chilean wine palms

[scl113074]

I have germinated thousands of chilean wine palms, but have had very little success transplanting them into gallon pots. any advice?

[deezpalms]

Easy my friend. Good draining soil n' packer in!! Not much to it. I would try to put them in taller pots as there roots tend to grow downward. Treepots should do the job.

[DoomsDave]

Give them full sun -- otherwise they get fungus.

dave

[scl113074]

Here is a picture of some of my 9 month old chilean palm seedlings.

[scl113074]

Here is a picture of some of my 9 month old chileans ready to be transplanted. they are about 18 inches tall with 2 - 3 fronds.

[Joe palma]

I have found they are a bit finiky when handling them at that size. My theory is always let them get as big as they can, in the container they are in, before shifting.

[Kris]

Dear stephen lee  

a warm welcome to you and in my observation i find that you have allowed your wine palm saplings to stay too long in that community pots or trays.they transplant very well when they are like grass sprouts than when they are those big as seen in your stills !

here is a link of my work,thought iam not a pro,but i had successes with my method with few palm species..

http://palmtalk.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboar...t=ST;f=1;t=4608

Love,

Kris  

[chris.oz]

True this  palm likes sun exposure as a small palm,  but small pots in full sun can dry out, and the soil just gets too hot.  IMO they need plenty of air circulation, deep pots, good drainage,  and consistently cool-warm  roots otherwise they can be tricky.   None the less you will inevitably lose a percentage each year.

But the palms are quite strong after they get to 5 + years and the loss percentage drops.  They are consistent but slow growers.  Overpotting is OK.   I have raised massively overpotted spoecimens and some which were very underpotted early on.   Others they just died with no particular identifiable rason...... probably fungus.

[Adam from Oz]

I've germinated a few hundred Jub seeds and have always used deep individual pots.

Yes, they are a pain to keep watered and can get hot but this gets rid of the problem of having to separate the deep tap roots.

Your seedlings look pretty close together!

Cheers,

Adam