Dean I made two trips to SE Asia. In both trips hotels I was staying at were chopping down coconuts. They are liabilities now days because lawyers are now no longer just in the first world. Most other resorts they climb up and cut flowers before fruit can develop.
Oh and don't get me wrong. I...
Those things are not "thriving" and I never said they were clinging to life. In order to "thrive" you mature and reproduce. The warmest winters in history the last two years and they still drop the fruit. Just like in Mardy Darians greenhouse where it hardly drops into 50s.
Why I find most...
I can no longer go to that ridiculous thread on PT. The OP playing games and even quoting himself is so childish it is annoying. Glad to see others finally were annoyed enough to comment to get that thread back on track. The amazing interest in it with long-winded opinions on why it is growing...
Looks like B. madagascariensis to me Dean.
As far as the Newport coconut, I was glad we could move on from the "coconuts can grow here cause look at the one in Newport" comments we always heard. Coconuts have attempted to be grown here in San Diego for over a century and you don't see any. Why...
So I found the post you are talking about and it turns out it was Kent that said that. An Agave guy. LOL. I love Kent - he is a well respected plantsman but not someone I would call an expert in Dypsis. In fact I don't see him growing any. I am surprised he said this actually because some...
Should probably put "Northern California" in your title because nothing you stated is remotely close to being true in SoCal. Many Dypsis do very well here and have since the beginning - as many gardens show. The Dypsis fever here is even stronger now then it was back then - and this is talking...
Damn Matt, that is sweet you got the PE to that stage. I opened mine up to the sun way to fast. I should have waited like you.
Some Licuala like Dolomitic lime. Ramsyii for example. That and K.
That's great. Need to see if mine has these. This version has wider, more tropical leaves and does well,here. The very common Black Ribbon doesn't grow as nice.
Back to the naming as I would like to clear it up if I can. Here are two close ups of the plant. It did have a Roosevelt label. But of course that could have been wrong.
Thanks Phil, so just to confirm what I am reading. Rooting hormone, place into a pot and that pot then gets a plastic bag hat? A makeshift hothouse? Size of cuttings matter?
Yes Jeff. They certainly get asked about often.