Dypsis Carlsmithii finally gets to go in the ground

[Josh-O]

I have been putting off planting this 15 gal D. carlsmithii for far to long. I finally decided today to just plant the darn thing.

 

Who else is growing this stately looking palm?

 

Post your pictures here..

 

 

[colin Peters]

Nice job Josh, here are a couple shots of my largest. They are a real performer here for me. First flower spike!!!!!! Consistent water from the roof

drain and planted in nice black clayish soil. 

aloha

[Mohsen]

Thanks Josh and Colin for sharing this...

how clod and full sun hardy is this?

[fan palm]

Nice one josh! These do well in my soil and would be one of my favourites in the garden. Trouble free growing and always lots of colour. Colins is showing alot of purple which looks cool! Mine went inground in 2011 from a 200mm.

 

 

Edited July 12, 2016 by fan palm

[Josh-O]

50 minutes ago, colin Peters said:

Nice job Josh, here are a couple shots of my largest. They are a real performer here for me. First flower spike!!!!!! Consistent water from the roof

drain and planted in nice black clayish soil. 

aloha

Whoa! a head turner for sure

It must like all that extra water it gets from your roof runoff..

nicely done!

[Josh-O]

3 minutes ago, fan palm said:

Nice one josh! These do well in my soil and would be one of my favourites in the garden. Trouble free growing and always lots of colour. Colins is showing alot of purple which looks cool! Mine went inground in 2011 from a 200mm.

 

 

that is HUGE!!!!!!

I really like how the leaves are so re-curved. I hope mine looks like yours and Colln's someday??

 

[Josh-O]

Now we Need Bill Austin to post a picture of his monster....muhuhahahahaha

[User00]

27 minutes ago, fan palm said:

Nice one josh! These do well in my soil and would be one of my favourites in the garden. Trouble free growing and always lots of colour. Colins is showing alot of purple which looks cool! Mine went inground in 2011 from a 200mm.

 

 

Nice Growth 

[Oside92054]

VERY NICE!!!!

 

[Kim]

That's a great palm, Josh, slow at first, but then picks up speed.  I dug around to find this photo of the original namesake in the Charmin Akina garden, formerly the Carlsmith garden north of Hilo.  You may have to move the coping or the fence one day; if all goes well, it will be much fatter than Mr. Tiki. 

[Josh-O]

57 minutes ago, Kim said:

That's a great palm, Josh, slow at first, but then picks up speed.  I dug around to find this photo of the original namesake in the Charmin Akina garden, formerly the Carlsmith garden north of Hilo.  You may have to move the coping or the fence one day; if all goes well, it will be much fatter than Mr. Tiki. 

Yikes! They get big in the tropics for sure.

I'm guessing they wont come close to that size here in California.

Dennis W. has the biggest specimen growing here In cali and I based my planting of his trunk size.. I hope I'm right ???

your picture is awesome!

how old do you think the tree you and Bo are standing under is?

 

[comic097]

Nice work Josh, nice pics everyone, ill snap mine tomorrow mate, I took a pic of this at the city gardens last weekend 

[Pedro 65]

Josh, all best with yours, it'll crank 

Colin, yrs is a beauty, great growing.  

Harry, yours is a "Hummer", the chunkiest Ive seen in FNQ due to "full sun" planting.

Look fwd to seeing yours  Bill Austin

Pete  . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                               

 

 

 

[Mohsen]

2 hours ago, Pedro 65 said:

Josh, all best with yours, it'll crank 

Colin, yrs is a beauty, great growing.  

Harry, yours is a "Hummer", the chunkiest Ive seen in FNQ due to "full sun" planting.

Look fwd to seeing yours  Bill Austin

Pete  . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                               

 

 

 

Pete

Do you think they will be happy in my climate too?

R

Mohsen

[Palm Tree Jim]

Josh,

Looks like you planted this out in your back yard?

Great plant!

[Monòver]

This is my biggest carlsmithii

 

[Kim]

11 hours ago, Josh-O said:

Yikes! They get big in the tropics for sure.

I'm guessing they wont come close to that size here in California.

Dennis W. has the biggest specimen growing here In cali and I based my planting of his trunk size.. I hope I'm right ???

your picture is awesome!

how old do you think the tree you and Bo are standing under is?

 

I couldn't say exactly, but a few clues:  the Kew World Checklist shows the name as "accepted" as of 2002.  From there, following a link to the herbarium catalogue, you can see that Jeff Marcus submitted herbarium samples Sept 30, 1996.  A photo of the samples shows a leaf, flowers, and seeds taken from this specimen with hand-written labels, "STUMPY".  So apparently the palm was flowering and producing viable seed in 1996;  my WAG would put it as a seedling in 1985???  Or earlier??? Someone who has been into palms a bit longer would know..? Bo?  

[realarch]

Looking great everyone, such a distinctive palm at any age. Thanks Kim for the refresher on the specimen north of Hilo. Impressive palm.

Tim

[Howeadypsis]

Two words. I wish 

[mike in kurtistown]

While we wait for Bill Austin to blow us out of the water, here is a pic of one of mine (5-gal orange bucket for scale):

Seed from a certain California palm seed seller in July 2003 under the name "Dypsis tokoravina". Planted in present spot from a 2-gal pot in Oct 2010.

 

[Justin]

Here's the largest of mine.  I can think of at least three on the property, but maybe there's more.  They're definitely easy to grow, hassle free.

[Dypsisdean]

55 minutes ago, mike in kurtistown said:

While we wait for Bill Austin to blow us out of the water, here is a pic of one of mine (5-gal orange bucket for scale):

Seed from a certain California palm seed seller in July 2003 under the name "Dypsis tokoravina". Planted in present spot from a 2-gal pot in Oct 2010.

 

I happen to have a recent photo of Bill's, with him for scale. I don't think he will mind.

[palmfriend]

Josh,

Thank you for initiating this thread with your work! It is really really nice to see

this spectacular looking species grown in different places and obviously doing so well!

Great photos - thank you everyone!

best regards

 

[Pedro 65]

Geee'z Bill, do you inject or spray on the Steroids?      Pete  

 

                                                                                                           

[talkjk]

Here our our two that we picked up from Josh a few weeks back. One just planted two weeks ago, the other we are looking for the right spot. Thank you Josh for the palms and this thread. Very insperationel.

[BS Man about Palms]

Funny enough about 4-5 weeks ago I was out digging around in the back 40 and found one labeled as Dypsis sp orange... although at the Dan at JDA surmised it was likey just a carlsmithii, I was eternally more optimistic. Considering the palm has been in a heavy soil 15 gal pot and COMPLETELY IGNORED for at 3-4 years it actually looks pretty good! There was barely any water to it and it was pretty covered up in weeds and honeysuckle had moved in. It had a decent leaf and a good spear which has now opened. I GUARANTEE this palm has seen 26F a few nights in 2007 in the same place and survived! Slow and Hardy.. and will likely explode when I plant it.................. someday.

 

I think yours will get much larger Josh.

 

 

[Tracy]

46 minutes ago, BS Man about Palms said:

I GUARANTEE this palm has seen 26F a few nights in 2007 in the same place and survived! Slow and Hardy.. and will likely explode when I plant it.................. someday.

After surviving that in a pot, you owe it a good spot in the ground of your garden!  I can practically hear it calling out now... "plant me, plant me!"   Joking aside, I didn't realize it was such a hardy palm.  Do you think the one you have is just an outlier from the normal bell curve distribution or is this actually "normal" that they handle those temps?

[BS Man about Palms]

I think a lot of Dypsis can survive this... they may not like it and get some serious damage... but come back.

 

[Hilo Jason]

I think I need to show these photos to the two that I have growing in my garden to inspire them and show them what they are supposed to turn into.  Both of mine are painfully slow and were started from small sized plants to begin with.  

Amazing photos everyone, thanks for posting!

[Josh-O]

On 7/12/2016, 1:01:56, mike in kurtistown said:

While we wait for Bill Austin to blow us out of the water, here is a pic of one of mine (5-gal orange bucket for scale):

Seed from a certain California palm seed seller in July 2003 under the name "Dypsis tokoravina". Planted in present spot from a 2-gal pot in Oct 2010.

 

amazing!!! that base is starting to blow up! What a great palm you have there Mike. I can only hope mine will get that big someday?

[Josh-O]

On 7/12/2016, 1:43:07, Justin said:

Here's the largest of mine.  I can think of at least three on the property, but maybe there's more.  They're definitely easy to grow, hassle free.

awesome picture !! Thanks for sharing. sooooo beautiful

[Josh-O]

On 7/12/2016, 1:58:56, Dypsisdean said:

I happen to have a recent photo of Bill's, with him for scale. I don't think he will mind.

wow!!!!

 

[Josh-O]

On 7/12/2016, 2:11:11, palmfriend said:

Josh,

Thank you for initiating this thread with your work! It is really really nice to see

this spectacular looking species grown in different places and obviously doing so well!

Great photos - thank you everyone!

best regards

 

Thanks lars, sometime just simple little posts like this can be fun and very educational

[Josh-O]

On 7/12/2016, 6:34:53, talkjk said:

Here our our two that we picked up from Josh a few weeks back. One just planted two weeks ago, the other we are looking for the right spot. Thank you Josh for the palms and this thread. Very insperationel.

wow! That 20 gal didn't skip a beat! you picked the perfect spot. now its time to plant that fat 5 gal as well

[Josh-O]

23 hours ago, BS Man about Palms said:

Funny enough about 4-5 weeks ago I was out digging around in the back 40 and found one labeled as Dypsis sp orange... although at the Dan at JDA surmised it was likey just a carlsmithii, I was eternally more optimistic. Considering the palm has been in a heavy soil 15 gal pot and COMPLETELY IGNORED for at 3-4 years it actually looks pretty good! There was barely any water to it and it was pretty covered up in weeds and honeysuckle had moved in. It had a decent leaf and a good spear which has now opened. I GUARANTEE this palm has seen 26F a few nights in 2007 in the same place and survived! Slow and Hardy.. and will likely explode when I plant it.................. someday.

 

I think yours will get much larger Josh.

 

 

I say plant it!!!!

I hope Gary chimes in with a picture of his beast

[Josh-O]

On 7/12/2016, 8:01:55, Monòver said:

This is my biggest carlsmithii

 

soon to be a monster...

[Josh-O]

On 7/12/2016, 6:57:58, Palm Tree Jim said:

Josh,

Looks like you planted this out in your back yard?

Great plant!

yeah, its at my house in carlsbad. I have a 10' tall 20 gal I'm going to plant out tomorrow at the Vista garden

[Josh-O]

12 hours ago, BS Man about Palms said:

I think a lot of Dypsis can survive this... they may not like it and get some serious damage... but come back.

 

true dat!!!

[BS Man about Palms]

Seeing a few posts here reminded me I wanted to snap a pic... ended up being at night.. but the 15gal pot gives scale to the nice brom and Dypsis nauseosa on the far left...

[Phil Stager]

This one went in the ground earlier this year from a 15 gal pot after I got the stump ground from an ugly African Oil Palm (see thread on Least Favorite Palms); hard to get good pics with sun and other palms in the way.