Trachycarpus trunk question

[Mr List]

my Trachycarpus.f has the pyramid/cone shaped trunk like this:

http://image22.webshots.com/23/8/74/7/2 ... gmb_fs.jpg


how long does it take to look more cylindrical like this:

http://www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/d ... &mode=view

?

[Yorkshire Kris]

Mr List your first link doesn't work but I'm guessing your Trachycarpus has been stretched by growing too quickly in shaded conditions thus giving a cone shaped trunk. It will probably sort itself out after a few years.

Other option is that it is not a fortunei put a different Trachycarpus species.

[Mr List]

i will take a picture of it tomorrow so you can see.

it is an .f ,got it from the palm centre.

if it has been stretched then would i be right in thinking it wont gain any height until after the trunk has evened out in thickness?

edit

some links to coney type trunks:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h ... hAe-5qXaDA



http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h ... hAe6hczODA



http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h ... hAfcjOnXDA

[Adrian]

The top of a Trachycarpus trunk isnt like the top of a Dicksonia antarctica where its full girth all the way, they all taper in at the top.
Im not really sure what you are after, did you expect the trunk to be full girth at the growing point ?

[Dave Brown]

Adrian is right. The way I would describe it is.... the top of the trunk always tapers as in your pics. only once it has grown enough trunk will the lower part be parallel, but it always has the tapered bit on top.

Trachies change appearance as they get older

Trunky Trachycarpus 1989

19890522 Trunky in flower.jpg (259.8 KiB) Viewed 976 times

Trunky Trachycarpus 2000

Trunky Trachycarpus 2010

[Mr List]

well it seems like

http://www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/d ... &mode=view

that Trachycarpus is a very strange one.
it doesnt have hardly any taper and really small leaves.

ps

just noticed how fast the cordy caught up on trudi
i feel like a monkey-man staring at the monolith looking at pics of your Trachycarpus.

did you leave it to nature with yours dave or did you feed it etc..