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by sidpook
Sun May 18, 2014 1:51 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Musas recovering after the worst winter ever
Replies: 17
Views: 15919

Looking good; I was not actually worried about them. Same fertilizer treatment, the locally-sourced fish feces? yep. plenty of that around here.... <a href="http://s141.photobucket.com/user/sidpook/media/10393827_10153067547820616_2529503449804282812_n_zps4581bbc1.jpg.html" target="_...
by sidpook
Sun May 18, 2014 7:12 am
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Musas recovering after the worst winter ever
Replies: 17
Views: 15919

and here they were last October.....I think they may catch up???? Who knows.... href="http://s141.photobucket.com/user/sidpook/media/IMG_6635_zps70325f25.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r76/sidpook/IMG_6635_zps70325f25.jpg" border=...
by sidpook
Sun May 18, 2014 6:58 am
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Musas recovering after the worst winter ever
Replies: 17
Views: 15919

Musas recovering after the worst winter ever

Here are a few pics of my musas recovering after the worst winter I can ever remember.....They are small for may but at least growing nicely! <a href="http://s141.photobucket.com/user/sidpook/media/IMG_20140518_083713_zps53ccedc8.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1...
by sidpook
Sun May 11, 2014 5:50 am
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: El Nino
Replies: 9
Views: 6476

Wow, +14 is nice for o'night temps, Beny. Temps were hot here Thursday, then cold and rainy Friday and today...+8 this morning. BRRRRRR! Next week looks fabulous: http://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/vernon/v1t/daily-weather-forecast/52852 Your area will be nice and hot too...eventually. Barb Spring ha...
by sidpook
Sun May 04, 2014 6:24 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: my bananas and E.E and windmill palm
Replies: 35
Views: 23249

pitotes wrote:This is what's left.. nothing but roots..they didn't make it
Image
hmmmmmm...?
by sidpook
Sun May 04, 2014 5:16 am
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Trachy after winter
Replies: 11
Views: 5400

Cool, can't wait to see it Mike! Love that you call it a retreat. Lots of updates...even Wunderground updated...and eliminated my town somehow :lol: :lol: So "virtually" I've moved to Kelowna. For the weather anyway. Barb Yeah...i am confused by the new wunderground website...hate it!
by sidpook
Sat May 03, 2014 1:43 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Trachy after winter
Replies: 11
Views: 5400

planted mine from home in a warmer spot down the shore, and it still looks good too Didn't have your camera with you? :lol: Would love to see the new place and your plantings. Barb I'll get some pics up soon Barb...It's a great retreat...I noticed they updated the street view at our house here in a...
by sidpook
Sat May 03, 2014 5:19 am
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Trachy after winter
Replies: 11
Views: 5400

I planted mine from home in a warmer spot down the shore, and it still looks good too. Probably would have been destroyed up at home.
:shock:
by sidpook
Thu May 01, 2014 3:52 am
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: El Nino
Replies: 9
Views: 6476

We just had almost 5 inches of rain here yesterday.....Things are lush to say the least! High 76 here today, yay!! Spring has sprung...
by sidpook
Thu May 01, 2014 3:50 am
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Trachy after winter
Replies: 11
Views: 5400

looks great!
by sidpook
Sun Apr 27, 2014 5:16 am
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: my bananas and E.E and windmill palm
Replies: 35
Views: 23249

Everything is definitely late around the howl country, my figs are way late this year and they have been in the ground unprotected for 11 years now, just slow to come back
by sidpook
Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:03 am
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Finally got my banana out!!!
Replies: 7
Views: 5918

They're doing fine still at home pushing out leaves, now the ones down here at the beach place are slower to come back probably because they are a lot younger and smaller than the ones at home.... :(
by sidpook
Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:01 am
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: my bananas and E.E and windmill palm
Replies: 35
Views: 23249

I would hazard a guess that if you clear some of the soil away on the sides you will see some live growth. Give it a try. Take a some pics, you will see some reddish yellow healthy tissue around the outsides....let us know....
Just don't dig into that plant itself.Good Luck!
by sidpook
Fri Apr 25, 2014 3:40 am
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: my bananas and E.E and windmill palm
Replies: 35
Views: 23249

they look great last season. do you have a picture of their current growth?
by sidpook
Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:32 am
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: my bananas and E.E and windmill palm
Replies: 35
Views: 23249

pitotes wrote:It's going on May in my zone 5b and no growth anywhere...are my bananas completely dead?
can you post a picture??
by sidpook
Fri Apr 11, 2014 3:55 am
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: my bananas and E.E and windmill palm
Replies: 35
Views: 23249

Your musas should be fine.....no matter what they will come back from the ground. I have had several great winters with huge growth every spring and summer until this past winter of death. I had to cut them the furthest back I have ever done in their four years in the ground, and they are shooting u...
by sidpook
Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:34 am
Forum: Other Plants of Interest
Topic: Dug out the Cordylines "Red Star"
Replies: 33
Views: 19484

lucky1 wrote:Wondering why, with each year, they seem to get more and more pale.
That gorgeous burgundy is all but gone.

Barb
Is it sunburn??? I have two and one got really burnt from the cold this winter, The top fell off, lol
by sidpook
Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:34 pm
Forum: Other Plants of Interest
Topic: Dug out the Cordylines "Red Star"
Replies: 33
Views: 19484

hurray!!!!!!!
by sidpook
Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:03 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Finally got my banana out!!!
Replies: 7
Views: 5918

Thanks Barb....Glad to be back.....worst winter ever for us! ugh!!!! warmer here finally
by sidpook
Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:36 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Finally got my banana out!!!
Replies: 7
Views: 5918

Finally got my banana out!!!

OK get your minds out of the gutter people....I just finally uncovered my front yard musas...thought they were a loss after this coldest winter in 20 years in NJ,,but i think they survived even though it is the lowest i have ever had to cut back.... <a href="http://s141.photobucket.com/user/sid...
by sidpook
Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:44 am
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Tomorrow is the day to plant:)
Replies: 13
Views: 5264

Good Luck!! Is spring really finally going to come!!!! Hard to believe it after this nasty-assed winter!!!!
by sidpook
Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:46 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Help please with germinating Fatsia Japonica seeds
Replies: 7
Views: 6407

Thanks all!!
by sidpook
Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:49 am
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Help please with germinating Fatsia Japonica seeds
Replies: 7
Views: 6407

I tried these before with no luck (actually I think i dropped the container they were in lol). Im pretty sure they need to be surface sown, or at least covered lightly. They were pretty small seeds. The one thing ive wondered is if they need to be stratified. Most plants ive grown from seed that co...
by sidpook
Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:34 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Help please with germinating Fatsia Japonica seeds
Replies: 7
Views: 6407

lucky1 wrote:Michael,
Guessing that Igor might have started some?

Good luck with 'em.

Barb
thanks Barb...I soooooo need green and warmth!!!!!!!!! This was the coldest recorded winter temps for some of the jersey shore towns. ever!
by sidpook
Tue Mar 04, 2014 1:47 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Help please with germinating Fatsia Japonica seeds
Replies: 7
Views: 6407

Help please with germinating Fatsia Japonica seeds

Hello All,

I am looking for help please with germinating Fatsia Japonica seeds. I bought them online from Hirt's Gardens.

They come with basic directions, but I am sure you all have much more knowledge and many tips to offer. All advice is much appreciated.
Thanks...


michael
by sidpook
Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:29 am
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: Warming up
Replies: 41
Views: 22301

TerdalFarm wrote:7 oF (-14 oC) this morning (Jenks, OK, airport). Feels more like January than March. Guess I started this thread too soon. :oops:
that will be us tomorrow am, ugh
:sad11: :lickice:
by sidpook
Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:40 pm
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: Warming up
Replies: 41
Views: 22301

Bon courage Mike :lol: ....don t worry, you ll get heat before us :cry: , if that heat can come one day :roll: ... we ve got less snow than last year here, but a lot of f.... cold air. Never seen that before, at least 22 nights Under -20c or -4F... It s the coldest winter we ve never seen here ... ...
by sidpook
Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:12 am
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: Warming up
Replies: 41
Views: 22301

Here we F#^&*@#$%%*(#^%$^RR^&%^&' go again!!!!!!! Devil this winter! of course i live in the 8 to 12 range.... in south jersey just south of the city...and our shore place will also get hit this time down cape may next to wildwood....ugh! <a href="http://s141.photobucket.com/user/si...
by sidpook
Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:55 pm
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: The Lowest Winter's 2013-2014 Temperature so far...
Replies: 179
Views: 3928672

it is just disturbingly relentless!
by sidpook
Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:08 pm
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: The Lowest Winter's 2013-2014 Temperature so far...
Replies: 179
Views: 3928672

supposed to get down to a record 6F / - 14 C here tonight.....I'm killing myself now!!!!!! :violent1:
by sidpook
Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:33 pm
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: The Lowest Winter's 2013-2014 Temperature so far...
Replies: 179
Views: 3928672

when will the madness end, right now we have crazy fog due to the cold ground, snow pack and the 40 degree temps...
by sidpook
Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:59 am
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: The Lowest Winter's 2013-2014 Temperature so far...
Replies: 179
Views: 3928672

I think he made the same mistake you did-lowest I could find there was $3.08 I'm in South Jersey, way cheaper than North, that's basically New York Prices. We are even 50 cents cheaper than right over the bridge in PA. We do not have the same fuel tax as they do. Also state law says you are not per...
by sidpook
Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:05 am
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: The Lowest Winter's 2013-2014 Temperature so far...
Replies: 179
Views: 3928672

Man oh man, you folks in the eastern half of the continent have gotten nailed this winter. But there'll at least not be water restrictions :lol: I was down in Wenatchee Washington for 3 days last week. 56 F, people walking around in T shirts. Car window down Thurs and Friday. It was bloody wonderfu...
by sidpook
Tue Feb 18, 2014 7:59 am
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: The Lowest Winter's 2013-2014 Temperature so far...
Replies: 179
Views: 3928672

Another mess of a storm last night......just sick of this crap, warming up a bit though
by sidpook
Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:26 pm
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: The Lowest Winter's 2013-2014 Temperature so far...
Replies: 179
Views: 3928672

canadianplant wrote:Same here mike. the thing is up here this time of year warm ups usually mean snow.... just had a good clipper drop another foot
this year it has snowed ion any temp range, warm, cold, freezing etc,...ugh, 4th or 5th snowiest winter ever.
by sidpook
Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:03 am
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: The Lowest Winter's 2013-2014 Temperature so far...
Replies: 179
Views: 3928672

finally supposed to warm up a bit here in the coming ten day forecast....FINALLY after six weeks of pure hell !!!!!! :shock:
by sidpook
Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:57 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy - General
Topic: Help, my bamboo is burnt brown from cold
Replies: 22
Views: 15703

SWEET HOLY FRIGGIN MOTHER OF GOD, A NOREASTER IS ON ITS WAY HERE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
by sidpook
Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:17 am
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: Another polar blast on the menu for next week!!
Replies: 74
Views: 48773

fury amongst the people here through Government inaction. not preparing for 60 foot waves? :lol: Take care, Andy. squirrels make a home in my crankshaft case of my car engine, eat all the wires and destroy my crankshaft ugh....that's even worse than the mouse nest near my alternator. During the oil...
by sidpook
Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:10 pm
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: Another polar blast on the menu for next week!!
Replies: 74
Views: 48773

btw, it was so cold here last week i had a family of squirrels make a home in my crankshaft case of my car engine, eat all the wires and destroy my crankshaft...bastards!!!!
by sidpook
Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:08 pm
Forum: Weather & Climate
Topic: Another polar blast on the menu for next week!!
Replies: 74
Views: 48773

There s a thing i don t understand, you guy's living in the northern USA, why you just dont go living in the South states ? If i was born in the NY state, sure ill go live in Florida :wink: . But as a Canadian, if i want to do that, ill need a green card , etc..... And the only place in Canada wher...

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