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I agree, nice healthy plants. Especially the C. cerifera looks interesting. I haven't seen such a large one before in the Netherlands. Is your windmill a boy or girl? https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/profile/28047-zone7bpalmguy/ This tends to be how windmill's tend to grow around here. The climate seems to suet them.

my dypsis decipiens, they all died 20 years ago, but in summer not in winter because of the cold, here they don't do well, I think I can't stand the African heat that we have here in summer

With your facility it really makes sense to start them off larger. When planted young , sometimes they linger for a year or so. Harry

Yes it does work from tubes, but from now on iam going with at least 140mm container size palms for a better start in life. Richard

Tricky to see a good look at your picture, iam going with mealy bug.

It’s got a fair chunk of trunk I would say that for sure. I have another 20 or so in the garden and none of them have a trunk yet, so this one is absolutely jumping in comparison to its cousins. The best bit about Erica snavelling your plants is you get some back of her if you manage to kill your ones. Richard

I have plenty of sandy soil that’s for sure so that’s a good thing in there favour in my area for growing them. The ones I havenn be in sunny spots don’t seem too do as good as the shaded ones, some dry tolerance so the amount of water you are giving yours is pretty good. I actually wish I had a little clay in my soil for water retention and a few nutrients, but I will stick with the free draining sand. How long has yours been in the ground?

The rainfall part of the drought has been one thing, but the day-after-day temperatures in the mid-90s with humidity bottoming off around 20% and wind blowing perpetually has desiccated a lot of foliage. You could literally water all day - if it was not against code.

Try again! I’ve got some!

If you need more of a workout, I have an entire yard and an itemized list... LOL. 😄

Yup, average high 85, according to my min max thermometer. And humid. Worth it? Perhaps.

I happened on a C. verum located at the Butterfly Garden in Coconut Creek, Florida:

Ouch that’s gotta hurt losing a ten year old one. And selling the only other one you had even more traumatic. There rare I have been looking for years for seeds. And never seen them for sale, fortunately I have 4 more in 200mm containers plus another 6 in the ground so iam hopeful they have survived 20 plus years so no drama for me except lack of seeds.

How did the palms around New Orleans fare?

Germinated these macrospermum myself, easy to germinate and grow. A lovely palm from Vanuatu most of the palms from the South Pacific islands do well in my climate especially the New Caledonia ones. Ones from Fiji are a bit more temperamental a bit like the palms from Papua New Guinea, the highland palms do well but the lowland ones suffer in winter and are not worth growing or won’t grow at all.

Probably the worst map posted to n this thread.

According to Palmpedia : They grow in sandy soil in gallery forest and open plains up to the Atlantic coastal forests. They grow in sandy soil in gallery forest and open plains up to the Atlantic coastal forests. Mine is growing in my Hawaiian red clay w/water only twice a week for about 35 minutes each time starting at midnight. It was planted in July of 2020 from a FB one gallon pot. Here are two photos but I'm gonna have to upload from my phone. The second is from 2024. I'll try to get another tomorrow morning.

That office must be very warm

First guess is scale insects. However, I'd expect more on the leaves than on the petioles.

Here’s a shot of the biggest one from a couple of weeks ago. All 3 are still alive but still in pots. I haven’t tried to acclimate any to sun yet. I’m waiting for them to get bigger and for a shady spot.

For a couple seasons I had so much mulch in the mix that they nearly bare-rooted themselves when it was time to upsize. From experience, Sabals, Butia, mules, and Washingtonia don't stop growing no matter how much is in there. On the flip side, my 2 fastest growing Sabals were in straight potting soil (Kellogg) and they were rockets for 2 years.

I forgot to post a couple pics I took.

I have a feeling this summers going to be a hot one for us here in western Europe and not so hot for eastern Europe. Usually when we have hot weather it's cooler over there. Unless a huge area of high pressure sits over all of Europe.

not sure if those seed sourcing collectors engage in palmtalk ? that would be the most helpfull over all of us... whereas us as growers can only trust what we are getting by their word... so, there must be a labelling or exporter error in the wollongong botanic gardens specimen. on a couple of fronts. when these got 1st introduced as available, and the age of that palm in the bot grdns, seems highly unlikely to be pilulifera or orange crush. i was 1 of the 1st to get a hold of these seeds and they still wouldnt be the size of the specimen so i think we can rule that side of the family out., as many dypsis take a while to shoot off after seedling stage and just wait there... seems it has to be a reproduction of the prestoniana side of things, or a variant of. also no one in Oz would have a fruiting age speciemen for it to be hybridized with pilulif orange or oreopedionis. and i doubt thered even be a prestonia in Oz of fruiting age, as they too are newly introduced and havnt been in the country that long. looks like harvester sent wrong seeds to exporter and were not inspected or verified closely. when i sprouted all of these mentioned species myself, ( orange crush pilulifera oreopedionis mony mony prestoniana and other dyp'ys ) the seeds may have been similar but not hard to distinguish them next to one another.

Hi All, Inspired by some posts on here, I decided to try my hand at some indoor coconuts. I am originally from S. FL, and after a trip home in early 2024, I came back to Beijing wanting a little reminder of home in my office, which is blessed with a large, south-facing window. I ordered two approximately 1 year old coconuts (a dwarf cultivar, but the seller couldn't tell me more than that, still with mostly strap leaves), a bottle palm, a royal and a foxtail. Beijing has hot, humid summers, so these plants spent approximately 4 months outside, growing happily. In mid-September, I had to bring them in, hoping only to keep them alive over the winter until they could go back outside. Surprisingly to me, they grew very quickly this winter. My goal was to have them keep pace with winter growth of Malayan dwarfs in S. FL, which has been wonderfully documented in this paper (https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/33/6/article-p995.xml). Attaching a figure from that paper. The indoor coconuts ended up blowing away S. FL outdoor coconuts over the winter. I took careful measurements of weekly growth. New leaves appeared every 4-6 weeks, appearing more and more quickly throughout the winter. Both grew five new full leaves between mid-Oct and mid-April. The weekly growth of these leaves also increased with each new leaf, more or less proportional to the final length of the leaf (maxing out at about 20 cm/week for each). The secret to the fast growth seems to be the giant south-facing window, which is very large in comparison to the size of the office. The coconuts got about 4-5 hours of direct sunlight a day. They were supplemented by one barilla LED grow light each, although I have no idea whether this made any difference, because I could never bring myself to experiment by withdrawing the light from one of them for a period of time and looking at the effect on growth. The large windows also led to serious heating during the day, with an average high around 85F, and average low around 72F between Nov-Feb. Three humidifiers kept the dew point around 70F, despite dewpoints as low as -20F outside. I made sure to arrange any meetings in my office in the morning, because most people couldn't handle the afternoons. I watered the palms once every three days, and fertilized every three weeks. They are finally about to go back outside, but they really gave me a glimpse of what is possible for an indoor coconut, if you don't mind sweating a bit!