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😂 I am a habitual line stepper. I subscribed to yours anyway.

Based off the data, cold wouldn't be too much of a concern. We may have a 2 or 3 days under 30 last winter.

LOL it probably Is then lol

Will Sancho be featured in a video?

interesting to see palms that aren't touched by the elements. ending of the leaves haven't been blown around to disconnect 🤠

@PalmBossTampa maybe an unhappy Hospita? The leaves aren't right for Alba. It may be too small for Baileyana or Gigas.

Yeah, Ptychosperma seems right. There are several clustering types, like Schefferi and Macarthurii. I have small ones of those, but I can't ID any of thsm by sight.

@Chavy87 I have tried here a couple of times in 9B / bordeline 9A Floriduh, and failed all of the times. However, an important bit is they took heavy frost damage and just never grew back. I would guess (without direct knowledge) that they'd do a lot better without frost, or with jusf a couple degrees warmer than my place. Jusf a few miles Southeast of me, Leu Gardens has grown several to fruiting 40+ foot monsters. But they are inside the "urban heat island," which definitely helps. You could check @kinzyjr's spreadsheet of cold damage. There should be some CA reports that should help!

Ptychosperma sp. I've found that it's difficult to key them out, the genus is poorly documented and full of obsolete names. It's also apparently likely that the ones in Florida are heavily hybridized. I'm growing one that I believe is Ptychosperma lineare, with black fruit and and overall similar look to this one.

@htownpalmer good question! They look like actual Cocos to me.

Cocos nucifera

I hope it's allowed cuz I've been plugging mine everywhere 😂

That's exactly why I started growing them. Then Steve tells me how the ones we get all taste like vomit and just mails me seeds of the good ones 😂

London CIDP's may actually have the biggest crowns of any I have ever seen anywhere. Absolutely gigantic and full of fronds. This one in Egerton Terrace on latest updates. There is a 15 foot trunk hidden in there... I am going to need to update properly on some of these soon.. This one properly trimmed up to reveal the trunk...

I was in Orlando recently for a sales meeting and had the opportunity to visit the impressive Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center. As any of us who has visited this place, I took a long while to marvel at the palms display. It is incredible! Wondered if I could ask for the group' help in identifying this species. There were many of them in the atrium and some were literally butting up against the 50 foot tall glass roof! Really appreciate your feedback on these massive palms!

Considering this palm in 9b Northern California. From what I've read, it may be doable. Does anyone have any experience with these palms?

Copernicia ——————? Thanks in advance. So many similarities but maybe someone has seen a tag in the past on this one.

I haven’t been on here long, but i know already I should have some quality feedback from this group. Appreciate in advance

Here’s one planted at Gizella Kopsick Arboratum in St Petersburg FL. Beautiful species. I have a 3gal specimen

Yes, how many would you like? I could be up for a trip depending. Itching to go to Miami for a mini-vaca

Tracy, that's interesting about the air-flow issue, I wonder if that may also make them more visible to lacewings or other predators and thus more readily predated? I realize now you probably already know this whole sequence of events during the big scale invasion and Tom Broome's article, etc, since you are obviously a skilled cycad grower for some many years now. One thing I omitted previously was that his article also stated that making a "coffee tea" with the leftover grounds and spraying this all over the top of the crown and on the leaves would provide additional benefits (if memory serves me), I assume through making the leaves very un-tasty to the establishing scale? I've used coffee grounds off and on for many years as mulch and I can't say if that made any pest-control difference for my own gardens, since I just never was conscious of any scale to speak of on anything, including any cycads or palms I was growing (and pertinent to this thread, I've not noticed any such issues with my Cyphophoenix nucele, which seems quite carefree here in the low desert). I did have a friend in Natchez who years ago installed a dozen or so mature Sabal palmetto in her yard, and a couple of years into that, they developed a terrible case of scale, all over the bottoms of the leaves...obviously not an easy fix since those leaves were about 12' above the ground. I suggested she use Harry's technique more or less, to spray water with a relatively small amount of mild dish-soap on the undersides of the leaves, and it worked...they disappeared and apparently never revisited those palms.

Life goes on with or without us, I kept telling the doctors they wouldnt listen! Richard

looks really good!

Geonoma would want at least 28 degrees Celsius, and try not to have a mix that is too wet just slightly moist squeeze a handful and if water drops come out it’s to wet, you learn the sound your after when you squeeze it and listen to that sound!