West Texas Palms

[DreaminAboutPalms]

21 hours ago, Meangreen94z said:

Yeah, I hate to say but atleast edit the pictures to show the palm. Really google maps or other blurry sources for pictures are only worth it when you are trying to show something rare or something specific. Blowing up every thread with poor quality pictures of Washingtonia, Phoenix, Sabals  or other common palms is kind of pointless .

It’ll be okay!! There were what like maybe 3 pictures of palms in the Midland-Odessa area on this website prior to me posting?
 

Washingtonia sabals and Phoenix aren’t exactly common in Midland-Odessa lol and i doubt most people in this forum even including myself were even aware that huge ones like at the midland central fire station even existed out in that region so it’s not like I’m posting pictures of Washingtonia in downtown Phoenix on here hahaha
 

[Meangreen94z]

On 4/8/2023 at 2:33 PM, DreaminAboutPalms said:

It’ll be okay!! There were what like maybe 3 pictures of palms in the Midland-Odessa area on this website prior to me posting?
 

Washingtonia sabals and Phoenix aren’t exactly common in Midland-Odessa lol and i doubt most people in this forum even including myself were even aware that huge ones like at the midland central fire station even existed out in that region so it’s not like I’m posting pictures of Washingtonia in downtown Phoenix on here hahaha
 

No, don’t get me wrong. You definitely get the award on Palmtalk for effort and intensity. Just maybe apply some of that locally and take pictures yourself? Or on an occasional road trip, Sometimes it’s about quality, not quantity.🙂

[Xerarch]

On 4/8/2023 at 2:33 PM, DreaminAboutPalms said:

It’ll be okay!! There were what like maybe 3 pictures of palms in the Midland-Odessa area on this website prior to me posting?
 

Washingtonia sabals and Phoenix aren’t exactly common in Midland-Odessa lol and i doubt most people in this forum even including myself were even aware that huge ones like at the midland central fire station even existed out in that region so it’s not like I’m posting pictures of Washingtonia in downtown Phoenix on here hahaha
 

Interesting to see those large P dacty's, I was recently in Midland, pretty much only saw lots of Washingtonia, which all seemed to have taken damage from this last winter. W filifera should do well enough there, but maybe not a lot else long term.  I haven't looked at what the lows were, but visuals told me enough. Still, I was pleasantly surprised with the quantity of palms I saw.

[Little Tex]

1 hour ago, Xerarch said:

Interesting to see those large P dacty's, I was recently in Midland, pretty much only saw lots of Washingtonia, which all seemed to have taken damage from this last winter. W filifera should do well enough there, but maybe not a lot else long term.  I haven't looked at what the lows were, but visuals told me enough. Still, I was pleasantly surprised with the quantity of palms I saw.

Im suprised at the lack of s.mexicana you would think they would be a no-brainer there.

[DreaminAboutPalms]

On 4/13/2023 at 3:10 PM, Little Tex said:

Im suprised at the lack of s.mexicana you would think they would be a no-brainer there.

Many of the Kent Kwik gas stations plant sabals in Midland. Some of them look like crap, but some of them at certain locations actually look half decent and have been there since 2017ish.

I've also seen a few with butias 

[DreaminAboutPalms]

I drove past this house a few weeks ago and didn't have a chance to snap a pic, but here's 4 total massive washingtonia in Midland at a few houses right next to each other. There's actually more but you can't see them other than for 0.1 microseconds when you drive past the houses

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0161893,-102.1416339,3a,75y,120.21h,88.28t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sv74zHzhwUnQfo0knz-AJyw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.7232727064366316%26panoid%3Dv74zHzhwUnQfo0knz-AJyw%26yaw%3D120.2085652555345!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[KPoff]

On 4/13/2023 at 1:21 PM, Xerarch said:

Interesting to see those large P dacty's, I was recently in Midland, pretty much only saw lots of Washingtonia, which all seemed to have taken damage from this last winter. W filifera should do well enough there, but maybe not a lot else long term.  I haven't looked at what the lows were, but visuals told me enough. Still, I was pleasantly surprised with the quantity of palms I saw.

@Xerarch I’ll have to try to capture pictures of palms around the Midland area as I come to work here every day. When you start going into some of older neighborhoods it seems like almost every other house has a large healthy filifera that survived 2021 plus many more winters. Once you start driving around neighborhoods you start to see the amount of palms that are in the area but they are the usuals, Trachycarpus (some massive 20-30’) tall, sabals ( minor, palmetto and mexicana), a few Butia here and there, and chamaerops (some very large and old that are protected in the winter, and lots of small ones where the big trunks obviously died at some point and the pups lived on).

[DreaminAboutPalms]

56 minutes ago, KPoff said:

@Xerarch I’ll have to try to capture pictures of palms around the Midland area as I come to work here every day. When you start going into some of older neighborhoods it seems like almost every other house has a large healthy filifera that survived 2021 plus many more winters. Once you start driving around neighborhoods you start to see the amount of palms that are in the area but they are the usuals, Trachycarpus (some massive 20-30’) tall, sabals ( minor, palmetto and mexicana), a few Butia here and there, and chamaerops (some very large and old that are protected in the winter, and lots of small ones where the big trunks obviously died at some point and the pups lived on).

I've only been out there once, but from what I saw I think there are considerably more Washingtonia then in DFW. Same with Chamaerops 

[KPoff]

15 minutes ago, DreaminAboutPalms said:

I've only been out there once, but from what I saw I think there are considerably more Washingtonia then in DFW. Same with Chamaerops 

@DreaminAboutPalms I may have mentioned this, but I never see filifera in nurseries here. I never go to Odessa so maybe they have some there but I’m really curious where all the filifera came from. I guess a nursery had them at one point and everyone planted them perhaps. The nurseries along the heck out of some chamaerops though so they are easy to come by. Also the only sabals I ever see in nurseries are minors.

[NBTX11]

I recently drove from San Antonio to Arizona along I-10.  I saw Washingtonia scattered among almost all the towns in West Texas and Southern New Mexico, and not just El Paso and  Las Cruces.  Towns like Fort Stockton TX and Deming NM had them too.  El Paso had by far the most, and Las Cruces was second.  

[KPoff]

3 hours ago, KPoff said:

@Xerarch I’ll have to try to capture pictures of palms around the Midland area as I come to work here every day. When you start going into some of older neighborhoods it seems like almost every other house has a large healthy filifera that survived 2021 plus many more winters. Once you start driving around neighborhoods you start to see the amount of palms that are in the area but they are the usuals, Trachycarpus (some massive 20-30’) tall, sabals ( minor, palmetto and mexicana), a few Butia here and there, and chamaerops (some very large and old that are protected in the winter, and lots of small ones where the big trunks obviously died at some point and the pups lived on).

Here’s a beauty.

[DreaminAboutPalms]

3 hours ago, KPoff said:

@DreaminAboutPalms I may have mentioned this, but I never see filifera in nurseries here. I never go to Odessa so maybe they have some there but I’m really curious where all the filifera came from. I guess a nursery had them at one point and everyone planted them perhaps. The nurseries along the heck out of some chamaerops though so they are easy to come by. Also the only sabals I ever see in nurseries are minors.

I read on a city data forum like 8 years ago that they were more common in public landscaping in Odessa and that nurseries there always had them but that could very well have changed.

If you find out where let us know. Pure filifera are getting harder and harder to find. It seems like everything on the market now is a hybrid of some sorts 

[NBTX11]

1 hour ago, DreaminAboutPalms said:

Pure filifera are getting harder and harder to find. It seems like everything on the market now is a hybrid of some sorts 

Not really.  Nurseries may not be selling them as much, but purish Filifera are literally everywhere in San Antonio, so there are seeds to be had by the millions.  Scoop up a handful and you can have 50 growing in a few weeks.

[DreaminAboutPalms]

57 minutes ago, NBTX11 said:

Not really.  Nurseries may not be selling them as much, but purish Filifera are literally everywhere in San Antonio, so there are seeds to be had by the millions.  Scoop up a handful and you can have 50 growing in a few weeks.

I've collected and germinated hundreds of seeds from what look like pure filiferas and the offspring always end up as hybrids of some sort. I'm not sure if I'm collecting seeds from 90% filifera leaning hybrids or what my problem is. 

Also, none of the big filifera up in DFW here ever flower unfortunately, although it could be landscapers cutting off flower stalks