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I think im going to go try this today. I will make sure and take pictures and document it and hopefully end up with a success story and a bunch of free'd pygmys running loose in my casa.

Best of luck with them! This one below I picked up at W@lMart the begining of the month for $21.99, (Sort of a birthday present for myself.) These palms may be common but have a real nice look when properly grown.

-Steve

Did that come from the Salina Wal mart?
If so, I have TWO spots to stop at next time I am in Salina!!!

Salina it was, Generally we don't see too large a selection here. There are a couple Triangle seedlings left at Lowes. (across from WalMart)

-Steve

That one is pretty Knnn. I know what your saying about how they look. They are totally tiny and feathery and all 100% delicious in my book. I Just got back from the store and am getting ready to start this... (holding breath 😯 )

Dr. slow and easy with the separation of quadruplet siamese Pygmy date palms . Someone pass the scalple LOL. Keep us updated on the patients conditions.
John 8)

success!-ish... im hoping. The operation took almost 1.75 hours.. It was tricky. They were SO tangled up. The one thing im impressed with is how resiliant the root structure actually was. If they had been brittle it never would have worked. From start to finish the whole thing took alot longer then I anticipated, but Im always too optimistic on my time estimations.

I ended up with 9 "bigger" ones, about 6 smaller, and 4 tiny tiny babies! 19 total trees. I removed 2-3 of the lower fronds as Knnn described. I can definately see that they are stressed regarding their water uptake. The individual fingers on each frond are limpified something fierce, but the over all integrity of all of them except one looks strong. There is one of the bigger ones that looks like she wont make it, but all the rest are looking stable at this point. Out of all of them the tiny babies seem to be doing the strongest. Maybe thats due to the fact that they dont have all sorts of established fronds to worry about and they can just focus their energy on one at a time. I would assume that to be the case.

My one and only regret is that I didnt buy some little bark mulch chips to work into the soil mix. I used a regular potting soil mixed with a combination perlite/moss mixture to lighten it up. It didnt lighten it enough. I think they still hold water too long right when they are watered. My impressions are that palms like the water to basically run right thru them. It will most likely be alright, the mix isnt TOO heavy.. just maybe not ideal. they will need repotted anyway so if I can just get them over this hill we should be fine.

I will take pictures for you tonight and post them. 😀