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Howea forsteriana (Kentia palm) or Howea belmoreana (Belmore sentry palm) in North Florida

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Greetings Lush Fronds Community,

I have average experience with plants and most of mine are indoors, I'm now looking forward to adding a Palm! Great it is to have found folks with so much experience and who I'm sure can assist with a few questions based on threads I have read here about my topic through searching the forum.

For Indoors in North Florida after considering options, I concluded that I really want a Howea forsteriana (Kentia palm) or a Howea belmoreana (Belmore sentry palm).

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Location: Insert a Perfect Palm Here. I have indoors space in a room marked for it, which at it's highest point is quite good for a vertical grower and also a few spare feet around for width.

Light: It gets light from the window at one end of the room. (Never direct - too far for it, bright during later parts of the day, decent enough for morning/mid, all varies by season of course and also will sit right next to a floor lamp (with second bulb a LED full spectrum grow bulb if required).

Size: Mid-Size. Given both my choices are Slow Growers and my need for a decent sized one to fill the space, I am aiming for a not too small a palm nor a huge one with fronds already too big.

Important Consideration: Being on a student budget and a first timer Palm owner, larger and expensive ones would be out of my affordable range so I am aiming for a mid-sized palm.



I just cannot find Howea belmoreana (Belmore sentry palm) at all around here, and had some luck with other - finding just one nursery which may only have one Howea forsteriana (Kentia palm) with them as of now.

I have never seen the Belmoreana but I did a online search for the differences between the two in terms of Consider growth, diseases, care, indoors factor, cons and my requirements. Some factors made Belmore a better choice and I slightly like it better but I only have some remote chance of finding a Kentia and it seems to be hardier of the two for a first time grower (Correct or Incorrect?). I am not sure which one to get and from where? Given I have other plants indoors and this will be the largest of them all, I do not wish to purchase a palm from some random online company only to have it delivered diseased or dying. Why are both quite so hard to obtain? From what I read and understand Howea belmoreana (Belmore sentry palm) has a better liking by some and I would like some trusted folks who have had both to help me which to narrow down to and how to get one in Northern Florida!

(I read this thread and will follow-up on once I am at that point to bring it indoors https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/93809-kentia-palm-from-outdoor-to-indoor/#comment-1261439

On this forum I did find Kentia and Florida in search but it is from 2018: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/58649-kentia-in-florida/#comment-877585)

Mods: Do I keep this post in this thread or should it be in PALMS IN POTS as technically I am looking for Indoors?

TLDR;

Question: Howea forsteriana (Kentia palm) OR Howea belmoreana (Belmore sentry palm) indoors.

Problem: Can't find any.

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