fishtail palms.

[billdango]

i visited haskins nursery in southampton today and saw for sale three 5 foot caryota mitis palms . these were in magnificent condition ,not covered in those dreadfull scale insects or streched by forced growing conditions. they were priced at £99.99 pounds each ,and well worth it . thought i would let everyone know .
rgds ,billdango.

[Adrian]

Yes I saw them up at Haskins, nice plants.

[billdango]

iff we wait long enough adrian maybe the same plants will turn up at the range or b&q at a third the price of haskins ???.we can live in hope .
rgds billdango.

[Adrian]

3 or 4 years back the Range in town were selling 6 foot Ravenea rivularis and 6 foot Syagrus romanzoffiana's, that shocked me and they were good palms.
I think the Gosport branch had them as well.

Im not a lover of Caryota mitis but the variegated one is nice, I had hundreds of seeds sent over from Thailand and handed them out to loads of people at meets last year.
Unfortunately I only had one that showed the right variegation out of probably a hundred seeds that I sowed myself.
I must have given all the good ones away

Dave B has at least one of them, not sure how many others managed to get good variegated seedlings.

[billdango]

yes i remember those plants . they all died after a few weeks due to lack of watering and basic care . i think a few were sold but not that many .
rgds ,billdango.

[Dave Brown]

I particularly like the variegated Caryota mitis I have.... Thanks Ade via Redsquirrel. Now started to grow it's 4th leaf 16 months from germination.

[Adrian]

Thats much further ahead than mine Dave.
Paul Rose who sent me the seed said that they can revert at any time, lets hope not too soon.

[redsquirrel]

im so pleased a good one turned up in safe hands.its easy for me to watch and admire on here. one way or another,im down to the one lasdt living plant here,its quite strong and healthy which is much further than i got with the rest. im growing it on the kitchen window sill which might be helping. horrible feeling i kept the rest too dry.Paul told me to give my indoor more tropical plants lots of warmth and water together.
since i did this ive had much better results and stronger plants. ive a brahea edulis im growing in the lounge,lots of water and the chunkiest first strapper ive had on one of these

[billdango]

thats a nice caryota dave ,but keep a sharp look out in case of scale insects .sometimes you don,t spot them till it,s to late ,and they just love fishtail palms ?.
rgds billdango.

[targui]

This is a Cayota sp. Himalaya in my garden.

[kata]

I remember that Image of yours Dave, nice specimen

And you targui, are a very lucky sugar..

Now let me see the rest of that garden please.

[billdango]

Just a quick update on these fishtail palms?

At the West end,Southampton Branch of Haskins the fishtail palms mentioned earlier last year have been reduced to £69.99 and still seem okay.

I just had to tell someone?

rgds billdango.

[Adrian]

Did you get one Bill ?

[billdango]

Did you get one Bill ?

I would love to dave but I can't swing a ferret in this house and my garden is full up as well.

But these are in top condition as far as I could see and I know that for any forum member a great addition to any collection.

But hurry as there are only 3 left.

rgds billdango.

[Adrian]

Alright Trigger