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@Harry’s Palms Oh no! what a sad way to lose one of your palms. Sorry to hear (and see) this situation happen to you. Luckily it looks like no serious damage or harm came to any people or property though! As for cutting this up, yes this is a fairly easy situation to clean up, and there's a technique for it. Take your chainsaw and starting towards the base of the trunk, take off a few feet at a time working your way up to the top, and the tree will slowly get shorter and shorter and drop lower. When you make your cuts, you want to make a small cut on the top (don't go all the way through), and then cut all the way through the trunk from the underside, using the top of the chainsaw bar and chain. If you try to cut from the top, you will bind up and pinch your blade and your chainsaw will get stuck. Hopefully that made sense. I attached a video to show the technique. Good luck!

DON’T plant Caryota urens in suburban settings!

When I replace the pheromone lures in my traps I always see a spike in catches. I replace mine every three weeks to a month, and put the old lure in the catch water at base of the bucket. The first two weeks seems to be most productive for sure. Always see weevils flying around near the buckets in the first two days after changing lures.... might be because I'm checking more often. Different weevil's obviously.

Anyone have ideas on getting this cut up? I was thinking starting at the base of the tree and cutting small sections at a time. Tree service is trying to gouge us because of the situation. Thanks for any help . Harry

I want to put out there that Caryota Urens are very dangerous when they get big. Do not wait for them to flower….cut them down when they get large. I had been warned by @DoomsDave but after posting on here and talking to my tree service , decided to wait for the first inflorescence. DON’T DO IT! We had a nasty Santa Ana wind event following a good amount of rain. That is all it took . This morning I got a text from my neighbor “ your palm fell over! . It was straddling her driveway , her husband had already left for work and his brand new truck would have been crushed! I guided her out of her driveway so she could come and go. My small electric chainsaw won’t help with this one. Harry we got lucky with this one! Harry

Ok. After 2 weeks of doing nothing, I just lugged about 40 gallons of water in here to refill the humidifier tote, 2 humidity buckets, and mix up some more soil. The FedEx lady dropped off the Chewy packages and I'm telling her to stay warm as I'm like, wearing basketball shorts and slides and it's 40°. Tbf it's hot in the grow room, but not big enough, the heater crapped out again so I guess I need to step up and get an Inkbird wifi thermometer since I've already got one of their thermostats. Anyway, foliage. I planted these what, not even a week ago? And my bananas have officially hit canoe paddle leaf status.

Here is a link : https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/tags/cfpacs/

Very interesting! Here too there are plenty of Trachycarpus fortunei growing spontaneously everywhere. Despite this, there is no ban. In many areas, paysandisia archon is causing the death of many trachycarpus fortunei.

The most I ever got in one year was 36" of trunk on one of my windmills back in Oregon. I had 36 in ground and the average was 18" per year, with a some outliers on either side. More trunk per year as they got taller. So I'm not at all surprised by your numbers. Nice palm!

@happypalms a fellow hobbyist in my country claims, that Australian palms do not need phosphorus or more accurately hate it and when they get fed with fertilizers contain this element, they get very shocked and even die. How true is this?

Richard, do you build the greenhouses yourself or do you call in workers?

It does seem a bit drastic to ban a palm that doesn’t seem as prolific as some Phoenix palms . Here in Southern California I get Phoenix Canariensis , Roebelini and Washingtonia Robusta volunteers from time to time . I’ve never had any Trachycarpus palms sprout up and they’re pretty common in my area. Harry

Wow , that looks massive! Great job on that , it should meet your needs ….for now. By the end of summer it will be filling up with more palms after all those seeds germinate. Harry

Ive been on palmtalk since 2007. Posters have changed but it was always worldwide. There are less floridians as a percentage of posts perhaps but you are in 10a, you should be able to grow what I grow. Of the vast thousands of palms in the world perhaps 10-20% are good in zone 10a Florida. Scientific names prevent confusion, trade names are often confusing to me., in a world of thousands of palms the trade names are not specific enough to identify a palm. Many have no trade name as they are not common in general nurseries. I believe kinzyjr has a cold hardy list you should be able to choose from. WHen I look back many of the most experienced palm growers are not posting much these days. People get older and their garden mature so they are not searching for potential palm information so much. Get the list of 10a palms and do a search for the scientific names. Some palms are referred to as partial scientific names like for instance a search for bismarckia will turn up bismarckia nobillis or roystonea will turn up roystonea regia etc. WHen I started the names seemed difficult to memorize so go with a 10a list from kinzyjr(pm him)

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No more Zamia picta, they are Zamia variegata now. The leaflets on that one were thick like furfuracea and not all the fronds were variegated. Not a bad looking plant

Yes. This is always the problem. Once we germinate 85000 palms where do we put them to get to the next point. Also since we brought them into the world at least I feel responsible for how their life turns out. A bigger shadehouse is the only answer. I’m in the process of creating a new grow on area to allow me to empty parts of the shadehouse for new youngsters. It will be full in no time and require another shadehouse or grow on area.

Try and get some cycas thourasii, taitugensis, lepidozamia perrofskyana, ecepharlotis all these varieties are super tough die hard varieties, Zamias are tough but require a bit of planning in regards to location. Or if that fails plant a stack of what already is down there to get that jungle look happening. Richard

Looking good 😎

I think that probably faraway places have become more reachable Thanks to the internet. Sort of how national geographic and other nature shows. I've helped me travel the world from the comfort of my couch.🤷‍♂️

It would be one for a protected hothouse in your climate, only problem is they get rather large.

I have about 40 of them and even as seedlings they are special!

Palm growing has changed over the 35 years I have been growing them for. Once rare and exotic lytocarum weddlianum is now that common you can’t give the seeds away 35 years ago they were that rare. Now once common is replaced pretty quick by new rare exotic varieties. There are the true exotics from the past thay always remain exotic Johannesteijsmannia, licuala orbicularis, mapu, kerriodoxa iguanura palms Calyptrocalyx they are here to stay as exotics that are not rare. Nowadays growers want the rare unobtainable stuff that is super exotic looking. You could join a gardening club or other type of society’s that are more specific in your interest. They are always looking for new members w are more than willing to share or sell thay specific plant that takes your interest. Think outside of the greenhouse and there is plenty of content material just waiting to be posted!

It’s one thing to germinate palms, but you need something to put all those little babies in, and both go hand in hand requiring both things to get any sort of results. It’s been a labour of this one project, life getting in the way has halted the completion process. Slowly getting there, this one project will be one of the better ones I have built learning from the past 3 structures refining this one to my liking. Another row of benches and then the floor and a potting bench at one end along with a storage shed the other end. It won’t take long to fill it, I know that much!