A pure bred Mexican Fan Palm, Washingtonia robusta, will have a skinny trunk, and grow quickly (up to one metre or 3 feet of trunk height, per year, under ideal weather, water, soil and fertiliser conditions) . Maximum height about 35 metres, 100 plus feet tall. A pure bred Californian Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera, will grow a trunk close to 2 metres, about 6 feet thick. Trunk height grows very slowly in comparison, just a few inches per year. (So, shall we say, that visible trunk height grows at close to one tenth of the rate of the Mexican palm?). Eventual maximum height about 13 metres or 40 feet. Californians and Mexicans love to enjoy an adult "Date Night Experience" together, and so therefore, it is simply nature's way that Hybrids exist. Possibly a half and half hybrid, or that hybrid might itself grow up and have babies with one pure-bred parent giving 25%/75% hybrids. Therefore exhibiting a mixture of characteristics. So for example a trunk neither truly skinny, nor truly as fat, as either pure bred type would normally have. Seeds collected from plants in areas where both types are growing are possibly going to give rise to Hybrids. Not necessarily a bad thing, depending on what you want from a palm tree.. The Thicker trunked plants can resist a longer period of below freezing temperatures, likely just because of the thick mass of the trunk and the greater heat it retains. For folks in a climate where the thinner trunked, Mexican can survive the Winter, then if you want to see some nice tall trunks within one human lifetime... grow the thinner trunked Mexican version.
A pure bred Mexican Fan Palm, Washingtonia robusta, will have a skinny trunk, and grow quickly (up to one metre or 3 feet of trunk height, per year, under ideal weather, water, soil and fertiliser conditions) . Maximum height about 35 metres, 100 plus feet tall. A pure bred Californian Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera, will grow a trunk close to 2 metres, about 6 feet thick. Trunk height grows very slowly in comparison, just a few inches per year. (So, shall we say, that visible trunk height grows at close to one tenth of the rate of the Mexican palm?). Eventual maximum height about 13 metres or 40 feet. Californians and Mexicans love to enjoy an adult "Date Night Experience" together, and so therefore, it is simply nature's way that Hybrids exist. Possibly a half and half hybrid, or that hybrid might itself grow up and have babies with one pure-bred parent giving 25%/75% hybrids. Therefore exhibiting a mixture of characteristics. So for example a trunk neither truly skinny, nor truly as fat, as either pure bred type would normally have. Seeds collected from plants in areas where both types are growing are possibly going to give rise to Hybrids. Not necessarily a bad thing, depending on what you want from a palm tree.. The Thicker trunked plants can resist a longer period of below freezing temperatures, likely just because of the thick mass of the trunk and the greater heat it retains. For folks in a climate where the thinner trunked, Mexican can survive the Winter, then if you want to see some nice tall trunks within one human lifetime... grow the thinner trunked Mexican version.
@@KiwiCatherineJemma Mine is a California After I read your post I went outside and hugged my tree I’m over 6 feet tall I spread out my arms 6 feet My fingers met when I hugged my tree 6 feet diameter & More than 40 feet tall. I finally found someone to trim it. They are going to skin it $700 I hope that’s a good price in California
@@og-greenmachine8623 Umm, might be a Mexican/skinny trunk palm. Did you mean it is 6 feet in "CIRCUMFERENCE", so the size AROUND the outside of the trunk ? (Like if you measured it with a tape measure for instance?) If so the trunk diameter would be roughly one third of that, so about 2 feet THICK in Diameter. Yes the height affects cost for trimming trees. Tradespeople need to know what they're doing and have the right equipment, ropes etc. There have been tragic accidents in the past where some workers got crushed under the weight of clumps of old palm-fronds. Not sure, but I think that "Skinning" refers to the practice of cutting old frond bases back very close to the trunk. Some people prefer that look and some do not (preferring to see, a "stubble" of frond base remains).Personally I prefer to see the "stubble".
I seen many California fan palms do just fine in San Jose. (Southern part of the Bay Area)
I love them palm trees too! How can you tell if a Mexican palm is going to be a fat one or a skinny one? I have skinny tall and fat and not so tall.
A pure bred Mexican Fan Palm, Washingtonia robusta, will have a skinny trunk, and grow quickly (up to one metre or 3 feet of trunk height, per year, under ideal weather, water, soil and fertiliser conditions) . Maximum height about 35 metres, 100 plus feet tall.
A pure bred Californian Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera, will grow a trunk close to 2 metres, about 6 feet thick. Trunk height grows very slowly in comparison, just a few inches per year. (So, shall we say, that visible trunk height grows at close to one tenth of the rate of the Mexican palm?). Eventual maximum height about 13 metres or 40 feet.
Californians and Mexicans love to enjoy an adult "Date Night Experience" together, and so therefore, it is simply nature's way that Hybrids exist.
Possibly a half and half hybrid, or that hybrid might itself grow up and have babies with one pure-bred parent giving 25%/75% hybrids. Therefore exhibiting a mixture of characteristics. So for example a trunk neither truly skinny, nor truly as fat, as either pure bred type would normally have.
Seeds collected from plants in areas where both types are growing are possibly going to give rise to Hybrids. Not necessarily a bad thing, depending on what you want from a palm tree..
The Thicker trunked plants can resist a longer period of below freezing temperatures, likely just because of the thick mass of the trunk and the greater heat it retains.
For folks in a climate where the thinner trunked, Mexican can survive the Winter, then if you want to see some nice tall trunks within one human lifetime... grow the thinner trunked Mexican version.
LOL!
I have a 40’ palm in my yard my whole life.
6’ diameter
-Central Coast.
How do I know which one it is?
send a pic to info@goldengatepalms.com
@@ScaryHairyGary
I sent it.
A pure bred Mexican Fan Palm, Washingtonia robusta, will have a skinny trunk, and grow quickly (up to one metre or 3 feet of trunk height, per year, under ideal weather, water, soil and fertiliser conditions) . Maximum height about 35 metres, 100 plus feet tall.
A pure bred Californian Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera, will grow a trunk close to 2 metres, about 6 feet thick. Trunk height grows very slowly in comparison, just a few inches per year. (So, shall we say, that visible trunk height grows at close to one tenth of the rate of the Mexican palm?). Eventual maximum height about 13 metres or 40 feet.
Californians and Mexicans love to enjoy an adult "Date Night Experience" together, and so therefore, it is simply nature's way that Hybrids exist.
Possibly a half and half hybrid, or that hybrid might itself grow up and have babies with one pure-bred parent giving 25%/75% hybrids. Therefore exhibiting a mixture of characteristics. So for example a trunk neither truly skinny, nor truly as fat, as either pure bred type would normally have.
Seeds collected from plants in areas where both types are growing are possibly going to give rise to Hybrids. Not necessarily a bad thing, depending on what you want from a palm tree..
The Thicker trunked plants can resist a longer period of below freezing temperatures, likely just because of the thick mass of the trunk and the greater heat it retains.
For folks in a climate where the thinner trunked, Mexican can survive the Winter, then if you want to see some nice tall trunks within one human lifetime... grow the thinner trunked Mexican version.
@@KiwiCatherineJemma
Mine is a California
After I read your post
I went outside and hugged my tree
I’m over 6 feet tall
I spread out my arms
6 feet
My fingers met when I hugged my tree
6 feet diameter
&
More than 40 feet tall.
I finally found someone to trim it.
They are going to skin it
$700
I hope that’s a good price in California
@@og-greenmachine8623 Umm, might be a Mexican/skinny trunk palm. Did you mean it is 6 feet in "CIRCUMFERENCE", so the size AROUND the outside of the trunk ? (Like if you measured it with a tape measure for instance?) If so the trunk diameter would be roughly one third of that, so about 2 feet THICK in Diameter. Yes the height affects cost for trimming trees. Tradespeople need to know what they're doing and have the right equipment, ropes etc. There have been tragic accidents in the past where some workers got crushed under the weight of clumps of old palm-fronds. Not sure, but I think that "Skinning" refers to the practice of cutting old frond bases back very close to the trunk. Some people prefer that look and some do not (preferring to see, a "stubble" of frond base remains).Personally I prefer to see the "stubble".