Sorta Tiki Bar Up For Sale in Whittier - General Tiki

B bananabobs Member Joined: Feb 16, 2003 Posts: 824	B bananabobs Posted posted on Sat, Oct 18, 2008 7:28 PM On 2008-10-16 22:29, Unga Bunga wrote: Ya gotta love the almost phony palm trees out front. Those are typical Queen Palms, Syagrus romanzoffiana, that's what happens when they are starved both water and food and pruned within an inch of their lives. Why bother? When you buy palms from the Depot, they end up like this too, they are grown too close together, in a hot house and when put out for sale they are real tall but way too stressed and too much tall foliage for the small root ball, add soil thats too dense and no drainage... Sorry for the rant, as a amateur collector and grower, it makes me mad.

On 2008-10-16 22:29, Unga Bunga wrote:
Ya gotta love the almost phony palm trees out front.

Those are typical Queen Palms, Syagrus romanzoffiana, that's what happens when they are starved both water and food and pruned within an inch of their lives. Why bother? When you buy palms from the Depot, they end up like this too, they are grown too close together, in a hot house and when put out for sale they are real tall but way too stressed and too much tall foliage for the small root ball, add soil thats too dense and no drainage...
Sorry for the rant, as a amateur collector and grower, it makes me mad.

Post #414118 by bananabobs on Sat, Oct 18, 2008 7:28 PM