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Here's a few pics showing some of the flowers turning into fruits. Looks like I have 4 fruits forming at this point. Tim's pollen was good! <img src=http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww298/mnpalms/DSC_0245.jpg> <img src=http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww298/mnpalms/DSC_0246.jpg> <img src=http://...

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97.7f here currently (6:40CST) and dewpoint is still 81! Looks like you hit the century mark today down there Jim. We are supposed to hit it again tomorrow. 103f was our highest (officially) so far this summer which was a few weeks ago. You are welcome to some of this rain though, more nasty thunder...

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Yeah Jim that storm that came through dumped a couple more inches of rain in some spots. It took the temp down to the upper 70s for a little while which was the coolest we have seen at any time 24/7 for the last several days. Low last night was 81! Sun back out and it is now back to 92f (at least he...

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Damn Jim, that's awesome! I don't think I have a chance for bananas to flower this year. My big ones got so beat up by hail earlier in the summer. The pups are in better shape and surpassing them. Gotta love the weather though! Our dewpoint right now is 87, no kidding!! Temp is 87f, heat index is 11...

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test post to see if weather thing works

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I fully agree Jim. I'll try to figure it out. I find myself looking at everyone else's all the time but my own is absent here! Tim/Jim and others who might be interested: I just about shi@ my pants today!!! It appears that my yucca has at least 4 seed pods (fruits?) growing now!!! I think the pollen...

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Here's a couple from last winter which were still on Photobucket. The planter is triangular, not square fyi. 2x2 pine frame with 1x4 pine supports, and a plywood top. Old bed conforters covering the whole frame, 1/4" bubble wrap insulation covering the outside sealed in with duct tape. Then a t...

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mnpalms, what if any did you use for a heat source? I use a Thermocube (on at 35f and off at 45f) attached to one string of C7 and one string of C9 clear Xmas lights. Also in the enclosure is a 12.5 watt CFL bulb which is always on. The setup does not burn much power at all. This system is capable ...

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I did the pollen thing both last Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. We were out of town from Thursday afternoon through Sunday night though. It appears the big storms did come through ahead of the big warm front and left 3.5" of new water in the pool while we were gone! Looks like ther...

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Yup, same forecast here Jim. I just hope the severe storms stay to the north though. Don't need the bananas beat up by, and set way back by big hail again! Also I hope the weather holds out long enough for my y. thompsoniana's flowers to accept the pollen I gave it. You are also on my short list of ...

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Tim- I received the pollen today, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!! I owe you! I also sent you a PM. I will be out there tonight pollenating the flowers.... All the flowers have bloomed so I am hoping they are still viable. Many have been falling off the past few days but I'd say about 1/2 of them still seem to...

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Your trachy looks great wxman! My in ground trachies have really been growing this season too. This year I've used Arizona's Best palm fertilizer and recently started giving them the stinky fish fertilizer about every third watering. They have noticeably responded. Pushing spears like crazy!

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I keep the mulch at least a few inches away from the banana stems. Around each stem "trunk" there's about an 8-10" diameter circle of exposed soil. The mulch I use (cedar) is only about 2" deep also. 1/2 to 1 cup Milorganite depending on plant size right on top of the soil at the...

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We have well water. I can't stand city water myself...with all the additives in it. Do you order the milorganite and fish fertilizer? Where from? I looked on the milorganite's website, and see they list ONE distributor in WI (where it originates), and it's quite a distance away....here I thought I ...

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Tim- I responded to your PM but I'm not sure if it went through correctly. It is still in my "out box" but there is nothing additional to click on to send it. Hopefully it sent and you get it. I have collected pollen for you (and/or anyone else here) in case you/they want any. I have been ...

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Looking great Jim! Trailgaiter- Want your bananas to really fly? Get a big bag of Milorganite (less than $10) and a bottle of concentrated fish fertilizer (thick and stinky). You can not over-use these products since they are organic and non-chemical. Feed the heck out of the bananas. 3x recommended...

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Tim- I sent you a PM. Thanks for the offer!!! Yes, slow start this year because of the lousy spring. Though it seems everything is catching up nicely now. The older bananas (basjoos) are being passed up by the pups though. It seems the pups that made it through the winter are growing 5x faster then ...

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I've been a little slow to keep this updated. Here's a few more pictures I took several days ago. It is opening flowers now and looks better and better every day. The flower stalk is over 5 feet in length now. I'll post more up to date pics this weekend also. <img src=http://i729.photobucket.com/alb...

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Lookin good Jim! (as usual) We are getting TONS of rain here too. Still it seems many things are a good 2 weeks behind last year's pace though, at least at my place, due to the long and dragged out spring we have had. Strangely my vegetables are about the only things ahead of last year's pace. I alr...

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Sorry about that Jim! Cell phone camera... How are your babies doing? I think our weather has been pretty similar so far this season. Your bananas really take off yet?

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It just keeps growing higher and has turned purple. <img src=http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww298/mnpalms/DSC_0213.jpg> First of the cannas is finally flowering <img src=http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww298/mnpalms/DSC_0214.jpg> Now if I can just get my larger trachy to flower! Maybe next ye...

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Here's from this morning, 48 hours later than the last most recent pic I posted:

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Bill- Your yard is simply awesome! What a valuable asset you are to this hobby. I guess I'm lucky I don't live within driving distance of you or else I'd be in for a lot of grief from the wife! I'd be bringing home more and more and she already thinks I have too many palms and other plants. I'd be o...

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Stalk moved about 10" in 46 hours! This pic taken only 46 hours after the first picture in this thread.

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Tim- Sounds great, that would be awesome! I'd love to get some seed out of it. You would be welcome to as much of it as you want. Meanwhile the stretch of nice growing weather continues here. We hit 97f yesterday and the overnight low was 78f last night. 95 to 100 forecast today (record maybe) with ...

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Tim- I'd love to pollenate it to get some seed but unfortunately at this point I have nothing else flowering (yuccas). I'm hoping to get blooms out of one or more of my filamentosas but if it's going to happen it is going to be a while. I think the timing will be off making it impossible to pollenat...

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Hey thanks for the Shop Vac tip Barb! During "helicopter season" it seems I'm out there with the leaf blower every other day trying to stay ahead of it and have at least a semi-nice looking yard to enjoy in the meantime. I tried carefully blowing the stuff out of the yucca's head with the ...

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FYI: I just posted a couple pics of my y. thompsoniana beginning to flower in the yucca section. I'll keep that thread updated as it progresses.

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Here are some early pictures of the flower stalk my y. thompsoniana is producing. For those that don't know, I planted this yucca about 15 months ago here in MN in a corner of my trachy bed. It came from a seller in Vegas who stated it was taken from the wild. Vegas? I thought this species grows wil...

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Just so you know, it wasn't me who stripped it from the desert in the Vegas area... I bought it through the internet early last spring and the seller did indicate that it was not nursery grown, rather taken from the wild. He was located in Vegas so I assumed that's where it grew originally. I wish h...

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UPDATE! I know this is the hardy palms section but I wanted to mention that my 5'+ yucca thompsoniana IS GOING TO FLOWER!!!! It just started to produce the flower stalk and has been growing visibly each day. I'm absolutely amazed, the thing has only been in the ground here in MN (zone 5a barely) for...

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Well we ended up with just a dusting from this system and the low was 33.8f. I guess I over-reacted by covering my palms. I just wanted to do it before it started (rain/snow) for the exact reason Barb mentioned in her last post. Unfortunately I think it was a little late for Wxman to use this coveri...

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Here's what I was talking about in my previous post. This is preventative... 44 degrees here and dry still as of 6:47PMCST Tuesday evening. We still look to get an inch or so out of this but I wanted to be on the safe side in case it is more. fronds tied up with tie-downs and garbage bags over them....

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Looks like this Tuesday night storm forecast keeps shifting east and a little more south. We now look to get a dusting to 1.5" max here but southeastern MN and about all of central WI look to get clobbered. 6" plus! I hope you luck out Wxman, but if I were you I'd get a couple bungee cords...

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Wxman and Jim- I'd keep an eye on this Tuesday night into Wednesday storm. Latest I saw shows significant snow accumulations just to my south and on to the east. Like 6 to 9 inches! As it looks now we look to get a dusting to an inch or two of slush being on the northern edge of the system with no a...

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Thanks for the info about the yucca Tim. I'll definitely get pics up here if/when it flowers. My gut tells me it will flower... Compared with the rostratas I've examined, I'm pretty sure it is a thompsoniana. Though I have only seen a couple other true/known thomsonianas I'm pretty confident about w...

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Thanks guys. Yeah Jim, what a wierd spring weather-wise. We are in the high 40s for highs today and tomorrow with overnight lows just at or above freezing for 2 nights before getting back to the 50s and 60s. It had been 60s and a few 70s up to today. This is why I wait until May 1st to put the banan...

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I uncovered my palms a couple weeks ago and finally got around to posting a few pics here. Two inground trachies and y. thompsoniana are perfect coming out of winter. They are all now noticeably growing. <img src=http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww298/mnpalms/DSC_0139.jpg> <img src=http://i729.pho...

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Damn man, you are well on your way to having a yard that resembles Jim's! There seems to be a few varieties of y. filamentosa available. I have a few of them and they do not get protected at all for winter. I planted one a few years ago which started out about the size of yours and it is about 3x3x3...

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Wxman- Glad to see you have finally turned the corner with this crap weather and everything is uncovered (again). Mine are uncovered now too and I'll get some pics posted as soon as I can get them downloaded out of my phone. You are on the right track as far as the fastest and biggest impact tropica...

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