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- Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:11 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Cycads delivered to Vancouver
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5336
Hello, Barb. Nice to hear from you, too! I've been remiss in not keeping up with this forum. Life gets in the way, as they say. But the cycads keep growing, thank goodness. I just thought I'd make the offer for any Vancouverites, since I will be coming in at the end of the month. I'm glad your D. sp...
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:30 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Cycads delivered to Vancouver
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5336
Cycads delivered to Vancouver
I hope this type of post is acceptable, but I am offering to deliver cycads to Vancouver if anyone is interested in purchasing any from my Jurassic Plants Nursery. I have some nice big plants, after growing them for 10 years now, like Dioon spinulosum, Lepidozamia peroffskyana, and Dioon edule, that...
- Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:24 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Encephalartos in Canada?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4564
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:50 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Zamia floridada/intergrifolia
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13926
Zamia floridana
I have been growing them for several years, out here on the West Coast (British Columbia, Canada) but in my greenhouse. I keep the greenhouse about 10 degrees Celsius, although sometimes it dips lower if we get below freezing temps outside. They grow slowly but seem pretty hardy, compared to some of...
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:27 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Help for Seattle cycad grower
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4310
Help for Seattle cycad grower
Hey, is there anyone out there living in Seattle that would like to help out a lady with some HUGE cycads but little knowledge on how to winterize them? She has been emailing me but would like someone to come by and take a look, and I live in Canada. They are the largest ones I have seen (photos) in...
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:47 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Twin Dioon spinulosum
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4490
- Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:16 am
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: New greenhouse
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5998
- Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:11 am
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: New greenhouse
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5998
What is the usually tempature difference between inside the greenhouse compared to outside? Well, for instance, right now at 8:00 a.m. it is 5.3 Celsius outside and 12 C inside the greenhouse. I have two oil-filled electric heaters set to about the medium setting. It works very well. We had some -5...
- Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:03 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Lori's Jurassic Plants Nursery chosen as Top 5 Nursery
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5329
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:09 am
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: New greenhouse
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5998
New greenhouse
This is the greenhouse my husband built for the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society (as a volunteer). It is the same design as the one he built for my cycad nursery: 10X20 feet, cedar frame, double-walled polycarbonate. My greenhouse has proved very efficient in winter in our zone 8b climate. ht...
- Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:46 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Sago took a little too much cold.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14047
Hi, Dean It's funny you say that (about giving them away). I have been given a few sagos over the years for that exact reason. I stick them in my grenehouse and ignore them and eventually they flush out again. But I can certainly understand why someone would not want to wait a few years for somethin...
- Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:50 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Sago took a little too much cold.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14047
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:53 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Dioon spinulosum loves indoors
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10206
- Sat May 01, 2010 11:33 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Dioon spinulosum loves indoors
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10206
- Sat May 01, 2010 11:19 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Cycas debaoensis ?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 95813
- Tue May 12, 2009 10:07 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Z. furfuracea croaking!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 19327
- Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:06 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Macrozamia communis
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3817
- Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:17 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Dioon Edule v. quatero
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11634
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:36 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Bowenia ~ The Byfield Fern
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14560
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:57 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: New Fronds..........
- Replies: 146
- Views: 85227
Hi, Barb Don't worry, you did not mix up the tags. As Steve says, zamias can look similar when just starting out and the species characteristics will show up later. They should all be putting out new leaves soon with the warm weather. As for pups, some species do not produce pups at all. And, as wit...
- Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:55 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Received my cycads! Yippeeeee!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7170
Kansas, I believe a phytosanitary certificate would be required for me to send it, and I don't know what you would require to receive it. So far I have just been concentrating on the Canadian market because there are no cycad nurseries in Canada, and you do have them in the States, but I have no obj...
- Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:01 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Received my cycads! Yippeeeee!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7170
Thank you, Barb and Wes, for your kind words. I should note, relative to the last comment about the white wall, that D. spinulosum prefers shade or filtered sun, as in the wild they grow in shady ravines in evergreen forests. They also like humid conditions, so enjoy being misted. I personally have ...
- Tue May 22, 2007 9:41 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Zamia polymorpha
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7947
I have tried lots of different mixes but am going back to my original recipe which seemed to work the best: 3 shovels friable loam 2 shovels coarse sand 4 shovels milled pine or fir bark (not cedar) 1 shovel peat moss (I am going to try coir -- more sustainable) one cup complete organic fertilizer (...
- Mon May 21, 2007 11:13 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Zamia polymorpha
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7947
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:49 pm
- Forum: Member websites
- Topic: Cycads for Canada
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7304
Cycads for Canada
Jurassic Plants Nursery is an on-line source for seed-grown cycads for Canadians -- who until now have not had access to quality cycads bred for our climate. I specially select species that will be hardy in my local temperate climate, or which will fare well indoors over our long Canadian winters in...
- Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:38 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: New Fronds..........
- Replies: 146
- Views: 85227
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:13 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: New Fronds..........
- Replies: 146
- Views: 85227
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:06 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: New Fronds..........
- Replies: 146
- Views: 85227
- Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:59 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: New Fronds..........
- Replies: 146
- Views: 85227
- Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:23 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: New Fronds..........
- Replies: 146
- Views: 85227
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:51 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: SAGO Palm is yellowing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4732
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:48 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: SAGO Palm is yellowing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4732
The problem is most likely that these plants were grown under optimum conditions in a greenhosue with perfect levels of humidity and light, and lots of nitrogen fertilizer. When we buy them and bring them home they are in a completely different environment, probably drier and with less light, and re...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:49 pm
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Cycas panzhihuaensis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8349
Hi, Allen That's wonderful your grandson is interested. Tell him he will be helping to preserve these endangered species from extinction, so they won't go the way of the dinosaur. Check out my cycad photos on my web site -- I have some nice shots of mature cycads that I have taken at various botanic...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:31 am
- Forum: Cycads
- Topic: Cycas panzhihuaensis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8349