Our 'Nursery'

[LilikoiLee]

I’ve lost more seedlings, 2 inchers and 4 inchers than I’d like to admit (many were lost while I was at Nong Nooch) so my husband Mike (O’o Bar Master) built me a ‘nursery’ which has increased our palm survival rate by at least 75%.

He built the ‘nursery’ in a very shady and wind-free back corner of our property using trestle tables. We bought a couple dozen plastic boxes from one of the big box stores and organized the ‘babies’ alphabetically. For example, all of our young Licuala fill 4 boxes and each box contains one or two species of that genus (based on the first letter of the species). I only put a few palms in each box so they have plenty of ‘breathing room’. The holes in the boxes also help.

This system makes it very easy to find a palm that needs to be repotted or is ready to go in the ground; identify a palm that has lost its tag; keep the palms from being accidentally knocked off a table and to look for pests and other problems.

We also have the same style of boxes in different colors. I use these to segregate sick palms so I can better monitor their progress and treat them. For example all the palms with scale go into the same box away from the healthy plants.

Two storage containers (not visible in the picture) make it easy to access the chemicals, sprayers, fertilizers, etc. that I use.

A hose to the area and a recently installed misting system make it easy to give them the amount of water the different palms need.

Lee

[_Keith]

Lee, it looks great. Love the colors. Where did you find the cartons?

[Alicehunter2000]

Very organized, I like it also. Can't tell you how many times I've lost tags.

[Cindy Adair]

Very nice!

[LilikoiLee]

Lee, it looks great. Love the colors. Where did you find the cartons?

Aloha Keith,

I know we are not supposed to mention nurseries here; not sure about other stores. However, they were in the back-to-school section of one of the three large national chains whose name doesn't start with a K or a T.

Lee