Where are they located indoors or out? and what temperatures do you keep them at ? They should have germinated within one to two months in optimum conditions.

They are located indoors, near the central heating and at a south window just as the Christmas palm seeds.
Maybe I had bad luck and these Montgomery seeds were not viable.

Be patient, I planted two seeds a couple of months ago. They are sitting in a south facing window. I'm not giving them any artificial heat but they do get quite warm when the sun is out. Otherwise they are in the low 60s. I partially dug them out over the weekend. They have both shot out a root and one is starting to push up a shoot. I have no doubt that as days get longer, warmer, and sunier that they will really shoot up. I'm guessing by late April unless I can get a week strait of sun.

I would dig them up and check to see if they have germinated.If not I would put them in a baggy with peat moss and put them on the water heater close to the pipes and cover with a towel.That will bring the temps up to upper 80s and they should sprout. The problem with waiting to long is they will rot before they germinate. Make sure and squeeze out all excess water from the peat also if you choose that method.Good luck.

They are so beautiful. I hope mine will get as beautiful. I have already a 3 year old christmas palm but it grows sooooooo slowly. Very frustrating. I think it grows only one leaf a year. Still, it grows.

David...what kind of grass is that? Beautiful.

Floratam which is a hybrid St Augustine. Thank you dor the compliment.

David - why the chicken wire around the base of the palm?
rabbits, deer, dogs?

David-

Is that a Carpoxylon on the corner of your house?!?!?

Here are a few Montgomery Palms (Veitchia arecina) I photographed awhile back in Clearwater, FL. The single one is among the tallest I have ever seen.

Ive got a bunch of these palms in my yard and they are among my favorites. Cold sensitive for sure....but beautiful enough to make up for it!

And, they are very fast palms.

Here is one of mine in May 2005 just after planting as a 3 gallon tall seedling. (The Montgomery is the smallest palm on the far right of the trio).

Here is the same photo in March 2006.

And here again sometime in mid 2006. I dont know the exact photo date on this one and will have to check my computer at home.

The palm has added several feet more trunk since the latest photo and has also fattened up considerably.

Great pictures and amazing growth. Aren't you woried about them being so close to the garage? They will eventually become massive.

Andy-

All the palm bases are quite far from the garage wall (farther than they look in the pics). If they get fat enough to hit the house, I will file with the Guiness Book of World records! In seriousness, they are quite far from the concrete wall and the bases would need to be 4-5 ft in diameter to ever touch it.

By the end of this summer, the canopies of all three palms will be over the roof and from that point on size wont matter. The sky's the limit! I dont have a more recent pic handy, but the Foxtail and Montgomery are both already over the roof with their foliage, and the King Palm (the one on the far left) is not far behind.

The other factor is that the palms have started to naturally curve away from each other and the roof (which is what I hoped theyd do) so they are developing into a nice looking group.

Nice pics spockvr6. oppalm cats were the problem at that time. I have taken all to the humane society since then. Its amazing how one cat that was feed on my driveway by my niece who was told not too,could produce 100s of babies.I'm not a cat hater but was coming close to being one.smile smile

Spock-
Good to know that your palms won't be lifting the floor of your garage. I'm super exited as it's going to be sunny and 70 tomorrow here. First 70 in 5 months. I can drag all of my palms (expet for my large Roebi it's too heavy to drag out until it's for the summer) and give all of them a full days sun and thorougly rince them off. I'll try and post some pictures. I can't seem to get the software for my camera to properly install on this laptop I'm using.

Andyandy you might have to make sure its completely uninstalled before trying to reinstall.

spockvr6 no it is Archontophoenia alexandrae

"spockvr6 no it is Archontophoenia alexandrae"

David - And a fantastic one at that! With the exagerrated base and the very bright green crownshaft (and the fact that I know youve got some oddball palms) made me think Carpoxylon.