Dictyosperma in CA?

[Phoenikakias]

Post please peactures of Dictyosperma album specimens cultivated outdoor in CA. No matter degree of success or failure. Also some description of experience (positive, negative, mixed) would be very desirable.

[happypalms]

Here’s a nice one for you, shade grown 26 years old, not flowering as of yet, a little tolerant of dry conditions, and taking temperatures around 2 degrees Celsius. They will drink as much water you give them, good drainage is the key to success for this palm! 

[kylecawazafla]

Here are some in Southern California! The small one is growing in the Sonoran Desert in El Centro, CA - survived two years so far!

[Phoenikakias]

3 minutes ago, kylecawazafla said:

Here are some in Southern California! The small one is growing in the Sonoran Desert in El Centro, CA - survived two years so far!

 

 

Meaning that it must be quite adaptable to dry air contidition and high air temperature?

[kylecawazafla]

Yes! Seems like it. 

[richnorm]

Obviously not in CA but I have heard of a couple reaching trunking size here so they can take long cool winters. I was recently gifted a couple of seedlings of the rubrum cultivar.  They seem awfully fragile but I will leave them out in the shadehouse over winter and see what happens.

[tim_brissy_13]

2 hours ago, richnorm said:

Obviously not in CA but I have heard of a couple reaching trunking size here so they can take long cool winters. I was recently gifted a couple of seedlings of the rubrum cultivar.  They seem awfully fragile but I will leave them out in the shadehouse over winter and see what happens.

They thrive in Sydney, but Melbourne is a stretch. There was a decent enough one for years at a nursery here in a prime position near a pond and with plenty of shelter around it. I’ve got a few advanced seedlings on trial in the greenhouse and whilst they all survived through last winter, they all spotted up a bit with temps down to 2C or so quite regularly. To put it in perspective, I’d say they seem less hardy than Kerriodoxa elegans, Licuala peltata var sumawongii and Areca triandra which were all untouched in the same conditions. 

[pietropuccio]

Hi Konstantinos, If you're interested in knowing whether this species can thrive in the central-southern Mediterranean, the answer is yes:

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/65338-dictyosperma-album-first-flowering/#comment-954522

[bubba]

Pietropuccio,

What is your latitude? That is a gorgeous Hurricane palm!

[pietropuccio]

1 hour ago, bubba said:

Pietropuccio,

What is your latitude? That is a gorgeous Hurricane palm!

38° 12' N

Thanks!

[bubba]

Over 38° north latitude and you are growing a flourishing Hurricane palm! That is mind-boggling!

[Sabal Steve]

I’m growing a few of these out here, in central San Diego.  They are D. Album var. Conjugatum.  

I believe they came as small liners from John Light, in Florida, maybe around 2017.  Planted them about two years ago, and they’ll get more sun this coming year, with some changes to the yard.  Southwest/Western exposure, mostly.

They’ve been slower, but steady growers.  There is a patio overhang without a gutter, so there’s have gotten a decent amount of roof runoff.   Still working out the placement of the rocks.
 

[Hu Palmeras]

🌴🌴🌴❤️🦜🦜🦜🦜

[Phoenikakias]

3 hours ago, Sabal Steve said:

I’m growing a few of these out here, in central San Diego.  They are D. Album var. Conjugatum.  

I believe they came as small liners from John Light, in Florida, maybe around 2017.  Planted them about two years ago, and they’ll get more sun this coming year, with some changes to the yard.  Southwest/Western exposure, mostly.

They’ve been slower, but steady growers.  There is a patio overhang without a gutter, so there’s have gotten a decent amount of roof runoff.   Still working out the placement of the rocks.
 

Are rocks only decorative or serve also to  heat storage?

[Sabal Steve]

8 hours ago, Phoenikakias said:

Are rocks only decorative or serve also to  heat storage?

They are decorative.  I hadn’t really considered whether or not they act as a heat sink.  

[Hjr]

Here’s mine after its first winter season. The burn on the leaves is mostly from 1 or 2 nights of frost but it was initially the fastest large plant I put in the ground (compared to a. Cunninghamiana, parajubea torallyi, Bismarckia, Roystonea regia). It’s in full sun but it was planted as a 25g so that has probably helped it survive here next to the foothills. 

[Johnny Palmseed]

@Sabal Steve What are the cages for?

[Sabal Steve]

4 hours ago, Johnny Palmseed said:

@Sabal Steve What are the cages for?

Mostly protection from me so I don’t accidentally trample them.

[Phoenikakias]

12 hours ago, Hjr said:

Here’s mine after its first winter season. The burn on the leaves is mostly from 1 or 2 nights of frost but it was initially the fastest large plant I put in the ground (compared to a. Cunninghamiana, parajubea torallyi, Bismarckia, Roystonea regia). It’s in full sun but it was planted as a 25g so that has probably helped it survive here next to the foothills. 

It is just a mater of time to skyrocket!

[Johnny Palmseed]

19 hours ago, Sabal Steve said:

Mostly protection from me so I don’t accidentally trample them.

Well that is not what I would have expected. I was guessing animals but couldn’t figure out which one. Seems like a good idea though.

[Fusca]

12 minutes ago, Johnny Palmseed said:

Well that is not what I would have expected. I was guessing animals but couldn’t figure out which one. Seems like a good idea though.

This is what I do for my in ground seedlings for defense (pun intended!) against those wascally wabbits!

[quaman58]

Here are some of mine. They all look remarkably decent for coming out of winter, though the winter was pretty warm. If I get the order here correct, the first one is the standard form, seed collected from Hawaii, probably seven years ago. The second one is var rubrum, which is really beginning to look pretty darn nice. It’s about head high. The last one is a small conjugatum/furfuraceum which is slower than slow, but pretty darn tough too. Never cold spots. Definitely seems to be the most attractive of an already attractive genus when it gets bigger. Beautiful palms, especially in the tropics.