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How big do bottle palms and Christmas palms have to be before flowing?

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I was just curious since no other source online tells you.

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    What do you mean by flowing?

    What you look for is what is looking

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    Christmas palms on average flower around 6-ft tall and the same age from seed. Bottle palms I have no idea.

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    6 hours ago, bubba said:

    What do you mean by flowing?

    My bottles don't start flowing until around 8 pm.

    Jon Sunder

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    3 hours ago, Fusca said:

    My bottles don't start flowing until around 8 pm.

    :yay:

    I have (well...had until 22.5F killed most of them) Bottles with 3 feet of clear trunk and no flowering.  My big Spindle flowered twice, starting at about 4 feet of clear trunk.  I'm not sure if that is "normal" or not.  

    Bottles take a while and operate on their own schedule.  The survivors here will take a few years to flower, but we're not in an optimal climate range for them.  There's one up the hill a little further that has/had flowers, but not sure how it handled the cold snap.  It has a pretty thick trunk and survived 2010.  That means it is fairly old for here.

    I agree with @SeanK on Adonidia.  They typically start flowering somewhere between 4ft. and 8ft of clear trunk.

    Lakeland, FL: USDA Zone 2023: 10a  2012: 9b  1990: 9a | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962)

    I think my bottle was near 20yrs old when it started producing in SO CA.. It's been putting out viable seeds ever since....

    Butch

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