Here are some photos of our green house in Florida. As well as our shade house and planting beds. We use a solar panel to heat up water that is ran through copper tubing underneath the beds. We can get these beds up to 97F.

Erik,
Looks like a nice set up. Whats that your growing? I'm green with envy with all the space you have and solar panels. Must cost almost nothing to heat up the soil.
By the way To ATP!!!! Hope you like it here.

Thank you.

Looks like an enjoyable forum. The green house and shade house are dedicated to hybrid palms. The planting beds are dedicated for other palms that we contract grow.

Keep us updated on your growing.

Will do. We do about 15,000 hybrid palms a year. And contract grow around 20,000 other palm seedlings a year.

that's some serious greenhousing!

Looks wonderful. what a set up!

Wow, that's a lot of palms! You have a very nice set up.

Thank you.

Wow
Nice set up
Looks like the palms grow fast , do they get moved outside or just shipped off?

Thank you Everyone. Gardengus

We germinate the palms in the greenhouse. They spend about 3 months there until they are over 6 inches. Then we pot them up in either 50 cell trays or 3.5 liners and moved to the shade house until they are rooted out. They are shipped off to various locations and they pot them up to 1 gallons. Depending on the location of where they are shipped. Usually a year and a half in southern Florida they will take the 1 gallons and plant them in the ground. Photo below is some 4 year old palms grown in Southern Florida from our greenhouse.

I would envy a greenhouse 1,000 times smaller than yours!

>> Then we pot them up in either 50 cell trays or 3.5 liners

What is a liner? I found examples of what look like gallon-size or at least quart-size shallow pots made of coir. Is it like a coir pot designed to slip inside some other pot?

Another site made them sound like the small plants themselves, with well-established small rootballs, but not yet root-bound.
>> " Liners are propagated plants ready for transplanting into larger containers or the field."


I thought those were called "plugs", tiny rootballs taller than they are wide, ready to be "plugged into" a bigger containers.

Or is a "plug" a very small "liner"?

What we consider to be a liner is in a 3.5 in by 5.5 in container. We normally use these for shipping overseas or to California. As we have to use a different soil for them.

Plugs or cells are the large trays and will be a bit smaller then the liners that usually stay in Florida and are shipped to the growers.

Thank you!