Just curious if there is an expert handy on shaping or trimming huge date palms. I have a beautiful, old date palm that has been trimmed but never shaped....
Washintonia robusta is a beatiful palm, but washingtonia filifera may be much more pretty. i have been importing these trees from Egypt, but now days i just...
Fellow scientists:^) I'm not sure I can explain why palm seedlings can grow to produce fruit that is fairly reliably true to the parent tree's fruit. Or does...
... Dates i think come in various named sorts, rather like our apples. I am sure everyone knows more about this than I do. I recall eating the first named kind...
The answer is sex. When you take a sucker of a named variety of date, for instance, the sucker is genetically identical to the parent, being part of it. On the...
Denis, Hermine is right, there are palms that have been selected for fruit type, but basically it is just a handful of species... Phoenix dactylifera, Bactris...
Denis: At least one possibility is the difference between monocots and dicots. Another is what you mean by "true". Without any empirical knowledge I would bet...
Interesting subject! Coconuts, in this country, are raised primarily for ornamental uses. I bet if more people actually ate the fruit, we would have more...
Hi Jerry, There are actually two different types of embryos in citrus. The 'regular' embryo that is a combination of two different flowers and is genetically...
Williams, Glen
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May 6, 2005 3:11 pm
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Let's not forget that the palm family is the second or third most important one economically, so while there may not be many species selected for fruit, I...
Jason D
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... I sure could be wrong about this but i thought date palms are solitary. hermine [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hermine; You could be right about being wrong, at least out here on the frontier, Cali-forNia. (They were solitary until they went to San Fran). I am so happy...
... I think from seed it reverts to something else! i have grown plants from the food store since childhood, and i recall that the citrus plants i got from...
Most citrus, Key limes being an exception, revert to sour fruit with or without spines. Grafting is to clone any special characteristics, color, taste, size...
Most of them have many many pups.... ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam...
Nobody has yet mentioned hybrids. Your Avocados are most likely hybrids. Offspring from hybrids are all over the place, all different, each somewhere between...
I picked up a date fallen from a date palm at Palm Court, Alexandra Palace, London, which had no stone. Why don't we get stoneless dates, I wondered. Any ...
No pollination equals no stone. The dates will frequently form anyway even without pollination, but they are smaller and less sweet than normal and may not...
... yeah in the next generation after the cross is made you get independent assortment. hybrid pansies are like this too. we are not accustomed to seeing a...
... the stones or seeds are removed by a clever machine. and when you buy them this way there is warning that there may be partial or whole stones in the...
... Oh i did not realize you picked this up from the ground! that could not have had its stone removed mechancally, unless somebody was having it on with you! ...
... I had no idea...however, the one thing i think i know, but am not sure, is that commercial dates are pollinated. I used to know more about date ...
Yes, Hermine, the commercial groves are pollinated. In order to get good production, they have male plants in the orchard. Since the males don't have fruit,...
Williams, Glen
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... I may have been confusculated and thinking about FIGS. and the peculiar wasps who pollinate them. I now am revisiting the memory of how dates do not...
Figs have the wasp pollinator, and she dies inside the fig (remember that when you eat you next Fig Newton). Dates are wind pollinated mostly, but the bees...
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