I have been growing palms commercially for over 15 years in South Florida, and here are some tips and info for hobbyists, collectors, or if you are just curious how palms and other tropicals grow. Email me or message me here for any recommendations!
Hey brother, I’m in Cape Coral as well. My Xmas plans produce seeds all year round. When are the seeds ready to harvest to germinate? I left 3 bundles and they are super seeded now. Do I wait till they’re red or take while green?
I started watching your videos a couple of weeks ago after I got my first palm tree and now I’m a palm fiend, I just ordered some seeds of a few different cold hardy palms and I also bought a couple of banana plants today
Ahhh, a travesty to see Foxtail palms planted in somewhere like Maryland. As an Aussie, i can remember when these were first discovered growing in far North Queensland during the 1980,s The seeds were so valuable, $30 each people would go up there with chainsaws and cut down the trees to get the seed, luckily they were very quickly placed in protection by the government. Also, i,m thinking that the other plant people are calling yuccas, look alot like New Zealand Flax, Phormiums. They are cold hardy and flower like that. I wouldn,t put money on it but looks very similar
Those look like typical Yucca filamentosa (Adam’s Needle) to me, but I could be wrong if there are any characteristics that you saw up close that says otherwise. If it is them, that’s neat because that is (kind of) towards the more northern end of their natural range.
A trend that I’ve started to notice here in Mississippi, is magnolias either being planted too close together or in someone’s front yard planted 10ft away from their house
I live in palmetto, I’ve been noticing it for over a decade. It’s bad. People planting Phoenix Sylvester’s all the new developments around here they all die from it quickly. It kills queens also. Even seen Pygmy Christmas and foxtail and silver palms die from it at a lesser extent then the palmetto/ Phoenix palms. It’s really sad. Seems the Royal palms are immune
I live in palmetto, I’ve been noticing it for over a decade. It’s bad. People planting Phoenix Sylvester’s all the new developments around here they all die from it quickly. It kills queens also. Even seen Pygmy Christmas and foxtail and silver palms die from it at a lesser extent then the palmetto/ Phoenix palms. It’s really sad. Seems the Royal palms are immune
lethal bronzing is understood to be a phytoplasma infection, which can be thought of as a bacterial infection. Antibiotics like oxytetracycline seem to provide protection to palms in the early stages of infection.
Here in San Diego we have fusarium wilt which is killing many canary palms and also in the last 10 years we got the South American palm weevil which has already killed most of the canaries and also on occasion kills so other palms. It is really sad to see all these old canaries dead everywhere.
I love both palms. Love the way the royals look when they are tall. Very stately. Plus they both do well in hurricanes and don’t tend to break concrete like oaks do. I feel the royals and queens take sometime to establish when planted. Once established they do well with the foxtail needing a little more fertilizer and water.
It's a sad day when attorneys are in charge of how palms are trimmed. Our family had five full size coconut palms on our property on O'ahu, lived there for years and no one was conked. But what else would you expect in a litigious society like ours.
