I was primarily concerned with finding the right amount of space for it. The ID would tell me that. ==>> not really ... height is height ... its genetic .. width is unlimited ... given decades ... and good culture ... since height is genetic.. but for hyper fertilization.. as i said.. its all right there in front of you.. that is.. most likely.. basically ... its height ... perhaps 1/3 taller ... also.. as a youngish plant.. obtaining an ID.. is near impossible.. as the above peeps are showing you ... the easy answer.. give it a 3 to 4 foot circle .... and wait 5 to 10 years.. until it fully matures ... in the mean time.. plant smaller things.. that can be moved out.. when this one achieves its full potential .. as one above said.. and because it is blue.. it has sieboldiana in it.. that means it can and will get very large ... and you have until the end of summer.. with this 'newbie' excuse.. i .. we.. plan on bringing you up to speed very quickly ... ken

Thank you both for all the information. I do so appreciate it! And I would LOVE to give it some sun. That's what I've wanted to do all day. No sun today...total cloud cover all day. Tomorrow should be better and I will definitely give it sun. I've put it under an incandescent light that throws off a little bit of heat so I'm hoping this will help and not hurt. I just don't want it to rot before I can get it dried out. Although... it has been under the incandescent all day (about 12 hrs) and the caudex is still quite wet. The way my condo is situated, the sun will reach my windows around 2 tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed for this little guy. I sure want to save it. With so little root system though, it may not make it. Also the fronds (there are only two) have turned more yellow and the end of one of them has started turning brown. Any other suggestions would be so appreciated. OK..to summarize: I was given this Sago about 5 or 6 days ago, to try to save. It is small, only two fronds...both turning very yellow now and one showing brown on the end. It was repotted yesterday in 1/3 regular, soilless potting mix, 1/3 perlite, and 1/3 coarse sand. After repotting, it was watered...contained fertilizer. It has good drainage but there is very little root system. And now I'm trying to get the caudex to dry out. And, as I said, I want SO much to save this plant. With what I've said, do you think it is futile? Maybe it is too far gone already. :-( Linda

I'm not sure what the exact cultivars are yet..My SIL sent them to me as gifts from Hawaii in packages that just said "Hawaii Pink" or "Hawaii Red" or "Hawaii White". The one with the inflo showed a light pink flower on the picture..The small one with the burnt leaves is the red and the other is white. I do have a big picture window on the front porch, but it only gets sun for an hour or two in the morning. I may still see about moving them. I don't really have anywhere inside to put them and I'm afraid to leave them out in the yard because my kids would probably knock them over or they'd get rained on. THanks for all the info everyone!

annettesdh makes some interesting points if I'm reading him correctly. First point is certainly on target: inadequate capture area means a significant proportion of cooking vapors will not be captured, and then they travel merrily around your house. I don't believe however that no matter how large the blower is sized, that it will ultimately do any significant "recapture" of fumes that have escaped the hood. It's true that if you look at it the way we look at bathroom vent fans, which are typically rated by how many times per hour the fan will exchange the entire volume of air in the bath, that you could argue that high flow ventilation will eventually exchange all the air in the kitchen, removing those fumes. I think there are flaws in this reasoning. First, kitchens are rarely small, closed off spaces the way bathrooms are. The likelihood is that escaped fumes will travel far outside the kitchen well before they are vented out the hood (annettesdh actually makes that point by referring to odors in bedrooms, living rooms etc). There's no way that any kitchen blower of any size will pull all the air back out of the bedroom and living room once they've escaped. Cooking also tends to continuously produce more effluent, whereas bathroom ventilation is generally for steam and odor produced over short periods of time, allowing for better capture. I didn't follow the point about 72 degree air outside. I'm unaware of any reference source that supports the arbitrary notion that doubling the blower capacity makes up for an undersized hood. Way too many variables there to make any generalization I believe. Weissman and I have debated make up air many times. I'm still not convinced that, outside of code and very cold climates, it's really needed unless you have an extremely tight house. But, agree with overall conclusion that bigger capture area and lower blower rating are better than the opposite (though I still favor our approach, bigger capture area AND bigger blower rating!).