Livistona chinensis fruiting

[Tropicdoc]

Proud of this. Even after after going horizontal on hurricane Ida my livistona chinensis is flowering.

1st pic 2017

 

[Looking Glass]

I just gave mine a major haircut, removing about 1/3 of the fronds and 20 flower spikes, to open things up.   It responded by making more spikes, that I’ll lop off again.   Perhaps I struck too soon.  

The flowers start popping up here in early February normally, then go on to make 100s of pounds of seeds and huge stalks, so I try to get them out in spring.   

Yours seem pretty fast.  My guys aren’t too fast, but I give them little care, preferring them at this size (about 20 feet to the top).  Tough palms.  
 

[Tropicdoc]

Why do you cut the fruity my body? Just to reduce volunteers?

[Looking Glass]

34 minutes ago, Tropicdoc said:

Why do you cut the fruity my body? Just to reduce volunteers?

I cut off the “fruity booty” early, because later they get very big and long and heavy and numerous, then it’s a pain.  Granted, these trees have been around a while, so they LOVE to make seeds.   There are 7 new flower stalks starting up again!  But here they only seem to flower in late winter and early spring at least.  

I also cut 100s of pounds of Christmas Palm/Adonidia merrillii stalks, and they flower continuously, all year.   It’s just easier to get them small, later they make a huge mess, and are harder to clean up.  Everything seeds heavily here.  It’s a lot to clean up.  Bucket loads of golf balls are falling from the Bismarck’s right now.  

I wouldn’t worry too much about it yet.   You’ll know when/if it’s time.   

Every Bismarkia, Sabal, Chinenesis, and Ptychosperma seed seems to sprout here.  
 

Edited March 31, 2022 by Looking Glass

[redant]

The color of the seeds is really cool, but I try to chop all my flowers off before seeding on any palm I can still reach, just to many seeds, hundreds of pounds of seeds a year.

[Looking Glass]

Today’s ~4 gallon harvest before mowing the lawn….