Anyone Growing Attalea Palms In Pots?

[PalmTreeDude]

Does anyone grow Attalea in pots? Please share if you do!

[Kai]

I have about 10 A. maripa 1leaf seedlings in pots. I ate the fruits and planted the seeds just for fun. Some sprouted three plants from 1 seed.
The root goes very deep!

[PalmatierMeg]

I've kept butyracea in 14" treepots for a year or two, then planted them after their roots outgrew the pot. This is not a palm for pot culture unless your pot is the size of an SUV.

[Pal Meir]

1 hour ago, PalmTreeDude said:

Does anyone grow Attalea in pots? Please share if you do!

Yes, someone (not the kind man on the pic!) in Kew Gardens did grow it in a container:

[Fishmoose]

Here's one of mine in my 6 hectare pot in Costa 

[Oliver K.]

I grow an Attalea cohune (in my bathroom, so far) and several Attalea phalerata (which I grew from seeds). What I find remarkable: from two of those (approx. 10) seeds came a double seedling ("twin" - sorry, I forgot the scientific term).

[Pal Meir]

39 minutes ago, Oliver K. said:

I grow an Attalea cohune (in my bathroom, so far) and several Attalea phalerata (which I grew from seeds). What I find remarkable: from two of those (approx. 10) seeds came a double seedling ("twin" - sorry, I forgot the scientific term).

»Attalea is therefore the only genus in Cocoseae in which there is a trend of increasing seed number, with commonly 3-6 seeds per fruit in many species and up to 8 in some species, …« (Rodriguez del Castillo et al. (2016) in Palms 60(3), p.111)

[Kai]

18 minutes ago, Pal Meir said:

»Attalea is therefore the only genus in Cocoseae in which there is a trend of increasing seed number, with commonly 3-6 seeds per fruit in many species and up to 8 in some species, …« (Rodriguez del Castillo et al. (2016) in Palms 60(3), p.111)

I had these twins and triplets wits Jubaea, Butia and Syagrus as well. And offtopic even had a Loxococcus rupicola twin seed, but I guess that's just freak of nature.

[Pal Meir]

@Fishmoose Very impressive palm & container!

[Danilopez89]

No not good for long term pot growing. They have pretty aggressive roots. But again they do grow pretty slow, so you can grow it for a long time before it gets too big.

[Fishmoose]

9 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

@Fishmoose Very impressive palm & container!

Perfect! 

[Cindy Adair]

These are so impressive. I just got four seeds of A. cohune but two floated. Now I know I might get more than a max of two seedlings!

[DCA_Palm_Fan]

On 11/8/2016, 3:31:10, Fishmoose said:

Here's one of mine in my 6 hectare pot in Costa 

That is one large and impressive palm!   I know who / where I'll be going to visit if / when I come to Costa Rica.  :-)

[Fishmoose]

On November 22, 2016 at 02:43:03, DCA_Palm_Fan said:

That is one large and impressive palm!   I know who / where I'll be going to visit if / when I come to Costa Rica.  :-)

Wait a little to visit. Very wet as of late...

[DCA_Palm_Fan]

7 hours ago, Fishmoose said:

Wait a little to visit. Very wet as of late...

Yes I have been watching Hurricane Otto.  Hope it wasn't too bad for you.  

[Trópico]

A. colenda. Already 3' to 4' leaves and keep getting blown by the wind. Their roots don't seem to ever anchor to the ground so it seems to be a great container palm.