In Ground Queen Palms for Carving? - Tiki Carving

4 4WDtiki Tiki Socialite Omao, Kauai Joined: Aug 03, 2004 Posts: 1995	4 4WDtiki Posted posted on Tue, Aug 19, 2014 8:52 AM On 2014-08-18 19:41, Moe515 wrote: I live in Southern California, the queen palms I have are about 12' and 14' tall. That's too young and short to have any carvable wood to them, IMO. Even with fan palm, which is a better carving palm, I learned early on that a tree that size is unusable. A palm needs to be a minimum of 30' or so before there's any good wood at the bottom of it. The taller the palm, the better. 60-90' palms are what I look for. Since you're in SoCal, I strongly suggest you go with Mexican Fan palm, it's everywhere there.

On 2014-08-18 19:41, Moe515 wrote:
I live in Southern California, the queen palms I have are about 12' and 14' tall.

That's too young and short to have any carvable wood to them, IMO.
Even with fan palm, which is a better carving palm, I learned early on that a tree that size is unusable. A palm needs to be a minimum of 30' or so before there's any good wood at the bottom of it. The taller the palm, the better. 60-90' palms are what I look for.

Since you're in SoCal, I strongly suggest you go with Mexican Fan palm, it's everywhere there.

Post #725685 by 4WDtiki on Tue, Aug 19, 2014 8:52 AM