Palm purchases in Puerto Rico

[Cindy Adair]

Coccothrinax borhidiana

Coccothrinax crinita

Copernicia berteroana

Copernicia prunifera

Corypha lecomtei

Corypha utan

Pseudophoenix vinifera

Noel Pecunia has been growing palms for many years, but I connected with him on Palmtalk. It turns out he's known the woman who sold us our farm for many years and is responsible for germinating the marvelous Metroxylon on our property. We were able to arrange a nursery tour and of course jumped at the chance to make some special plant purchases. I'll make a separate thread later showing even more of his nursery and even his not for sale treasures, but first my new additions!

I'm truly excited having palms most anyone on this forum would agree are planting size.These are not seedlings.

When huge Cecropia leaves fall on them they won't be covered and smothered! I'm told I should add some marble chips and lime to the soil as I'm told they prefer alkaline and mine is acidic and will need much more than a hand trowel for the holes! I'll have some instant gratification without as much imagination required.

Copernicia fallaensis (the real thing), Copernicia berteroana, Corypha lecomtei (those at the Thailand biennial got to see these!), Corypha utan, Coccothrinax crinita, Pseudophoenix vinifera and last but not least Coccothrinax borhidiana!

I guess all the explanation points show my level of excitement!

My husband (who pretends not to be that interested in palms) had previously said he didn't like the photos of Coccothrinax crinita. After he saw one trunking at the nursery, he changed his mind entirely. He also selected the Pseudophoenix and the Corypha utan. Of course I was happy to oblige.

[Palmdude]

Nice ! Where did you get your Fallaence from?

[Jeff Searle]

Cindy,

That's a real nice collection of palms! And their all full sun species too. Do you have lots of sunny areas to plant these, for some reason I was thinking you had all shade and a rainforest situation down there. Congrat's!

[Cindy Adair]

Nice ! Where did you get your Fallaence from?

Noel Pecunia grew it from Cuban seed.

[Cindy Adair]

Cindy,

That's a real nice collection of palms! And their all full sun species too. Do you have lots of sunny areas to plant these, for some reason I was thinking you had all shade and a rainforest situation down there. Congrat's!

Thanks! I do try to limit the number of full sun lovers.

We do have lots of shade, but also some areas that are full sun including an area nicknamed the oven which would probably work for these.

Our sunny areas just need some clearing and removal of plentiful African tulip trees. We'll make room in the sun for these, but will have to wait to plant them until August when we next visit.

[Peter Pacific]

Cindy, what a score! You must be thrilled to find Noel's vivero in Puerto Rico...sounds like the oven won't be fun sun for much longer!

Good Luck,

Peter

[Kim]

I sense this new connection with Noel Pecunia and his nursery is a life-changing event! How cool! You picked up some really great palms -- I've always liked Coccothrinax. Congratulations on the finds!

[Mandrew968]

Nice ! Where did you get your Fallaence from?

Noel Pecunia grew it from Cuban seed.

How about a photo?

[Palmdude]

Yes please! A photo of the much coveted Fallaence would be greatly appreciated

[Cindy Adair]

Sorry, I didn't realize until now that I'd failed to post a photo of this one. Here's the C. fallaensis!

[avanza]

omg it's a real Copernicia fallaensis

[foxtail]

Cindy,

Any update? 

[Cindy Adair]

Sure. I'll try for photos tomorrow.

I planted the P. vinifera in what turned out to be too soggy a location and it rotted a couple of months ago.  RIP.

I did better with the P. lediniana (from a second nursery visit) which has good drainage. I hope he has more P. vinifera when I next travel there as the vinifera was still hanging on at the time so I did not repurchase.

All the others are alive, although both of the Coccoithrinax got smaller before they adapted. They spent lots of their first year before I moved covered in vines between visits!

The Copernicias and Coryphas are all fine and better now that I live here and can keep the weeds down.  I very recently worked on pruning the overhead limbs (that constantly try to steal the sunny spots) and can see the difference.

So don't expect explosive growth, but I am still quite happy to have them and actually visited them all today. 

 

[foxtail]

4 hours ago, Cindy Adair said:

Sure. I'll try for photos tomorrow.

I planted the P. vinifera in what turned out to be too soggy a location and it rotted a couple of months ago.  RIP.

I did better with the P. lediniana (from a second nursery visit) which has good drainage. I hope he has more P. vinifera when I next travel there as the vinifera was still hanging on at the time so I did not repurchase.

All the others are alive, although both of the Coccoithrinax got smaller before they adapted. They spent lots of their first year before I moved covered in vines between visits!

The Copernicias and Coryphas are all fine and better now that I live here and can keep the weeds down.  I very recently worked on pruning the overhead limbs (that constantly try to steal the sunny spots) and can see the difference.

So don't expect explosive growth, but I am still quite happy to have them and actually visited them all today. 

 

Nice to know that.Sadly to read about your loss, Noel have more Viniferas.

I did a soil test and is acidic 5.0-5.5, so today I thrown a " powder" , can't recall the name of, to see if up this pH level.

Any suggestion?

[realarch]

Boy, missed this thread. What a score Cindy, those look beautiful! 

Too bad you lost the one and I hope the others are doing well. 

Tim

[Cindy Adair]

On May 10, 2014 at 8:24:41 AM, Cindy Adair said:

Sorry, I didn't realize until now that I'd failed to post a photo of this one. Here's the C. fallaensis!

And today, not a huge difference in size, but just cleared this big area in the last couple of weeks to get more consistent sun. The color is still lovely and more blue than in the new photos.

 

[Cindy Adair]

17 hours ago, foxtail said:

Nice to know that.Sadly to read about your loss, Noel have more Viniferas.

I did a soil test and is acidic 5.0-5.5, so today I thrown a " powder" , can't recall the name of, to see if up this pH level.

Any suggestion?

Glad to hear Noel has more Pseudophoenix viniferas! Sounds like maybe you added lime to raise your pH? 

15 hours ago, realarch said:

Boy, missed this thread. What a score Cindy, those look beautiful! 

Too bad you lost the one and I hope the others are doing well. 

Tim

Thank, Tim. One day maybe they will really be big if I can live long enough. Better chance than with my usual tiny seedlings!

[Cindy Adair]

Copernicia crinita

Copernicia prunifera

The small photo is the now gone Pseudophoenix vinifera and the one below is P. ledeniana

Corypha lecomtei

Corypha utan

 

[Cindy Adair]

23 minutes ago, Cindy Adair said:

 

Copernicia berteroana

 

[Cindy Adair]

 

And the Copernicia borhidiana today. It nearly died with the spear falling off but is making a comeback now!

 

[Cindy Adair]

And here are my last two from Noel gotten on my second visit.

Copernicia ekmannii

and Pseudophoenix ekmannii

So glad to have my little battery powered trimmer working again but at almost an hour to charge each of two batteries (only one charger so two hours for both) and less than 30 minutes running time on each battery it is a slow process. This time of year in the sunny parts the weeds seem to grow back overnight. Fortunately much of my farm has ferns and such in the shade so no weeding needed!

[foxtail]

 wow Cindy, estan preciosas. Good job Madame.

The product is called Calcium Carbonate (Hecho en Puerto Rico ), my father in law gave me one 50 pounds bag.

According to the Department of agriculture here, work on raise or at least regulate the pH.

I was thinking of use Dolomite, let's see how the CC work. 

PS: Love your copernicia ekmanii.

[Mohsen]

That's very nice Cindy

I hope we have a nursery like that in Sydney or even in NSW...

even palmland has very limited common species...

I am happy we have Ben  (@Kennybenjamin )...but unfortunately I don't know where to source those palms more suitable to Sydney cooler temperature that Ben is not growing