Planting a few palms kerriodoxa, chamaedorea, vietcha

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A nice afternoon for planting a few palms. Starting wa nice kerriodoxa from imported seed, followed by a chamaedorea microspadix grown from seed from the garden and a nice little vietcha joannas grow from seed collected in town as a door knock. The chamaedorea is basically jammed in between two rocks it will grow there they are tough palms. All palms were planted in the existing garden just to add to the collection. 

[gyuseppe]

Hello Richard
I have a lot of c. microspadix and they produce seeds, this species is easy to hybridize with radicalis

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24 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Hello Richard
I have a lot of c. microspadix and they produce seeds, this species is easy to hybridize with radicalis

You do a lot of hybrids, hybrid vigor is good for creating tough plants. Some plants do hybridise naturally, iam just not a fan of hybrids simply because in the future if we need a palm or plant that becomes exstinct in the wild. And humankind has mixed up the genetics, it’s a bit like gmo crops once it’s gone it’s gone. I appreciate the horticultural side and the knowledge involved in such work as gardener myself. 

[gyuseppe]

Richard here we don't have much choice to grow palms, I created hybrids to have more species, I have 5 butyagrus

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9 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard here we don't have much choice to grow palms, I created hybrids to have more species, I have 5 butyagrus

 Hybrid vigour will give you more choice in palms for sure. And certainly create some beautiful palms not seen before. I have one hybrid palm in my garden a bottle cross spindle from Wantanna  summowongii and it is a beautiful palm.

[Harry’s Palms]

Great selection of palms. The Microspadix I have is not near as prolific as the Radicalis. I have some seeds now that are just turning yellow . Last year I had quite a few but this year only a hand full . The seeds from last year are now little palms and I actually had some extra to hand out here on PT. These will go to a patient recipient that has been waiting for them to ripen. I guess they could’ve hybridized but I keep the species separated . The small and large ones have no variation to the parents that I can see. The original plants are quite old now so the offspring are many generations from the originals. Harry

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13 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard here we don't have much choice to grow palms, I created hybrids to have more species, I have 5 butyagrus

Do you have any pictures of your butyagrus?

[gyuseppe]

Richard if you lived in Europe I would give you one as a gift, can plants be sent to European Union countries
this one is 3 meters tall, I still have smaller ones that are in pots
they do not resemble either butia or syagrus, practically another plant to have more choice

[gyuseppe]

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2 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard if you lived in Europe I would give you one as a gift, can plants be sent to European Union countries
this one is 3 meters tall, I still have smaller ones that are in pots
they do not resemble either butia or syagrus, practically another plant to have more choice

Hi gyuseppe unfortunately it’s rather difficult for me to import live plants and costly. Seeds are much easier. 

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2 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Oh wow that is a beauty. Totally different than the parent plants nice palm I could be converted to plant hybrids, but I will leave the cross pollination work to the palm lovers.