Brahea Super Silver

[Jdiaz31089]

It looks like this palm has been available for the better part of a decade now. I'd love to see what they've grown up to be. Do any of you have this palm and care to share a few pictures? 

[Hillizard]

55 minutes ago, Jdiaz31089 said:

It looks like this palm has been available for the better part of a decade now. I'd love to see what they've grown up to be. Do any of you have this palm and care to share a few pictures? 

JDiaz: You'll likely see pictures of more mature specimens of Brahea sp. 'Super Silver' from others, but this is mine here in Sacto that started out quite small years ago in a liner. It's been planted in my palm berm for about 1.5 years. Between the cold and hot weather this year, it's taken a few hits, but growth now seems to be accelerating. I assume it will need to grow larger before the leaves take on a bluish tint. For that, my Sabal uresana nearby doesn't disappoint, even at its young age! 

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

I have two in the ground. Ill snap pics and upload.

[Alberto]

Two of my supersilver

[Josh-O]

awesome palm

[Mandrew968]

Already showed mine in the other thread.

[Patrick]

I think I may have wound up with one of these that I originally bought as nitida. After seeing the thread Mandrew referred to it got me thinking about that palm. Mine is about 6-8 years old from seed. I'll post pics when I get home.

[Stevetoad]

I got one. Fastest brahea I have other than brandy. 

Monkey for scale

[DoomsDave]

25 minutes ago, Stevetoad said:

I got one. Fastest brahea I have other than brandy. 

Monkey for scale

Scream

[Jdiaz31089]

25 minutes ago, Stevetoad said:

I got one. Fastest brahea I have other than brandy. 

Monkey for scale

Dude! that palm is awesome!

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

On 7/6/2017, 8:44:56, Jdiaz31089 said:

Dude! that palm is awesome!

Here is one of mine with a lot of weeds. 

[Al in Kona]

Nice contrast of silver/blue among the very green "weeds".

[Al in Kona]

Stevetoad - yours is one of the biggest I've seen in cultivation.  It must like your climate to do so well.  What do you use for fertilizer?   Here's mine which is almost 1.8m (6 ft.) tall now. I especially like the thin petioles that are spine (hook) free.  It grows pretty much on its own without much supplemental watering and never fertilized. 

[Stevetoad]

7 hours ago, Al in Kona said:

Stevetoad - yours is one of the biggest I've seen in cultivation.  It must like your climate to do so well.  What do you use for fertilizer?   Here's mine which is almost 1.8m (6 ft.) tall now. I especially like the thin petioles that are spine (hook) free.  It grows pretty much on its own without much supplemental watering and never fertilized. 

I wish I could say I use some highly skilled techniques that took me years to master. But the reality is that I have never feed this palm. It gets loads of water from being so close to the lawn but that's about it.  

[Kris]

Gentlemen nice visuals...

 

[Jdiaz31089]

@Hillizard has yours burned in sun? I haven't had any issues with mine on that? Wonderful palm. 

 

@Alberto the white on those leaves is spectacular! 

@Al in Kona Mine is about that same size as yours. I'll take a picture today and post it! 

On 7/10/2017, 6:28:49, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

Here is one of mine with a lot of weeds. 

This palm must be pretty tolerant of cold! What temperature did it see? Is that cold damage on the frond to the right?

[Hillizard]

39 minutes ago, Jdiaz31089 said:

@Hillizard has yours burned in sun? I haven't had any issues with mine on that? Wonderful palm. 

Jdiaz: My palm had no problems with sun exposure this summer, but it did have significant leaf spotting this past winter and some spear damage. It's pushing out a lot of new growth right now. 

@Alberto the white on those leaves is spectacular! 

@Al in Kona Mine is about that same size as yours. I'll take a picture today and post it! 

This palm must be pretty tolerant of cold! What temperature did it see? Is that cold damage on the frond to the right?

On 6/29/2017, 4:27:08, Jdiaz31089 said:

It looks like this palm has been available for the better part of a decade now. I'd love to see what they've grown up to be. Do any of you have this palm and care to share a few pictures? 

JDiaz: You'll likely get some pictures of more mature specimens, but this is mine that started out quite small years ago and is planted in my palm berm. Between cold and hot weather, this year, it's taken a few hits, but growth now seems to be accelerating. I assume it will need to get larger before the leaves take on a blue tint. For that my Sabal uresana doesn't disappoint, even at its young age! 

Edited July 12, 2017 by Hillizard

[sergiskan]

On 7/7/2017 3:19:19, Stevetoad said:

I got one. Fastest brahea I have other than brandy. 

Monkey for scale

Awesome!!

How about your Mooreis??, for sure that are bigger than mines...LOL.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

11 hours ago, Jdiaz31089 said:

@Hillizard has yours burned in sun? I haven't had any issues with mine on that? Wonderful palm. 

 

@Alberto the white on those leaves is spectacular! 

@Al in Kona Mine is about that same size as yours. I'll take a picture today and post it! 

This palm must be pretty tolerant of cold! What temperature did it see? Is that cold damage on the frond to the right?

Yes, that is cold damage. It was the only brahea aside from a few armata out of 100 that didnt defoliate. 

[Jdiaz31089]

Here is a picture of mine I took this morning. The leaves are beginning to turn blue on it - the lighting doesn't really show  that in this picture though. You can see it on the petioles. 

 

[Jdiaz31089]

Look at the underside of the fronds though! 

[Mohsen]

are these getting silvery when get bigger, my small one  is totally green  

[Pete in Paradise Hills]

7 hours ago, Mohsen said:

are these getting silvery when get bigger, my small one  is totally green  

Yes. Should see some silver in the 5-10 gallon range....

 

[DoomsDave]

On 7/12/2017, 7:43:54, Stevetoad said:

I wish I could say I use some highly skilled techniques that took me years to master. But the reality is that I have never feed this palm. It gets loads of water from being so close to the lawn but that's about it.  

The water appears to be the secret. They're desert palms, but they seem to appreciate plenty of water, at least sometimes. I've got little baby sprouts that seem to appreciate regular watering.

 

[Sabal Steve]

Here is a pic of mine.  It gets a hasty, hose watering once every 2 weeks, or so.  It's in unamended clay.  Planted about 3 years ago, from a 5 gallon Multiflora ent. plant.  Jubeaopsis was planted 2 years ago, from a big one gallon.

As a sidenote, the Sabal and Nannorrhops (3 years old / 1 year old) are doing great too.  Same conditions.  Maybe a few gallons of water poured on them, every two weeks.  The clay berm around the Sabal, is perfect for water retention.

[Alberto]

On 10/07/2017 22:28:49, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

Here is one of mine with a lot of weeds. 

Is this Brahea not too silver at this stage of life/ is it not possible that it is another Brahea/ Are there spines on the petioles/

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

On 7/12/2017, 11:35:38, Jdiaz31089 said:

@Hillizard has yours burned in sun? I haven't had any issues with mine on that? Wonderful palm. 

 

@Alberto the white on those leaves is spectacular! 

@Al in Kona Mine is about that same size as yours. I'll take a picture today and post it! 

This palm must be pretty tolerant of cold! What temperature did it see? Is that cold damage on the frond to the 

5 hours ago, Alberto said:

Is this Brahea not too silver at this stage of life/ is it not possible that it is another Brahea/ Are there spines on the petioles/

Zero spines

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Zero spines.  There is about 12" of trunk. Those weeds are really tall.  Our intense sun brings out the blue in every plant.  I noticed all of the dioon edule are sun burned really bad this year even in part day sun. 

[Alberto]

OK, the picture is somewhat misleading me because the lack of scale, and yes , I don´t know the size of this weeds. It must be big with the whole leaf already ''super silver''Maybe you can show it again with something or somebody for scale......

[sergiskan]

My biggest one.

 

This one is too close from others palms.

Edited July 22, 2017 by sergiskan

[krisinmexico]

excellent photos of some great looking palms. well done.

[Island mnt.]

On 7/6/2017, 6:19:19, Stevetoad said:

I got one. Fastest brahea I have other than brandy. 

Monkey for scale

About how old is this palm? Did u start it from seed? I remember acouple years ago the pic posted of this palm; shows its growing nicely, and shaded at that if i remember correctly  u saying that. 

[DoomsDave]

Here’s mine, not as big as Steve’s but still nice.

They definitely like a bit of extra water; it gets the overspray from the nearby Acrocomia of Water Hoggery.

[Stevetoad]

On 12/25/2017, 10:37:57, Island mnt. said:

About how old is this palm? Did u start it from seed? I remember acouple years ago the pic posted of this palm; shows its growing nicely, and shaded at that if i remember correctly  u saying that. 

I won mine at a pssc banquet. It was a one gallon at that time. I think it was about 5 or 6 years ago.  If i were to guess I would say mine is about 8 years old from seed.  Thing grows nonstop. They like water and heat. Just give them both and stand back. 

[Mandrew968]

I bought my palm as nitida. Since, Steve has Identified it as a super silver-mine definitely looks like his. 

Yall ready for the wrench? Ok, the palms at MBC that are labelled as nitida look exactly like mine... Go figure!

[Stevetoad]

13 hours ago, Mandrew968 said:

I bought my palm as nitida. Since, Steve has Identified it as a super silver-mine definitely looks like his. 

Yall ready for the wrench? Ok, the palms at MBC that are labelled as nitida look exactly like mine... Go figure!

Nitida and super silver look a lot alike when young. Once they get about 4 foot super silver should be silver on top and bottom. Nitida will always stay dark green with some silver on top. I do feel that super silver would be a good try in humid south Florida though. Last summer was very humid in my area and my brandegeei showed some funk on the new growth and I lost my biggest parajubea (about 18foot). Super silver just added growth. 

[Mandrew968]

Here is an update on mine. Definitely getting more silver and thriving.

Again, purchased as Brahea nitida.

[DoomsDave]

6 hours ago, Mandrew968 said:

Here is an update on mine. Definitely getting more silver and thriving.

Again, purchased as Brahea nitida.

Super -  - - SILVAH!

Cloppity cloppity cloppity clop, etc.

Just like mine.

Green when young? Everyone laughs when you tell them? Yes? Me too.

[Mandrew968]

These are the Brahea nitida at MBC.

[Josue Diaz]

 

On 12/26/2017, 10:08:42, DoomsDave said:

Here’s mine, not as big as Steve’s but still nice.

They definitely like a bit of extra water; it gets the overspray from the nearby Acrocomia of Water Hoggery.

Dave mine's catching up to yours  Not as blue yet