Fastest growing palms?

[epicure3]

Sure am glad this got resurrected.

[peachy]

definately chamaedorea plumosa around here. I bought a tiny one 10 cms high 3 years ago as a house plant, in 2 years it hit the ceiling and had to planted outdoors, where it shot up to 4 metres in total. !10 years ago I planted a tiny phoenix reclinata, which is now a massive thing with 4 metre fronds, trunks just under 3 metres and is 1 metre across at the base.

Peachy

[Axel Amsterdam]

Washingtonia robusta is probably our fastrst growing palm here in 8b/9a given full sun things grow fast here if they can take the cold.

queens are marginal and can get set back year to year with a hard freeze.

a healthy good posostioned windmill also can be surprising butnot faster than a Washy.

Washingtonia Robusta are fast here, so is trachycarpus. The latter is maybe faster once established here. Most robusta´s survived a couple of winters here but were all killed last winter. We can´t grow queens here because imo they need heat to grow out of months of dormancy.

Off topic: Luke are there any CIDP´s in Tallahassee?

Edited July 9, 2009 by Axel Amsterdam

[Palmə häl′ik]

Of my measly two years exp. I've got 33 types of palms...

I've seen two summers so far, and only one with seedlings... Of the five or six types of seeds I have so far germinated, the V. arecinas smoke the others for speed... Followed by the V. winins...

As for the bigger plants/trees, my A. cunninghaminas rock for speed, followed in second by the Royals... Then I'd say the H. indicas... And then all the other common type like Foxtails, Bottles, Spindles, all seem alot slower... ...my 2cent

Maybe a poll should be done up?

~Ray.

[FRITO]

Axel

CIDP grows here no problems. They are few and far between, but many old specimens survived our cold in the 1980's our low was 6 degrees.

[Gan Eden]

Outside the tropics, the Syagrus rommie is fastest without a doubt, except for the Foxy Lady and the red form Hyophorbe indica which are lightening fast. From seed I'd say that the red form Hyophorbe indica is the fastest thing I've ever grown. From delivered seed to 10ft in the ground and clear trunking in 3 and a half years!!!!!!!

Best regards

Tyrone

Isn't Reg or anyone selling them?

Lee

[peachy]

Outside the tropics, the Syagrus rommie is fastest without a doubt, except for the Foxy Lady and the red form Hyophorbe indica which are lightening fast. From seed I'd say that the red form Hyophorbe indica is the fastest thing I've ever grown. From delivered seed to 10ft in the ground and clear trunking in 3 and a half years!!!!!!!

Best regards

Tyrone

Isn't Reg or anyone selling them?

Lee

Just when I thought I was catching up on my palm must have list, someone mentions a palm I have never heard of and probably will go through hell trying to find !!! That magic word FAST gets me everytime.

Peachy

[Big Tex]

I disagree with Queen and Washies for non tropical climates as the fastest even as they do grow extremely fast. My Caryota urens puts them all to shame growing almost double the speed of my queens.

The Caryota urens would make it here in the Houston area. I wonder why I have not seen any? You know, Queens and Washies grow quickly here but several other palm I have keep up with the Washies like my Bismark, CDIP, and Madjool. My Queens are by far the fastest growing palms I have.

[Moose]

I am not able to fathom this debate and/or this thread, it is a no brainer. Without question, Lodoicea maldivica is by far the fastest growing palm, regardless as to what continent it is cultivated at .

The moose is loose