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I can't remember exactly when I started these from seed,but the first batch of seeds you sent were crushed in the mail,and this the second batch of seeds you sent,I think these germinated about June of last year,so there about 16 months old,I have a few in 1 gallon containers about half this size,th...

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Left one in the ground,potted one gave some away. Going to try again to overwinter one of these,with as minimal protection as possible to get it to survive,hoping the larger ones are more cold hardy than the 2 or 3fters. This one potted up is over 6ft. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/ph...

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Mike,here is two of those seeds that I got from you when you got those seeds,there about 3ft tall. I left a few in the ground,to see if they will winter over here in Wichita,Kansas <table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/37iDh2OVSRfsiOiYS5ss6w&...

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Hi David and Cathy Enjoyed our visit the other day. Your backyard really looks happy and tropical,you weren't kidding when you said you were into bananas,your cannas look great as well. Good luck with overwintering everything,It's tough when you have to start out with small plants and try to make th...

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Steve,didn't mean to take over your thread!!

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I have a couple of these,hoping to get at least one to flower,before the end of summer,this one is over 12ft tall.

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Takes about 18mths of growing or about 43 leaves to flower,I have one in the greenhouse,doing that now,suppose to be a super dwarf musa,but I think it's a dwarf musa.Ceiling is about 10ft,to give you idea how tall the banana is. http://lh5.ggpht.com/dbrya1/SInTeQJWyfI/AAAAAAAAAaI/ZqMWolEjjnk/MVC-004...

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Dean, That is a orincco,and,it's about 17ft tall to the top of the leaf,maybe a little taller. Steve,I had 3 bananas flower last october,2 flowered while still in the ground,before I dug them up to over winter,a saba,and a raja puri,they both produced bananas,but fell to mature,the other was a dwarf...

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It will be a while before they get to be this big!!!!

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Well I've germinated lots of banana seeds in the past,but they didn't look like these,the leaf would like a banana leaf,just a little smaller,but not like a palm strap leaf,no name came with these seeds,other than what was on the package I sent to you,but they didn't look like any palm seed I've see...

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Steve,congrats!

Mine our about 6 inches single leaf,I believe they look like palm seedlings instead of bananas.
Very slow at growing,I hope you have better luck than me.

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Not sure might be air potato vine,I know I've seen it before.

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Hi Steve Things are looking good,you apparently got a hardy Robusta than any of mine!!!! I too look for the freshest seed,most of mine I bought from Jerry Andersen,he advertised very fresh seeds,having nurseries in Cali. and Hawaii,I'm pretty sure he deals with fresh seeds. I have a book on palms,th...

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Here ! Here! I agree!
Steve would have them popped in a month or less!!!LOL

He sure has the magic touch when it comes to that!!!!

tropicman

Thanks,been 3 months almost and none has popped yet!
I will need all the luck I can get!
Well if some pop you can take it off your wish list!!!!

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You bet! Some of these seeds were as big as pecans,so it might take some time,been almost 3 months and nothing yet! Neovetchi Starkii,black crown palm,and Dypsis Orange crush,Dypsis Fine leaf,this palm supposedly is so new hasn't been officially named yet, 2 kinds of Pindos,3 different kinds of saba...

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Hi Barb,
Been busy busy busy!
Plants are wanting to grow,with no room to grow in!!!LOL
Greenhouse is busting at the seems!
Have lots of new seeds planted waiting on the to germinate,hopefully soon!!!!

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Well looks like spring weather is coming,so hopefully will give you some time before it gets to hot outside to work,sorry to hear about the flu,had a few days myself that things weren't feeling so good. Yep,nothing to worry about,since it's pushing a new spear,I have a few on the inside with some bu...

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Hey Steve, well lost a few things,but that is to be expected,I guess learned a lesson on plants on the floor,get them off the floor,I though the rubber flooring would keep things warmer than just dirt floor,but now I think I need to but a wood floor in the north greenhouse. 125 gallon sounds great!!...

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Looks like it's on it's way in becoming a big palm some day!
Congrats!
Don

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This retired couple who started this business just to offset the retirement income,start making these baskets first of February. So there actually working 7 months out of the year,and they sell everything,they don't winter over any plants,they get truckloads in after the first of the year,and start ...

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I should have posted I'd had it for 3 yrs,I'm sure it's double that or more. Well it's in the southeast window in the sunroom,gets plenty of light,and about the same position outside in the summer,where it was flowering just about all summer long. I wish we had a nursery as dedicated as the one sout...

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The nursery has some nice green looking palms,they look like they do a nice job,of keeping everything looking good and they keep the place looking nice and clean also,I wish my cat would get tall,3 years now and it's nice and full and green,but never gets any height to it,has flowered on several occ...

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I bought one for the fiter in my pond,but it didn't last long before it broke into pieces. I might try that again for these palms,I used the Schultz's aquatic soil for my lotuses ,and will uses it again,but this time steal one of the wife panty hose,and fill it with soil then pot the palm and all in...

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with the rainwater,there nice and green,they are in 12oz plastic cups,I'm wondering if I was just to pot them up they would start growing,theory bigger pot bigger plant????
I have aquatic fertilizer tablets that I use for my water lilies.

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I want to tell you all those seedlings that I have in water have lived now,for what about a year now,and are very green,but no growth at all,been giving them rain water but no fertilizer,do you think I will have to repot them in lager pots to get growth?

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Steve,
My 3ft parlor palm has 3 flower spikes,looks to be a female as we discussed before,is any of yours a male?

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Steve,yes,I see your new Avatar!!!! Looks great! I also see you have aquarium heater in your pond,what temp are you keeping? In one of my books on palms,by Martin Gibbons,hr writes these are extremely difficult to germinate outside there natural habitat,and if they do germinate,most likely will shor...

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Ok where and I'll drive by and gets a few!!!!LOL

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Thanks Barb Looking great Steve!!! Looks to be growing quite fast too! When your pond gets to thick of these palms and need thinning out look no further!!!LOL Or you have too many seeds,and you just don't know what to do with them all!!!! Keeping warm up there in the far north??? Looks like might ge...

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You'd think they would sell these as houseplants,because you couldn't overwater them!!!!

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Thanks Barb,your right thats what I'd like to have in my pond for sure!!!! I got a few saw palmettos that I'm just received,and have potted up,I will try one outside if I can ever get one big enough. I have the summer heat,and can protect them from the winter cold,so might get one to come hardy enou...

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Hi Barb,
Thanks the bamboo will grow back and fast too!LOL
Looking good Steve!

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Cool,keep us updated on this seed!

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Yeah me too!
Ready for spring!!!

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Yes ,I still have the coconuts,all 3 are doing fine. There was a couple nights it got to 42* in the greenhouse,and I'll bet it was colder down on the floor,but there right next to some of the Xmas palms and there are just fine! We had some hefty winds I'm wondering if maybe a draft got to them a lit...

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Yours are looking great,spiderwebs have done some damage on mine but I think the floor was been to cold,and the soil isn't drying out fast enough,and I think rot root might have started,altho I see new green spear coming up!

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Oh Man!
Does that bring back memories couple years back,when the ice storm took my big tree,and put it on top of my house.
Ice storms show no mercy!!!

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Well that was the important thing keep things from freezing,new leaves will come.
Hasn't started snowing yet!

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Had some tall bamboo get broke in half,had icing but it melted the next day,no power loss,did you lose any plants in the greenhouse?
We were spared here,saying now 6 inches of snow tonite and tomorrow!

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