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This is a big boy. Thick, heavy trunk 25 feet from the soil line to the top of the tallest branches. Dead knock off for a cocos, if it wasn’t so thick at the trunk!

The bismarck palm is a very fast grower and a good trouble free choice for beginners. This one has 6 new spears at the ready, and will replace the entire existing crown over the next 2 months. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

I have had received some interest in this elegant Malagasy species that I have been growing, and I'll take a little time to present some pictures and comments. Seeds from RPS were sown in July 2008. Good germination, four plants were planted out in April 2014. Here is a pic of the quartet taken a few days ago: I took another pic (in rare full sun) from a different angle with a lawn chair for scale: The pinnate portions of dead leaves tend to break off, leaving numerous very thick leaf bases that exceed in toughness any other genus I can think of at the moment. Here is the largest one. Smaller palms next to the left are Dypsis (still Dypsis) rivularis. For a while, plants of the two species were of identical height. Two larger palms in the distance are Clinostigma exorrhizums. Inflors are two or more feet long, very straight and vertical, emerging from those tough leaf bases. Three of mine have produced them - I'm not sure which sex they are. Here are two that fell off after dying. This species is among my favorites. They do trunk after sufficient time, as I have seen in published photos. But I am in no hurry for that.

Latania Lontaroides

The classic Joey palm, so desired for that tropical look. Many a grower has wanted one or two in there collection. But due to price and the talk of how difficult they are to grow, alas many a grower has forgone the opportunity of having one. They are yes temperamental to some extent, but not as tricky as you would think. Good drainage, lots of water and they like a feed. You can sit them in a tray of water in the greenhouse, if in the garden they will drink as much water as you give them. Cool tolerant but the more temperate the slower they will be, not a frost tolerant palm but will take temperatures down to 2 degrees celcius. The ones in the ground are about 4 years old in a subtropical climate. If you’re after a tropical looking palm that’s highly ornamental get a trio of joeys!

I’ve been observing this palm for probably 50 years now. It was planted at Two Harbors Catalina island around 1920-28. Its looking better now than a few years ago due to the drought ending. It gets only rain, no irrigation.

Pickup only - Located in the East bay of northern california. This is an f1 hybrid Mother Roebelenii x canariesnsis 7 gallon and way past due for bigger container or hopefully ground. This is a prized palm for people like me. This is grown from seed by patrick shafer. $300

My thoughts are similar to @happypalms - Some kind of Chrysalidocarpus/Dypsis. Based on the ones I've gotten from you, Chrysalidocarpus plumosas or Chrysalidocarpus onilahensis maybe?

Alogoptrea arenaria throwing a new flower, viable seeds have been collected from this single plant, and germinating them was easy provided it was a constant 30 degrees celcius.

No idea what’s the name except it’s a real winter beauty!

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

This particular one is madagascariensis, although I have the same issue with fenestralis. Funny, a couple hours after I posted this, I got a call from Jeff Markus of Floribunda palms regarding an order I'd placed. So, I asked him about it & he told me that he had the same issue for the first few years with his as well, but to be patient and they'll grow out of it. I'll take Dr. Jeff's word for it. In the meantime, we'll keep helping them along. We are getting some near mature seeds developing, so that's good. I'll take an updated picture of the tree tonight.

So when we do that, the flowers open within about 48 hours and then begin getting some pollination for seeds. Crazy, this is the only species that this is a problem with. Weird. First picture is today’s surgery. The second & third has some surgery that we did about six weeks ago.

You can paint the pot half white, half black. And according ro season you turn the one or the other side towards sun.

If you want a palm that’s easy to grow and fit into any reasonable small space, the feather palm, wedding palm or the lytocarum weddlianum is the one. Easy to grow and germinate, single plants will set viable seeds. Quite cool and dry tolerant. Perfect understory or bright light palm. An absolute beauty of a great palm that’s gives a lot of effect for little work!

Could be. Investigating further.

If you plan to keep it potted , then a bit of shade will help , especially during the warmer months . Choose a light colored pot that is much larger than the one you have. Be very gentle when repotting , they don’t like their roots disturbed . Harry

Archie’s are a bit sensitive for sure , I have had success with moving volunteer seedlings . Maybe it is easier in a garden where the soil is amended and softer. My friend Kurt does it with A Purpurae and A. Maxima from his mature palms . In fact he gave me some for my garden and they are trucking right along. If you just treat them like other palms , they will not make it . That’s my experience , here in a temperate environment. Even potted ones must be treated kindly when planting out or they will sulk. Harry

A very mild winter that’s for sure this winter. 24 degrees celcius at work today and it was 13 degrees celcius in the morning at 6.30. August it may get cold as we are not forecast for any rain, so open sky dry days means cold weather especially around the full moon. I think our friends in Tasmania know what cold is @Jonathan and even @tim_brissy_13 to me these growers are the real cold climate growers. And I guess good old cousin Jack knew what to say to you, like I say to the Vanuatu guys at work, it’s not cold you wait until winter gets here!

thanks i will be repotting soon but i dont think my climate suits this palm outdoors year roiund since we have gotten down to minus 6 in the early 2010s

Everything go gain and nothing to loose, and I much prefer the Offspring song, give it to me baby ahaha! Dypsis?

Be careful, as seedlings if you break their roots they die. As i said I have no experience with transplanting established palms. Would I attempt to transplant my ones, the answer is not very likely, iam sure it’s possible but not for my garden specimens.

They are a lovely palm, I thought they would be more available in your part of the world, if you see one grab it they are cool tolerant and would do well in your climate. They also make great container palms, slow growing as well. Richard

I agree, it look very Jubaea. Based on a palmtalk thread, I asked him for a Jubaea x PJ. He thought it would do very poorly in Houston and recommended (BxJ) x PJ instead. Maybe the BxJ was a Butia yatay x Jubaea. They tend to look more Jubaea to me than other BxJ crosses. I've had a few BxPJ over the years, lost several in the freeze and through other mishaps. Those two look very different. I shared pictures with Mr. Schafer at one point and he agreed. That said, they also look different than any Butia I've grown.

Saw lots of established queen palms today from Kemah to Bacliff and Texas City. I won't take them for granted this time. They definitely are the benchmark for a strong zone 9. The USDA zone map actually has this part of the bayfront on the cusp and/or just inside zone 10a. It still deeply pains me to see this area look like the Carolinas lol. This one is a few blocks from the boardwalk behind the fish and chips place (not bad btw)

Hey all, here’s something I can’t quite figure out. My neighbor and I have a couple of this species and they throw out flower spathes regularly. But they simply never open on their own. So… We’ve taken to performing surgery to free up the flowers.. The thickness of the spathe is just crazy thick. We have found that if we simply allow them to sit, eventually the contents of the spathe will just get moldy-and yet never open. We are generally perplexed at why this is happening, but it is what it is. It actually requires a combination of a sawzall, a vibrating saw, and some clippers deftly used to remove the woody section without damaging the flowers excessively. The walls are thicker than my thumb is wide.

I have three together here in this spot and I have one all by its lonesome somewhere else, it needs to move, and I’ve been trying to figure out where to place the bloke…

They’re pretty rare over here too.

Encephalartos eugene-maraisii female cone emerging. The cone has a guest, protecting it from any undesirable bugs.

If anyone was wondering, the one I threw in the woods in Mississippi last fall still has not sprouted.

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.

A couple nice trays of trachycarpus princeps and sitijong. Showing there cool tolerance as seedlings!

I wax walking up the front entrance to my home and noticed the boot was ready to drop off my Chrysalidocarpus decipiens. Here it is after removing the old boot.

A bit of mild sun burn . Typical with recently planted palms in full sun . It may take a while for it to settle in . Remember these like room for their roots and plenty of water. If it is still in a nursery pot , the black pot could be overheating the root ball. If it is in the ground , it will take time to settle in. I don’t fertilize my Archontophoenix here just copious amounts of water , especially in summer. It would depend on your soil there as to what to feed it , if anything. I had a yellowing King at my old house and I gave it SulPoMag (Sulpher , Potassium and Magnesium) . In a couple of months the new fronds were a darker green . A year later it looked fantastic. Once your palm gets going in the ground …..LOOKOUT! They grow fairly fast and that trunk will push it up towards the sky. That one is at that acceleration stage. Harry

This female Chamaedorea oblongata which is only sort of an understory palm these days. I was a bit worried as to how it would handle increased sunlight as it grew and the palms around it grew. It has managed well.

So nice to see you both! Always nice to spread palmy love and positivity in general. “You all come back now! Hear?”

Hi there, When going to the local DIY home center I ALWAYS start my journey through the palm and other plants section. I am usually doing it when in need to buy a tool or something else necessary for our house, so, I am not a weekly regular but go there from time to time. But today - I am sorry, I didn't take a pic - I came across some roughly two year old coconut palms sold for 9.800 Japanese Yen (60US$) , that is almost the double compared to three, four years ago and completely ridiculous if you know the places were to look for washed ashore seeds... Since my own company already throws germinated coconut seeds away due to lack of need - they have already asked me because they are aware of my hobby - I might consider starting a business over here....😂 One more thing. A couple of months ago some imported C. lutescens (Golden Canes) - in the meaning of shipped in from other parts of Okinawa - were sold for 8.000 Japanese Yen (50US$), a jaw dropping price if you know better - just to be replaced weeks later by local grown ones... ...almost men-high for 2.000 Japanese Yen (12US$). (I couldn't resist despite its commonness... A beautiful palm is a beautiful palm, period...) So, to keep it short, the pattern is so obvious that you just stay patient and wait for the right time or mind your own - alright, just my two cents - Lars

Pretty sure not plumosa; those are much more spherical; onilahensis maybe, at least for now.

Interesting to see such a spathe on a smaller palm. Very pronounced for the size. Harry

It’s a very good starting price, sir. Sir, I would pay 500. This palm is unique; it has a look reminiscent of *Phoenix rupicola*. Whoever buys it will be a serious collector.

You may notice the year you get fruit it’s dry around flowering. Anthracnose fungus is the culprit, when they are flowering any amount of rainfall triggers this on the flowers. The usual fungicide treatments work well. But there’s nothing better than an organic mango. And if you give that mango to wife she won’t be so chainsaw happy to cut down your tree. I get the same with my tree, and i finally get fruit only to have the fruit bats get them. 30 year old mango tree and only ever gotten 7 mangoes to eat over all those years!

Bit of a push on the seedlings mid winter. But I had the chance to pick 50 Calyptrocalyx pollyphylus, at a very reasonable price for 75mm tube stock so I grabbed them. I have a few porphyllus in trays in the greenhouse already doing well over winter, so this batch should be ok. And while I was ordering a few palms I grabbed a few cordylines rubra and kaui beauty, along with some plumeria cuttings for the garden.

it even grows during the winter? sounds like a winner for sure. you definitely wanna propagate those genetics if it ever flowers. plants will mutate and adapt to their environment over successive generations. considering the fact you'd be starting with genetics that are already somewhat adaptable and is infact thriving in your location it wouldn't take too long to get a landrace going. maybe only two or three generations for something well adapted.

No bugs yet...🤞 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

You guys haven’t had any beetle problems over there yet have you? This is right up there on their preferred list with P. canariensis. They gotta love your heat though!!

This is a special palm. Yes, I know it is too close to the house, but I wanted it in my most protected spot since I'll never get another one. I got it from Mr. Schafer, believe it is PJC X BJ. It's been in the ground for at least a couple years and is starting to take off. I covered it in a bad freeze one year. Last year I just wrapped the base with towels and frost cloth. The leaves didn't take any damage. The two palms beside it were supposedly Butia x PJ, but I think they're just Butia. May eventually get taken out.

Yea , sometimes you just gotta try! I dug up 10 little C. Decipiens seedlings at the Sullivan’s place and potted them up . Someone , here on the forum , commented that I had very little chance of them surviving. I put them under other palms on the side garden. I have two left , one ain’t doing so well and the other is just pushing a wee spear . I noticed it in the green house over the weekend , so maybe get one palm? The seeds were difficult for me to get sprouted , maybe 40% with the baggie method . The sprouts appear to have survived potting up but we’ll see. Harry🤞

Its been very spotty around Orlando, lots of dry. This is one of the worst summers for rain. Since June 1 I have probably only had around 2-3 inches at my house in Altamonte Springs. And only a few actual storms, barely any of the normal daily severe lightning. I have decided if we have another severe winter, everything that needs irrigation (except for my banana patch) is getting replaced with drought tolerant /low maintenance/cold hardy plants, native and exotic. I'm over needing to baby plants from cold or drought (my 23 degree coconut survivor is an exception).

What’s “stored well”?

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana normally spread their roots far and wide. They can travel 30 feet (over 9 meters) horizontally from the base of the trunk. Yours is already pushing itself out of the small pot. A healthy one will have 8 to 12 inches (about 25 cm) between trunk leaf scars. Your palm’s are much closer together indicating not optimum growing conditions. These palms need constantly wet soil. I’d suggest getting yours in the ground or, at the very least in a bigger and deeper pot. These are in full sun but deep green due to good soil, occasional feeding, and lots of water.