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True Butia Capitata are rare in the U.S. The easiest way to tell is by the trunk. B. Capitata have a much smaller diameter trunk than B. Oderata. Maybe try Palmpedia for more information. Years ago ( maybe still) all Butia in most local nurseries were called Butia Capitata or Pindo Palm. In more recent times it came to be that almost all were actually B. Oderata. Harry

I have tried to send seeds to folks in Europe and it requires certain certificates and such. I won’t fib on the customs report as to what I’m sending . I get away with nothing and I don’t want to get fined for a few seeds ….not worth it. If I wanted to deal with customs here I would think it similar to what you are dealing with , high cost and frustration. I get the idea of foreign born plant disease potential but I fear the whole process has become more about $$ than safety. It was easy to bring home plants from Hawaii because the garden I bought from was set up with everything , but I bet they paid heavily for that , just to sell a few baby palms or orchids. That was almost 20 years ago and I doubt it has gotten any easier over there . Harry

He doesn't make a phytosanitary certificate but I highly recommend it to everyone in Europe, I bought from him once, very professional and honest.

Keep us apprised Than, we all live to learn through new experience.

If you after small plants you could try babypalms.eu I brought two from them a couple of years ago. They are not currently listed as available, but if you drop Miguel a WhatsApp message he might be able to source them for you

Learning new things definitely keeps you motivated to keep improving and learning even newer things 😁 I can’t wait to see the progress!

OK next time will be much less. Thank you. God I have made so many mistakes it's a miracle this palm is still alive. Hopefully the rains and sand will help remove the excess of fertilizer.

It’s just the way it is, I respect our bio security policy. It’s a debate that’s been going on for a while now amongst importers of seeds. All we want to do is grow our palms in peace. Save endangered and rare plant species. Yet the government goes and spends millions on upgrading our bio security and customs, now they want their money back just to justify the upgrade. No commonsense anymore when it comes to the government. The old saying if I want to go broke I can stay at home and do that!

Richard, I'm very sorry, because it's like throwing money away because of Australian customs, we're not doing anything wrong, it's better that the police arrest the criminals, it's become a real problem here, for the elderly, they are scammed every day

They are so friendly at customs. For an order of 3 varieties of seeds, 50 seeds in total, 2 varieties did not meet bio security requirements. So after inspection one lot of the two did meet bio security requirements, which left ten seeds, yes ten seeds that did not meet bio security. So just throw them in the bin you ask, not so simple anymore down under at your local customs treatment office. Let’s just say a lot of emails and an extra 3 weeks on top of postage, a bill for $500 bucks, and I still don’t have the remaining 40 seeds yet. Those ten little seeds have become a headache with a bill, not too bad for $50 bucks worth of seeds . Oh and don’t forget phyto certificate and postage. So the next time someone has a rare palm for sale and you think it’s too expensive feel free to import seeds, it can get rather expensive at times!

And I suppose you got a Bill 💸 for your trouble?

How many do you want they are ready now in my garden, free!

Can get them by the thousands, native to my area. Pm me if you want any?

Dendrobium anceps

Iam more worried about what goes on in the monkey house! Advertising, people see a picture of a palm and they get a tropical holiday in some remote island, it makes them happy a great subliminal message in there, the advertising campaign works well with a palm picture!

Oooooh lucky you!! I reckon the seed aborted because Tim looked at them and they just freaked out scared he was going to take them to Hawaii, where they would cook in that tropical paradise!

You’re welcome Tim, a few sent a bit further south of you to sunny Tasmania, and a batch went to sunny Western Australia, and as you can see this lot went to Spain. And the rest went into a germinating box @happypalms. But if I remember you got some weeping form a while back, how did you go with that lot?

Thanks I put a few in myself so will see what happens next, I have germinated a few of these seeds about 5 years ago. There in my greenhouse somewhere.

Here comes Narelle

Another lot of gifted seeds of some beautiful trees. My main interest has been palms over the years learning a lot about. I have always been interested in trees and shrubs but now iam taking a particular interest in them, it might be a grower challenging oneself, taking a particular interest in such trees. But all I know is there’s a lot to learn as a grower, I guess I will never stop learning about plants and growing, and that’s a good thing!

As a thumb rule, we never fertlize heavily a palm, unless we are sure about the nutritional deficiency, plant grows in sand and rainfall is very frequent. I usually go with 10 gr in 10 lt water and repeat after half to a whole month.

A couple more floating around the greenhouse iguanura pycnostachysCalyptrocalyx doxanthus licuala hainensis Geonoma panamensisCalyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana kentiopsis pyriformis bentnickia condapanna

My biggest Hedyscepe canterburyana that I grew from seed from the beauty in pogobob old garden is finally setting seed. Last summer when Tim from Hawaii was visiting it flowered but the seed aborted.

Curse old man winter, I actually started a bit more on the new greenhouse today. Running out of room in the other two 🤣 Richard

Dosage says 5-20 gr for a bush, so I thought 30gr would make sense for a young tree... Also I thought EDDHA Fe is not toxic unless 10x the recommended dose. I applied it at noon, two days ago. It's rained since and it is also raining now.