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Tavi, much of Niagara-on-the-lake, St Catharines, all of Jordan and Vineland and some of Beamsville are 7a: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/9836469105/" title="IMG_00000306 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7355/9836469105_2...

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Here is a Pterocarya fraxinifolia or Chinese wingnut tree. It is only a five minute drive from our house. We measured it's circumference. 32 feet! Just a massive tree. Perhaps the largest in eastern Canada and NE of all the Americas. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/9725243946/...

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Here is my banana corm separation method. With a sharp blade, sever the pup from the mother. Cut through ONLY HALF WAY Through. Wait two weeks for it to send down more of its own roots (or up to a month, but sever 1/3 then 2/3 after the first two weeks). This also gives the cut to heal closed. After...

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Zabola, in Toronto, there are no places to buy palm seeds. Especially difficult to source are seeds for mccurtain or brazzoriensis.
You will find sources on eBay and from other mailorder seed companies.
Cheers!

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That's a nice one. Some places would surely try to sell one like that for $300. Will you be planting that in the ground?

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Went to the watering can in Vineland. Their cold hardy palms are now half price Sabal minors now $17 in a ten inch and pot <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/9700760999/" title="Sabal minors by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/74...

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Hey I too had a stuck spear on one of my elatas. That was in July. it was brown and rotten. Inside was a backup of green growth. I carefully removed the brown spear. It was rotten so it kinda just rubbed away to reveal multiple leaves which flushed over the next few days. No problem since. Cause...m...

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Benny that is a beatiful Yucca, with the near silver colour on the net looking pleats.
If the pleats and silver stick, may I suggest the name 'silver ruffle' ?

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Barb, great update. Those arabicas and silvers are gunna be amazing! The jubaeas are so cute... the last of mine just perished after limping along for 1.5 years :( . Your CIDP should do fine if infused with gallons of water daily, and triple mix topped over the last few weeks of summer. Holes in the...

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Barb, those are beauties. And so you have a backup, in case power fails for an extended cold spell.

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yes indeed, Barb. I think 8 c9's

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Andy, nice yuccas you have there!

Tim, I agree with you.
Andy and I seem to have Y. desmetiana, which really is unlike any other yucca, maybe a different genus.
Thanks for the research!

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Lol, Barb. Yeah i'd be upset if it were to become a crabapple.

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Barb, I had three clumps planted thru winter. Onne had a clear plastic bucket filled with mulch in it over top of it. It died by spring. I had one with just a rose cone and a layer of mulch. It died. Then there is this clump. Heated box over it. Did great. I split the two and put the second in a 10 ...

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Benny, thanks. I will have to ask Jim... we can wait to find out his answer.

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Hey there, welcome to the forum. I say get those palms in the ground next spring. Watch my posts, as well as other members' posts for our methods for, and progress of winter protection. coconut mike has the most elaborate protection setups, in my opinion.. mainly since he is in zone 5a and has some ...

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Jim was kind enough back in 2010 to give me some of his Yucca seeds when I visited him in person. That was before I had visited the cold hardy and subtropical forum. His constricta hybrid seeds sprouted and all died but one. The plant was planted into our garden spring of 2011: .<a href="http:/...

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Welcome to the fore, Araliaman. We would love to see some pictures!

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Welcome to the forum, Nate.

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Our seed grown giant sequioa. Eight years old in ground for five. Aug 31 2012 Was 31" tall: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/9657949082/" title="Sequoiadendron giganteum Aug 31 2012 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5474...

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Here you see Yucca aloifolia 'Purpurea', AKA Yucca desmetiana 'Blue Boy' purchased and planted this May, good growth (green growth). It looks very tender compared to the variegated aloifolia and has leaves shaped more like recurvifolia (maybe the the desmetiana designation is more true??) Anyone els...

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Thanks, Benny. There is no serration (yet?) on any leaf edges.

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The seed I planted four years ago was aloifolia, but clearly this is not. ..flaccid leaves no filaments. Not a sharp tip. Suckered, in this planting there are five heads. Any idea what it can be? <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/9638811478/" title="Yucca mysteriosa 18...

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So the seeds of this plant must of become mixed into some soil I reused when I up-potted my Trachy three years ago. Last summer I noticed the POB growing just about six inches from my T fortunei. Never did I expect it to survive unheated through our winter with zero stem dieback. All that covered it...

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Our W. filifera was sown feb of 2012. Planted in our garden as a two-strapleaf seedling in May 2012. First pic from August 26 2012 (two plants): <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/7884959994/" title="Lincoln-20120826-01028 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="...

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Igor, I love that 'nana'. Looks to me more like a baccata (banana yucca). Or even better a cross, Yucca baccata x nana, which I would call Yucca 'Ba-nana'!

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Scott, it begins with this at first sign of frost: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/8173597451/" title="Brahea armata by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8349/8173597451_0dd20a8d4a_c.jpg" width="600" height="...

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Thank you. They are delicious!

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In 2006 I found a volunteer tree along the fence of our house. Beside it was a split open pit from a plum or peach or? I hoped the seedling came from that pit. We moved from there to here in 2008, so I brought it with us and planted it here. Still not knowing what it was I was growing, I trained the...

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Tim thanks! Yeah grimo nut farm is a short drive from here and offers a good selection of figs. I don't risk dieback. Mine, I bury each year and it yields two crops. The early crop always bears less. This tree has been there for five years and I purchased it seven years ago when I was a plant newbie...

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Igor, I meant to ask... how are the Yuccas you brought from here? I'd love to see pics. The cholla you gave me from Texas is doing great!

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Welcome Benny! Your Yucca hybrids are held in very high regard. You have done some great work to make some beautiful plants!

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Our Brahea is pushing its fifth and sixth spears since being uncovered in late April. Age: 8 years old from seed. In ground since May 2012. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/9612176214/" title="Brahea armata 757 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://far...

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This banana is ten foot to leaf tip, about 4.5 foot to top of p-stem. It has been bigger, but this summer has been kind with low winds, and much rain. Three pups are very quickly growing at the base. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/9608911221/" title="Musa 'Misi Luki...

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wow. Now that's cool.

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Does anyone have an example of the elata utahensis form that is growing well in cultivation? All of mine have been slow to grow from seed and all have grown slowly once germinated. They also all have scale. I grow 25 species of yucca in our garden. This is the only one of all of them that experience...

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Welcome back Barb!
Your washy should be okay and likely will straighten out. One of my Sabal louisianas was growing sideways and three fronds later has now straightened to be upright

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Andy, my thompsonianas get red/purple too especially when cold or dry stressed. You are so right about aloifolia. Very susceptible to cold wet conditions. It looks like you are fine on the variegata now. Wow, 4 heads! Wow, I love that blue rigida and the pallida is looking great too. Good thing the ...

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Your garden looks way more finished than mine. Some very beautiful plants there! I can't believe You and I are both zone 7 (I'm in 7a). What was your coldest temp last winter?

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is it a... fouquieria of some sort?

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