Couldn't help but comment, even tho it's probably way too late. I bought my mobile home 7 yrs ago. Along the outside screened wall of my lanai ( my favorite place to read, relax ) was a scraggly looking one ft tall, unattened-to strip of wimpy areca palms. Not knowing any better I gave them lots of TLC and now I have a dense 20 ft long mess of a fast growing, dense, strong hedge. They are now a healthy 9 ft tall jungle that is threatening to lift up the 9 ft high metal roof and tear the screens to shreds unless I vigorously top them off and thin them out 4x a year ! So have just begun the arduous task to cutting them all down, ( have the loppers, long handled choppers and chain saw ready ) and then digging up the roots and discarding the whole mess to Waste Management. Am a one man operation, over 70, so will take it slow, one day at a time. Am hoping in 4 weeks it'll be complete. Am now considering a medium growing red-tipped cocoplum hedge that will be a breeze keeping it at 7 - 7 1/2 ft tall. My advise, be very careful before planting any arecas !!! ( smile )

Thanks catkim and cagary for your replies. Cagary, my plan is to keep it a pot for as long as I can. And gradually moving to the biggest pot size I can. I want to enjoy looking at this palm everyday and having it in a pot on my front door would be awesome. Maybe if I win the lottery I will find a place for it in my future mansion's atrium. Heheh. I understand this palm will likely require a lot of special attention and I have no problem with that. Even when brought indoors during winter, I plan to get a humidifier and grow light just for it alone. This would be my special palm if I do get a hold of one, I love the look of them a lot. Hmm, can you tell me about selling it, like how would you ship and if I could pay through paypal or postal money order. THanks!

This palm is just world class. I would like to buy 4 of these. I do have one tiny seedling. I bought 50 seeds and none sprouted yet after 4 months. Must have been a bad batch. I bought them on eBay and came from Belize. No more seeds, from now on I will buy large seedlings only . I don't have a dwarf, and it's my great wish to obtain one. I'm finding that abit hard. In any members got any pics of dwarfs they don't mind sharing, would be real nice?

Alex, I do hate majesties with a passion. Up here in the great white north (well, we now have only 16 in. of snow now) majesties are bountiful and plentiful as home depot has them ranging in sizes from 1Gs to 7Gs. HDs prices are as follows: (based on locations ive been to): $7 for a single plant in a 1G pot, $10 for 2,3,4,5,6 plants in a 1G pot (per pot,ooftah), $15 for a single plant in a 2G pot, $25 for a single in a 3G pot, $35 for a single in a 5G or 4G pot and $50 for a single in a 6G or 7G pot. Lowes prices: $15 for a single or multiples in a 2G pot, and sometimes but not always, $27 for a single in a 4G pot. I have been exasperated on majesties and will order some Ravenea Hildebrandtiis instead as they are easier to care for and also grow smaller at a moderate to fast growth rate. There was a hospital that had a few HUGE majesties planted in June but were pulled up and thrown out in November. As for care level of Rivs, i am just about exasperated. I finally had flexibility in my schedule to go and purchase an ultra-sonic humidifier and i think my 2 majesties just want to stay in that all the time. But i cant let mold grow so i use it for 8hrs at night, not 247. I fert them once every 2 weeks with miracle grow water soluble and they stay very green. There are these white things that arent mealybugs (i have a magnifying glass and did an observation for 3 days, havent moved a bit), maybe its just white mold. Im waiting till spring to repot my severely root bound one, which is kinda strechin it. But overall, i hate majesties and think their only good use is for weddings and for annuals. They are inexpensive cheap grown plants that trick you into getting a good value for your money, even when they are marked down alot. When you buy one, your just buying more problems. Instead while your at HD or Lowes, buy a cat palm or a parlor palm. I saw a parlor palm in a 6 in. pot for only $5 at lowes. By the way, Bachmans nurseries only in MN sells Coconut palms in 1G pots for $25. They also sell cat palms and chamaedorea seifriziis only in spring and summer. Home depot (or home desperate or home despicable) sells plenty of Phoenix Roebs here,ouch.IKEA also sell majesties and dypsis lutescens in 1G pots for $13 but i wouldnt trust them, probably infected or have fungi growing in them. Well anyway im rambling. Wake me when home depot stops selling palms that arent made for the house, like majesties or dypsis lutescens.