I would have thought that they need to be ripe and red. Having said that I picked some in that condition last year on holiday and am just about to throw them away as they have gone rotten.! I kept mine at 30c-35c in a propagator in a see through container between damp kitchen towel. Not much use to ...

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On the main Exotics section of this website.

I bought a rather nice Chamaedorea Radicalis from The Palm House a couple of months ago and it came complete with some ripening seeds. Can anyone ...

Chamaedorea microspadix is more prone to damage from slugs & snails in my experience, but both are reasonably hardy. Kev Spence who lives in Loughborough should be able to help you more as regards to their hardiness in ...

It has been in the ground since spring this year, together with three radicalis.

Marcel

it was pushing out new spear (it go through the winter fine with no protection) but then the poor thing got crushed

I don't mind protecting in the Winter Marcel, it's worth it to get them through. I could always try planting one out and pot plunge the other, bringing it into the greenhouse over Winter. Depends how I feel next Spring :D How long you had yours in the ground? Did you have any new growth Jako??? Di

I will still have to protect them for the colder days and prolonged freezes.
It is a kind of a game bringing them through winter without killig it in my climate.

i had a Microspadix but one of my family members fell over and completely flattened it and hurt themselves in the process but the trunk was snapped

I also have one Ch.microspadix beside the Ch.radicalis under canopy and it also seems to be
very tough against frost. No damage so far at -5/-6 C°.
But I don't think it can take lower temperatures than that. It just might be the border line.

Marcel

I was wondering about these microspadix too, a couple have been sat in pots for 18 months with the intention of planting them under the canopy of trees I have here in semi-shade. One thing and another they never got planted out this year. I wasn't sure of the lowest temperature they could take, but ...

Yes i've heard slugs and snails like them. We can get down to -15c here so probably a waste of time long term in the ground. but might get a few years grown in a pot and tucked up against the house during winter.

The problem with microspadix is that it is a martyr to slugs and snails. The leaves of radicalis are very tough and virtually mollusc resistant. I've grown several radicalis outside here for a good 15 years or so and they withstood our 'killer frosts' of 2009/10 (down ...

I'm trying Chamaedorea Microspadix from seed, supposed to be reasonably hardy. I sowed them a couple of days ago.

If anyone wants to try growing some these palms the EPS are selling seeds on ebay. (For fund raising purposes) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 1115940058

John