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4 pointsAbout $1/lb for the thieves. They can do up to 1000 lbs/day per person.4 points -
3 pointsAgreed. Here, they are as fast as Archontophoenix cunninghamiana if the starting line is from the beginning of trunking. My tallest was planting either at the end of 2010 or beginning of 2011 from a 7 gallon pot. I didn't find planting photos, but I did find a photo from about 3 years after planting it as we began demolition for a remodel and addition to the house. The updated photos are best taken from the street outside our yard, since I can't get good photos of it now without other palms in the foreground blocking a significant portion of it. The only thing faster to get tall in my yard has been the Chrysalidocarpus leptocheilos and pembanus. I found one more photo of the Chambeyronia (Kentiopsis) oliviformis from the outside of the garden in late 2014, with the tips of the leaves just barely visible from the street from a similar perspective to one of my current photos of it.
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3 pointsWith winter practically over the garden faired well. A very mild winter to say the least.
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3 points6 acres of land and about 2.5 acres is taken by the garden. The garden is about 30 years old. Iam currently expanding the garden and renovating it along with doing the understory.
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3 pointsHi! I visited Orlando this weekend and oh my lord! I found lots of palms it was cool the place I stayed at had lots of palms and natives like Saw palmetto and Sabal Palmetto. There was also some pretty Naturalized Queens that weren’t planted here’s a few of the place I took today! Ima post more including Leu Gardens which is crazy! It has Palms that shouldn’t be in that 10a/9b place in Winter Park. I think the heavy tree cover helps some of those things survive. They also might take other measures.
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3 pointsMy Brahea edulis - this is growing really well here: The Brahea armata at Lake Wire:
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3 pointsMy Brahea decumbens is more than 10 years old. Originally from Phil/JM. Red pruning shears added for scale. I suspect it would be more blue if it got more sun. ☀️
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3 points6 years between the before and after shots of my larger C oliviformis.
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2 pointsBrassia Edvah Loo 'Nishida' HCC/AM/AOS. And I thought this wasn’t going to bloom this year because it was so late. The July heat and humidity must have sparked it. Continuing all the way into Aug Sept. Such a nice vanilla-like fragrance too.
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2 pointsHeterospathe barfordi, young new leaf showing a bit of colour.
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2 pointsChucking a few more seeds in, this lot a gift from a palmtalk member, carpoxylon macrospermum. All were floaters so I decided to crack them open. With only one dead seed and the rest all good to go!
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2 pointsLittle licuala triphylla with a few seeds, iguanura wallachiana var major seedling. And a nice Sabal mauritiformis.
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2 pointsCool. I don’t know what those spines are. The fruit in these pindo seeds was impressive. They are everywhere in every apartment complex here in Charleston. Also my friend just gave me way too many Washingtonia seeds.
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2 pointsWe have thousands planted in municipal parks, near highways in medians and shoulders, and throughout nature preserves. Within weeks of maturing, the plants will be stripped bare of every berry by poachers. A few of us that have mature specimens on our property have had to chase poachers off private property.2 points
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That’s the one dont give your day job, that’s one reason I still have my job, and one that is working with plants is even better. I just wish there was more hobby growers around, it’s fun going on trip to get plants you don’t have and the joy of not knowing what you will get in a knew plant for the garden. Iam happy having my hobby collection and working just for the man so to speak, I don’t see my hobby stressing me out like the boss at work does over his business. Not only that my hobby doesn’t make me work all day and it’s at my own pace that’s enjoyable. My job pays the bills and as you say puts food on the table, my hobby gives me joy and happiness and I know which one I would prefer, give me pslms any day, a good day plant shopping is better than a good day’s work anytime! Richard2 points
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2 pointsHere’s my Brahea super silver and my son with a less than thrilled look on his face. Still no inflorescence or even an attempt.
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2 pointssix years later my smallest one, planted as a 3 gallon in 2010(?) It was defoliated to the spear in 28F plsu frost in dec 2010 so yeah a setback. It has seen 3 hurricanes the last 8 years but it is small palm in my yard of ~30 footers so not much damage. The tall ringed poles are two other C. Oliviformis I can get in the two closest taller ones with a 17mm wide angle(cropped frame) lens, the pic is a bit squished but you get the idea. The next pic you can see the little one from the first pic center back. Then if I back off 80 feet I can see the crowns over the house. Sorry about the raindrop on the lens there, we may be getting lucky with rain soon, fingers crossed.
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2 pointsIf you look really close at the palms with the sign you can see they actually have some sabal minor and palmetto rare types! I have never seen a variegated Palmetto In person I thought that was so cool! They also had sabal Brazoria and for example things like blountstown dwarf minor. Again what I loved about Leu gardens is how they take advantage of the live oaks to use as a microclimate to grow palms I thought couldn’t grow in this zone! When you get out of the city areas where they only plant date palms palmettos and queens rarely in the town, seeing how many palms can actually grow in Orlando is crazy. (I thought only sugar palms and other things besides the regular would do well there. Also chamaedora or whatever. Could also tell some things did get damaged in winter I know this winter in Orlando was hard. But everything seemed to pull through!
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2 pointsOf my three, this one’s the first to recently show a trunk ring.
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2 pointsKentiopsis Oliviformis opened a new leaf today. Compared to some others on here, it looks to be more stretched out. It has no rings of trunk yet but it’s 10ft+ to the top of the frond. -dale
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2 pointsMy (4) Kentiopsis are fruiting for 3-6 years now and some spots under them are wet and shady enough for volunteers. Overall height I estimate at 22-32' tall. They still are a few leaves short(~3-4) of a full crown(10-12 leaves) after Milton stripped them 18 months ago. Some have currently green fruits that will turn red in a couple months if restrictions are lifted and we can get them watered. They are water lovers, maybe its better they have less leaves in a drought. Trouble free palms that add the dark green crownshafts and leaves for a complementary look to the other crownshafts. These do like their Mg, K to stay that darker green color. I dust them along with my cuban copernicias with langbeinite every year and fertilize with florikan palm osmotic release fertilizer. They are so tall, I have to crank my neck to look at the crowns these days. They do provide some good filtered shade for the C. macrocarpas I have under them.
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2 pointsLooking good Richard. They’re pretty fast down here. Maybe there’s not enough warmth for them up there 🤣 Here’s 8 years of growth from a very nearly dead seedling I managed to transplant from a garden before it died. Glad I did.
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2 pointsHere is one of mine with fruits. Just took the pictures. Sorry, it's a bit dark.
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1 pointThe reason it’s attempted is due to the numerous microclimates in California. If you live 10-15 miles or more inland and you see limited or no frosts then it might be worth a try because you get more consistent heat and this especially true in winter often 80s in the day mid winter. Last year mid March I hit 96 with weeks of 80+ after that. Along the immediate coast is too consistently cold in the winter because of California’s famously cool water bringing day time temps near the immediate coast often in the low 60s in the day and cloudy often. The lack of heat. I’m trying it because I live inland in Fallbrook with enough heat to try it even if winter nights are cool. In Fallbrook we can grow coffee & dwarf cavendish especially dwarf cavendish which requires a lot of heat and plantains persisting for years without freezing.1 point -
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1 pointFlorida's next big crop? Sales pitch writes itself: " Protecting your Prostate, ...in the Sunshine state " 🙃🤣 ....In all seriousness though.. After ..years.. of seeing it marketed, on store shelves, etc, intrigued that there is still a demand for it since many legit studies into Saw Palmetto's effectiveness are highly questionable / uncertain. ..At least with other herbal things, like Ginsing, and / or Senna ( Usually Senna alata ..or Cassia fistula extracts ) there is ..pretty certain.. ( ...I'll leave some room for reasonable questioning of either plant's " benefits" ) evidence of each supplement's positive effectiveness.1 point -
1 pointAfter back to back cones on my female Encephalartos whitlockii x sclavoi, I wasn't expecting a flush this late in the season. I was walking past it this morning and was pleasantly surprised though.
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The super rare draceana goldieana! Absolutely gorgeous plants to have in the garden. Slow growing though.1 point
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this is the downside of C. oliviformis, slow recovery from cold events. They are also slow when small. After trunking they pick up some speed.1 point
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1 pointHeat is on thing iam used to, although it may be subtropical my climate, it can be unbearable in summer with temperatures reaching 42 degrees celcius and the humidity we get can be like the tropical climate. As discussed before you can never really water enough with a hose, it just seems to keep everything alive in those conditions that you describe. Spend all day watering in the heat and then do it again the next day. I enjoy seeing the other gardens on palm talk, some real beautiful gardens out there in the world and some great gardeners as well. I learn a lot from seeing other gardens and talking with gardeners you learn even more about plants and gardening. Won’t be long you will be in winter and cursing the cold weather damaging your new palms , the palm growers enemy hot and cold too much of it either way and the plants suffer. Richard1 point
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1 pointNice photos , I really enjoy your virtual garden tours . My reprieve from our current weather condition. I am hoping our weeks long heat wave softens a bit so I can do a bit more time in our garden . It seems , by the time I get the watering done , it is just too hot and muggy to work. Some of our palms are starting to show signs of heat stress . The humidity , which we are not used to , is exhausting. The lack of “cool down” at night is very unusual for us. Thank you for the visual break. Harry1 point -
I checked my photo archive and only have one photo of one! Here's a Chamaedorea hooperiana growing not too far from you at SFBG.
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Best of last night's very hot n' monsoon season moody, end of Summer Lunar Eclipse, the last total / near - total Lunar Eclipse we'll see in the U.S. until ..June 25 - 26th, 2029 ( Will progressing thru totality as the moon rises here in AZ )
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1 pointThanks for the info. I never knew there was value in these seeds beyond palmtalk members. Lol1 point
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1 point@Jim in Los Altos @Darold Petty Thank you, gentlemen! I’m looking forward to seeing how many seeds I get from it.1 point
Makes sense for sure. And the tough thing with Chambeyronia is the slow growth rate. Best of luck with the new planting.1 point
1 pointI actually occasionally remove inflorescence on my Rhopies because I have so many volunteers coming up when I allow the fruit to develop and drop. I’m allowing some of the volunteers to grow where they’ve sprouted in different parts of the garden and I’ve potted up some too but I otherwise don’t need them fruiting all the time. I wish I could tell you what caused yours to break away. I’ve not seen that happen before but you will most assuredly have many more spathes opening in the future. Good to see you already have a new one! One year old volunteer
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Volusia County coconuts coming back from 23/24°F
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1 pointAugust 14th update It’s been extremely hot and humid, the nights have almost never dipped below 74f for months now.
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1 pointI know that feeling that happened to my Hedyscepe this week very disappointing
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