Palm Tree Transplanting on Salt Spring Island part 7

This tall Palm Tree will be transplanted to another location our island. It was planted 25 years ago as a small plant. May 21, 2011

[@MichaelMaxson]

You know you are palm crazy when you are sitting in front of a computer on a Saturday night watching a palm tree being transplanted!! I was in Waikiki few years back and watched them move a 30' coconut palm by a hotel.

[@morganshots2307]

Can we have an update video of this one please? 10 years later! 🌴 It's a beauty. I'm obsessed with palms and grow Trachycarpus and other hardy palms in the U.K. 👍

[@BananaJSSI]

Unfortunately after the second time we moved this big palm it slowly declined and mostly due to lack of care after transplant. It didn't get watered enough and our dry summers took its toll on the new transplant. They eventually cut it down . There are other well established palms growing there and thriving, Chamaerops and Trachycarpus

[@morganshots2307]

@@BananaJSSI Ahhh that's a shame, especially after all the effort put into moving it. My biggest was a transplant about 8 years ago and it looked awful for about 4 years after moving it. That was due to lack of water too, i didn't know what i was doing back then! It's now got a 10 foot trunk and starting to skirt. 😁

[@BananaJSSI]

@@morganshots2307 It was a bummer for sure . The first time I transplanted it was in the early 2000's and it was growing beside Vesuvius pub planted in 1986. It did awesome after the first time around. They should have just left it in the garden, but they wanted it moved again

[@eijiroinouye4115]

I have about 18" of good soil. Is that enough. Do you have clay?

[@WesleyAPEX]

You would think this was in Texas not Canada.

[@BananaJSSI]

If it were Texas then I would probably be transplanting a Washy :))

[@tomthumb9839]

That went well. Always nice to have the proper equipment for the job!

[@christacdc]

what a great job......that shows how hard worker and smart are you.I want to see thoses palm in july.

[@Custerm]

Interesting process, thanks for sharing!

[@qffi]

There's a company in Quebec usda zone 4 that plants palms, they have to use heat tape and cover them in the winter but I'm blown away by seeing that so far North.

[@BananaJSSI]

I know about all of the palm growers in the east. They have to wrap up and also box them in and use heat or they will be toast in their harsh long winters. This is the only place in Canada where they will grow long term without any winter protection. Our winter protection is the Pacific Ocean. Mild wet winters. We have at least a dozen species of hardy palms in our garden, A northern zone 9a here

[@qffi]

Lucky you guys.. i'm still amazed even wrapping them you can have palm trees in to enjoy 6 moths out of the year and they survive in sub 0 temps wrapped in the winter. I'm in zone 5 just barely out of 6 near Portsmouth NH looks like i'll be planting Windmills next April. I hope to buy Northern ones though at least 8' to 10'

[@FleurHarleaux]

Love this.......😊

[@BananaJSSI]

Thanks. This video was shot in May 2011

[@eijiroinouye4115]

Is 18" of good soil enough to plant? What are you adding to amend the hole? Is it compost? How deep is the hole?

[@BananaJSSI]

At leat a few feet deep and back fill with nice soil

[@BananaJSSI]

@MrFrozenCanuck The lady with the camera is my good friend Lynn and I took it out of her garden and transplanted it to another. She has a property full of big palm trees. More of her palms I will move in early July when she moves into her new home. Instant landscape!

[@Sqarmot28]

is this the place youre at now joe?

[@erikflores9120]

Its not concrete mixing just make the hole wide enough to put soil around it and plant that mug

[@BananaJSSI]

Thanks for watching. I have moved a ton of bog palms over the years and this works well

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

Eric what are you talkin about

[@billballard6084]

They don't have to cut most fronds off like we do here with sabals?

[@BananaJSSI]

Just make sure to get a big root ball

[@SmokeyGamesMyChannelGd]

Im growing a palm in the plains :) And its doing great :D

[@BananaJSSI]

Where about and what species? If you are in the mid west Trachycarpus f. will need winter protection. Sabal minor McCurtain and Rhapidophyllum hystrix are good ones to grow

[@BananaJSSI]

@annemaree I moved it to an ocean front property, it will thrive.

[@BananaJSSI]

@Custerm You're welcome. More big palms to move in July

[@the3ngineer183]

What is the black dirt you are putting around it? Sounds like your saying "transplater"? I just planted a large Pindo Palm and used 'Miracle Grow Garden Soil - Cactus, Palm & Citrus', unfortunately I didn't mix with my native soil (50/50 ratio) and instead filled the bottom of my hole and back-filled around the root ball straight out of the bag. Someone told me "Garden Soil" is mostly organic ingredients that will decompose leaving a void under and around the root ball and doesn't actually contain soil/dirt. Now I'm worried the palm is going to die and I need to get the crane back out. What do you think?

[@BananaJSSI]

This is high grade black gold topsoil cut with chicken manure. This is an old video as well. Always use the best topsoil you can get with lots of organic material added and you can't grow wrong. This soil will work for Citrus too but I wouldn't use it for Cactus

[@fjdkfdfjdf33]

I didn't know palms grew in Canada

[@BananaJSSI]

That's the nice thing about YT you will learn something new every day. The west coast of Canada near the ocean is full of palm trees all up and down our coast. Winters can some times get colder once every 10 years, but never enough to bother certain species of palms . This video was shot 6 years ago

[@yungsock3625]

Philip Jessup tour right

[@pandelanilukoto7161]

palm roots

[@merarygamboa1]

They forgot to tide the palms so there is not damage. But a great video th

[@BananaJSSI]

No damage to it at all. I move lots of big palms and they all do great. Thanks for watching Cheers

[@christacdc]

what a great job......that shows how hard worker and smart are you.I want to see thoses palm in july. this will help the a lot the global warming a lot

[@molsoncnd]

I’m going to be moving a 10ft palm from my parents place in delta bc to my place down the block. Should I hire someone to do it or can I do it by myself? I’m worried about killing it 😬 any tips would be appreciated!

[@BananaJSSI]

Watch this video my wife shot a few years ago of us moving a 10'ft trunk Trachycarpus by hand. Last June I dug another 10'ft trunk palm and moved it. They are very heavy. I have moved quite a few bigger palms by hand. Here is a link to the video on my wife's YT channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJCkopqNhrqSgtk

[@BananaJSSI]

@christacdc Banana Joe or even easier, look for the FB Group Save Banana Joe. You can see posts there from me and locate me that way. I upload lots of still pics. daily to my FB page.

[@MonicaTheMad]

So she's moved from one place to another?

[@elizabethb7438]

I buy SMALL palm trees not giants and do not have truck and back hoes. How about more down to earth literally palms, like maybe 3 to 5 ft for openers.

[@BananaJSSI]

People hire me to move big palms. This is not about buying big or small palms. This is simply to show people how to move a good size palm. Smaller palms you plant the same way, dig a hole put in some good top soil and water well. I plant palms all sizes from seedlings to 25'ft of trunk. I have a palm nursery so I grow them by the thousands from seed. Cheers

[@elizabethb7438]

Perhaps you could show us a variety of different palms and again small is my speed so I don't know if you would be up for this.

[@christacdc]

how I find you on face book??//??