Palmus plasticus var. 'Tacky' does not exist in that zone, 3D. It is indigenous only as far as Humdiddle, Missouri. Nice try. Next time please get your facts straight before enlightening us on your so called "discoveries". Sheesh!

My ~~profoundest~~ and sincerest apologies for being a non-tropical-planty-thing non-expert as well as not of renown expertise and not published and all that carp.

In my defense, I am from Ohio. Need I say more?

May I ask you a question about a subject I know is near and dear to your own heart? Do I need to get my Chia Pet Scooby vaccinated?

Anxiously awaiting your reply your humble servant,

C3D, hold the groveling :-)

Hi
Love them!! They would go wonderfully with my pink plastic flamingoes and purple gazing ball. Wonder if they'd survive the transplant??
gary

Hi Gary.

The picture isn't the greatest but them thar palms are in pots. I bet they EASILY could survive a transplant. That is unless you have neighbours who like a target to shoot at.

I think they come with a patch kit in case they spring a leak.

I am sure your flamingos would love having a more natural looking yard with the Plasticus! :-)

Gonz? I believe they have become an invasive species here. I see more and more of them all the time. So far there are NONE in our yard. Please shoot ME if you see that happen!

Chick with 3 Ds

Gary, do you have different species of pink flamingos (Phoenicopterus)? The only ones out here are P. fakus, P. jeezlouisus and P. yuppieslivehereus. They are very succeptible to 'Toe-Jam' due to all the over-watering of people's turf areas. If you have any that are drought-tolerant and don't mind sharing space with lawn jockies, PM me.
3DDD, if Palmus plasticus becomes troublematic in your area, the only remedy is 5 minutes worth of direct heat from an acetelyne torch applied before sundown. Or after 12 midnight if they happen to be yer neighbor's trees.

Thanks for the control method for the P. plasticus. Hmmmm. Gets me mind to wondering if the same could be applied to the Toxic Neighbour?

Gary, I found this link that will make your yard the envy of everyone!

C with 3 Ds, hold the flamingo (please)

Here is a link that might be useful: Palm Trees

Oxy-acetylene torch is too bulky. Pick up a mapp gas one from Home Depot (a self igniting one can be lit one-handed leaving the other free to hold a camcorder :-).

Ryan

Hi
Thanks so much for that site!! I was holding out until they got in the pink palms and they even have lights .!!
They might be overlooked without them lol.
Do you think a 25 foot yellow gorilla would be too much??
Glad to see they have a "knowledgeable staff".Would love to hear why I would want one in the first place lol
WOW the possibilities,boggles the mind!!
gary

25' yellow gorilla??? Too gauche. Perhaps something in sapphire red or indigo.

LOL. I guess Plasticus deserves a whole genus to themselves.

CDDD, you didn't tell us how these wonderful palms could bloom quite easily! and they have HUGE flowers and fruits that glow!

zeta
I'm jealous that you have this genus of palms here in the united states; endemic to Ohio. Ours don't even come close.

I'm sorry to say my American cousins have got it all wrong (yet again)

them there thingies in the picture are drop bear roosts.

You've all heard of the famous australian drops bears - haven't you?

they're sort of like a koala, but vicious. they attack unsuspecting tourists or native born australians who have got off the beaten path. they're famous for peeing on people who pick them up.

The drop bears favourite pastime is attacking what we call four wheel drives and I believe you call some sort of recreation vehicle - they're cars that are too big for the suburbs - but always seem to only exist in the suburbs and have huge over inflated tyres.

Anyway - the drop bears attack the tyres and get the innertubes out to suckle their young while they are on hunting trips.

I don't know how the drop bear roosts got into Ohio or wherever you reckon the "palms" are - but I would be very careful - there may be some drop bears escaped from a local zoo that are trying to colonise your part of the world......

be careful out there

Hi Zeta.

As Dr. GonZ, PhD. (Professor Emeritus, Brommie U.) has stated they are indigenous only as far as Humdiddle, Missouri. It is an invasive pestilence in these parts of the USA.

I have read on the Internet that they are easily grown from "seed bulbs." Plant a coloured light bulb of the Plasticus species in potting soil and water lightly and within mere eons the germination will occur. The bulb colour is supposed to be true to the colour of the Plasticus grown. And~~ as I am sure most will agree, EVERYTHING you read on the Internet is Gospel truth!

Hey there, Paradisi. Thanks for the heads up about them thar drop bears! :-)

C with 3Ds (and too much free time)

Paradisi, you're not foolin'us. I know Drop Bears are extinct. Died out in the Great Blizzard 0f 1887!!! National Geographic had an article about them in 1962.
"pestilence"....what a great word! Rolls off the tongue like Spittoon or Cuspidor or Serendipity. Pestilence...yeah! Bihai, isn't that the name of a band?

dude!

all of you are waaaay off base. Don't you know that plasticus seed bulbs have been quarantined in the states since 2003?

Apparently some in southern California showed signs of mutation and actually bore coconuts that were really filled with pineapple juice and rum ... but the effect of drinking the juice wreaked havoc with people's speech and they had trouble speaking without using the words "dude" , "narly" and "stoked". It was banned by the O.C. commissioner and the ban took effect throughout the states.

sincerely,

Prof. Nuciferas aka Moondoggie

I am soooooooooo sorry, Prof. Nuciferas aka Moondoggie, but I must respectfully disagree with your most learned and informative post. Perhaps it is because you have your information from an older publication.

I read that the bulbs do hold true to colour for the beloved Plasticus in THE source for all plant information: Sunday's Parade Magazine. Please don't tell me there is a more reliable source for plant information! That is what I have used almost exclusively and what has gotten me to where I am today! (~~FIGURES!~~)

"Dude," "narly," "stoked" and other Californiaisms may be due to the excessive sunshine and zone envy temperatures day after day.

Loathe some Ohio C3D :-)

Boca 'Dude' Joe, your Keanau Reeves imitation is bad, really bad. It's not "narly", it's "gnarly". Like in Gnarl!, dude. So totally outta the zone dude you're TOADing on everything you're gum-flappin' about SoCal. (Wanna know what TOAD means?) Take Off and Die! Like on a wave dude! A big, fat, gnarly, crusty demonizing, head-re-threading, ozoned to the max type wave. What's the 411 on this mutation you mentioned out here? We're as normal as the next dude.....somewhere.....I think.

okay Molto Man (man of late take-offs), you asked for it...

You are just jealous of my new plank
can't wait to ride the rail - into the green room , man
don't want to get barrelled, or worse yet over the falls, dude!

Got my big gun board on the top rack and heading for Doheny

peace Broh

PS so I can't spell gnarly- meet me on the North Shore and we'll surf it out...

Moondoggie

PS

my little Chickadeedee- Parade is so , like, yesterdays trash man.

The REAL source of the information is IN-N-OUT Burger. You'll find the species listed in code on the bottoms of the soda and milkshake cups. Check for the next crop.
Maybe Gonz can propagate them for us. He is good at propaganda...heee heee

Catch a Wave

Brian Wilson

Boca, Boca, Joe, Joe, Joe.

I find that the In-N-Out Burger wrapper information is a bit too technical for me to fully comprehend. (Must be the winter brain freeze we experience here?) Yes, 'tiz true that Dr. GonZ is very good at propaganda. I am a proud card carrying member of his organization! :-)

I find that Parade is more of a specialty publication. Where else can one find THE source for one tree that will grow Avocado, Coconut, Vrassia, Sugar Cane, the next Triple Crown® winner AND eight varieties of tomatoes in a single 6 inch pot!?!?!? We here in Ohio do not have the longer growing season as do some other zones so we need to get in as much variety of growth as possible all in one.

I do confess that my 'Tree-o-Plenty' does not yet look like the cartoon like drawing depicted in the magazine but it has grown for only 4 years and has not yet reached maturity here in my piddoly zone 6-7 ish.

My children do attend school in Zone 20. Personally I don't really see a profound difference in this zone but everyone slows down to a crawl as they pass through this zone. No doubt they do this to "catch a few rays" as they pass by. I'm thinking it is what I read may be a micro climate.

At home we sometimes experience Zone 9 or 10. There were a few days last year when it was really hot, like in the upper 80° F - 90° F for a day or two and it got really humid. That only happened in the summer though.

Here's a few questions, if you don't mind talking an amateur planty thing person through some of this stuff. It has probably been asked before but I can't find the posts.

~~ How do I get Calzoned? Do we need to plant a Pasta Tree?
I am growing a Cinnamon Tree (Cinnamomum zeylanicum var. 'Durkee') from cuttings. ((Spices, isle 3 in Kroger's grocery store.)) I placed them in Miracle Gro potting soil, watered them really well and placed them in a sealed plastic bag on a sunny window sill. After only a couple of weeks there was a thick grey / blue almost fuzzy coat on the bark. When the leaves start to develop I will slowly take them out of their protected environment, so I think I can handle some pasta.

~~The last question has to do with one of my palm trees, a Fox Tail Palm from the Tropical Gardens of Maui. It looks like it has either already died or is close to it. My concern is for the spider mites that live on it. Does any one know of a palm or other plant on which the spider mites could live? How do I move them so they are not disturbed with the change of habitat?

Thanks for all your help! Moocho appreciato-ed.

Chick a D

Hey now, what's with all the slammin' on PARADE about??? Where else can you get the juicy lowdown on the celeb's lives (pg.2, inside cover), without getting busted? WORLD NEWS is another great mag that has never gotten the respect it deserves. Too bad it doesn't have a columnist like "Ask Marilyn" in it.
3DDD, you will have better luck with your cinnamumumum tree if you plant it in an 'Emmeril' Chia® pot. Don't use Miracle-Gro® as it contains too much peat, use Emmeril's BAM!© potting soil which contains good quantities of ground crayfish and habanero chilis. Guaranteed to put more 'mum' in your cinnimumumum.
Boco Joe bro, yer soundin' more like a guy who's spent some time in the Green Room. One thing 'mano, out here it's simply DoHo, not Doheny, but who's countin'?

I'm enjoying this interesting conversation thread between Dr Gonz and CDDD and BJ! But lets get back to the topic. CDDD, take some advice from someone who lives in the REAL tropics. The blue green grey fuzzy coat (BGGFC) that comes with your starting pot of Cinnamon MUST be given the best care regime possible from you! My mom, and her mom, says that you need to feed it daily with dilute Nitrogen heavy fertiliser. You must also ensure that humidity stays high (at least 80RH). In about 2 weeks, the symbiotic relationship with the BGGFC and your Cinnamon will result in new vegetative growth. Cheers!

Dr. GonZ, gG, Ph.D....

You be the wealth of useful knowledge without making me get down and grovel. I ~~was~~ going to mention the World News but felt that would just seem too snooty coming from a non tropical Ohio planty thing person such as myself. I'll need to google for a source of 'Emmeril' Chia® pot. Thanks for the tip, GonZer! :-)

I do have some concern about using Emmeril's BAM!© potting soil though. As you know the room in my home for planty things is limited. My Tree-o'Plenty is in the same room as the cinnamon sticks, uhh, I mean, cuttings. If I were to switch to the better potting medium, Emmeril's BAM!©, it may scare the juju out of the next Triple Crown® winner that is growing on the Tree-o'P when the now happier cinnamon cuttings shout "BAM!!!" in the middle of the night. Would that be OK for the Tree o'P to fertilize itself that way?

I also had concerns about disturbing the BGGFC. (Oooooo! I feel like such an expert now learning all this technical terminology! :-) ) If I repot them I may strip some of the BGGFC. Hmmmmm. A daily swig with dilute Nitrogen heavy fertilizer? Could I use some dog urine? Got plenty of that around here!

Maybe I will repot them in Emmeril's BAM!© potting soil when I locate the 'Emmeril' Chia® pot. The humidity is very high. I don't have a humidity reader thing but the sealed plastic bag has a lot of water running down the sides and when I open the bag to check on the BGGFC, the cuttings NO LONGER smell like cinnamon.

I had no idea that growing cinnamon could get so technical. Thanks Zeta for your advice! As you can ALL see, I do need all the help I can get!

Time to walk the dog!

3 D Chick