Tropical Zone Gardening: Underwater Gardens #5, 1 by rjuddharrison

rjuddharrison wrote:
To this size this summer, the only change was...watering the fuzzy trunk everyday. I learned that the fuzzy portion (and I'm sure there is a lovely botanical term for it), but I like fuzzy portion-- is actually part of the root system. You can tell that was definately a hit with this tree! I will say this...They are difficult the first 3 years. I have 2 others...I brought back from Hawaii..they were little fuzz balls and while they are on they're second year, I'm having a heck of time with them. Seems like if you get them to hit 3 years...they toughen up a bit.

In one year I went from looking down at it, to looking up at it. It's even bigger than this picture now. From one frond tip to the other it has a 13 foot span. It now looks like some of the ones I saw at the Botanical gardens in Kauai