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We have been over 110 for weeks today it was 114 !!! I give all the unusual palms a lot of water they are on drip for 11/2 hours every other day but I am semi retired so I have Sunday and Wednesday off so I run the hose all day long moving it palm to palm!!

My pair of Encephalartos horriwood x horriwood are both flushing right now. My in ground specimen is pushing out another late flush after pushing earlier flushes, including a couple of pups. The potted one is pushing its first flush this year, and finally pushing two leaves instead of one.

Let’s try this again!

Not a bad idea at all, when I open up my new greenhouse with all the special stuff. There is a local magazine that showcases all the what’s on and happening stuff, they also do stories on small local boutique businesses, they are a free magazine you pick up in those high end places, hopefully it will be good for business then. But eBay see you coming and line you up good. Not what it used to be! Richard

That’s the home ground advantage, I have no real sense of the climate in this case in Florida, it’s like me saying I got this palm taking temperatures down to such and such, when all microclimates and climates are different, just because it’s zoned a 10a doesn’t necessarily make it a zone 10a. All palms are different in there requirements and cold weather and blazing sun are the game changer for a lot of gardeners. Those couple of factors one predict a lot of what will live and what won’t live.

They did that with me on a few palms I had for sale. Sent ridiculous offers out when I didn’t approve of the offers. The buyer got top quality rare palms for an absolute bargain. All I got was a good review from the buyer saying what a great buy for rare palms. I guess a website is next for me, the internet is a great marketing platform along with social media. It’s one thing growing a stack of great palms but it’s another thing selling them. Someone asked me once are you going to sell all these palms, my answer was no Iam going to plant them all on my property, and if I sell a few before I plant them all, I guess I got my money back and a heap of great palms for the garden. Tim and Jonathan have summed it up pretty good, they are in the palm game so to speak Tim is a zone pusher and doing what iam doing also but only on a smaller scale, being only able to produce from a backyard. But give @tim_brissy_13 a couple of acres and he most certainly would be in the running! Supply and demand that has a logistical chain that goes unseen. Richard

That white rock albeit is not good for the soil as it’s not going to break down and feed the soil, but it will reflect light for good growth in summer. But not so good in winter for being white not absorbing a lot of sun for thermal mass, black rocks another story they are great for cooler climates in winter for thermal mass. Some nice wood chip is a treat for the garden!

Allagoptera arenaria in bloom, single plants will set viable seeds!

About 3 years in the ground from a 140mm container, so at least 5 years old. I planted 3 all the same size and this one is double in comparison to the other 2, just a nice sweet spot in the garden. The other two are only now just starting to get a move on.

I may be crazy about palms but not crazy enough to spend that on a 100 seeds. I got that mucked up it’s $60 a seedling to get my money back, not $60 profit.

Stuff happens, many of my palms need practice before they consumate ! Like Jim said, you have many more in the future ! Not to worry !

The leaflets are highly variable on the entire leaf and seem to mutate with each new flush. This one’s been in the ground for a few years and is getting ready to push out a nice flush.

My (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.

Indeed, I have always thoughts zoning is kind of arbitrary. Even the mildest climate bordering on zone 11 in California cannot grow coconuts routinely like a zone 9b can in Florida. Growing things comes down to a lot more than temp lows. I assume you're in Queensland area? My climate is similar to Perth. In fact, someone from Perth might feel eerily at home because a lot of our landscape is made up of Australian natives. The skyline is filled with Eucalyptus trees or gumtrees as they're known. Bottlebrush is everywhere, acacia redolens you will find just about every freeway hillside or common walking hillsides. I would imagine that Queensland and Florida share a lot of similarities as well.

Your prices are reasonable Richard but I’m a palm nutcase and I know the hurdles to produce your top quality palms. It’s the old question of passion vs profitability. If profitability is your aim, grow a billion golden canes and sell to Bunnings. The passion will be non existent, you might as well grow sugar cane like all the sugar cane farmers before you but your accountant will be happy. If passion is your aim grow all the rarest stuff and sell nothing because you love them too much and nobody will pay what you want. Somewhere in the middle is what you want. A nice mix of profitability and passion to keep you interested. Never lose the passion. We need people like you.

Just watch how often eBay changes fees and extras are added on to the sale. I would plant the palms you love and try to attract buyers to your lovely garden . The guy on Maui did ok with a small nursery and getting folks to tour the gardens for a fee that was reasonable for the tourists. He had nematode certs on the ready for all the plants . He would even ship for you if you didn’t want to carry them home. I was there during the week and business was lively . I found him on through a flyer that was on the rack at the hotel. Harry

Took this photo of A. cohune at a garden tour in lower Puna back in 2013. I can only imagine what it looks like now. Yours is beautiful. Tim

You just have to try and never give up!

Iam already thinking of another one ☝️ Gosh knows why! Richard

The other part of cost is the actual sale itself. I have been on eBay for many years . It used to be an awesome way to move things along. Now , They charge for everything , and a pretty healthy clip at that. The last bicycle I sold was very profitable ….for them !! I was lucky to break even . The benefit is exposure but the cost is hardly worth it by the time the fees are stacked up. I ended up giving about 5 bikes away rather than pay their fees . All told , I moved 10 bicycles along and it was far easier just to give them away. It is a shame that such a wonderful thing became a fee based , money grab. I still buy stuff occasionally but not selling at all any more. Just my humble experience , Harry

If you can get hold of them for your garden they are top notch palms.

Most of the gardens in East Hawaii where I’ve seen Attalea, most have been A. cohune, for what’s that worth. I’ve one in the garden, but it is still young and rather small. Tim

It’s all for the love of palms basically my drive and passion for my hobby, so can one put a figure on a hobby not really. But you also have to make your money back when that hobby goes into a small business stage. As you say the fuel station is an example, remember the Telstra phone cards sold by the fuel stations, they made no money on the phone cards sold by but it got the people into the shop. That one sabinara as a seedling grown on to a six inch container is still sold for $250, so if you’re buying a small seedling it’s still worth $250 in my nursery that’s the potential of the seedling. Chambeyronias are sold gor $10 bucks in a six inch pot, mainly because the seeds are available locally, take a sabinara and golden canes to the markets and you will bring home the sabinara and sell all the golden canes. The palm collecter market is very small in Australia. It’s tricky market the rare and exotic one, take my palms to the Gold Coast and you will sell the sabinara over time, you have to find that market and in my area it’s another ten years away, it’s slowly coming to my area but slowly. It’s a volatile market out there and until the rare palms become more available it’s a supply and demand thing. And once they become common, there not rare anymore. But for the time being the fuel station is beating my nursery hands down. @tim_brissy_13 summed it up with the syagrus seeds!

Hi all, does anyone know a source of seeds from Chamaedorea carchensis or aka Chamaedorea benzeni. These appear to have been quite popular in California and so I was wondering if some of you might get seeds from this you would share or sell. Looks like it could do well in a large container and give a nice look. Do people have any temp data on this also, how cold has it taken and damage etc. thanks in advance.

Looking for this species as well

Of my three, this one’s the first to recently show a trunk ring.

So with much guilt I picked up a A. Ramosissimum today. I’ve been buying a few too many plants for my front yard. Mostly desert hardy plants that can take the Tucson sun. Tracy was kind enough to point to this thread and I’ve enjoyed all the specimens shared here. I was originally fixated on getting an A. Hercules branched out but I do think the A. Ramosissimum fits the bill in that department. Not sure how long I’ll keep this guy in a pot. I’m not much of a pot person (lol). My front yard kind of slopes down and will help with drainage. There’s a young Chinese elm there that can potentially nurse if I plant him in the northeast side. I’ll have to remove a Texas ranger and trade spots. I have a potential new home for the ranger if it accepts being transplanted. The other picture has an A. Dichotomum I picked up earlier in the year from Plants for the Southwest. Still not quite sure where he’ll eventually go. My backyard does not have much shade but I might have to plant something to grow with next to him as a nurse plant until he’s mature enough to hold his own.

We got hit pretty hard by hurricane Lala With many trees down. I got very lucky that the only palm loss was a Kerriodoxa elegans that had the unfortunate fate to end up under a giant fallen Guatemalan cypress and one of my peach palms came down. The Kerriodoxa still has a spear so it will make it. I chainsawed the peach palm and will eat the heart of palm, but it’s already got suckers coming up so no problem there. We’ve had a number of hurricanes come by pretty close, but nothing was ever as bad as hurricane lala. I also learned that the damage seems to be consistent with winds coming down vertically from above as opposed to sideways, which is very weird. Several places had trees down in a 360° radius. I looked this up and it seems to be a thing with hurricanes. They’re called mini downbursts. I was pleasantly surprised by the amazing tolerance of Bismarck palms. But also very disappointed in beccariophoenix which sadly are pretty much all leaning sideways. I am going to leave them that way so they make that coconut style curve at the base. But talk about a weak palm none of them have trunks yet so perhaps they will root in better once they make a trunk. I figured the Big Island would be a pretty safe place from global warming, but clearly it’s not. The super El Niño is churning out storm after storm and Hawaiian waters are now warm enough for them to actually intensify close by. on Sunday, another tropical storm is passing by this time much further to the south.I guess you can pick your poison, either fire And drought or hurricanes. I also learned what a hurricane cut means. Most of our royal Palms are now sporting that hurricane cut. They have a very effective coping mechanism of just dropping lower leaves, which is not good for anything going under them, but they look fine. .

Royals grow great in Phoenix!! You might also consider a mule!! first picture is a mule the next is a royal both in my jungle in Phoenix

Not an expert but I don't think it's cohune.

Mr. Krause, Welcome to Palmtalk ! You are not in compliance with the "Rule and Guidelines" for the Sale section. since you have not listed the price. The volunteer seedling Phoenix canariensis palms sprouted around the property have no economic value. They are too large for manual transplant, and too small to matter to a commercial tree service. Also, with the beetle threat it doesn't make much sense to plant more of this genus. Large Phoenix roebellinii do not transplant well. The Chamaerops humilis and the Cycas revoluta are available at any size already in a container, and so,... only individuals expecting a free plant would invest transplant labor. I believe that the only plant which might command payment would be the Cycad adjacent to the staircase. For Cycad pricing you can view this website, junglemusic.net. Best wishes !

Volusia County coconuts coming back from 23/24°F

No need to fix drainage problem if you plant Archotophoenix in that spot. They LOVE wet feet. They will grow happily even in stagnant water. I know since some of the fifty Archontophoenix growing in my yard have submerged roots year round.

I was particularly impressed by the size of the male cone on my Encephalartos munchii. It is the first time it coned and I don't recall seeing any munchii cones in person before. I had no perspective on what to expect until it began to stretch out and start dropping pollen. I decided to get out the tape measure just to see how tall it is. With the peduncle, the first cone is topping out at about 37" but the peduncle adds about 10" of that 37". Since my Encephalartos cerinus is also now yielding a little pollen and has likely achieved its full size, I measured it as well. This cone seems bigger than past, but now I will have a measurement as opposed to memory to gauge future cones on this species, or at least this plant. The cerinus is about 24" inclusive of the peduncle, which is about 4" tall.

Cycas panzhihuaensis x Cycas taitungensis

Nice flush on C panz x C multifrondis pushing through a pollinated cone.

Mine is considerably younger than yours and still in a tree pot. Never seen a mature plant actually. Yours looks to possess a lot of the Transvenosus leaflets traits. Mine does flush that gold color also. Looks cool. -dale

Ceratozamia totonacorum

Chamaedorea woodsoniana crownshaft patterns.

Here is the tallest/oldest Chambeyronia macrocarpa at Leu Gardens. It was planted in 2004, its under high tree canopy about 20ft tall. Leaflets totally burned but petioles still alive. The first leaf to open post freeze was 90% burned. Now 2nd leaf is opening, its been slow to recover. And it is flowering.

Dioon edule I got from @PalmBossTampa

I really lucked out getting a couple blue Arenarius out of a flat of straight green Arenarius that I bought a couple years ago! This one is almost as blue as my “True blues” and throwing for the second time this year!

This Trappes Valley Latifrons is throwing a nice leaf more than twice as long as the older leaves. All 3 I bought last year are flushing one for the second time since spring! I dont know where these got the reputation of being slow but they are some of the faster Cycads I grow. These babies are for sure going into 15 gal. Pots next year.

A couple of common Brahea down on my hill. Harry Mr. Elephant , Brahea Edulis This Brahea Armata is about 3-4 years younger than the Edulis . A much slower growing palm.

This is a property that is surrounded with Braheas

Brahea armata in my garden Brahea calcarea (ex nitida) (not fruiting stalks in the background) Brhea dulcis (painfully slow in this stage) And two offsprings. First one must be what I believe either Franken-Brahea or Nuri And the other Brahea brandegeei

This is my H. califanoi

My recent order of Ceroxylon sasaimae from RPS just arrived by U.S. post this morning! This will be my second attempt at germination, hopefully with seeds that are fresher (still viable) this time! I will soak them in water for a couple of days, treat them with hydrogen peroxide and/or copper solution, and then keep them in a mix of damp vermiculite/pumice, indoors, in closed containers, at room temperature. I welcome advice and suggestions from anyone who's had success germinating seeds of any species in this genus!