Trachy inflorescence starting!

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Trachy inflorescence starting!

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Winter's over! :D

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/southslope/8680817721/" title="002 by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8539/8680 ... b0ee_c.jpg" width="600" height="800" alt="002"></a>

Spears really moving:

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Yes sir :lol: ...we had our first 20c yesterday....

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how old is the one in flower? think you will get any viable seed from it?
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Mike...are you sitting down? :lol: :lol: It's approx. 36 or 37 years old. Maybe even 38, can't remember.
In successive big pots until being planted a few years ago.

It's a male, so unless it does what John's did (rare event of male and female flowers on his last year), no seeds are expected.

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can I get a pic of the whole tree? at 37 yrs old it should be 20+ft by now
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Proud mama-wxmax will probably be next if his palms are still alive :wink:
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Nope, not 20 feet...seems I bonsai-ed it all those years :lol:

It's my avatar pic.

Yup, proud mama, that's me.
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Very nice Barb, I think trachys are so beautiful in flower. You may get a new avatar photo from it.
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Looking good!
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Post by lucky1 »

Thanks folks.

Yippeeee...growing season's here!

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Post by bananieru »

I like that.
I know you palm is old, but how old it has to be to make flowers?

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Great work as usual, Barb!
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Post by lucky1 »

Thanks folks.
how old it has to be to make flowers?
Mine started inflorescing (spellling?) the next year after it was put in the ground.

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Yes...that is cool, is this a first? :D
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Post by lucky1 »

Thank you Aaron.
This is its third year of blooming. Here's the pic from 2011:

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So cool.

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Excellent Barb!!
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Thanks Michael, that was the flower 2 years ago.
Hoping for a nice show this year too.

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