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Dypsis mahajanga?

DoomsDave

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Howdyall:

Picked up this purty thang' at the PSSC meeting after-meeting schmooze in the parking lot.

It was sold as a Dypsis mahajanga, and, well, I'm ready for another.

But, maybe it's not? I think it likely is, but your learned opinions will be helpful.

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I have two other specimens, cowering the shadow of the infamous Armageddon Palm.TM I got them from Jeff Marcus, at Floribunda palms.

They're about 6 feet tall overall, but kind of runty or stretched looking; I suspect they're in too much shade, or maybe the competition from AP takes all the water . ..

 

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I saw that too Dave. I'm still not sure how many types of mahajanga/madagascarensis there are and there seems to be a wide variance in whether they are clumping or single or easy to grow or not. But in general it seems they like more heat than I can give them.

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

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I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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9 hours ago, BS Man about Palms said:

But in general it seems they like more heat than I can give them.

Do they tend to just be slow for you?  I'm curious because we probably have similar average high temps, and I put a 1 gallon in this year which hasn't done anything other than brown, while some other small Dypsis I dropped in at the same time have continued pushing (D ambositrae, D sp. "bef" for example).  I put mine in a spot where it gets sun from about 11am to sunset, adjacent to a driveway which absorbs heat and reflects it in the afternoons.

33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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Do they tend to just be slow for you?  I'm curious because we probably have similar average high temps, and I put a 1 gallon in this year which hasn't done anything other than brown, while some other small Dypsis I dropped in at the same time have continued pushing (D ambositrae, D sp. "bef" for example).  I put mine in a spot where it gets sun from about 11am to sunset, adjacent to a driveway which absorbs heat and reflects it in the afternoons.

Tracy, I really see them as a hit or miss palm around here. There is such a wide variety to these I have not pinned them down as to which like what. As a whole though I see they tend to like heat and some extra sun. Occasionally I will see some do well coastally as single trunk examples, but then the "same"? palm do poorly in a similar area. I'm holding off on most of these until I have multiple spots ready to plant out.. (hah, that will more years yet I bet).. But yet, I recently picked up a little seedling that was supposed to be a "prestoniana" but supposedly many looked different...(last one left) It looks like a small colorful madagascarensis type to me that seems to be growing well, but dunno what it could be. My dream would be to have a mahajanga/madagascarensis that is so big its mistaken for a prestoniana... :bemused:

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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22 hours ago, BS Man about Palms said:

There is such a wide variety to these I have not pinned them down as to which like what.

Thank you for sharing.  I guess I'll just have to see how mine performs over the next year or so.  I was impressed with the one that JoshO has in front of his garage at his Carlsbad home, which is solitary.  Seeing his do so well, just a few miles from my garden, was what encouraged me to give it a go.

33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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On 29/05/2016, 12:58:54, DoomsDave said:

Howdyall:

Picked up this purty thang' at the PSSC meeting after-meeting schmooze in the parking lot.

It was sold as a Dypsis mahajanga, and, well, I'm ready for another.

But, maybe it's not? I think it likely is, but your learned opinions will be helpful.

 

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My Mahajanga is similar looking to yours.....well kinda!

 

 

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Underutilized in SoCal. I am adding more to my garden. 

 

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Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

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Len,  Is yours Mahajanga?  The clumping one?  Or is that just three Lucabensis planted in a group?

 

Dave,  Your in-ground one looks like Mahajanga in my experience.  So does Steve99's.  The thinner leaflets and not so tidy look is how I can tell.  Your new potted palm has relatively wide leaflets in comparison so it might be another variation on the madagascarensis complex.  Then again it might just be cultural.  Was it grown outdoors or in a greenhouse?

Matt Bradford

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Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

LJG Grand Master

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Matt, two are single trunks, the other had two suckers I cut out to make single. These are Mahajanga.

 

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

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1 hour ago, LJG said:

Matt, two are single trunks, the other had two suckers I cut out to make single. These are Mahajanga.

 

how old are they Len?

did you plant them out as big 15 gals?

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

LJG Grand Master

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First plants I ever bought from Soledad. 2006 and they were in squat 10s. 

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

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12 hours ago, LJG said:

2006 and they were in squat 10s. 

Len, were they pretty constant in growth for you, or did they reach certain size at which they really accelerated.  A quick question for Josh, I can't recall if the one I got from you was from seed you grew from your plant in the front, or a different source?  It looks a lot like the one Dave posted, as well as the one in Steve's photo.

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LJG Grand Master

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They were consistent. They like the be watered and fed.

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

DoomsDave Grand Master

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16 hours ago, LJG said:

Underutilized in SoCal. I am adding more to my garden. 

 

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Looks like they're in full sun; how far from the ocean are you, Len? Did you shade your mahajangi when they were babies?

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7 miles Dave. Nope, they just burnt. It took a few years for them to be able to handle the sun here in Vista. But they were Hawaiian grown to start.

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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9 hours ago, Tracy said:

Len, were they pretty constant in growth for you, or did they reach certain size at which they really accelerated.  A quick question for Josh, I can't recall if the one I got from you was from seed you grew from your plant in the front, or a different source?  It looks a lot like the one Dave posted, as well as the one in Steve's photo.

you have the same exact tree that Len is growing. make sure you keep them wet and well fertilized and they will grow very fact. Thanks again for the business Tracy :) 

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Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

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