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Date palm

Does anyone know where I can purchase named varieties of date palm offshoots? Im looking for Halaway, Thoori and Medjool in particular. Thanks.

The following thread was started by benp on December 27, 2004 at 7:46 am PST

Benp, this has been addressed a number of times on CA Palm Board, here is one of them.

Benp

I have looked into it, and Phil Nickels has as well for me, but nothing conclusive has come up yet.

Most likely bet is to do a google search on date palm growers in Southern CA, contact them and see who has sucker available. If they do, drive a pickup or trunk down to get them personally and avoid high shipping costs.

I don't have much money, so presently I just have some seedling Medjool dates in the ground, which are a couple years old.

If you have space, you can experiment. I have seen photos of date palms with no visible trunk, and the frond plant height of only 6 feet producing dates. Takes longer and may have failures, but is definitely cheaper.

David

The above followup was added by DavidLJ48, Waterford CA, zone9 on December 27, 2004 at 10:26 am PST.




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