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I think it is the water you use. Too much salts. Do you use tap water? Not related with the humidity in my opinion.

Finally some rain here the last 3 days and more coming. We went almost a month without a drop and not much before. It was getting very dry, luckily not many days above 90F yet or it would have been worse. Now almost 4" the last couple of days. Yesterday 3 separate thunderstorms came through my house in Altamonte Springs. Its the summer pattern so I hope it stays. Forecast here through Tues shows 70-80% everyday. Maybe this pattern spreads over FL.

Hi guys, Some of the branches on my palm tree are turning brown. Any idea what might be causing this? I gave them manganese sulphate and plant food yesterday in hopes that it might improve. any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

I am looking for a small ( 2-8' ish total ) Picabeen palm within reasonable driving distance of Daytona Beach . Thanks .

Must be a good one

Update on my Pogobob Chatham island 🏝 Oceania Rhopalostylis sapida

See you have a warm patch coming around the point. Last year had quite a cool March and April, made me think winter could be harsh but it did not come to anything. This year much warmer so far, might be giving a false sense of security, we'll see.

Wait until you aren't home and I get to borrow a ute and trailer !

I haven't been able to buy a palm for ages but after I sold some of my pottery last week I decided to have a little splurge and buy one. Found my dream palm on ebay, put in my bid and for 5 days I was the highest bidder. In the last minute I was outbid by someone offering $70 more than I could pay. I was so disappointed as I had been through 2 weeks of hell and thought as no other bidders made an offer that it was going to be mine. I even started making it a special pot. 😥 What a coincidence you bought one exactly the same 😒 Peachy

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Four great books for any library at home. I once got told from a second hand book dealer who was a good friend. That when he buys the books from various collections he said to me look at any ones book collection and you tell there per

My understanding is that Butia x Jubaea F2 seed (from an F1 BxJ parent) should be larger than pure Butia due to Jubaea influence. These are very small, which makes me think they aren’t viable. If they were mine, I would dry them for a few weeks, then gently crack them in a vice to see what’s inside. FYI, I believe most F1 Butia x Jubaea hybrids are self-sterile so unless they have another cocoid palm nearby/manually pollinated, it’s unlikely the seed would be viable.

I don’t know if I want to plant them or save the space for the 700 kerriodoxas I have decisions decisions, or for my 1500 Joey oh the woes! Richard

They take temperatures as low as 2 degrees Celsius in my climate.

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Good question as I was saying to @mnorell it may never be identified as so many have been lost in habitat. With so many variants of the same species. It may be another variety but not in the wild anymore. So it could possibly be discovered in cultivation it has happened before.

We got her @Jonathan Haycock nothing like a nice clumping palm to bring them out of the wood work🤣

Food for thought there Harry. But iam up against @DoomsDave. He might run me out of town, one cannot muscle in on another growers territory🤣 Richard

Around five little dypsis minuta seeds were showing signs of being ripe. So I thought I might as well get them in. Bottom heating 30 degrees Celsius coco coir in a community pot inside a plastic bags. Now just sit back and wait.

For easier comparison, the golden malay as sold by the Dutch wholesaler is the small one. That one has the same size like all the Dutch distributed coconuts. The other 2 are talls and that size is never sold by the large chains. It wouldnt even fit in their standard sized pots.

Any chance for Tepejilote to hybridize with Microspadix? At the moment they are all flowering, does anyone have any experience with such situations?

You can see the yellow variety in my picture above on the right. These are all dwarfs. Costa rica may have a large number of talls but for the purpose of exporting them, especially to the large Dutch wholesalers they are all the same dwarf malays. Look at the tall on the left of my picture, these cannot be found in any regular garden center or Ikea.

Also, the Dutch producer added a yellow variety on his website last year. The yellow one is described as Cocos nucifera "Dwarf Golden Malay". His green variety is simply called Cocos nucifera: https://www.floraxchange.nl/Artikel/Info/24345/Cocos-nucifera . I will have to send him an email to clarify this.

They say there best viewed from above or below. Your ones look like they are in a similar setting to my ones. I have around 700 of them and if I have my way I will plant the lot out on my property.

Nice one now convince @Harry’s Palms to get two off you, he won’t regret it. They grow moderately fast so he will be quite happy with them.