Red Sealing Wax Palm

[metalfan]

I have 4 little clumpy red sealing wax palms. The one in the photo is the biggest. It just put out its first "real" leaf. Overall its maybe 2.5 ft tall.

How long til I get a red trunk??? Where you can really tell its a red trunk??

[www.dadluvsu.com]

I dunno... How about a long friggin time?!

(I am totally having the slow palm blues today...)

[Palmarum]

When the center stem has a diameter of about 3/4 - 1" in diameter, the lower leaf bases should show some red. Most of the containerized plants I see gain color at or about that size. There are several factors that lead to the when, why and how a Red Sealing Wax Palm gets its coloration. Most often it is size, but on rare occasions some do not get any color until they get older. Since yours is planted in the ground, that should speed things up a bit.

Ryan

[tikitiki]

Here is mine with a few suckers at different stages of size and color. I don't know if the suckers start to show earlier than a seedling or not.

Tom

[bgl]

Gina,

and technically, it's not the trunk but the crownshaft that's red. That's an important distinction, because once the palm is large enough to form a trunk, it could come as a disappointment that the trunk is, in fact, green. The larger the palm, the higher up the red (crownshaft).

Bo-Göran

[kylecawazafla]

It seems like it's 2 more vertical feet away from showing red! My Cactus is the center of attention over here btw

[Jeff Searle]

Tom,

     Your palm is starting to really show it's true colors. Very nice!!

Jeff

[cobra2326]

(bgl @ Oct. 18 2007,20:06)

QUOTE

Gina,

and technically, it's not the trunk but the crownshaft that's red. That's an important distinction, because once the palm is large enough to form a trunk, it could come as a disappointment that the trunk is, in fact, green. The larger the palm, the higher up the red (crownshaft).

Bo-Göran

To me, the most beautiful part of C. renda is the contrast of the bright red crownshaft against the limey green, bamboo-like trunk.  Truly stunning!

[BS Man about Palms]

Gina- do you have a picture somewhere I'm supposed to see?  

OOps- Got it after the 3rd or 4th reload?

[palmmermaid]

The ones in 3 gallon pots from the nursery are about 2 feet overall and are showing some color on the older trunks.  They were seedlings last summer.  They have been in the wettest part of the nursery and in fact spent the first few months standing in water.  They have also been given a dose of acid fertilizer (one for azaleas, rhodedendrons, etc.).  I put one in the ground a couple of weeks ago - in the sun - and it is doing very well.  I will get a picture today and post it.

[metalfan]

I water these heavily. I have seen photos of them growing in ponds as well. I had a much larger one once, it was about 3.5 feet when I got it and had one main plant that was starting to show red. That plant unfortunately bit the dust because I A. underwatered it and B. left it in a place too close to the sliding door of the greenhouse, which I was not sealing in winter at the time, and it got a cold draught which did it in. I didn't realize what was happening, I was too new to palms then.

I made certain I placed these all in the interior of the greenhouse in very warm zones. And, I seal that door in winter to prevent the cool air from drifting in

[Kris]

Dear Gina  

this is the one growing in our house garden...

love,

Kris  

[metalfan]

BEAUTIFUL, Kris!

[Kris]

thanks gina  

that palm is my 3 third attempt and the previous 2 had died due to less of watering schedule and as i had placed them in shade.that palm & me owe it to bo,wal & dean.or else even this would have had similar fate !

thanks & love,

Kris