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Another great Australian palm. Slow to grow and germinate. Very sporadic germination rates, anywhere from 12 months to 3 years with them germinating in sporadic bursts. And with the added bonus of being cool tolerant!
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4 pointsA few trays full of them should be enough for the domestic market, with a couple left over for the garden!
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3 pointsI knew it was inevitable, but for how long will it last. The first winter losers. The verschaffeltia was a no brainer I knew they were doomed, a gift of some seeds out the window. The raubul is not to happy, although it’s tropical growth that’s burning its already not looking good. And the humilis that’s all three dead and I was surprised at that lose. You just don’t know until you try, but no more verschaffeltia for me 🤣Verschaffeltia Areca raubul Chuniophoenix humillis
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3 pointsMy house has changed after 5 years on this forum…. It’s a jungle out there. (After many holes dug, a truckload of fertilizer and mulch, and a zillion gallons of water) Thanks for all the assistance.
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3 pointsSyagrus Schizophylla, they even look manic as a juvenile palm!
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3 pointsI know how you feel, black sandy soil I have that drains faster than the kitchen sink, mulch mulch mulch!3 points
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3 pointsThe kitty Kat was 19 and had a life of a princess, pets give so much love and ask for nothing in return only our companionship. Good stuff you got a few sales going it helps pay gor the collection and is a great hobby that’s good for the mind. Palmtalk is my only social media I use, theres still the ovals on here, plus now I see a lot of newcomers or old timers coming back for a look. And why does a certain site need my drivers license to join them, it’s not like iam driving around the corner to use that site, to me they are just data collection sites to sell your information and make money from your information. Keep the faith and look after sancho!3 points
2 pointsBeautiful work. What’s sad is that if you sold the house, the new owners would likely tear it all out.2 points
2 pointsThese guys continue upward. Waist to chest high trunks after 5 years in the ground. The tips get a little beat up in all day sun and fairly open conditions, but they are winners in S Florida with a lot of water and fertilizer and extra potassium.
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2 pointsMine is in a lot of shade but still pushes regularly. I also got this from Kevin a few years back as a 2G plant. It’s grown significantly. Hard to photo cuz it’s so airy looking. -dale
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I have a little batch of what is labeled dypsis faneva, and assuming it’s labeled as such it must be. However all pictures I find dont look like a match. And to add more confusion the new leaf petiole is showing white. So what is it I ask!
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2 pointsThat’s the one, grow tip from me kick it as go past, they grow faster, super tough palm. 🤣 Richard2 points
2 pointsA few trays full of them should be enough for the domestic market, with a couple left over for the garden! It’s quite surprising, New Caledonia palms how cool tolerant they are, New Caledonia and Madagascar palms in my climate perfection plus they love it, that sweet spot for those palms! The white plastic grow bag gave it away!2 points
2 pointsAnother classic brom n the collection for you. I purchased a few broms the other week! Forgot their names already, saving the memory bank for more palms!!!
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2 pointsA true gardener is always renovating there garden, a few short living trees would do the trick for that canopy. I have even seen botanical gardens use them in that manner to be removed later on. If you can get your mulch for free even better, just a bit of labour to collect it never hurt anyone!2 points
2 pointsAfter many years in the ground from a strap leaf seedling, my Copernicia rigida is finally starting to impress. Still no trunk, but at least the fronds look good. Closely related to both Copernicia cowellii and macroglossa, all 3 do very well growing up in the Arizona desert. As a side note, be very careful while near all 3 of these as they are lined with saw teeth on the edges of every frond. Yes, they will grab you and cut you. Ask me how I know...🤦 aztropic Mesa, Arizona
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2 pointsThe cardboard is a great idea, many a gardener uses it as a no dig garden method. It’s cheap and usually free as well and eco friendly. Another way is just use a line trimmer but that’s ongoing work which we are all trying to avoid, cardboard mulch has another benefit as well retaining moisture and in winter a nice blanket for the palms. Sounds like you solved your problem. You could also plant some fast growing trees and remove them later on utilising them as a canopy.2 points
2 pointsI use palmgain! I'm still in the early days of my palms creating a canopy, that's my goal when they are grown up but what I think what I'm gonna do since I don't have mulch is fertilize then lay the cardboard and weigh it down with bricks around the palms. Which I hope should work and the grass should die under and also provide something. I do think about when my palms are taller and I can finally walk under them and be able to try some part sun plants since everything I plant now needs to be full sun south facing plantings. excuse how wild it is, I can only do so much
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2 pointsChamaedoreas once the bite you you’re hooked on them, even the good old elegans has a place. Frondosa a real classic chamaedorea, if Colin has his way and he will with palm nuts like us, Australia will soon be the chamaedorea paradise we dream about. I hear your after a rhizomatosa a little birdie told me. 🐥2 points
2 pointsBifid like your favourite Ernie does of course. One for you to try and get. Richard2 points
2 pointsMy two R hildebrandtii suffered for years from no overstory, but now the bamboo and palms have come to the rescue. Plus, one guy whose name I always forget has apparently a red leaf that I didn’t recall….and T parviflora (supposedly)
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Coincidentally, my own one just arrived this morning, seed and all, after a week in transit! Looks OK despite that. It will spend a lot of time potted before I attempt to plant it out. The first one I got was chewed in half by the damn squirrels! They didn't damage any of my other palms; guess they have good taste?
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2 pointsA nice young Joey palm and a socratea rostrata, they only need another ten years of growing and a lot of water to be the main conversation focal point in the garden!
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2 pointsI cleared a patch of asiatic jasmine near my Chamaedorea radicalis a couple of weeks back and found these self-sown seedlings today. They definitely weren't there at the time and look freshly germinated. The seeds must have been sitting there all through the winter. I have plans for this area but I'll try to leave them in place.
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2 pointsAnother thread resurrected from years back. Here’s my Kentiopsis Piersoniorum doing well. Planted out as a 1G plant given to me by @shepcs a few years back. Doing really good in the garden. Let’s see some updates -dale IMG_8247.mov
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2 pointsCopernicia cowellii and macroglossa also appearing , just to document their growth progression in a desert environment...🌴 aztropic Mesa, Arizona
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Just picked this guy up from mr weaver nice 5 gallon plant . Anybody got any big mature specimens of these to show off?
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1 pointThis was supposed to be with my R hildebrandtii post but I forgot it and I can’t figure out how to edit a post.
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I have this hybrid and time looking to plant it soon. I'm sure it's plenty cold hardy for my area but I would like to hear how it's doing for others. What kind of light requirements as in full sun or filtered? Also let's see some photos of others if you got them!
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1 pointNot much to look at but I think this is the first movement since planting out last year+. Got it as a two leafer from Jeff @ Aloes and it was unmarked. I don’t honestly know what it is but I’ve done a little research and my best guess is Arewood. New leaf petiole is way larger than the last so that kinda indicates it has some “large” genes in the mix. Who knows -dale
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1 pointMy poorly sited, rarely vibrant C ophiopellis and geckos warming.
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1 pointThank you!! 👍🏻 Here’s my backup plan. Got a single leaf sprout from FB last year. Happy it’s still alive. -dale
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Here is another Delonix regia in the area that is the largest one that I know of in California growing in Cathedral City, CA. It is surrounded by lawn and is more sparsely blooming, however based off of your observations, this doesn't always line up! I want to figure it out too because I just bought a house in El Centro, CA, and will be starting my garden this fall.
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So an update on mine. I thought it was starting to flush about a week ago. I trimmed the smaller leaves to clean up a bit. Today I noticed it looks like there's a cone instead of a flush.
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My potted NTCHP revolutaXdebaoensis is currently flushing. I've noticed that this hybrid can handle a lot more sun than a pure "C. debaoensis". I have some small revolutaXmultifrondis, but they are still ambiguous.
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Feels like mine is finally feeling at home - nice flush coming in.
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Great to see how other's are doing! Mine is planted and doing awesome here. It gets shade up until about 3 pm and seems to like the spot.
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They will take full all day inland sun, but I think that they look better in the shade. I moved mine into the shade and the new stems have a brown color that contrasts with the leaves. It is now one of my favorite Cycas.
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Here is my largest revoluta x deboaensis. Working on its second flush this year
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I did eventually get one of these from Kevin Weaver. It takes cold and sun without so much as flinching. It's hard to get a good picture of it, but hopefully these pictures show the droopiness of panzhihuaensis x deboaensis. 20211203_145929.mp4
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I have the Revoluta x debaeoensis as well which is pictured. Has a lot of the bifid leaves. I really like the floppy leaf look of the panzhihuaensis hybrid. I also think it will be a more attractive hybrid than the Revoluta hybrid as they get bigger.
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I guess it isn't surprising that there would be some variation in the plants depending on how much of one versus the other parent they take after. I had a Cycas tropophylla x micholitzii which I lost to rot before putting it in the ground and every new leaf was bifid. I ended up trying again, and the new plant flushes some leaves bifid and others without any splits. This year the pups put out a couple of leaves with one leaf bifid and the other not split. So you can get some variation. I'm watching the current flush on mine to see what the main caudex does this time. I guess since the debaoensis cross that I will be most interested in seeing is if anyone can do a C cupida or C cairnsiana cross to see if a blue colored bifid cross can be attained.
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