The usual suspects.....

Washys,C.cerifera,Brahea,Sabals.

Do the Banana plants count(-;

Based on how frequently I have to transplant, I'd say the Butia capitata (Pindo). How did you overwinter the Butia? Outside? Other faster growing ones:

Triangle Palm
Washingtonia robust (I have no filiferas--maybe some crosses)
and the Phoenix roebellini (which just went through its annual flowering period)

My majesty is putting out a frond right now. Another shoot is coming up too.

-Hunter

I can't play in this game. Minimal heat. How bout yall post a pic of your butias?

Unfortunetly, my pindos are all just cups of dirt right now. They havnt sprouted yet. They will soon though!

-Hunter

My butia was indoors all winter but for whatever reason it kept losing fronds. I had it in the same window as my tall coconut which did fine but the Butia struggled. My bananas are shooting up faster then anything but I'm looking strictly at Palms.

2 of my stiff leaf windmills are probably the fastest, followed by my big butia. My butia has always been one of my fastest growers. Seems to open up a new frond every 2 weeks, maybe faster.

My Trachys are definitely the fastest (2 fronds on the one in shade and at least 3 on the others), and my Sabal Minor is also a fast one (I think 2 fronds from that one). My coconut palm just about finished its first frond of the year and is quickly working on its second (maybe I'll get 4 fronds from it by the end of the summer). My Slowest is my Butia which never grows at all (its alive since its been green for a year and has no spear pull or rotting at all). My butia in full sun (just planted in the ground this year) finished its first frond quickly and is now on its second. I might abandon my other one and protect this one instead.
My fastest plants are by far the elephant ears, bananas, brugmansia, and cardinal vine.

-Alex

Don't give up on your Butia....
They can take a while to acclimate.
Mine(Eriospatha) is in it's 3rd year and is growing more
this summer than ever before,not super fast like the Trachys
and the Washys but moving nice and evenly.

Usually it has a big growth spurt in the fall(-:

Thanks for the encouragement Jim. This is my butia's third summer also! I hope it starts to take off soon!
-Alex

well no matter what the temperature is here in So Cal, I can assure you Sabals are never the fastest growing palms here... slugs, more like it. Nor can I say it is any Braheas or Dypsis. Here, the fastest growing palms are easily Washingtonias, Caryota urens and Queens, with Phoenix canariensis and Trachycarpus sp. Bismarckias are not that far behind. Nor are Livistona australis, decorum, nitida or rigida. Butias are steady (probably one of the faster winter growers here).

My sabal has pushed up one full frond and a new spear is coming up. They are slow growers. I fight the temptation to put it in the ground but even if they make it throught the winter they have always had damage and I can still get them to grow SOME in the winter near a window.

Try S.Louisiana.......

Mine(even if defoliated after winter)grow 4-5 leaves
every spring/summer/fall and have a beautiful blue
coloration to the leaves.
I try to keep them well watered in the heat too!

Nice example of the blue-