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Okay, Richard, without swapping houses, you and your wife Jodie are welcome in my home 👌

This was a while ago. It has two main trunks that are getting big . My plan is to cut almost all the suckers off except the main larger trunks . I just have to get my chain saw down there and hack away , I just know I will need a lot of band aids! Harry This one was suckering before it left the pot at an early stage , younger than yours. From our deck looking down . To the left of the Washingtonia . Harry

To clarify, there are plenty of harmless and even beneficial insects and organisms, this post is about the pests that consume and harm plants, and in nature are often kept in control by weather and surroundings, but if you choose to commit the two unnatural actions to put a plant in a pot and put it indoors then they potentially become a seriuos problem. There are plenty of reliable growers (like PPP/RPS and Hornbach's supplier) who focus from day 1 to have bug free plants. In the case when a grower wants to import plants e g to EU (like RPS import seedlings from Asia) there are laws requiring costly phytosanitary certificates, so these bugs are no joke to authorities. I don't know why you think Europe would be against chemicals, maybe the US allows some more but for farmers and professional growers there are plenty of effective pesticides also in the EU, less so for amateurs (legally, although easy to find e g on ebay).

Now now @Jonathan all creatures great and small are gods creatures! I will do you a deal you take my bush turkeys and I will take your pretty cute ever so lawn friendly mowers!!!

There only evil if run them over, and there mates get a set on you, then you’re garden is free rein as a food pantry!

They are free gyuseppe, to a good home. I think @Jonathan wants to adopt them!

Funny you mentioned this.. Before it's soul was sold & sacrificed at an alter deep in some tomb, i came pretty close to giving X / Twitter/ whatever a shot but heard the same exact thing about leaving, should i decide to. Glad i didn't give into that temptation, ha ha. Agree too that dropping FB was a sinch. Only thing i should have done that i didn't do, was yank all my pictures i'd posted there before bailing. Mastadon always seemed ..odd.. No idea why but, wasn't shocked when it kind of faded from view. Anyway,,,

How much for 10 or 20 or so? Would you be willing to ship? I wouldn't mind trying some out here

Lol everyone here thinking the same thing!

I know we have gone far afield from Joseph Rossi/Texas Cold Hardy Palms, and the digression was partly my fault. However. I wanted to add: Leaving Facebook and Meta was a breeze compared to leaving Twitter. I was an addict, really. I did leave, though. I set up a Bluesky account (as @tarnado.bsky.social) ... I post some palm stuff from time to time. I'm very happy there, unlike Mastodon (which I also tried out). Peace be with you all. The world beyond our forum here is ... well, I love it here and I appreciate you all a great deal.

That last photo is the vendor explaining what chewing betel nut does to your teeth.

Mary Lock inspects the betel vendors at the Long Bien market in Hanoi. All of the betel nuts for sale were still green, which is apparently preferred over fully ripe nuts in Vietnam This vendor peels the fruit and arranges them as if they were flowers - an edible arrangement. These arrangements serve as gifts for your discerning betel nut chewer. The gift package is handed over to a motorbike courier for delivery.

I know better, going to bed at 53 degrees and matching Miami at 10pm, that it won't be all that warm in the morning. It drops like a rock every time and there are 30s showing up inland already. I don't think it will hit freezing here but it will be close, but even if it's the last one that's 4 months of off and on freezing weather. It feels like the desert winter from when I was a kid, just hotter between cold fronts. Testing the new greenhouse to see how it fares with no active heat and only enclosed to the outside air, I'm not expecting much with only the plastic and wood and no stone floor yet.

Everyone gets in on the fun tonight.

You got a pic?

38 deg at 8:55pm here. Forecast low is 26deg. Not sure if the bottom will really fall out to get to 26 or if it will slow down for a light freeze in the upper 20’s. Will see…

If you use Cyborg Ellona's platform, ..which is your choice of course, you ..and anyone else choosing to utilize it.. are -intentionally- turning a blind eye to everything else associated with it / him? / her?.. There is no excusing that which is inexcusable. Will give you a up for not falling into the Ticky Ticky trap. We'll see whether or not you sign up to have chips installed in your head. ...Regardless, hopping on the X, ....wetf it is ..or might morph into tomorrow... wagon is as bad as purchasing anything off Amazon, ..or use of Apple products. <--- On that note, grew up attending assemblies in elementary and middle school where Steve Wozniak was a regular guest. From a kids perspective, he seemed like a cool guy with some cool stuff to say / inspire through. Rumor has it he lived in a prominent home up in the Santa Cruz Mountains, easily in view above my neighborhood 24 - 7- 365 that was frequent rumor mill fodder throughout and just after high school. ...I may have been several years from owning anything computerized att but knew when he bailed on Apple, what would follow = heaps of self - serving, corporate greed, and flashy trash. Hard pass. ..Always happy to participate in Apple product burning festivities though, lol. If i were to ever extend my reach social media wise again, have toyed with the idea of Blue Sky but.. Not thrilled with Jack cowering to Ellona. Again, no excuses, no matter how much $$ one might stand to gain. One thing i do applaud is the efforts by other countries to reign in use of Social Media, esp. by anyone under 15.. Too bad we're apparently too afraid of the machine here ...right now at least.

To live in a bug free world is impossible to do, we need bugs good and bad, they form a part in the food chain. If we were to live in a bug free world then the whole ecosystem would collapse. To live in a bug free world we would have to be swimming in chemicals. I always thought Europe was against chemicals in a good way. I don’t mind a few bugs it’s a good sign of a healthy environment. Richard

It's a shame they'll be replaced, but at least they will be replaced, or interest exists for that. Some nice investigative work @tarnado

The ones I sent out in Australia haven’t germinated yet either, they must not have the happypalms knack for germination. Well now in Australia i would say Pauline Sullivans seeds are most likely the only ones getting around. Richard

That is very cool. The largest ones I have ever seen only had one and a half or two feet of trunk.

The other ones I sent out in Australia still haven’t germinated either, they must not have the happypalms knack 🤣 Richard

Doesn’t matter that it’s in a pot. P. reclinata start suckering at a young age whether in a pot or in the ground. The coloring of the cut stems on the trunk of your’s reminds me of Phoenix sylvestris.

That's why I only use UPS even if it's a pain in the ass. I have to drive to the library to print a label or I can pay $4 for the UPS store to print it or maybe the other drop-off point (gun store) can print it if their printer is working that day. Either way it's a 70 mile round trip but I know whatever I send will get there when it's supposed to.