They make for great patio palms! They love all the sun you can give them and a well drained soil. If you can swing it, they would also appreciate a nice cool location over winter. (Mine are overwintered in range of 40-60 degrees in a sunny, attached garage). My summer climate can be very wet (monsoon-like) so I don't increase pot size too dramatically as I want the surface to dry somewhat between waterings. Why do I love them? A few years back, I ordered a large variety of bare-rooted palms. All kinds of exotics from all over the world. Only, the seller didn't have any robusta in stock, so he kindly included a weed he had growing beside his house. It looked like a single blade of grass. All the bare-rooted exotics eventual died; the washingtonia is pushing five feet with enormously wide leaves.

great, thanks. i did already have them outside a few times for a few hours so they got some wind and natural sunlight. will get the fan on them now.

I get regular email newsletters from our local PBS station but didn't see this in the programming. I probably would have watched - I still watch KUA from time to time but have become a bit bored with it. All the episodes are pretty similar and have become very predictable. Although I still laugh every time Hyacinth falls into the hedge as she walks by the barking dog in the broken down car at Onslo and Daisy's place!! As much as I love PBS - it is the network I watch most often - I do get terribly frustrated with their constant begging. It's like 2 weeks of regular programming and then a month or more of fundraising. And the shows they play during their fundraising periods are not at all to my liking either and they insist on repeating them day after day or night after night. Enough already!!

They were milkweed seedlings under the big light. I lost 1 humistrata and 1 purple. The fascicularis bounced back. Some of the cells have pro mix, mixed with sand, for the milkweeds that like sand, like humistrata, arenaria, subverticillata, and onotheroides. Those cells dry out even faster. I was hoping I could bottom water the trays, but it's not working out. Some cells won't hydrate, and they all get too drenched, leading to fungus problems. I had gotten a little package of super concentrated biofungicide from Thailand after months of waiting, and I put it somewhere for safekeeping, and now it's lost lol. I ordered more biofungicide from the states. I can't wait months for it. So, I will just have to spray water all the cells twice a day. This is the count of all the seedlings that are up with cotyledons. asperula,4, purple, 9, cordifolia, 2, arenaria, 6, variegata, 2, speciosa, 2. subverticillata, 2, humistrata, 4, variegata, 2, oenotheroides,2, ovalifolia,13, oenotheroides,2, fascicularis, 3., and viridiflora,3.There are several cells that have no sign of life. All seeds were sown in the cells after the roots appeared. I had really bad germination with the variegata and purple. I wish I had more seeds of both. I'm soaking more seeds for oenotheroides, fascicularis, asperula, viridiflora, subverticillata, and speciosa, since there are only a few of each that germinated.