a plant person. 

22 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

😂 I had an hour long conversation with a tree. I sat underneath it and drank malt liquor and ate Skittles in the middle of the night in a forest. I should have known then I'd turn into a plant person. 

Oh so you did partake, had a mate who once took peyote I said to him you’re a braver man than me, he did recover well from such activities. But every now and then he talks about a rainbow………

Always inspiring to see you doing so much work. With so many different and rare species. 
I try to do so but on much smaller scale. 
Today was licuala lautherback and Basselinia favieri 

 

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

Oh so you did partake, had a mate who once took peyote I said to him you’re a braver man than me, he did recover well from such activities. But every now and then he talks about a rainbow………

Lol there was a recurring line on an old episode of South Park. 

 

"There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college." 

10 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Lol there was a recurring line on an old episode of South Park. 

 

"There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college." 

Yet but I never inhaled they say!!!

1 hour ago, Nico971 said:

Always inspiring to see you doing so much work. With so many different and rare species. 
I try to do so but on much smaller scale. 
Today was licuala lautherback and Basselinia favieri 

 

Iam impressed, good stuff looking good.. Where the favieri RPS seeds?  You have the green thumb 👍 

20 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Yet but I never inhaled they say!!!

There's a lot I haven't done, I'm a prude by American standards. 

Just now, JohnAndSancho said:

There's a lot I haven't done, I'm a prude by American standards. 

There’s a lot I did do, but dont do anymore even by my standards, even the long hair got cut off, something about getting older and just living life to the purest form of happiness! 

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

Iam impressed, good stuff looking good.. Where the favieri RPS seeds?  You have the green thumb 👍 

Yes favieri from RPS, and licuala directly harvested on the mother plant of a fellow collector 

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

There’s a lot I did do, but dont do anymore even by my standards, even the long hair got cut off, something about getting older and just living life to the purest form of happiness! 

It's time for me to shave my head again. It's refreshing. 

1 hour ago, Nico971 said:

Yes favieri from RPS, and licuala directly harvested on the mother plant of a fellow collector 

Thanks good to know they stay viable for a while, next batch I might some. 

53 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

It's time for me to shave my head again. It's refreshing. 

Go for it the kojak look would suit you!

A few more goodies across the bench! It will be interesting to see what the dasyantha turn out to be. And I know the diospyros are a pretty rare tree around my area! 

22 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Go for it the kojak look would suit you!

I just get the beard trimmer and go nuts. And I always come up with jokes when people say something - allergic reaction to Taco Bell, I used a cheap shampoo, I'm boycotting the shampoo industry, etc etc 

47 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I just get the beard trimmer and go nuts. And I always come up with jokes when people say something - allergic reaction to Taco Bell, I used a cheap shampoo, I'm boycotting the shampoo industry, etc etc 

You forgot head lice treatment 

🤣

14 hours ago, happypalms said:

You forgot head lice treatment 

🤣

Nah I'm not gonna go there. I'm clean. 

On the potting bench today with some of the personal palms for the garden.

calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana cocothrinax argentatadypsis rivularis kentiopsis pyriformis dypsis faneva roscheria melonochaetes 
Nicely done with the Geonoma Panama at the back! A few more for the garden later on. 

 

@happypalms great post ! I am just curious how old that Kentiopsis  

( Chambeyronia) Pyroformis is . Mine takes a full year to get a new frond , only once in the year and half I have had it. Harry

 

edit: it actually shrunk a bit after I planted it in the ground!

10 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

@happypalms great post ! I am just curious how old that Kentiopsis  

( Chambeyronia) Pyroformis is . Mine takes a full year to get a new frond , only once in the year and half I have had it. Harry

 

edit: it actually shrunk a bit after I planted it in the ground!

It’s about 4 years old, I got from the great germinater Merc psillakis. So he must have had it for about a year. They do like warm temperatures I get about 2 too 3 leaves a season, but definitely slow as a seedling. Most likely you’re palm went into sulk mode after planting it’s a natural thing for a lot of newly planted palms, they lose a lot of lower leaves and they get a bit tatty looking sometimes with only one leaf and a spear. Hears a couple of satakentia that went into sulk mode after planting they are on the road to recovery now, planted about 6 months ago. 
Richard 

Thanks Richard. Here’s my little guy. Harry

It looks healthy , it’s just so s l o w ! The very windy conditions we’ve had probably hasn’t helped the appearance. Harry

16 hours ago, happypalms said:

On the potting bench today with some of the personal palms for the garden.

calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana cocothrinax argentatadypsis rivularis kentiopsis pyriformis dypsis faneva roscheria melonochaetes 
Nicely done with the Geonoma Panama at the back! A few more for the garden later on. 

 

Nice ! If you could give any advices for the calyptrogyne/asterogyne. the seeds I collected in Costa Rica just sprout. How old is the one in the pictures ? 
Thank you 🙏 

12 minutes ago, Nico971 said:

Nice ! If you could give any advices for the calyptrogyne/asterogyne. the seeds I collected in Costa Rica just sprout. How old is the one in the pictures ? 
Thank you 🙏 

I think it’s about 4 years old, they grow fast. It’s a Ghiesbreghtiana. 

22 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Thanks Richard. Here’s my little guy. Harry

It looks healthy , it’s just so s l o w ! The very windy conditions we’ve had probably hasn’t helped the appearance. Harry

They are slow in the first place, cool soil won’t help much either. Try a rock mulch for a bit of thermal mass! 
Richard 

Potting up a few more sprouts and spikes today, and a big thank you @tim_brissy_13 for the special little sprouts of lanonia, Pinanga and raphis varieties, it shall not be forgotten let us say, such a gift gets locked into the memory bank! And a few home germinated ones just to keep myself busy on the potting bench! 

On 2/17/2026 at 10:38 AM, happypalms said:

Ok I shall settle the score and start a on the potting bench thread to appease the palm gods. So it is as follows, on the potting bench you shall see what’s been growing and what reds to be potted up, freshly germinated to anything else that needs to be potted, it shall be gor reference as seedling identification. If anyone wants to identify a seedling, and also as documentation of what and how the plants are growing for the palm talk audience and for my own documentation! 

Great, Richard 🤗

14 hours ago, Mazat said:

Great, Richard 🤗

The biggest problem is when you grow as much as I do, you soon start to run out of room!  

20 minutes ago, happypalms said:

The biggest problem is when you grow as much as I do, you soon start to run out of room!  

Oh yes 🤗😁