Like in most situations, whether you are talking about plant costs or real estate, MOL means, more or less. In this case, the $325 was an average price, because some will sell for more and some will sell for less. Every plant is going to be sold differently. So lets say we area talking about royals. In this case they have two ways to price. Over all height (which is what I quoted) and then a higher price that is estimated at feet of grey wood, which if you remember they have a green crownshaft, so in that way of pricing, it would be the hight of the stem and only the grey part and not including the crownshaft. Big growing dates as they are still smaller might sell in over all height, but when they get about 2 to 5 feet of stem, then they are sold as feet of stem, This price will also vary quite a bit on who is selling them. On cycads, yes ALL parts of cycads are poisonous. Animals rarely have a problem with eating this stuff, but for some reason the furfuraceas seem to cause the majority of the problems with small animals. If you did grow cycads for seeds, you would want to fence that off from any of your animals. It is certainly not for everyone and fortunately for me, it isn't, because I do pretty well with seeds right now. As far as deciding what to sell, you can sell palms in containers and in the ground. If you sell them in containers, you have a lot more upkeep, which you wanted to avoid, and they don't grow as fast or as big as they would in the ground. Normal wholesale prices WOULD BE the price where you prepare them for sale and even load them on the trucks that go out. When the time is right to sell them, you will either have to buy or rent equipment. You can however sell a whole field to a broker for a reduced price, if you are really trying to avoid the real work of having a tree nursery, but many times that will be about half the regular price, which may be good enough for you. A bit of advise would be, the nursery business is not an easy one. If someone wants to throw a bunch of palms out in the yard and then all of a sudden make a pile of money on them without really working too hard, there isn't a whole lot of that happening out in the real world. Even if you have a good product at a good price, there is no guarantee that you will sell the product. It helps to know people and get set up with people who want the product before you put it up for sale, which also takes a lot of work and marketing. I can tell you from experience, if you go up to business people with something that you just need to get rid of, they will take major advantage of you just about every time. At least palms are easier to sell than cycads. The majority of the people who really know cycads would probably say that I am at least in the top 5, for cycad growers in the world, and still, after 22 years of growing, I still have a hard time just being able to pay my basic bills and have enough to buy a load of soil once a year, fertilizer, and containers, yet alone having a little extra do to anything special.

Thanks Eric that info on foxtail is very helpful. I need every little nuance to help me in identifying the palms. Susie, I love those palms, I really don't need an 80' tree! I had a queen many years ago at another home I was fond of, it was probably 15-20' tall and that was plenty. We used to decorate it for christmas. I have seen alot of foxtails on the water but the more I look for them, the more I see in other places around town soooooo I think I might try to grow some. Your palms are just beautiful.

Nah, not really. What I did was waited until a Saturday, potted the popped ones, then waited a week and planted the one or two stragglers the next Saturday. Pretty much after that, I didn't have any that popped. However what you might do is something I just recently started. Take unpopped seeds, put them in water, if they floated, I pitched them. If they sank, I threw into a bucket with natural dirt from my back yard. Then I forget about them. I think I will check on them about April and see if anything is going on.

You need three seeds planted together. Foxtails do not clump so you will have to plant them in threes