I shall start a On the potting bench thread

[happypalms]

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! 

[Jonathan]

Looking good Richard 👍 

[Harry’s Palms]

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

It works! 

[happypalms]

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

Looking good Richard 👍 

You gotta appease the palm gods! 

[happypalms]

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 

[kinzyjr]

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  😂  

[JohnAndSancho]

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. 

[DoomsDave]

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

[happypalms]

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 🤣

[happypalms]

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! 

[happypalms]

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!🍄

[JohnAndSancho]

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 😂

[happypalms]

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 👁️ 

[JohnAndSancho]

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. 

[happypalms]

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………

[Nico971]

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 

 

[JohnAndSancho]

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." 

[happypalms]

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!!!

[happypalms]

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 👍 

[JohnAndSancho]

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. 

[happypalms]

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! 

[Nico971]

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 

[JohnAndSancho]

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. 

[happypalms]

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. 

[happypalms]

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!

[happypalms]

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! 

[JohnAndSancho]

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 

[happypalms]

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 

🤣