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If you’re interested in observing some very tall Windmill palms (Trachycarpus fortunei) in the Sand Hills ecoregion, check out Gullys Nursery in Southern Pines, NC. Some of the ones there were 25ft + and looked really well.

I kept some seeds and decided to germinate them myself. I had a nice, sunny, warm New Years Day to pot up 86 newly germinated seeds. About 8-9 of them are doubles, and there was one triple. Nice way to start the new year! I will probably be selling seedlings later this year, if anyone is interested in them.

I usually don't bother unless the seeds come to me with fruit or show surface mold. Your seeds look good to go ! With extremely valuable or rare seed I wet the germination medium with water containing Physan 20. You can also use household bleach, 1 part to 9 parts water, instead of hydrogen peroxide.

Minor leaf damage from 34 deg and some steady winds.

I agree-Great reward comes with great effort continue the hunt !

A Kliene update. 17C 12/31/2025 @ 2:31pm I pray everyone is well. Here's my update. May God bless you all. God willing next year, I won't be a stranger. (It took me a lot longer to rotate the video than it was to record it) Happy New Year! new year 2026.mp4

hi, all dead within a year. they ended up very shaded by a nearby tree that i was supposed to keep trimming. never did. i believe they would have survived in a bright spot. cheerios. will repeat the experiment somewhat again but with potted copernicias in the same spot and try and trim the trees this time. what could possibly go wrong !!! the only survivor is the one i didn´t transplant. that is 1 m tall now. very slow palm but it was really neglected. will take care of it with more water and some fertilizer. read some use florikan, just need to figure out the dosage of it. cheerios

It would be ...if they all / any of them were forming sheaths.. None developing on them though. Thinking this one needs to gain a little size / age before it starts flowering. ...That or it's just being stubborn, ..so far at least, lol. Regardless, definitely a vigorous cross i can see getting massive pretty quickly if the growth i've been seeing so far is standard for the cross.

I was in Clayton today and rode by the filifera there across from Deep River. what a champ.

I think I read before it was a Hawaii tall.

Checking out my garden in between rain storms. Picking up debris from all the wind , I noticed the coloring on my Rhopalostylus Bauri Cheesemania. The green of a newly opened frond and the pinkish red of the petiole really caught my eye. It seems to be luvin it’s home here in Santa Paula . This one is from @DoomsDave about a year and a half ago. Harry

First 2 are Caryota sp. Not confident on species ID. Last one I’m pretty sure is Wodhyethia birfurcata.

Also people tend to romanticise the past a bit. I agree with you, I'd rather see no such divisions into sub-forums. I like palmtalk as it is, inclusive, one big team. We can search anything easily.

Spotted these in a beach side community in north Palm Coast, FL borderline getting into St Augustine-ish area in my opinion. One even had some small fruit. I’ve posted a few of these posts about northern coconuts and always like to share when I spot them out of their normal zone

Chrysalidocarpus Leucomalla dropped another leaf and features a unique yellow that is almost glowing.

Happy New Year to everyone from San Antonio, Texas! I hope that 2026 is good to you all.

Caught my eye that albeit 1/3 the size as when originally obtained, my Joey appears to have adjusted to frequent very dry periods. Perhaps it will still eventually bump into the adjacent K elegans.

I would be interested to see the soil temp differences between laguna beach and florida. FOr many plants the soil temp is more important to growth rate than the air temps and there I suspect all that sun warms up the soil in florida while cloudy days in coastal Socal prevent radiative heating to the same degree in winter. As for soil being continually wet, I think the soil temp is a big issue with wet soil as lower temps favor fungal growth and Ive read that some palms like W. Filifera tend to get a fungal attack that leads to root rot in cold wet soil, but the do well in the cold if the soil is not continually wet. I had that same experience with bismarckia in arizona. I had 4 the temps dropped to 21-22F and the one that died was near the rose garden with more 2x frequent watering, the other three pulled through fine with some leaf damage and grew out substantially that summer. When I dug up the one that died a couple weeks later its roots were mush. Sandy soil may help when the soil gets cold as long as oxygen can get in the fungus should be less aggressive. Might be that cocos have a soil temp limit when in continually wet soil. Every plant has defenses against pathogens, the question is how far do those work when the conditions favor pathogen growth. Last to the point about coffee, my former plant genetics company developed a number of genetics that were superior producers in california and we were not the only company doing that. Plant genetics are much more advanced in commercial food products. I guy I used to work with was a former Syngenta bioinformatics scientist(PhD), he has some tales to tell about genetics development in food products. After that and after discussions with other geneticists, I tend to avoid GMO food products. Modifying the coconut could make the fruit different, and possibly not in a good way. It might just be that the ideal coconut fruit is developed naturally. I have a fruiting coconut down the street from me but the owner says the coconuts are not nearly as good as the market ones, very little taste. We have seen at my former company that suboptimal cultural conditions can lead to less than ideal production of the intended product. Grow the wrong orange genetics in arizona and you will find a orange that is barely edible. But there are genetics developed for Arizona "arizona sweets" that are fantastic oranges that were better tasting but smallish seedless varieties that were better than 90% of all florida oranges. Genetics can be developed to overcome limitations but gene editing(GMO) can often lead to unintended consequences as genes are multifunctional. Change a section of the gene and it may change another aspect of the plant.

Now that should be quite the show when they all bloom!

Burretiokentia vieillardii. Tim