Sabal Riverside - Shade growing?

[Jdiaz31089]

I have a couple of Sabal Riverside seedlings that are ready to go in the ground. They're a bit crowded in their 1 gallon container, so I figured I could put them in the ground instead of potting them up. I am tempted to plant one in a pretty confined spot by our patio, where it would be in almost full shade. I know these get large, but from my understanding, they take a while to get there. The reason I want to plant one in shade is so that I could get large leaves on long petioles (I saw a Sabal mauritiformis at Kevin Weaver's place that was shade grown and had these massive, circular leaves on very long petioles - I was very impressed by it.) Of course, mauritiformis and Riverside are two very distinct palms, but do you think that growing S. Riverside in shade would make any difference in the eventual thickness of the trunk? 

Do any of you grow large sabals in shade? (causarium, dominguensis, riverside...) If so, I'd love to see photos!

[Alberto]

I have two Riverside in partial shade.Tomorrow I'll show them 

 

 

 

[Jdiaz31089]

1 hour ago, Alberto said:

I have two Riverside in partial shade.Tomorrow I'll show them 

 

 

 

Awesome! Please do!

[masatepino]

I have two Sabal mexicana. One in partial shade, and one in almoust full shade. Almoust 8 years in the ground. The Sabal in full shade is quite streched and thin, the petioles are longer than 3 metres, and leafes have the same lenghts but maybe just half of the size.

In the photo the "regular" sabal, where I pruned all the lower leaves. The streched one has no lower leaves, all the leaves are more or less over the base.

 

[Jdiaz31089]

9 minutes ago, masatepino said:

I have two Sabal mexicana. One in partial shade, and one in almoust full shade. Almoust 8 years in the ground. The Sabal in full shade is quite streched and thin, the petioles are longer than 3 metres, and leafes have the same lenghts but maybe just half of the size.

In the photo the "regular" sabal, where I pruned all the lower leaves. The streched one has no lower leaves, all the leaves are more or less over the base.

 

Excellente! Que especie de sabal es?

[masatepino]

Here the other one, shade grown, and NOT pruned. 8 years ago I bought 1G with two sabals. I suppose they are Sabal mexicana, because this shoud be the native species here. but I never confirmed it.

 

[Alberto]

Both of this Sabal Riverside are grown below bigger trees, so they have dappled shade. First one sees some sun in the winter when the ipe trees lose there leaves.

[JLeVert]

I have one in full sun.  It is mature and reseeding with about 8' of clear trunk.  I think a lot of sabals are attractive in some shade since the leaves are bigger and more relaxed looking, but they grow faster in the sun.  The picture is from last winter I think.