My mind is always working Must be nice. :booty: Dates you buy at the store will germinate?? What do I do to prep them? Eat them, spit out stones.Keep...

Jim's memory is better than mine (obviously) Wasn't this the guy who used pallet wrap?That'd be quite the dance around the ladder(s)Jim, any finished ...

Yup that's the CIDP in the trashcan :lol: :lol: :oops: Pretty pots are expensive, after all.Wilf pruf, Jim, really?I'm reluctant in case it ends up...

THAT'S IT JIM!!!!! THAT'S THE PICTURE!!!! ThanksLooking for it was driving me crazy...(short trip) :lol: Wasn't he the fellow with the stage-by-st...

Sheesh, now figs :?

Yup, that's the link to read...very interesting stuff that Cameron and others have done.Delidding can be a touchy process, and I wouldn't recommend tr...

Yeah, LY hits a lot of palms in Florida too, and gov't is recommending not planting LY-susceptible palms.Florida's sandy soils quickly leach potassium...

Oh yeah, there's nothing like a Cocos to drive you crazy.Mine was a beauty UNTIL I put it outside last May.This was day one or two...<a href="" tit...

"harder" Called "schedule 40" etc here I think.Black PVC? hmmm, that would warm up nicely.

I'm the only person here to NOT like the baggie method or peat moss.Tried it lots of times with palm and cycad seeds, even taping bags to the back of ...

I think Jim's onto something with his comment: When a Washy gets 5-6 feet of trunk going you can trim it down andput 4-5 / 1" PVC strips along the tru...

Are you going to sandpaper the seeds, Damir?Thanks for great pics and the book excerpt.Good to know the germination point.Barb

A few years ago I saw a guy's palm tree pictured and he did exactly that Scott, connected PVC to build a winter palm house for his 10 foot tall palm.S...

What is her name? The caption says it's Kim Goldsmith, no I don't know them.It sure was a funny pic in the newspaper, I recall, as we were all grumbl...

colder than avg spring weather...yup.I think this photo was in April 2008.<a href="" title="DSC01295 by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src="" w...