I grow these in full sun in coastal San Diego; not sure how they will fare indoors unless you can give them plenty of sunlight.

Great for indoors though they are BIG and need space. Very tropical looking and few problems indoors. Mine is outside for the season so it is acclimated to sun, BUT they burn BADLY if not acclimated to sun--even worse than most palms would react. In the winter it goes into my basement with a combination of some natural light and artificial. No real problems and good pest resistance.

They are really easy to grow indoors and out. They are one of my easiest palms to grow indoors. Mine grows about 3 fronds a year and gets a lot of height with each frond. The trunk already has it's characteristic spindle shape. Here is a pic of mine. It gets sun from morning to about 2pm this time of the year...

Is it really that easy?? Thanks for the advice.

tropicalzone7, Is yours yellow for no reason as well or is that a undernourished symptom?

nj, exactly how much light does yours get in winter? I plan on having mine by a very big west window, I wonder if that'll be ok.

tropicalzone7, did the leaves turn yellow after the palm was moved outdoors? To me the leaves look really stretched from growing indoors -- not a bad look, but the leaves are far more compact when grown outdoors in sun. I'm just wondering about the yellow color. Mine get that in winter, then new leaves are green in spring and summer. What has been your experience?

The fronds only look yellow in this pic, I think it has to do with the way the sun is hitting them, but I do think that the fronds have gotten lighter since I bought it May 2011. I dont think it's an unhealthy light green, and it is growing well, so far it has made 2 fronds this year (one indoors, one outdoors) and it is almost finished with a 3rd frond. Not sure what causes the fronds to be a lighter color and I would like for them to get a little darker again.

I think that the spindle palm was grown in full sun before I bought it, it still gets a lot of sun, but the new fronds are a lot more streched out, even the ones it made outdoors but I like the look.

-Alex

I want to back what Njoasis mentioned, that they burn really badly when moved outdoors. I had two, and even though I had them on the north side of my house, so they only got early morning sun and late evening sun, they still burned to the point that they didn't look nice. They grew so slowly that they could never recover. I ended up sending them both to the compost pile. Be very careful when acclimating them to the sun.

That was IDENTICAL to my own experience Islandbreeze with one that has since moved on. On the other hand, my current one does really, really, really well in the basement under florescent light in winter, so they don't even need the brightest light possible. It is, however, in full sun now but I keep it on the north side of the house for a few weeks before it gets ANY direct sun. Bottle palms will also burn pretty bad--they are both Hyophorbes. Both of mine actually tend to look better in the winter than now--maybe because of their southern hemisphere origins. :)

My spindles actually dont burn that much in sun. I got a little bit of burn on the fronds when we got in the 100s this summer and I didnt give it enough water because I wasnt home that day. But I never put it in full sun when it goes outdoors so I guess that is a reason why it doesnt get such bad burn. For me the worst palms with burn after going outdoors is my solitare palm (they really prefer shade, I give it sun from morning to 11am) and my queen palm burns pretty badly too.
And I looked at my spindle palms today and they are definitely a normal green, not sure why the fronds didnt look it in that picture, but I would like my majesty palm and inground med fan palm to turn a darker green color than they are since the fronds on them are a light green.
-Alex

Anyone out there that has Spindle Palms growing outside? I have one that has never been the same since we had a very cold winter a couple of years ago in S. Florida. It stunted it's growth, smaller fronds & now they are orange & yellow even though I fertilize a few times a year. Any help would be appreciated.

Spindle palms are super easy to grow and keep. Over the past twenty years I have been growing several. My biggest one with a nice size trunk is shown below.

{{gwi:1159563}}

The few things that I find about this palm is that like those above, they do get sun burnt if you dont adjust to the sun in the spring, this can take weeks and is slow going. If you do sun burn the leaves, they will turn dark black and then brown in the sun burnt spot. According to my research the yellow, if its spots or dots, is a nutrition problem. My oldest plant did some yellow spots on the older leaves last year and I corrected this with extra potassium. These spindles seem to respond very well with the extra potassium but becareful not to over kill and burn the roots. One thing to remember too, once you start feeding to correct for leaf color is that you will have to wait for a few leaf. This can take a while and many times it might not be the first leaf that you see results.

{{gwi:1159564}}

Here is the top of my biggest spindle after a new leaf with the extra potassium. It solved my problem fast with the newest leaf. The leaves are greener than ever.

If you grow your spindles in pots, remember that you are washing out the nutrients as you water, be sure to feed to replace what was lost.

One other note, if you will give the plant a lot of winter sun, you do not have to worry about sun burning in the spring. These plants can take a lot of light and respond to feedings well.

{{gwi:1159565}}

{{gwi:1159567}}
As you see in the picture above, the yellow leaf is an old leaf and is ready to come off, this is not a sun burnt leaf. As the plant gets older leaves ready to drop they do start turning colors as they start to die off.

Hope this helps. The whole Hyophorbe palm family is a great family of palms to grow. I cant get enough of them.

Bottles this year.

{{gwi:1159569}}

Indica

{{gwi:1159571}}

Here is a link that might be useful: Palm Patio...My world

Your indica looks really good! I'm jealous.