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Thanks Zig. I'm hoping the elevated position of the lot facilitates cold air drainage, mitigating the occasional winter lows below 10C, but I appreciate it may still be too cold for a Lipstick (won't stop me trying though 🤣). I'm told there was a grower in Mareeba with Lipsticks, but the details are a bit unclear unfortunately.

20 percent omg if that was in Australia the gum trees would virtually burst into flames 🔥

Yep time for great compost heap in the sky iam afraid. Fear not we have all had a palm or two succumb to the compost heap. Dont give up palms are one the greatest garden sentinels around, get it right and your dream of a paradise is eternal.

Europe is a lot different than Australia in regards to buying and selling, have the right product at a fair price and it will sell. I guess it doesn’t really matter wherever you go in the world it can be a buyer beware thing. I myself personally cannot deceive anyone, honesty is the best policy. But I guess if they are the only seller and you cannot purchase anywhere else something is better than nothing at all.

Aha, so now we know the reasons. It's OK, we all made these same mistakes when we started. Now you know that when we transplant a plant we try not to disturb the roots at all. Keep the soil intact. Also, never fertilize after transplanting, until you see the plant has started growing, maybe a couple of months later. What happened is that you damaged the roots during the transplant and then the fertilizer damaged them even more. Basically the fertilizer burned the roots. Water is not the problem with Archontophoenix. You must give them loads of water and it will not be a problem. Honestly I don't think this one will make it but you never know. Keep watering it; this will also flush the fertilizer out of the soil and you never know. Some more things to remember: always give a lower dose of fertilizer than it says on the bottle. Better to fertilize less than more. Fertilizer can burn the roots. If you get a plant from a nursery ask if it was in the sun or shade. If it was in shade, don't put it straight in sun; that will burn the leaves. You must acclimatise it gradually. First one hour per day under sun, then 2.. it may take a month until it's ready.

Farming is a good career choice for me, I like working on a farm, ask anyone in my family when they asked me what I wanted to do when I grow up, I want to be a farmer I said as a child. I love working with plants I find it very rewarding. If I wanted to grow vegetables and fruit I would make a living on a small scale. If I went commercial and large scale growing I would make a fairly decent living. The one problem in Australia is you have to choose the right fruit or vegetables to grow. Seasonal fruit and vegetables the price drops when there is a glut on the market and sometimes you don’t even pick the product. But choose the right crop and try to grow out of season you do very good. Italians are very well known in Australia as good fruit and vegetable growers.

Not entirely so, it depends largely on the available options. Besides some occasional identification mistakes are part of the game too. Besides many of those vendors, especially from northern countries (in northern hs of course) have absolutely no idea how seeds from genuine parent plants should look like! This makes them more susceptible to deception by the local suppliers. This is the most favorable excuse I can think of...

I'm thinking it might be latent root damage as I was pretty rough with the poor thing when planting? I'm amazed that we might be seeing damage only now though given it's been 2 months... it's turned so suddenly

Unfortunately disturbed the roots quite a bit - 3 came in one pot and I teased them apart (and by 'teased' I mean 'caused major violent trauma'). The other two are also struggling to establish, though they're south facing. Ironically this one pictured gets partial sun and is fairly sheltered but seems to be faring the worst It's also been fertilised a couple of times O_O I didn't realise that was a no-no... Soil should be good though, but may have stayed quite wet for a 2-3 day period if that's enough to do any damage? No longer than that though.

I will try to take a clearer photo soon, but then someone online told me this was a Satakentia liukiuensis and I didn't really believe it This one's stem seems to have the reddish colour below the crownshaft, thought that was weird. It's also pretty blurry so I don't think its possible to identify

T. acanthacoma in Burnaby! How has this little dude grown for you so far?

Drat, no shipping!

How is it doing these days?

Good luck!

I tried guys, waited for the Houston traffic to quiet down a bit past seven to get to Katy and didn't finish prep till close to 1 am 🫠. I want my zone 10 bubble to survive another season. Only 4 strings of mini lights (old so many 20% of the bulbs are duds lol) + mylar + fabric + plastic. 5 gallon bucket next to the Cyphophoenix elegans. Really hoping for some warmer winters where I can rely just on the canopy... And the mango. It's toast if the power goes out 😭. Now almost 5 years from seed and nearing flowering age. Everything zone 9 left to fend for itself

Are you sure you have Sabal causiarum and not domingensis? My causiarum has never really had a scratch, not even in the teens with snow etc. The guatemalensis next to it burns around 20F.

What's the humidity in the summer where you are? Does it affect them?

Richard, no one is a farmer here anymore. Being a farmer here would mean starving to death; you don't earn anything. But my brothers have a piece of land where they grow lots of fruit trees, and my sister's husband (with whom I get along very well) makes olive oil, wine, and tomatoes at home, and he grows a vegetable garden.

How did you plant it? Bare rooted? How much were the roots disturbed? Any chance there's concrete or building materials thrown inside the soil? Did the soil dry out between rains? Was it in shade at the nursery but under the sun in your garden? Did you fertilize when you planted it? Many things might have happened. You live basically near its natural habitat so normally it should thrive there but make sure it is in shade all day long, roots are minimally disturbed and the soil is always moist or wet. Don't fertilize until you see visible growth

It's the updates with way lower temperatures that get me. Mentally I prepare when I see the lows, takes me a while and a lot of anger but I calm down. Then when Im finally calm and have a plan... the low predictions go even lower. Then I look at the thermometers around my hood in accuweather and I see the temps dropping everywhere. It's panic for me. Not sure how to calm myself until it's all over. My palms are already all covered. I even used trashed bags for some. At this point I dont care if they choke. As long as no ice gets on em.

Lovely color on that . Harry

spectacular! What's the palm giving overhead protection?

Keep an eye on how much water you give it, your soil mix look ok but possibly on the too wet side . Perhaps your over loving with water before you left may have been to much!

Omg that’s a lot of seedlings if you do them all correctly. I don’t grow them they grow to fast in containers and require constant maintenance in containers. I will leave the archontophoenix growing to the experts!

Ok you got me there, that’s a cracker of a palm. You have found something that grows to perfection in a refrigerator!