Love this video for so many reasons: 1. Beautiful KING palms!!! 2. The enthusiasm to stop and record them 3. Great friendly dialog amongst strangers 4. The owners pride in growing those awesome KING Palms... priceless !!!!
@@faltio69 I've hundreds of palms in my estate and I've planted all of them, I've Royals, Queens, Kings, Christmas, Arecas, and a lot of palmate-leaf types of palms and other little entire-leaf palms so I can almost bet their age by pure sight.
@@cesaryaelmurillo4367 my neighbor has king palms east facing some 10 and some 20 and they are the same height about 15 ft tall He also have 10 yr old south facing that’s no more than 5 ft tall. All king palms
We need an update on the palm height! Just planted two fan palms this Spring, we’ve had so much rain and they’re yellow but planted in sand, but insane the amount of rain this Spring, they love it really
I'm from Australia and these grow like weeds in my backyard. I must have a couple of hundred, over watering is not a problem. We call them Bangalow Palms in Australia
I live in Redlands California and I have probably 60 king plams, they range from 10’ to 40’ tall, trunk sizes ranging 6” to 12” and I have seedlings growing like weeds.
Should you ever pull the browning old foliage or wait? I pulled one because I noticed a bunch of ants in it not sure if that was a good idea. Small amount of green exposed on trunk
Great video especially since the owner came out for the interview. One thing people don’t realize is that there are 6 different species of King palm. Those look like they may be the maxima species which have the largest truck diameter and a large green crown. I have 3 clusters of these but mine were only planted about 3 years ago so much smaller than these. I have used some miracle grow in them but I may make it a regular watering routine now that I have seen this. Either way these in the video are very healthy looking king palms. Thanks for sharing. I’ll add that one of the features of the maximas that make them different from the much more common cunninghamiana is the Leaves tend to be more rigid and don’t droop down toward ground as much. A feature you can see in this video.
I have a question, do you know anything about growing ash trees from seed to sapling. I tried looking for sources online but not many information is found how to grow them. I tried growing them my self but they haven’t grown, i don’t know if i’m doing it wrong. I was wondering if you can make a video about that soon because the seeds are now in season this time of year.
I literally have watched this video 5 times, lol...I had beautiful Kings growing up in Costa Mesa and Vista. Trying my luck in Menifee, Ca. (Which is Riverside County) which I've been told I'm nuts. 1 year in... looking Great...7 kings going good so far. Kentia's 1 out of 4 doing good in the year...Foxtails coming next....
try roystonia regia, roystonia oleraceae, Beccariophoenix alfredii. I have these for sale in vista plus some really nice Queen Palm hybrids of 4 different types
Gary you need to check out the Oceanside Civic Center, they have an amazing collection of mature palms, including Rhopalotsylus bauerii, Howea forsteriana, and Phoenix reclinatas.
I think the difference between palms probably has something to do with the genus. Washingtonia robusta comes from a dry desert climate and is known for forming very extensive root systems. The King palms come from a wet tropical one with at least 1000 mm of rainfall per year, year round. Although these look pretty good, they look better in wetter places like Sydney - I know because I've seen them there. As for 'moisture capture' - look what is on either side of the sidewalk. Watered lawns! If SoCal had its entire water supply shut off, even the Washingtonias would only persist in riparian areas like swales, creek beds, spring fed oasis...as is true in the native range of both species of Washingtonia.
Anything can survive a 19 degree 1 minute pass through a freezer and back out to balmy weather. Just depends on how long and a million other variables.
Hahaha okay 19F for 5 hours with moderate frost in upper 9a humid Florida, possible precipitation involved (this happens about twice a decade). If not that then a 2-day freeze under the same conditions in the upper 20s and low 30s. Basically routine 5-year scares! I was about to try raising a 'good handful' of kings from seed for the heck of it, but thought twice about it and the probable disappointment. Instead I'm going to try a bunch of beccariophoenix alfredii instead. What are your thoughts on beccario? Palm places around here have been selling them the last 5 years or so. Apparently they survive, but the same people selling beccario are saying syagrus romanzoff is not long term here..?! They must not be 'too' informed because I see a massive queen that has been in the ground here 15 years. What are your experiences with beccario in a marginal climate, are they as hardy as queens??
Question... sometimes I get red seeds and sometimes I get the white "medusa" things.... Which is the seed I use to start the tree? The red round seeds or the seeds off the white medusa flower?
