3 acre shade-grown interior palm tree nursery in Florida

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:30 am

Why is Florida so far away! This is sooooo beautiful.

Drool

http://calusacreek.com/

ScottyON · Post by **ScottyON** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:18 pm

I feel like pulling a Bill, grabing a u-haul and heading down!! I do think they would like me at the border though!

tropicman · Post by **tropicman** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:39 pm

Thanks,that was enjoyable!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:44 pm

Thanks for the vid. Now you got me thinking.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:35 pm

got me thinking.

Acreage in Texas, right Aaron?

He's fuelling up his car, folks.

feel like pulling a Bill

Yup, don't we all...

I enjoyed that so much too; gonna have another look.
Might come away from the computer with a tan...or an alligator.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:02 pm

lucky1 wrote: Acreage in Texas, right Aaron?
He's fuelling up his car, folks.

You make this place fun.

I was getting a thought about some land in Florida.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:21 pm

Speaking of Florida, that is where my dying Sabal palmetto and happy Bismarckia came from. There is this old man who goes down each March and buys palms, then arranges a truck to bring them up to sell at a roadside palm stand in Tulsa.

We have friends who gave up on cold winters a year ago and moved to Florida. They were visiting last month, when ironically it was warmer here than down there. I pointed out my dying palmetto to Paul. He had to rub it in that Sabal palmetto are free. That is what he said--free. According to him, when there is a road project or development, surveyors will mark palmettos that will have to be cut down. Anyone (according to Paul) is free to try to dig them up and transplant them before the work crews come. If true, amazing! Imagine free trunked Sabal. Yes, he definitely got my interest. Now, how many days drive in my old pick-up truck would that be...?

tropicman · Post by **tropicman** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:46 pm

About 30 hr straight drive if you and your wife change off every 4 hours,48 hours of good digging,30 hrs drive back,3 hr drive to my house and then 3 hrs back to yours,good week off from work and you can do all of that!!!LOL

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:12 pm

Good one, Don

Okanagan desert-palms · Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:14 pm

Thanks for sharing that Vid Barb. I always wonder how they get the palms to grow so big in such relatively small pots and larger wooden containers. Those palms are huge in comparison to the root structure. It must have to do with perfect ph water and fertilizer.

John

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:11 pm

how they get the palms to grow so big in such relatively small pots

Always wondered about that too.

Looks to be very organized and well run...every row of potted trees connected to horizontal wires so they don't fall over in winds.
I've seen so many nursery pictures where potted trees are all laying on the ground after wind.
Apart from the initial labour and support wire cost, would seem to save a lot of repeat labour.
Reminds me of the saying "first loss is your best loss".

I never knew how flat Florida was (at least that area)...must be swampy all year round.

perfect ph water and fertilizer

and gator poop