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Originally Posted by maesy
This hybrid is actually not hardy enough for my place, but it has got the best place in my garden with 50% canopy. With a bit protection and heating cables for the coldest days for the first years, it should be o.k.
It survived -10 for a short time in the U.S. and -9 last winter in England with no damage.
And it will become huge!Your Rajapuri grows very healthy!
I would maybe try to plant mine out again, if I had the space.
Marcel
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I don't doubt it will get massive in your garden, but I was always feeling very strange with this kinda of growing. I don't grow anything I don't want to train, because most of the plants you grow there now (palms, trees, bushes) live very long. Usually much longer than few generations... So the question for me always was: What then? What will happen, if I'm gone? I have to have at least a good feeling, that I did everything to train it. It's like with children. Sort of Spartan philosophy. I don't however expect less from myself.
You know I owe you, so should anything happen to your pups/naners, there's a back-up here all the time.
Good luck on that palm. In 50 years or so you might be able to remove the cables for good thanks to the goabau whopou.
I might get some Jubaea seeds (original european born) this year, so the germination begins in mass amounts (pushing it always more and more to the north)... And in 70 years there will be fruiting size plants for our region. Or at least I hope, that in 69 year, there won't be some superstrong frost.
You might not know this about me Marcel, but I never back when I'm decided to do something.
And mutations always come when some plant is pushed to its outter limits...