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Beats the living heck out me! I got no idea.

My moneys on McArthur.

Thanks I was hoping so.

It’s looking like the real thing

Hopefully I have the true bifida with a nice new flush!

Use rocks instead of mulch, and place styrofoam orotund the outside of them to help insulate the cold night draughty night air.

Argh man! Your just got to many beautiful palms, iam of to the garden hose now to water my palms. Lucky Hawaii growers!

Whoa. Nice one! Iam now keeping all the ones I have and planting them!

You’re welcome, I know they get delayed in the first place to you, but I just want to pick them 🤣I can wait, but they will ripen even more!

Alright Santa got me some palm seeds, good old Santa comes good, it pays to be off the naughty list! Thanks

A few pics from the past!

rps are offering right now Albang seeds. The greatest disadvantage of cunninhamiana is that it is very tender to strong wind and very dry air. Unfortunately both coblnditions are present in my garden during summer and therefore I can grow one only in very protected spots. A rather exposed Albang instead survives and grows but it looks like sh* most of the time; suffice to say that it is producing new fronds right now after the recent heavy downpours and low temps! All summer long it stood idle and older leaves died in a slow decline mode. Btw what is the air humidity right now in your place? In my garden it is 58%!

I haven't sent you seeds from this one but I can after xmas

That looks very similar to mine

@PAPalmtrees Just subbed

Yep the joys of life hey John, can’t wait to get older, looking forward to all doctors appointments and scans oh and the pills, what a joy life is.🤣

Never heard of Albang before; I had to google to see what it is! Is it smth you find in Greek nurseries? I only see Alexandras every time I go to one and the owner always says "this is too sensitive to cold" and I wanna scream "then why don't you bring Cunninghamianas instead???" 😆 Anyway, my point was that it would be nice to have some more variety in zone 9 but it is what it is.

Well not entirely so. An A. cunninghamiana or an Albang will probably thrive without any winter protection.

Aha, I think I can detect some sympathy on your behalf to this person, like me with Gergiopoulos par exemple (actually I hold no animosity, I find him rather amusing 🤡). Try to find posts by Kevin Spence in the EPS. He protects his more tender palms every winter only overhead through seasonally permanent constructions and it has worked perfectly. Apparently the location of your property further inland in a plain is not exposed to strong wind, which enables you to plug in to the soil 4 posts around each plant and nail a polycarbonate roof on top of them.

Heterospathe Barfodii showing off a new red leaf and trying to compete with the Cyrtostachys

Latania in the rain

The fortune of living in zone 10.. you can have enough wonderful species without pushing the zone (much). We in zone 9 though need to do some serious zone pushing if we want to see a crownshaft!

I’m going with Copernicia curtissii

So I covered my sensitive plants with horticultural fleece three days ago. It is a non-woven 70 g/m fleece I bought from amazon. I have temperature sensors inside and outside the fleeces, at the same height. I have noticed that the temperature inside the fleece is consistently lower than outside, by about 1 degree fahrenheit, half degree Celsius. Yesterday I made sure I did everything properly: I opened the fleece during the day and let the sun warm up the soil. I only put mulch on the periphery. Late afternoon I closed the fleece, made sure it touched the ground all around. I even included some concrete blocks inside which were under the sun during the day and a plastic bottle filled with hot water! What is your experience with fleece? I know it doesn't produce heat but I'd expect at least a degree higher inside, from retaining soil warmth maybe? Does it work?

No thanks. He uses proper greenhouses anyway. Tonight I did everything properly and yet the temperature inside the fleece was consistently lower than outside. I honestly don't understand. I'll start a thread here on Palmtalk and see what experience others have had.