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Post by Beercules on Sept 18, 2017 9:35:16 GMT -5
Carrying on from the epic thread on C-D.... A nice Triangle palm among a bunch of Queens in Mildura  Mildura  |
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Post by Beercules on Sept 18, 2017 10:02:17 GMT -5
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Post by Lommaren on Sept 18, 2017 10:05:01 GMT -5
This is like begging for El to hack some shit and find this site  |
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Post by flamingGalah on Sept 19, 2017 13:24:01 GMT -5
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Post by bizzy on Sept 20, 2017 22:38:32 GMT -5
Nice scenes in this thread, I wish we had palm trees.  My Windmill Palm has taken off this year, it’s 2-3 times the size it was just last year, I’ll post a comparison. It’s still quite diminutive, but it’s actually looking like a palm now. |
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Post by Beercules on Sept 21, 2017 21:53:42 GMT -5
Flaminggalah, needs to see those pics right now! What species is that in the 2nd and 4th pics? Looks like something you'd find in the tropics. |
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Post by flamingGalah on Sept 22, 2017 16:34:39 GMT -5
Flaminggalah, needs to see those pics right now! What species is that in the 2nd and 4th pics? Looks like something you'd find in the tropics. Lol, he would say they are photoshopped bro In the 2nd pic I think are Howea belmoreana, 4th pic looks like a coconut, but I think it is a Kentia... |
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Post by longaotian on Sept 24, 2017 0:17:34 GMT -5
Flaminggalah, needs to see those pics right now! What species is that in the 2nd and 4th pics? Looks like something you'd find in the tropics. I'm pretty sure they are kentia palms |
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Post by longaotian on Sept 24, 2017 0:28:55 GMT -5
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Post by ral31 on Sept 24, 2017 8:44:51 GMT -5
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Post by Donar on Nov 10, 2017 7:20:32 GMT -5
A few palm tree pics from my trip to California/Arizona... Tucson:   Natural growth:   Date palm plantation:  Salton Sea in the background  |
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Post by Beercules on Nov 10, 2017 7:55:03 GMT -5
Epic scenes from an epic climate. 10/10
Someone really needs to set up a weather station right on the shore of the Salton Sea and see how humid it gets in summer, and how it moderates the winter lows. I've reports of people growing coconut palms in the general area.
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Post by Giorbanguly on Nov 10, 2017 12:13:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2017 13:22:13 GMT -5
Plenty of great photos here -how's that Toucan?
On a somewhat related note, I have found out what's been happening to the crop on my papaya trees -I had thought that they were been knocked to the ground by wind, and taken away by rats, as there were never any on the ground. About three days ago I was enjoying a well earned joint and ale just around dusk, when I saw one of the dirty rat bastards race up the trunk , and knock a fruit to the ground. It happened again within about two minutes, so I moved a gas operated trap to the base of the tree, and have had four rats since.
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Post by Giorbanguly on Nov 10, 2017 13:41:33 GMT -5
Plenty of great photos here -how's that Toucan? On a somewhat related note, I have found out what's been happening to the crop on my papaya trees -I had thought that they were been knocked to the ground by wind, and taken away by rats, as there were never any on the ground. About three days ago I was enjoying a well earned joint and ale just around dusk, when I saw one of the dirty rat bastards race up the trunk , and knock a fruit to the ground. It happened again within about two minutes, so I moved a gas operated trap to the base of the tree, and have had four rats since. Damn, wouldn't expect the rats to crave papaya that much. Papaya palms are beautiful, love the way the little papayas grow on it. In the Amazon papayas seem to be a big thing, you see a lot of locals transporting green papayas on their boats to the neighboring villages. The toucan was awesome, we gave him bits of banana. I was afraid of getting my finger bitten off lol, but the toucan turned its head and picked up the banana without a problem~smart bird! Want one as a pet lol |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2017 14:00:06 GMT -5
Plenty of great photos here -how's that Toucan? On a somewhat related note, I have found out what's been happening to the crop on my papaya trees -I had thought that they were been knocked to the ground by wind, and taken away by rats, as there were never any on the ground. About three days ago I was enjoying a well earned joint and ale just around dusk, when I saw one of the dirty rat bastards race up the trunk , and knock a fruit to the ground. It happened again within about two minutes, so I moved a gas operated trap to the base of the tree, and have had four rats since. Damn, wouldn't expect the rats to crave papaya that much. Papaya palms are beautiful, love the way the little papayas grow on it. In the Amazon papayas seem to be a big thing, you see a lot of locals transporting green papayas on their boats to the neighboring villages. The toucan was awesome, we gave him bits of banana. I was afraid of getting my finger bitten off lol, but the toucan turned its head and picked up the banana without a problem~smart bird! Want one as a pet lol It hasn't really been an issue until this year -I think the extended spell of wet conditions got the rats looking for other food sources. The papaya I have, is the mountain papaya -The tree looks the same as other papaya, but the fruit is smaller at around 5-6 inches. I had thought of them as just pig food until recently, but got a taste for them after a friend started gorging on them, and have started propagating them (true to seed), and aim on about 100 trees. South America surely is fruit paradise. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2017 14:33:09 GMT -5
Norwich just has some crappy trachys, nothing like you get down in the London area. Even cordylines aren't that common (though they are on the Norfolk coast), whereas they are everywhere in the SE.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2017 0:43:40 GMT -5
Just took a photo of the papaya where the rats were the other day -about 4 metres of trunk and produced about 30 fruit. They smell like juicy fruit gum
Another photo of some small ones planted back in April -already flowering .
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Post by Giorbanguly on Nov 11, 2017 1:10:06 GMT -5
Looking nice Joe! How long before you can eat them?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2017 2:17:16 GMT -5
They fruit reliably from the second year, and are in season from about mid autumn until late spring. These are just the last few -here's a better photo.  |
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