If you put them out for the summer, be careful, they burn badly in full sun without acclimating (learned the hard way). PS. They are great palms for most homes but will like to have some space eventually.

Dan spindles make great indoor plants and realy don't need that much water I water mine about 2 times aweek and not very much then probaly about a cup full. Mine is a 5 gallon i think. I have mione potted with 70% sand and 30 %
miracle grow and it's doing great !

Thanks guys, sounds like this will do much better than my previous Majesty Palm.

Topher, yours looks pretty much the same size as mine. It looks good. How much sun does it get?

It does not get a whole lot of sun at all and it's doing great !

Awesome, thats what I like to hear. Sounds like this is going to be a very good indoor palm.

Dan, i have found them to be very easy to care for indoors, much much better than a majesty and much nicer looking. Also, they appear to be less prone to pests.

Thanks. Thats good news too. I had a majesty palm for 3 years that was grown indoors for winters. It stayed healthy enough but never looked really good after the first year then it developed scale and I could never fully get rid of them. I think the scale problem eventually did it in.

Ditto that. Spindles are good houseplants. I like that they look sort of similar to coconuts too.

Hi dan,

How big are the Spindles there and how much? There were a couple at Humber for $80.00

Thx,
Phil

Hey Phil, these were about 4-5 feet from the top of the pot to the upper most leaf. They had about 1/2ft of trunk on them. So they were fairly large. They were roughly the same size as most of the majesty palms that you see at ikea or homedepot. They were only 39.99 though :) I find stuff at humber to be really pricey.

I have a big one. It weighs about 300 lbs, takes 3 or 4 people to pick it up...lol. I love my big baby.

Hey dan,

Thanks for the info. I totally agree that everything at Humber is very expensive. I did buy a Musa Zebrina roughly 3.5 ft for $25.99. I need to check out Holland one day.

I bought a 6+ footer Spindle with a new spear coming up. Found it at RONA a month ago. Only paid $29.99. They are one of my favorites! Never know what you're going to find!

protempfish

I'm going to check out Rona.

thx,
Phil

I bought a spindle palm from a local garden center. I was told it was shade grown. It is about 8 ft. tall,,2 ft. of trunk. 79.00,, Any tips on shade grown palms like this.,,Bill

I dont know anything about shade grown, but slowly give it some sun and watch it grow. I grow mine in full sun, lots of water. Mines got 2 foot of trunk.

I bought one this year and have it on the back deck for the summer where it gets morning sun. Mine was from the nursery. It's about 4 feet high and was $20. The thing is, all the other spindles that were the same size and same size pot were marked at $48 so I pretty well feel this one was mispriced.

One question, they are fairly slow growing, aren't they? My plant has a new leaf that looks like it's about to unfold but it's been that way for the past month.

In order for it to get the spindle effect on the trunk, it probably has to get quite big, correct? So in that sense it would be worth it over wintering indoors and saving from year to year.

Glen

They are really slow growing and mine takes about 6 months to completely open a leaf. It takes 1 month to get to the stage from when the spear is begining to open to where it is fully open. Spindles also take a really long time to form a nice trunk. Bottle palms form a trunk at a much smaller height so I do like them for that.