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Copernicia ekmanii


JubaeaMan138

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Potted some Copernicia ekmanii today that I sprouted over winter . About 25 of them . These guys got a little bit of brown tipping over winter but otherwise did very good for outdoors here in inland so cal . 

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Seed was collected from a well know. private collectior in Miami . Anyone know of the tree ? I had a picture of it . Huge mature tree. Wish I still had a picture of the mother tree 

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I wish I knew how to grow these in the ground here on east Hawaii Island. I have killed several trying. ekmannii is a Hispaniola species. Cuban Copernicias are doing great on my property. I have flowering hospitas, large baileyanas and fallaensises, macroglossas, and even a rigida that is doing reasonably well, so the Cuban varieties do well here in our acidic, clayey, rocky volcanic soil with tons of rain.

Mike Merritt

Big Island of Hawaii, windward, rainy side, 740 feet (225 meters) elevation

165 inches (4,200 mm) of rain per year, 66 to 83 deg F (20 to 28 deg C) in summer, 62 to 80 deg F (16.7 to 26.7 Deg C) in winter.

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2 hours ago, mike in kurtistown said:

I wish I knew how to grow these in the ground here on east Hawaii Island. I have killed several trying. ekmannii is a Hispaniola species. Cuban Copernicias are doing great on my property. I have flowering hospitas, large baileyanas and fallaensises, macroglossas, and even a rigida that is doing reasonably well, so the Cuban varieties do well here in our acidic, clayey, rocky volcanic soil with tons of rain.

I’ve been trying to keep these guys more in a dry desert climate when I think they need water wait a while longer . So far so good. I had alot More and am Left with about half. the other half died off throughout winter . 

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Well done!!! Keep it up!

5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

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On 5/7/2022 at 6:02 PM, GottmitAlex said:

Well done!!! Keep it up!

Thanks!!! These guys are still looking good and things are warming up . Today was a weird day though in so cal . Woke up to rain . Got about 81 today  with drizzzle strange . But everything is looking nice 

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Update on these guys . Love the heavy white spines even at such a young .hopefully they continue to do well Over winter 

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Well these are still Doing good slowwww but 4 leafs from seed last October . So little over a year old . 2nd winter in the inland empire. 

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17 hours ago, JubaeaMan138 said:

Well these are still Doing good slowwww but 4 leafs from seed last October . So little over a year old . 2nd winter in the inland empire. 

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i just lost one that got overhead spraying !! just read about this fact and went and check on them and one got crown rot bc of that!!! bad timing on not reading it before

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