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Tried my male C woodsoniana on my female C oblongata for a couple of years with zero success. Then gave the C woodsoniana pollen a go on C costaricana and yielded 5 seeds. 3 wimpy seedlings resulted, of which only 1 has survived. Think it must be pushing the limit of compatibility. I also gave the pollen a go on C tepejilote and also had no luck.

E tegulaneus

Oleracea!

Some blueberries on the dreadlocks. Also my breakfast raspberry substitute fresh off the guava tree. Yellow.

Iam lucky enough to live near the habitat of linospadix monostachya. They make a fantastic garden palm, predictable size and growing patterns. They flourish with good water, cool tolerant wet deep shade understory is there perfect habitat. Somewhat similar growth habit to lytocarum weddlianum and similar growing conditions being a little dry tolerant once established. They look amazing in habitat by the hundreds covering the forest floor under the canopy.

After over a year of waiting, some Butia lallemantii is showing activity!

Spring is only another 5weeks away, now is the danger time for any of the new plantings, so far so good with only one palm taking a bit of burn.

And a trifecta of chamaedoreas!

A nice trio of kerriodoxas!

Roystonia Oleracae are not as robust as Regia . They are a smaller palm with a more slender trunk. They can get big , mine is , but the fronds won’t cause near as much damage when they fall. A bit more cold sensitive than Regia. Harry

Yes , that was the assumption, the opening leaf confirmed! Harry

It may only be one seed on this dypsis species, but a great sign for better things to come, it will set seeds!

There like a chamaedorea on steroids, nice palms! Richard

I think we went with Arenga to start off with?

Yes , it looks like Roystonia , they do well out there if they get enough water. Harry

Nice experiment regardless Tracy.. It just adds to the collective knowledge. I tried crossing a male Chamaedorea woodsoniana with a female tepilijote last year, thinking it would be a slam dunk. Nature had other ideas, not one seed. Later on, I got him together with a woodsoniana girl next door and.. hundreds of seeds. I can live with that..

I didn't have any stormy weather at my house yesterday but it did start to rain around 4:30 and continued for at least 2 hours. It was light steady rain, the kind that really soaks in. The closest county rain gauge read 0.5". This is my 3rd summer here and the first that I'm getting rain, its really awesome.

Was checking on the progress of some Iriartea seed and noticed they were beginning to germinate. The embryonic leaf, cotyledon, is cute as a ‘button.’ The one seed in the group already has a ‘radicle’, the embryonic root. Just some FYI. This palm is a beast. Tim

I recently moved to Cyprus and found this one in Paphos today. not sure it has been posted before but it seems like it is growing well.

Good advice from Darold. I would not use any heat, these pop up as volunteer seedlings here, room temperature is fine. Never let the seedlings dry out!

A little goes a long way, less is best. A good rich well draining soil medium is another good way to feed palms, get your soil right from the start and a lot of your nutrient deficiency problems are less of a problem. Also overwater will cause a lot nutrient problems, locking up your soil. This is critical to container growing. If in the ground good rich healthy mulch will greatly help, and animal manure.

New to the palm world so this might be ignorant of me to say but Fairchild botanical garden has a Lodoicea maldivica “Coco de mer” they have stated it to be doing well and growing more lush then before. results through the reverse osmosis water process they use.

Liquid seaweed extract, fish emulsion, osmocote or nutricote slow release. Chicken pellets. There are so many different brands of fertiliser out there on the market. What is available in Australia may not be available in other countries. It depends on if you want organic or synthetic fertiliser.

About the only chamaedorea hybridisation in my garden has been with male chamaedorea adscenden pollen, accidentally cross contamination with chamaedorea genoformis. This happened when I was hand pollinating my adscendens. As I only have female genoformis in my garden and I get seeds from them know and then. So something has jumped the fence and I suspect adscendens. The resulting seedlings are a much more wider looking genoformis leaf.

Chambeyronia macrocarpa and hookerii a nice example pairing together!

Lol I have too much self-respect to plea, while I spend money. Besides babypalns do not send always, what you have ordered. I have personal experience of two cases, I do not claim they do it on purpose but it can and does happen from time to time. It is part of the game. One instance had been a Coccothrinax purported to be argentea and another a Chamaedorea purported to be plumosa. Latter bears too much wax on stem and petioles to be the real McCoy. Like I said not cheap neither impeccable, so that I would need sticking to them. THRINAX had sent me one a Gaussia maya, while I had ordered a Pseudophoenix sargentii! It is all part of the game, but at least they deliver to Greece.

Iam quite surprised at this glorious beauty of a palm taking quite cool temperatures down to 2 degrees celcius. The 4 young palms are doing great and the recently pacsoa purchased flowering one is not fased at all by the cool conditions. What they don’t like is hot dry conditions, the more humidity the better. I do know they are water loving palms and the more the better, I sit them in shallow trays of water pretty well much all year long. One gorgeous palm, will I ever plant one in garden not too sure they are that rare, and my climate does suffer drought conditions, i could irrigate but the day I forget to water would not be a good outcome!

Cycas debaoensis was pollinated with C tropophylla x C mitcholitzi to create this hybrid. I grew out several plants and chose a unique pair for breeding. Father has a nice plumose leaf and mother has a unique metallic green / blue leaf. Leaves can be undulated (ruffled) tripinnate (or sometimes bi-pinnate). These are 2026 1 leaf seedlings with a soild root system. Plants are ready to push a new leaf. Shipped in pot UPS 3 day select. $30 ea shipping $18 paypal accepted Pictures of parent plants and seedlings available.

Kentiopsis are very slow growing at that stage so it’s gonna take a while to see any results . Here , in my garden , only about one good frond a year in the juvenile stage . Shade and a lot of faith for that one. Good luck. Harry

Cocothrinax eckmanii, a slow growing palm, 25 years old!

A nice little Pinanga sarawakensis doing well in winter.

Syagrus nuts are almost as big as my own. No pores on these.

Hey Rich, I just sowed a few seeds gifted by @tim_brissy_13 via your good self, thank you kindly for organising! Wondering if you've got any advice on germination? I've got them in my normal peat/perlite mix in baggies, at low to mid 20's, does that sound reasonable? Also, do you happen to know anything about the provenance of your plants or where the seed came from?? Cheers, Jonathan

A few R. Sapida in SF

A chilly weekend ahead for you Phil, looks like we're sharing love. In conditions like this I'm always thankful that we're separated from Antarctica by 2500km of water, not land.

Bit of a cold snap here this weekend, snow coming inland - but here on the coast we will be spared subzero temperatures as per usual. Recently planted R baueri are settling in nicely. Very slow at this time of year, even the chathams rhopies slow right down, opening spears over a month or more, rather than a week or two over warmer months.

Well this is about as cold as it ever gets here, at least for maximum temps, the minimums are nothing much to worry about this week. Snow forecast down to around 500m, although it feels too mild for that to eventuate this morning. So far we've been pretty lucky this winter, lowest overnight minimum for both June and July is 1.7C. Average temps, both max and min have been around 1.5 above long term. We've had good rainfall, so the water storages are full, which is a relief with El Nino still lurking!

@el-blanco that last shot of the ghostly bridge looming above the building is a cracker!

Back in SF for a visit. Picture/video of The Presidio Parajubeas 7/22/26 IMG_0011.mov IMG_0012.mov

@Chester B I live near Meyerland. Winter temps are similar to Sugar Land, sometimes a little warmer, usually not as warm as Hobby. Yours definitely looks like a B x PJS to me, very nice. The two beside the (BxJ) x P have prominent spines on the petiole which I believe is atypical for B x P crosses.

A couple of chamaedoreas. Cham adscendens Cham Ernest augustii Cham klotzshciana

I got this new leaf from a Chambeyronia macrocarpa and it is asymmetrical. The leaflets are only on one side. I thought the other side is just tucked in and will emerge later but it doesn't appear that way. I will wait a few more days but I have not seen this before on this or another Chambeyronia macrocarpa.

1.3C this morning after 3C yesterday morning. Only very light frost on grass this morning. So far no noticeable damage or even spotting on any more tropical species which is a pretty good result as we approach August.

I’ve seen some parrots in the neighborhood, and was trying to track down which specific species they were. I couldn’t get too close of look, though I believe it’s one of the ones from this article: https://www.socalparrot.org/localparrotid Anyone know which species these may be and a good way to attract them? I believe they may have been eating the figs from the tree in the picture. Who else has parrots?

Agree.. Both ..and a number of other Parrot sps. ..some not included in the CA Parrot link below.. can be found out there.. iNat is a great way to look up all of them. CA Parrot site: https://californiaparrots.com/ Not sure how commonly they are seen but, have heard of numerous " escapee " Toucan sightings out there too.. self - sustaining population of those, in Southern CA ..would be pretty crazy, though neat.

I have a couple grown from seed. In my greenhouse often humid microenvironment these have been sensitive to overwatering and seem to like light, airy soil with peat in it (helps lower pH). I also use distilled water with them.

I really feel and understand that, even me sometimes I struggled a lot to find the perfect size and shape palms for my garden. Even though I live in the tropics, I have 2 yards front and back which are both very different. My frontyard is really dry, dusty, and swampy but depends on the season. The floor can't get enough sunlight due to large canopy of trees, almost no grasses are alive except those huge trees. My backyard is too small to plant medium to large palms, but the ecosystem is much more better and more direct sunlight! For comparisons: Frontyard Backyard

I’ve had the same decision to make. In general my thinking has been that if I only have a male of one species and a female of another, then why not try. Essentially it will be hybrids palms produced or nothing. There’s not really any cost to doing it if it doesn’t replace pure species. For example, I have a lonely Chamaedorea woodsoniana male. I have a Chamaedorea costaricana, oblongata and hooperiana females but no males of those species. I’ve been hand pollinating just to learn what works with what. I have 3 male Chamaedorea klotzschiana and a female so I don’t include these in any experiments and instead focus on isolating to produce pure seed. Perhaps if any of the species in consideration were critically endangered then maybe there’s a deeper debate, especially if the endangered palm is female and it’s worth trying to source male pollen somehow even internationally to continue the pure genetics. But in this case R glauca Isalo are spread around the globe fairly well and in no immediate danger so I don’t see what harm its doing by trying. Ravenea have been known to hybridise so you might end up with something interesting that inspires new collectors who ultimately contribute to palm conservation. I’m thinking of Tribears, Mules etc being introductory palms for people who then go on to become serious collectors and conservationists. That’s just my 2 cents on the topic but I’m happy to hear everyone else thought as it is a controversial topic for which I’ve heard arguments on both sides.

Here's the same one from my earlier photo, 14 months from seed.