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Looking good 8) Curious about pot planting the Cycads, Are you going to pull them out for Winter or leave them as is?
I've read where it may be of some benefit with Palms but have not tried it on Cycads.

Steve

I pulled the ones I had last Winter IN, and they over Wintered pretty good other than a couple younger Kings flushed and with the small light, well you know what those flushes looked like. I have found that with Cycads (especially Ciircinalisis) you need A LOT of light in your over Winter room even thou they are going thru a resting time.
So I once again will bring them all inside but am planning on pulling them up around November (wait to see the weather, if it's like last year in Kansas, maybe even December) and put them in the greenhouse w/ a heater until we reach single digits. Then I plan on keeping them inside w/ single digits until we reach 20's on average for lows, then back to the greenhouse.
HOWEVER!!!! I did plant one of my Kings in the ground and plan on using the "Iowa Robusta" to over Winter it. It is here, lower left in front beside the big Tait.

Thanks for the reply , I thought that was what you were doing...... I should have put a couple in myself 🙂

This one only put out a couple fronds last year but seems to be making up for it now 🙂

Eleven or 12 fronds. Simply beautiful...and way ahead of mine.
Barb

Just wanted to post a pic of this King I have. It's the one from earlier w/ a pup. It was flushing before, and here it is completly done. I REALLY like it cause it reminds me of the ones I see down in Pensacola, Florida.

Wow, yours are already done flushing!
Did the pup flush out too?
Barb

No, just the mother 🙁 . But Mom sure is full. This is the first King I have had that made it from one flush to another without needing to cut old brown fronds off. Oddly enough thou, I do have another one that will also have a full new flush with out brown old leaves. That tree is the one directly planted in the ground beside my big Tait.
I have many Kings, but all but those two need old brown leaves cut off after a flush to look better.
BTW, BOTH of the full green Kings with out brown were bought at Wal Mart. Others can have there over priced trees from Nurseries, I'll just keep my cheap Wal Mart winners.

Macrozamia communis just starting up this season,

Cardboard Palm first leaf, ( Zamia furfuracea )

Little larger one, just starting to send out a frond.

and a brown emergant Dioon edule. ( var. "No Mex")

Wow I MUST getmyself a GH !!! Spectacular results Steve

That communis' new frond looks like it'll be three times as thick as existing ones.
And your furfuracea could be a twin to mine. Same way it holds its leaves, so beautiful.
I love the faint ridges along the furfuracea's leaves, and the little (forget what the cuts are called) at leaf ends.

And your larger one looks like the new frond will shoot right up straight out of the base!

And that Dioon looks so strong, what a huge first leaf!

Wonder what exactly has to happen to make pups grow on a cycad. The mother plant looks so very healthy, Steve,
so maybe the pups don't need to grow until something happens to the mother? Wild guess.

Attaboy, Steve.
Barb

Something just occurred to me, Steve.
Hope I haven't got Lori's tags in the wrong plants.

Here are pics of when I got them:

Zamia picta variegata 2 years old. This is the one I thought was a twin to your newly-sprouted furfuracea ???!

Zamia furfuracea (just a tiny baby)

Zamia vazquezii 3 yrs old

Have I goofed and mixed tags?
Barb

Thanks Barb, The GH really does help, I've figured out the ventilation to keep things between 32 - 38C ( As long as it's :sunny:

Not sure exactly why some throw out more pups than others? Sago's seem to when they reach a certain size, trunk damage can also start them.
( I am suprised to see my larger Z.furfuracea growing - That was the W@lMart special with hardly any roots left )

Think your OK on the tags, Most Zamias start out with 4 leafs per stalk, once they get a little older you will start seeing character leaves. ( if by some chance the furfuracea and picta did got mixed, you will be able to tell with the next leaf or two 🙂

Steve

That GH is obviously paradise for your plants.
You've got a good theory (again) about trunk damage.
Have heard that before, and often a plant that's suffering really goes into overtime to propagate itself.
So that would fit with the WMart purchase...it's simply HAPPY to be taken care of.

Yup will wait until the true leaves before I worry about a misplaced tag.
Cheers.
Barb

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 with flowering plants, sometimes stress will force them to produce pups as they go into species survival mode -- if the parent plant dies it will have offspring to carry on.

Hey Lori, nice to hear 🙂 from you. Hope you're having a great season.

Thanks for the reassurance about the tags.
The only thing that made ME question it was that the gorgeous (yes it is 😀 ) zamia picta variegata
leaves look so darn similar to Steve's pic of his youngest Z furfuracea. Strange they're sooooo similar.

I absolutely love my plants, Lori. The spinulosum is so elegant looking, especially next to a couple
of my mangy looking palms, ha ha.

And I'm in no hurry to have these babies "pushed".
Just want to settle 'em in so they're happy without risking screwing up with fertilizer.
I mist them lightly a couple of times a day.

Have a good weekend folks.
Barb