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A few chamaedorea Ernest augustii seedlings potted up

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happypalms Grand Master

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Potted up a few Ernest Augustii seedlings from rps seeds. There is about 240 Augustii along with a few lacospadix in there. A tray of adscedans and some Calpytrocalyx spicatus up the back. I love chameadoreas one of my favourite small palms to grow 

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Harry’s Palms Grand Master

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I just love my “Ernie” . They are great shade plants . I plan to get more when I see them available. Harry

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Harry, this palm is almost always available from Jeff at Floribunda.  I have purchased "1-gallon" sized plants that had emergent stems and flowerstalks.

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3 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I just love my “Ernie” . They are great shade plants . I plan to get more when I see them available. Harry

That’s why I purchased 300 seeds from rps I absolutely love them I only have around 7 mature females and only 1 male plant. I do get the odd seed but nowhere near enough to plant a grove of 100 that I wish to have. 

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I have some Ernie augies, too!

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@DoomsDave that’s where I got mine and I saw many more there . When I make it back down there I will get a few more! Now that I know how well they do . Harry

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I am becoming more and more enamoured with this genus. Can't really grow anything other than C. radicalis and C. microspadix outdoors here in London, but I have an ever-growing collection indoors. I would love to be able to create some hybrids one day, but realise that getting species to cross isn't all that easy (or even possible in some cases). 

Thankfully they make pretty easy houseplants (for the most part).

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12 minutes ago, Josh76 said:

I am becoming more and more enamoured with this genus. Can't really grow anything other than C. radicalis and C. microspadix outdoors here in London, but I have an ever-growing collection indoors. I would love to be able to create some hybrids one day, but realise that getting species to cross isn't all that easy (or even possible in some cases). 

Thankfully they make pretty easy houseplants (for the most part).

You would be able to grow chamaedorea adscedans in indoors and possibly outdoors as well worth a try I have seen them take temperatures around 0 degrees Celsius on a veranda at my grandmothers house, so there is hope keep in touch I may have chamaedorea adscendan seeds soon. But the Ernest Augustii is an an absolute winner. I have hand pollinated chamaedorea sp before, tepijolote, adscedans, metallica., chameadorea genoformis and of course Ernie. You just need to observe them daily when they start to flower, have male and female plants. It takes patience and persistence but the reward is amazing. First you need to collect the male pollen and then observe the female. But as soon as you collect the male  pollen start dusting the female flower until you have no pollen left an artist brush is good to do it with. Store the pollen in the refrigerator. And you can create hybrid palms with chamaedorea sp iam not a fan of hybrids myself but I do  admire the skill involved in breeding any plant and respect those  that do so. 

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Foxpalms Grand Master

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On 12/6/2024 at 11:52 AM, Josh76 said:

I am becoming more and more enamoured with this genus. Can't really grow anything other than C. radicalis and C. microspadix outdoors here in London, but I have an ever-growing collection indoors. I would love to be able to create some hybrids one day, but realise that getting species to cross isn't all that easy (or even possible in some cases). 

Thankfully they make pretty easy houseplants (for the most part).

I have a lot of the 9b ones outside. Undercanopy they are fine. I like using them as filler palms underneath evergreen trees or larger palms. chamaedorea cositrica flowers and sets seeds for me.

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Those seedlings look lovely! Here we have them growing outside along ch. metallica at Naples botanical gardens and they look spectacular together, sometimes they even manage to germinte on their own as seeds fall to the ground. Definitely worth a try planting outside if you live somewhere mild enough!

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On 12/24/2024 at 2:38 AM, Foxpalms said:

I have a lot of the 9b ones outside. Undercanopy they are fine. I like using them as filler palms underneath evergreen trees or larger palms. chamaedorea cositrica flowers and sets seeds for me.

Oh that's interesting. What species do you have? Would you be open to sharing pollen?

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On 12/24/2024 at 6:00 PM, tropicalplantdude said:

Those seedlings look lovely! Here we have them growing outside along ch. metallica at Naples botanical gardens and they look spectacular together, sometimes they even manage to germinte on their own as seeds fall to the ground. Definitely worth a try planting outside if you live somewhere mild enough!

If I can keep the rats out of them it would help. It’s surprising how tough chamaedorea species are. A fantastic understory palm. 

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On 12/25/2024 at 10:35 AM, Josh76 said:

Oh that's interesting. What species do you have? Would you be open to sharing pollen?

chamaedorea elegans, chamaedorea oblongata, chamaedorea cataractarum, chamaedorea plumosa, chamaedorea seifrizii, chamaedorea pochutlensis, chamaedorea warscewiczii, chamaedorea metallica, chamaedorea radicalis and chamaedorea microspadix as well. Forgetting one or two.  Elegans would be worth a try in your area under some canopy.  Yes I would.

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4 hours ago, Foxpalms said:

chamaedorea elegans, chamaedorea oblongata, chamaedorea cataractarum, chamaedorea plumosa, chamaedorea seifrizii, chamaedorea pochutlensis, chamaedorea warscewiczii, chamaedorea metallica, chamaedorea radicalis and chamaedorea microspadix as well. Forgetting one or two.  Elegans would be worth a try in your area under some canopy.  Yes I would.

You forgot adscendans my favourite.

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3 hours ago, happypalms said:

You forgot adscendans my favourite.

Actually I do have one of those! But it's pretty small at the moment still in a pot.

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2 minutes ago, Foxpalms said:

Actually I do have one of those! But it's pretty small at the moment still in a pot.

There a lovely palm and easy to collect the male pollen. Another great one is chamaedorea rhizomatosa super rare. The last picture is rhizomatosa.

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