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Here is a photo of one the same age. 4 years old that grew up in Parrish Florida under a oak canopy. Second photos is two doubles grown in North Florida. Unsure of the age. But I believe it to be two years in the ground and around 7 years old.

Here are some photos of a double and triple that have seen 17F on several occasions in a unheated greenhouse in Washington. There growth rate is much slower then a regular single. They have been beat up pretty bad by the cold but are still hanging in there. These are 4 year old plants and...

The best time to separate these palms is right when the seed drops off. Usually around the liner stage. Most likely the smaller of the two will die off as it appears to be a runt. When the doubles, triples and quad mules have the same size trunk they usually do very well and will grow into...

Scott: And here is a little something I noticed yesterday. This Butia normally produces round seed, but this cross the seed are more football shaped. Did a search in the old boots of the Butia and found a reg seed to compare. The Butia X Butiagrus hybrid seed is on the left in pic. My...

Rich I will let you know when they are available. I believe Mike Evans still has quite a few Syagrus Coronatas left for sale in st. Pete.

Scott, I have not found a pollen source as of yet for that one. We would love to give it a try. So far it has been Butia X Jubaea Butia X Syagrus coronata Butia X Cocos N. Butia X Parajubaea Syagrus X Jubaea Butyagrus X Jubaea These crosses were all done in June and July. Some...

Thanks Dean, The house in post #21 is a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome. Quite fun to live in. You are welcome to use any photos you like. They were all taken by me or Mark Lynn.

Thanks for sharing yours as well. I will update more photos when the Butia X Parajubaea, Butia X Syagrus Coronata, Butia X Jubaea, and Syagrus X Jubaea start germinating.

I like the ferns myself. Butia with stag horn.

Thats all for now folks.

More Mules.

Starting to grow up.

Butyagrus seedlings to 1 gallon.

Single, double, triple, quad Mule palm seedlings.

3 months later they are ready to extract from the beds to be planted up to liners.

Time to plant. 6000 butia x syagrus seeds 30 minutes. Some packaged up to be shipped out.

Thankfully we have a seed cleaner otherwise we would have to hire someone to clean all of these seeds.

First photos is Butia X Syagrus seed. Around 1800 of them. Second photo represents around 6000 Butia X Syagrus seed. Sunglasses for scale. Month of June and July collected over 20,000 seeds. On track to doing over 50,000. Hopefully doing over 20,000 hybrid seedlings.

First photo. Butia X Parajubaea middle pod. Butia X Syagrus see on either side. About 3 months later they begin to ripen and time to harvest.

Syagrus pollen. This is about 1 weeks worth. We go though 100 inflorescecnce a year to extract pollen.