@carsoncitypalms I started out joking, but seriously, that could be done. I am supplied with propagates by New Life Nurseries in Perris. They are set up with the USDA and ship as far as Texas. They don't do Mexican fan palms because they would not believe that there is a market. But they could have 1000 sprouts to you by next season for $500 plus shipping. As for myself, I have trimmed about 15,000 palm trees in my carreer if you count trimming the same palm each year for 20 years as 20. My records are over 900 in on summer season and 132 in two days on Catalina Island. A prime selling point to the hotels and commercial properties is that if they trim between June 15 and July 15, that they won't have to deal with the seeds. It is not unusual to walk on to a hotel property that has not listened and find several hundred Mexican fan palm sprouts in the gardens that they expect the landscapers to weed out. If they wait to August, the trimmer and ground crew has to deal with 75 pounds of green seeds on each tree which explode and spread as soon as they hit the ground. Since the daily quota is 20 70-foot palms, this can be 1500 pounds of seeds. By late September, the seeds are ripe, gooey and sticky. Here is another idea. Load the family up in the car and take them to Disneyland at the end of June. Attach a trailer with potting soil and propagate trays. After going to Disneyland, go around to the hotels and offer to weed their gardens for free. Write the whole trip off as a business expense.

You don't really have a trunk to speak of in either of these seedlings. What you may be referring to as a trunk is actually the bases of the fronds. The growth you see now is directly related to the specific growing conditions of each individual palm. The Filibusta you bought online may have been grown in a greenhouse or a shaded area making the seedling grow tall in order to reach sunlight. The one you dug from a lot in SoCal was likely not receiving any more than a couple of inches of rainwater a year and was likely in full sun, making it's growth more compact. You won't really see a woody trunk in any of these for a number of years. Even then, you won't see the ultimate size/width of the trunk until you have a mature palm in 10-15 years.

Pretend your sago is variegated, wx,I would just remove the dead stuff if you want to cut,leave all the green tissue on the palm,think of it this way,every leaf you cut off now will be at least one leaf less this year. If you leave your palms uncovered now and it rains, there is a good chance you will see spear pull regardless of if it hits mid to low 20s or just 30F I live quite a ways south of you and we have already seen many 60s 70s and near 80F and I am not uncovering mine until we have a week of 70+ weahter forecast,Washys really don't start growing until it gets above 70F anyway ESPECIALY coming out of winter,I would hate to see you lose your Washys.etc after doing such an awesome job of protecting them this winter! I don't know of anyone growing Washys as far north as you are-Cold soil,air and moisture are almost surly a death sentence esp for washys....Watchout for next weekend!

Now is the best time to plant it in the ground, but it should have fully mature fronds before you even consider planting it in the ground. As for it growing slowly, they definitely need sun and when hot they definitely like some additional moisture. If your doing all of that and still not getting results then maybe its time to repot. Only repot if it comes out of it's pot easily with the roots wrapped around the dirt. If the roots arent fully wrapped around the dirt then it can still grow in that pot longer and taking it out of the pot can cause root damage and set it back a lot further. Good luck! Hope it grows fast for you again. I have had terrible luck with robustas in pots, they are happier in the ground but defintiely have to be a good size before being planted in the ground in cooler zones. -Alex