3 hours ago, happypalms said:

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

That’s why you build more greenhouses , right? With all the room you have , I think you would run out of time to maintain them . I had one greenhouse that was small compared to yours , 12’ x 12’ with very high ceiling . I spent several hours in there every week. I even had a plastic chair and I would sit in there and look at my mini jungle and enjoy the sauna -like atmosphere. Stuff grew very fast and was needing constant attention. Harry

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

That’s why you build more greenhouses , right? With all the room you have , I think you would run out of time to maintain them . I had one greenhouse that was small compared to yours , 12’ x 12’ with very high ceiling . I spent several hours in there every week. I even had a plastic chair and I would sit in there and look at my mini jungle and enjoy the sauna -like atmosphere. Stuff grew very fast and was needing constant attention. Harry

Yes that’s problem, time to maintain them. If i wasnt working in the job I have I would have a lot more free time, while the boss makes the money of me, my business doesn’t grow. One day I shall retire hopefully and not have to work for the man so to speak. 
I love going into my greenhouse in the hot days and watering it’s so refreshing in the cool greenhouse. 
Richard 

Always having something to pot up is also a great way to feel the garden live on a daily basis. Otherwise watching palm grows can take a long time. 
 

today was Coccothrinax macroglossa azul. Lot of perlite for lot of drainage. But for those one you have to be patient. 8 months old and still a single small leaflet. 

10 hours ago, Nico971 said:

Always having something to pot up is also a great way to feel the garden live on a daily basis. Otherwise watching palm grows can take a long time. 
 

today was Coccothrinax macroglossa azul. Lot of perlite for lot of drainage. But for those one you have to be patient. 8 months old and still a single small leaflet. 

Nice one, keep a bit on the dry side, my problem I have with cocothrinax seedlings is I just want to water them mostly by accident out of habit with a hose in my hand! 

A few chamaedorea adscendens to pot up, such a lovely palm to grow very rewarding. A few large form dasyanthas and the very slow to do anything masoala Madagascariensis, the date on the tag says it all, iam a slow grower, even had a few still germinating so dont give up on them. Treat them  like Howea species my advice! 

My wee little sprouts ! More every day now . It started with just two . Yesterday I counted 8 sprouts. I think there were about a dozen plus seeds in this space. They have been residing on my work bench in my garage most of the winter. Harry

It is hard to spot all the sprouts but they are there ! Sort of a “ Where’s Waldo” situation. 

19 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

My wee little sprouts ! More every day now . It started with just two . Yesterday I counted 8 sprouts. I think there were about a dozen plus seeds in this space. They have been residing on my work bench in my garage most of the winter. Harry

It is hard to spot all the sprouts but they are there ! Sort of a “ Where’s Waldo” situation. 

I can spot about 4 of them by the looks of it, but way to go, pot them up when it gets a bit warmer. You will soon get a new leaf, by the time you have to pot them up. Happy gardening it’s a fun hobby Harry. 
Richard 

A couple of good ones for the collection! 

A couple of nice plants for the garden, potting up in stages is the key to growing! 

An afternoon potting up a few germinated seeds. Along with a couple tubes of chamaedorea adscendens, syagrus picrophylla. And one lone pholidiocarpus. 

A few more across the bench. A nice little Geonoma interupta from @tim_brissy_13 that’s still doing well. And a couple of basselina pseudovelitina growing well. And a hundred percent strike rate on a few Cham Metallica palms from home grown seeds. 

A couple of interesting ones worth potting up, With new stuff germinating it’s time to pot up the older seedlings, I usually wait until the first leaf has developed, or there is a good amount of the first spear. Sometimes I will do sprouts depending on the variety of palm. But that’s the trick knowing your varieties and what they do, understanding what is required for cultivation of each individual species. Sometimes it is a certain container size to a substrate that is different to the last mix you used. Then where you place them for different light requirements to completely different watering schedules. 

Just keep it simple and growing palms is easy, learn to know your palms. This one reason I have thousands of them and find it easy to grow palms. Not only quality but quantity in what I do! 

Some nice dictyosperma album var conjugatum needed a bit of attention. So time to wack em across the potting bench. Thanks Merc! 

A few more licualas along with some loxococcus and Pinanga varieties. Iam sure there are couple of varieties in there for @tim_brissy_13. 

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

A few more licualas along with some loxococcus and Pinanga varieties. Iam sure there are couple of varieties in there for @tim_brissy_13. 

Not a single one for down here in the fridge 🤣

1 hour ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Not a single one for down here in the fridge 🤣

Loxococcus rupicola your best bet! 

10 hours ago, happypalms said:

Loxococcus rupicola your best bet! 

Sri Lankan native from relatively low altitude - basically no chance. I’m not even sure these do well in Sydney which is much more suitable for tropicals than here. I’ve seen them thrive in Cairns and would like tropical and equatorial climates would suit best with their limit being somewhere around the temperate/sub tropical border many many kms from me. 

2 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Sri Lankan native from relatively low altitude - basically no chance. I’m not even sure these do well in Sydney which is much more suitable for tropicals than here. I’ve seen them thrive in Cairns and would like tropical and equatorial climates would suit best with their limit being somewhere around the temperate/sub tropical border many many kms from me. 

Iam a zone pusher so I feel different about the cold when it comes to palms. Yes certain palms I won’t try for obvious reasons, but I would say I have discovered more palms suitable to cool climate than I have lost to cool weather. I guess that there is a big difference in the word cool tolerant than there is in cold tolerant. And your climate is a cold one not a cool climate. Also knowing your microclimate and garden is one key to success, and you know your garden and microclimate better than me, but I would still try one myself! 

A few more interesting varieties, a couple of Stangeria eriopsis, along with a few Syzigium boonjee. And the usual palms.

A not so common itaya armacorium, just a few that were hitting the top of the lid. The Amazonica licuala ramsayi. The large one in my greenhouse made it through last winter, so iam positive about this variety, but still need a couple more winter just to test the real cool hardiness of this variety. But you have to try!