Sabal Revivals!

[JohnAndSancho]

I don't remember who told me to bottom water and throw baggies over these, but it worked. 

 

I guess the Uresana pics didn't save? These are the Maratima from @Sabal King and after watching both episodes of the Palmcast and hearing how much he loves these, I'm so glad they're alive. When he sent them to me, all I had was some 3 gallon pots I found in the woods and some cheap garden soil. Welp, they dried out in the middle of the rootball. Fresh coir and fresh 5g pots (they needed that too!) and we're pushing green. 

 

The Uresana from @Josue Diaz, I let them sit out too long after unpacking. It turns out that plants really like things like soil and water. Anyway one of them spear pulled and is pushing a new green spear and the other one has started to green up again. 

 

 

[Las Palmas Norte]

Good to see. As above, these also benefit from bottom heat using a heat mat. Not very practical for larger quantities though.

[JohnAndSancho]

2 hours ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

Good to see. As above, these also benefit from bottom heat using a heat mat. Not very practical for larger quantities though.

Welp, I have struggled with germinating things outside. Not because of the weather or whatever, but the feral cats. I've made peace with most of them, and most of them leave my stuff alone, probably after a virus spread through the colony and I buried about 6 or 7 of them. But there's one - I understand that this is a family site so I'm gonna hold back but I can't stop from at least calling this cat a bastard. This one bastard pees on everything I touch. He knows I'm the one who brings in the packages, he pees on all the boxes. I swear he knows what day of the week it is, I take the trash out Tuesday night and he pees on the trashcans every Tuesday. He's peed in the fresh air vents in the car. He's peed on every pot I've ever left outside. When I first moved back here, I had some palms I left on the patio. He actually had diarrhea all over the pot of my spindle palm. 

 

The rest of them leave my stuff alone, I talk to them, sometimes they follow me when I walk Sancho, they're a little skittish but we're cordial. But in the next few weeks, I'm gonna be bringing a lot of stuff outside, I'm gonna be digging a lot of holes. I'm not saying that I'd harm another living creature, I'm just saying I've got holes to dig. 

 

Anyway, for that reason, I have a plethora of heat mats. I've actually got a couple big ones still NIB. I'm probably gonna throw them on the floor for these colocasia bulbs. But I hate this goddamn cat.