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I first saw these on (I believe) Plant Delights Nursery site and I love the look of them but can't justify the money, especially shipping costs. Anyhoo, specifically, the varieties of dancing crane and white feathers look great. I would love to find one of these some day more locally. Anyone have any experience with them? They are also extremely hardy for such a cool looking variegated plant.

I started wrapping a towel or blanket around the trunk prior to placing the bulbs, then another blanket outside that followed by something waterproof, trashbag, tarp, dogfood bag, whatever.

Any of those palmettos pulling through? About half of mine are still alive; I moved them into pots and put them under a grow light inside, separate from the other stuff. Still need to find a good solution for the scale.

This gang of Syagrus romanzoffiana enjoying some late winter warmth and sunshine

Another batch of palms going in the ground, the usual suspects! Along with a couple of other plants. Another sabinara more kerriodoxas dypsis brevicaulis microsorum whiteheadii Anthurium effusilobum Zamia augustifolia

The things you do to collect a few maxima seeds, climbing ladders for ips members!

Papaya are weeds in my compost heap as well, so easy to grow, maybe papaya are not an indoor plant regardless of what you do. You certainly got a lot of stuff on the grow good on you, and iam sure a bit of tutorial from happypalms has helped you a bit. But at the end of the day the best student becomes the teacher and you have done well, I have watched your grow improvement over the last few years well done. But you gotta kill a few plants now and then it’s the best way to learn. Spider mites, damping off, and other insects are all part of indoor growing, you learn as grow and grow as you learn!

The official IPS travel begins Feb 23 but those on the Board needed to add on hotel costs to be present for the 8 am start. Then we will move the day after to the hard to believe it even fancier hotel included in the travel cost. Both hotels are surrounded by very fancy stores like Prada and Vuitton, but I was very happy with my USD 50 cents magnet depicting train street which was part of a city tour set up by Tracy. And I had ice cream for lunch as one must buy something to sit next to the train and it is vacation so ice cream for lunch is totally allowed in my opinion. I like the interesting tea cup in our room too.

Yes, but that's not what I'm looking for😔

Thank you for the advice

I might buy a couple when it warms up but what I'm stoked for is getting a Raja Puri pup or 2 from @Chester B. I should get more pups when I throw things in the yard but I don't have Basjoo. I've got Dwarf Cavendish, Red Dacca, Blue Java, a Mekong Giant and an Orinoco. I can tell you Wellspring Gardens is cheap, and give you lots of freebies and their customer service is AMAZING. They're out of all the cool stuff right now but it's February, too. Their Banana Fuel is also like anabolic steroids. I absolutely vouch for the stuff. I have plants that I bought as pups 3 months ago that are taller than me now. Downside is the spider mites love them indoors.

Thank you for the advice

@Scott W sent me some that were a couple years old and even cracked a couple open to make sure they still had viable embryos before sending. Apparently they're not the fastest sprouting things on earth but crack one open and if it's got an embryo still you're good.

It seems like everybody has gone to Facebook. I'm permabanned for some reason so it's whatever.

Every seed and bulb I own is now planted. I'd just like to throw that out there. Please clap. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVAn6WoDTPQ/?igsh=aWgwNHQ4aTJ3a2Y4

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Yeah, they're good people. I kinda had to bust Teddy's ⚽ 🏈 a little bit because I never knew how much he looked like Seth Rogan, but I just potted up a bunch of stuff in his method.

Lol like what, 2 or 3 hours later?

in a basic sense, A tropical climate is defined by a location/area within some proximity to the Equator (esp between the lines of Cancer and Capricorn) where the mean temperature during the coolest month is above 18c/64 f. Miami meets this qualification yet it’s climate is still considered ‘humid subtropical’. Humid subtropical is too broad by definition. Virginia is also considered humid subtropical. Many places outside of the tropics never freeze. Cairo is at 30 north and I think has never dropped below 34f. Bermuda is not tropical by location but meets the criteria by climate. It has never had a recorded temperature less than 5c/41 f and has a mean temperature in Jan of about 64f. By contrast, Southern coastal China and Tampico, MX are tropical, but on rare occasion, have experienced a brief freezing temperature near sea level.

Mid 70s F around 11pm. Temperature map on Accuweather shows the only area warmer in the US right now is down around Laredo. Yesterday the airport at Baton Rouge had 87. Some burn on my face from the Sun even though I was not outside for long. Down to the freezing mark early next week. vegetation is still brown except for grass turning green in areas. No recovery yet from the Washingtonias, Livistonas, Sylvesters, etc that got some fading from the cold we had in Jan-Feb.

It's really a great podcast , teddy and sabal king of texas are really great people they really know what they're doing! i have ordered from Teddy, numerous times his plants are so good quality Same with sable king of texas.

Iam with you on that one, this one takes forever and a day to open up, it used to be red leaf now just green, and it has three spears it takes that long to open. Although temperature is not cold climate it’s the opposite stinking hot in summertime!

Hi I need recommendations of palm nurseries or people who sell exotic in the Los Angeles area only let me know please

Here is my update for this older thread. I purchased a 15 gallon C. hookeri, from a seed batch with very dark color. I planted it in a better location than my previous attempts. The palm took 21 months to grow and open a frond, which was plain green. Meanwhile, seedlings from Floribunda, grown in my greenhouse, throw a red frond every time, and the color gets darker each frond. Therefore, I have concluded that it is just too cold in my garden, and that I am finished with this palm.