A plant with a nice pot enhances the atmosphere much more and becomes more beautiful than without one. Of course the pot should match the plant and location. The recommended diameter of a pot for this Trachycarpus fortunei is 93 - 170 cm. This is not only an eye-pleasing proportion, but also makes caring for the plant more easy.
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A large fortunei grows up to 30-40cm a year, which is especially the case in the summer period. In winter, the fortunei go to sleep with cold, then they hardly grow, unless they are kept warm. A smaller fortunei of for example 140cm, whose trunk is about 40-50cm, grows by about 10cm a year, and even smaller fortunei's even less, so it comes down to the size of the fortunei, how quickly it grows.
A fortunei gets up to 10 meters high, in the tropics, but in the Netherlands they sometimes don't get higher than 2 meters, unless they are imported and have undergone a special trajectory to get used to our climate. Please note that in the young years a fortunei grows very slowly, but only after a few years it starts to get going.
In the winter period in the cold, a fortunei can do without water for a week, and it shouldn't even get too much, but the warmer the weather and the more sunlight, the more water it needs. During the hottest days, a fortunei may need to be soaked twice a day.
From March to July, the fortunei will start to bloom, and will let yellow bunches come out of its core at the top, which looks unique. Those bunches are full of seeds.
The seeds can be harvested around the beginning of the flowering period, but they are only ripe for sowing when they are black. This can take several months, usually a whole winter.
The leaves of the fortunei can become dry all year round. As soon as they are too dry to make the palm look nice, they can be cut off at the trunk with a pruning shear. In this way the fortunei form its trunk.
We recommend sowing the fortunei outdoors around spring, but indoors it doesn't matter.
Our plant sizes are determined by measuring the smallest plants up until the largest in a field with hundreds of plants. Because a plant is a natural product, it's possible a plant is a little smaller than the mentioned minimum size.
This deviation is 10cm maximum. In our guidelines we keep a margin of max. 10cm regarding the minimum size.
Note: when you order a plant that doesn't stay green in the winter, it's probably (when ordered during the winter months or the beginning spring season) smaller than the minimum size. This is not a problem in any case, because the plant will grow new branches or leaves and the minimum height will be reached within a short period. Your order will have the right size within a short time.
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