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redant

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Palmlover_78 Experienced

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You have 7 Christmas Palm seedlings, 30 Trachy seedlings and currently germinating 25 pygmy's in a small a apartment, and when it comes time to sell them, you don't want to , and have no where to put them :P

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Tyrone Grand Master

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On 6/5/2021 at 11:43 AM, Darold Petty said:

Thanks Meg,  I can be somewhat compulsive.  The palm was Howea belmoreana.  This species has a more variable frond than does H. forsteriana.  I had an in-ground plant when a friend came over.  He was working as an informal palm broker for SoCal palms up to the Bay Area.  He remarked that Rancho Soledad nursery had a much better frond form, in 24 Inch boxes.

 Well, I left at 5:00 AM a few days later.  The truck was a 1978 Toyota mini-truck, 90 HP,  I really had to row the gearbox.  I drove 490 miles to Rancho Santa Fe in north San Diego county.  I bought the best one of six available, wrapped it up like a mummy, went to the fast food drive through, and hit the freeway northbound.  I made it about 2/3 rds of the distance home by dark, and stopped at a freeway motel.    Too tired to eat dinner !  :winkie: 

Hard core. Respect. B):D

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

Scott W Mentor

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Your wife tells you you're going to need more property for the palms....:lol::lol:

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oasis371 Proficient

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When you live in NJ/Zone 7a/b but have half the collection of Fairchild's.

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Someone in this conversation is a palm nut:

Person 1: "Oh, wow, such a nice palm garden!"

Person 2: "Yeah, but where's the house?"

P1: "Who cares about the house? We aren't here to see the house!"

P2: "I have to go the bathroom . . . . "

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JohnAndSancho Grand Master

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If you can blow your friends off because "I have to water my palms," and they don't question it. 

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JohnAndSancho Grand Master

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When a downstairs apartment opens up and you kinda wanna move into it because there's more patio space. 

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JohnAndSancho Grand Master

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When you're trying to watch the College World Series (Hail State), you need to cook dinner, need to walk the dog, do laundry, take the trash out, etc etc 

 

But there's a nice breeze blowing and you just wanna sit outside and vibe with your palms. 

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palmsOrl Grand Master

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When you have zone 11 palms in Orlando

When you check Palmtalk 20 times per day

When you make your own zone maps

I could go on ...

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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When yew participate in threads like this…..

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Phoenikakias Grand Master

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When you can communicate with other palm nuts using the palm slang, that is old, no more valid names of palm genera and spp, but nevertheless you understand each other.

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JohnAndSancho Grand Master

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When your apartment manager sends you, and only you, an email asking you to bring your palms inside due to high wind potential from a tropical storm. 

 

I literally went to my neighbors to let them know - but only I got an email from management. Also fwiw I brought every pot that weighs less than 30 pounds inside lol 

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GottmitAlex Grand Master

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you have Palmtalk as your homepage.

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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When you don’t really care that much about these Covid lockdowns because you’re already on the tropical palmy spot you want to be.

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Go where? For a tropical vacation?

Why?

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Victor G. Experienced

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...you keep the pit of LITERALLY every date you eat in order to plant it

...you plant palms near on the walkway which isn't even your property

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Frond-friend42 Veteran

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On 6/9/2021 at 10:12 AM, DoomsDave said:

Someone in this conversation is a palm nut:

Person 1: "Oh, wow, such a nice palm garden!"

Person 2: "Yeah, but where's the house?"

P1: "Who cares about the house? We aren't here to see the house!"

P2: "I have to go the bathroom . . . . "

P1: Can you please pee on the palms. We don't want all that natural fertilizer to go to waste.

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Darold Petty Grand Master

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  "My garden is honored by your contribution of nitrogen"     :winkie:

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redant Grand Master

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You start killing off old established common palms you are not overly fond of to plant young uncommon palms.

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Jupiter FL

in the Zone formally known as 10A

Kim Grand Master

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I've been giggling at my screen through 2 pages of comments. :lol:

... a few from my perspective...

You buy property 5,000 miles away from where you live because the climate is better for growing palms.

You fly to Hawaii for a month and spend 85% of your time picking up dead fronds and pulling weeds, and you're perfectly happy about it.

Your compost heap is taller than you are (all 3 of them).

Your Instagram account has as many photos of palms as of your children and/or grandchildren.

You always put a drink can or a shovel in a photo to demonstrate the size of your plants.

It irritates you to see morphologically incorrect artwork representing palms.

You get photos texted by friends and family asking for IDs of interesting plants they see because you are faster and more accurate than googling.

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Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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DoomsDave Grand Master

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2 hours ago, redant said:

You start killing off old established common palms you are not overly fond of to plant young uncommon palms.

You edit your collection (for good cause) and choke back the tears . . . .

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Palm Tree Jim Grand Master

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2 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

You edit your collection (for good cause) and choke back the tears . . . .

Isn't that the truth!

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Palm Tree Jim Grand Master

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Better yet, decide to move to another country with a climate that allows you to grow just about anything.

Only 6 weeks away for me.

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kinzyjr Grand Master

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A coworker asks you for help designing an outdoor dining area since they want it to have a tropical look.

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30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

JohnAndSancho Grand Master

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8 hours ago, redant said:

You start killing off old established common palms you are not overly fond of to plant young uncommon palms.

When I give plants away to my employees, they say "so you're gonna buy something more rare and exotic now?" and I'm like "shut up and appreciate this palm."

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Neil C Mentor

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You take your kids with you to the Botanical gardens so if you get stopped with seeds you can say it was them that collected them!

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palmfriend Grand Master

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14 hours ago, redant said:

You start killing off old established common palms you are not overly fond of to plant young uncommon palms.

 

11 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

You edit your collection (for good cause) and choke back the tears . . . .

Truly spoken!

I am exactly at this point at the moment! I LOVE this forum! :greenthumb:

 

best regards 

Lars

 

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Cindy Adair Grand Master

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So funny all!

I know I am a palm nut because I gave up a paid job to move far from friends and family and work harder caring for more and more palms for zero salary.

 

 

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GottmitAlex Grand Master

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you go to Tecoman, Colima, Manzanillo, Colima and Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco to take palm pics.

I'll upload many once I we get back.

 

 

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iDesign Mentor

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You go to the San Diego Zoo and only take photos of the palms ("They have animals here too?")

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hbernstein Proficient

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When you make a career of it!

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Jeff Searle Grand Master

Jeff Searle

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My Lipstick hybrid. "Lipstick Queen".

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Will Rising Star

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...you ask your family and friends on vacation to bring back some palm seeds for you.

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DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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@Jeff Searle! You are NUTTY!

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dalmatiansoap Grand Master

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On 9/15/2021 at 2:44 PM, Victor G. said:

...you keep the pit of LITERALLY every date you eat in order to plant it

Tell me about it :D

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EJ;) Collaborator

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Instead of yours kids....

your phone is full of pictures of new fronds and flushes ! 

that you show off to anyone who will listen!

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JohnAndSancho Grand Master

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When a guest at the hotel you manage calls you to talk about the plants in your office window and even though you're insanely busy, you drop what you're doing to talk about your plant collections

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Elvis Cruz Contributor

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On 6/5/2021 at 10:03 AM, Valhallalla said:

Along the same lines, when you notice the palms in a movie/TV show are quite obviously not correct for the geographic location the scene is supposed to be set in and it really bothers you. For example, the scene is supposed to be deep in a jungle somewhere in southeast Asia yet the only palms around are Majesties, Queens and Dypsis lutescens.

Yes!   Full Metal Jacket, set in Vietnam, but the scenes are full of Phoenix canariensis they transplanted to make it look tropical.

Forrest Gump, also in a Vietnam scene, has Sabal palmetto.  (Filmed in South Carolina.)

Spy Game, some of its Vietnam scenes are in a grove of Phoenix dactylifera.

 

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Elvis Cruz Contributor

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You order a Greek salad with pigafetta cheese.

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GottmitAlex Grand Master

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On 9/17/2021 at 11:58 AM, EJ;) said:

Instead of yours kids....

your phone is full of pictures of new fronds and flushes ! 

that you show off to anyone who will listen!

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This

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