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- Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:04 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Moapa Palms
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5720
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...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:08 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Washingtonia Robusta
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7906
Washingtonia Robusta
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...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:01 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Moapa Palms
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5720
- Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:27 pm
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: After a Tropical Kansas Summer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4942
Tropical Indeed!
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...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:46 am
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Germinating Banana seeds
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13449
Front yard picture
Steve,didn't mean to take over your thread!!
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:43 am
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Germinating Banana seeds
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13449
Red Banana
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.
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:40 am
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Germinating Banana seeds
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13449
Banana Flowering
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...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:53 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Germinating Banana seeds
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13449
Banana
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...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:45 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Germinating Banana seeds
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13449
If they are a banana
It will be a while before they get to be this big!!!!
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:35 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Germinating Banana seeds
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13449
Banana seeds
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...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:01 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Germinating Banana seeds
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13449
- Wed May 21, 2008 9:26 pm
- Forum: Other Plants of Interest
- Topic: ID on this native vine?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2463
Vine
Not sure might be air potato vine,I know I've seen it before.
- Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:16 am
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
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...
- Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:13 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
- Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:55 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
- Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:07 am
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
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...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:20 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:36 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
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...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:14 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
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!!...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:28 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:31 pm
- Forum: Indoor Palms
- Topic: Bought: Reed Palm and Chinese Fan Palm
- Replies: 20
- Views: 22391
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 ...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:56 pm
- Forum: Indoor Palms
- Topic: Bought: Reed Palm and Chinese Fan Palm
- Replies: 20
- Views: 22391
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...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:44 pm
- Forum: Indoor Palms
- Topic: Bought: Reed Palm and Chinese Fan Palm
- Replies: 20
- Views: 22391
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...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:14 pm
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Chamaedorea elegans flowering
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8459
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...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:18 pm
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Chamaedorea elegans flowering
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8459
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:29 pm
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Chamaedorea elegans flowering
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8459
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:29 am
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Chamaedorea elegans flowering
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8459
Parlor palm
Steve,
My 3ft parlor palm has 3 flower spikes,looks to be a female as we discussed before,is any of yours a male?
My 3ft parlor palm has 3 flower spikes,looks to be a female as we discussed before,is any of yours a male?
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:28 am
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
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...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:14 am
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:05 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Nypa fruticans
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22438
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...
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:39 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Sabal Palmetto
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9068
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:30 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Sabal Palmetto
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9068
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...
- Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:11 am
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Cycas maconochiei ~ Fog Bay Cycas
- Replies: 69
- Views: 31073
- Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:53 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Cycas maconochiei ~ Fog Bay Cycas
- Replies: 69
- Views: 31073
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:53 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Pigafetta Family Album
- Replies: 64
- Views: 37738
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:30 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Pigafetta Family Album
- Replies: 64
- Views: 37738
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...
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:30 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Pigafetta Family Album
- Replies: 64
- Views: 37738
- Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:24 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Cycas maconochiei ~ Fog Bay Cycas
- Replies: 69
- Views: 31073
- Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:55 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Cycas maconochiei ~ Fog Bay Cycas
- Replies: 69
- Views: 31073
- Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:34 am
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: Cycas maconochiei ~ Fog Bay Cycas
- Replies: 69
- Views: 31073