[ Post a Response | Hardy Palms In Temperate Zones Board ]
Posted by Bill Ma
on 11/2/2009, 7:22 pm, in reply to "Still havent protected any palms yet. - "
24.34.230.244
Rob, thanks for inviting my to this forum. I still haven't protected any of my palms including my washies. I plan on saving all my fronds with a similar but modified version of Stosh's protection. I need to modify since It's colder here and I don't want to heat crazy. Just to let you guys know my GDD is around 3200 not even close to have a washy survive without retaining green growth for spring.
I would say for you Brad if you plan on cutting off your fronds add a air space between your palm which you string lights around and your leaf en closer. This might not need to be as ugly as you think if you add a little picked fence out of straping in front of your stucture. This will work for a few years Brad, I know you live in a nice neighborhood. You can turn the lights on only when you think the temps are colder then your can can take. You could even put a cheap thermo cube in there on at 35 off at 45 if you don't want to bother. Remember like Rob said you need to air your can out since it dosen't breath.
Moisture is Bad with washies as you already know.
Hope this helped, I'll post pictures of mine when there on but I'm waiting til the last second.
Bill
Responses:
LIFE IS A JOURNEY , TRAVEL LIGHT
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Welcome to the forum. Visitors are urged to post any information pertinent to plants, weather, or topics related to either. Off-topic posts, inflammatory posts and advertisements are subject to removal at the discretion of the moderators.
To add images into your posts, copy and paste the html tag of the photo, and paste it into your text or in the IMAGE BOX below the message body area. If you need help , just ask.
Please limit image size to no larger than about 950x700 pixels so that everyone can easily view it. To post an image, it must first be uploaded to remote servers like photo albums ,web pages ,photobucket album provided , among others. http://www.photobucket.com is very popular.
Thanks for your contributions and your visits.
You are always welcome here.
Serving Palm culture outside the palm belt since 1997......................................................
Forum Founders and Moderators Emeritus:
Paul Spreckler founder, Cincinnati Ohio .
Alvin Anderson Jr. Master Gardener, Detroit Michigan .
Rick Goouls , Nurseryman, Master Gardener, NE Ohio/South Carolina. Doug from South Central Ohio,
Robert Pittman , Professor, Master Gardener , Pocatello, Idaho. Jim from the New Jersey Shores, Tommy (Nashville,Tn/Miami,FL) Rob from North Tennessee Plateau, Tony O from Oklahoma and Frank from Cincy.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
..................................................................................................
The way we were in 1997 , lonely pelican palm consortium .