So get things moving heres a tray of Adonidia dransfeildia! in pots

How about a couple of Ravenea Rivularis from the clearance rack for $3 each? Nice fill in for the west fence line. I’ll keep them in pots for a while. Harry

No real damage at all!

Just need repotting! Harry

A couple of pics…..

Having trouble with this new format on PT , very slow loading

11 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

How about a couple of Ravenea Rivularis from the clearance rack for $3 each? Nice fill in for the west fence line. I’ll keep them in pots for a while. Harry

No real damage at all!

Just need repotting! Harry

$3 bucks each it the lot!

Definitely bargain of the week, actually score of the century! The grower definitely lost his money on that one $3 is just to get your potting costs back for a plant that size.

Ps it is slow reloading I just refresh the whole site after a fresh palmtalk search on google. A small technology glitch, like they said heaven forbid they have to scroll a whole page, or wait 10 seconds to refresh the page. When our forefathers had to get the horse to school. Some how we are losing touch of the days gone bye!

@happypalms yes , $3 each . I think they were headed for the dumpster . We can’t let that happen now , can we? I will pot them up over the weekend . Usually , palms are on death’s door when they hit the rack and hardly worth the effort , but these looked healthy . My wife was even in favor of the rescue.

The new format will take some getting used to . I still appreciate this forum for all it provides . The glitches will work themselves out . I posted on the other thread about it and the mod said that the first week or so it would be slow . Heck , better than putting a postage stamp on and waiting for a reply , right? Harry

On 5/28/2026 at 10:48 PM, Harry’s Palms said:

@happypalms yes , $3 each . I think they were headed for the dumpster . We can’t let that happen now , can we? I will pot them up over the weekend . Usually , palms are on death’s door when they hit the rack and hardly worth the effort , but these looked healthy . My wife was even in favor of the rescue.

The new format will take some getting used to . I still appreciate this forum for all it provides . The glitches will work themselves out . I posted on the other thread about it and the mod said that the first week or so it would be slow . Heck , better than putting a postage stamp on and waiting for a reply , right? Harry

If the wife is onboard that’s the hardest d part done with🤣 Iam sure a weekend of potting up and a good dose of Harry’s love will soon see them being planted in the ground.

The new updates are great, palmmod iam sure has enough bombshells of this is not working we’re is this and this is too slow. There doing a great job, iam no computer boffin and what is copy and paste! I know I can grow palms and that’s all need to know for now, the computer world has been forced onto us by governments so they can save money. I appreciate saving a tree from the paper pulp mill, but not everyone has the skills for computers, yes you can learn and everything I do learn about a computer I forget if iam not doing it to remember. We never had computers at school like a lot of us.

Richard

Off topic …but now that you bring it up , it is cool to have “the world at our fingertips tips” but it comes with responsibility . I like having a camera with me at all times with no film to mess with . I also see the dark side to it all. My daughter can’t imagine how we survived without technology!! Having things like Palm Talk to communicate with people like you is worth the negative side of tech. Frond friends , Harry

@happypalms You're a very good container gardener. By contrast, I'm the world's worst container gardener LOL.

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Off topic …but now that you bring it up , it is cool to have “the world at our fingertips tips” but it comes with responsibility . I like having a camera with me at all times with no film to mess with . I also see the dark side to it all. My daughter can’t imagine how we survived without technology!! Having things like Palm Talk to communicate with people like you is worth the negative side of tech. Frond friends , Harry

Yes like a lot of us we see both good and bad in technology, and we thought the industrial revolution was a big leap forward. Just look at what the internet has along with computers. If used for the good of humanity it’s a wonderful thing. Put it in the wrong hands and we know the consequences of that decision. Money has now become just a number on a computer screen in cyberspace, that can be used to our advantage in many ways possible.

It’s hear to stay like it or not so it’s much easier to embrace and utilise than buck and go against the system. It’s incredible what that little screen in our hands has done for travel a world once so far away is so accessible, that’s one thing you’re daughter would think nothing off but second nature to her, but for you and I it’s a wow thing.

Ps I nearly caught the yellow robin in flight.

Richard

4 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

@happypalms You're a very good container gardener. By contrast, I'm the world's worst container gardener LOL.

Before I had my land I was renting, so I learnt how to container garden. I used to arrange my container plants around like a miniature tropical garden. It was fun and helped me learn about growing. For containers soil is the key!

What's your experience with Ravenea glauca seedlings? Mine isn't moving at all despite being outdoors in perfect conditions. In bright shade, very light medium, temperatures from 15 to 30 C, humidity around 50%, I water every other day.. all other palm seedlings are growing, like my Chambeyronia macrocarpa, my Kentiopsis oliviformis etc, only my R. glauca is not doing anything. Are they really that slow?

4 hours ago, Than said:

What's your experience with Ravenea glauca seedlings? Mine isn't moving at all despite being outdoors in perfect conditions. In bright shade, very light medium, temperatures from 15 to 30 C, humidity around 50%, I water every other day.. all other palm seedlings are growing, like my Chambeyronia macrocarpa, my Kentiopsis oliviformis etc, only my R. glauca is not doing anything. Are they really that slow?

Try letting them dry out a little. They are quite tough, and if that fails get it in the ground, that’s the best way to grow a palm. My ones got planted at a young age. They are slow as seedlings but once established they move pretty good.

14 hours ago, happypalms said:

Try letting them dry out a little. They are quite tough, and if that fails get it in the ground, that’s the best way to grow a palm. My ones got planted at a young age. They are slow as seedlings but once established they move pretty good.

I don't know if at this age they can take my winter lows of -2C...

26 minutes ago, Than said:

I don't know if at this age they can take my winter lows of -2C...

-2 well that’s a game changer for planting that one in the ground. Perhaps patience is the key to this one, try getting it into a warmer spot they like the heat.

I guess there is not much else I can do. Thank you.

On 6/15/2026 at 1:11 AM, Than said:

I guess there is not much else I can do. Thank you.

Not unless you have a Time Machine!

Very nice! Adonidia dransfieldii is still pretty uncommon in cultivation compared to the standard Christmas Palm, and those seedlings look healthy with some good color in the stems already. It'll be interesting to see how they develop over the next few years.

On 6/19/2026 at 10:30 AM, Kreps said:

Very nice! Adonidia dransfieldii is still pretty uncommon in cultivation compared to the standard Christmas Palm, and those seedlings look healthy with some good color in the stems already. It'll be interesting to see how they develop over the next few years.

I had no idea they are still rare in cultivation, my seed supplier said he had a few, so I thought ok that’s one palm I don’t have in my collection I will get a few seeds. If I had known they were rare I would’ve got 200 seeds.