Erik, I've never been keen on adding nutrients to potting soil.

I know others do it, but it could lead to mistake on quantity.
So I dissolve epsom salts and K in a watering can.
I just don't know enough about strength/weights of ingredients, which could burn roots big time.

Mike, my vote is that yours is a Traveller's palm.

Nice big specimen too!

Barb

I thoght it might be. It grows soooooo fast and tall, one of the tallest leaves got knocked off by windstorm in March. But a new one has emerged and now another after that. The pups it sends out are about four ft tall too. Wish I could dsend you al some.

Mike

Happy Canada day, Barb and all other friends from the great white north...And Happy 4th to everyone else!!
Mike

Seems the distinction always includes shredding on the leaves.
I haven't seen BoP do that even in a storm.

Thanks Mike!
Happy 4th of July to our south of the border buddies, too!

Barb

Barb,
thanks. I'll put in some osmocote but save the MG and K for watering.
My base is coir, and I have quite a bit of vermiculite and some perlite to toss in. I plan to pass on the compost this year. Skip the sand, too, as I'll have to haul these pots up flights of stairs.
Sid,
whatever it is, lovely!
W bought her traveller's off ebay and it came in a tiny ziploc bag from Hawai'i. It has grown so well. No pups.
Call if you get the chance. W is at work today but I'm home. --Erik

I'm at beach till Monday.....I'll call soon....Hope you are all well!

I'm at beach till Monday

They'll soon rename Cape May, to Cape Mike. 😆 😆

Enjoy!
Barb

hey mike,

I think you have a white bird of paradise. They can get 30 feet tall. A travallers palm that tall would have the sort of triangle apperance as the triangle palm. Also, I dont think R madagascariensis suckers like yours seem to have. The White BOP are sexy, there was one at the conservatory here thats over 100 years old!

Wow, really. They do sucker at the bottom like crazy. I put it in a bigger pot last year and it gave four new plants...fast! I bought this thing off the back of a truck in Philly 10 years ago...and here it is, amazing plant! Thanks for the advice guys,,....

Sry i forgot the latin name, had to look it up.... "strelitzia nicolai", biggest of the whole genus. The flowers can get a foot long, but arent as colourful as the smaller types, usualy, white, and a type of blue black, with some blending of the 2.