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Cameron, sorry to hear you are down to one. Andy, yours look great. I'd love to learn more about E. diflexa. My 7 of 31... three are still alive and growing. They all suffered terminal growth damage. All recovered, one of which from the soil level. I think they put on no extra size, only spent the w...

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Barb, congrats on the first snow. We skiied today in London, Ontario. About 175km west of us here... I didnt know they got pummelled with snow (52cm) last weekend. Unbelievable lake effect snow quantities in that area. http://london.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.1558147!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivati...

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In Southern Ontario and Western New York more than half a dozen ski resorts are opening today or tomorrow. It has been 25 years or more since a November opening day.

Igor and Andy, looks like the winter you had last year, we have this year?
We are talking about skiing tomorrow!

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My wife asked me the other day... "If our house was burning down, would you save a plant from the fire?" Hesitated, but answered yes... but I had more than one plant I'd want to save! What are yours? My most uncommon: Avocado, 3 yrs, grown from seed (3 feet tall, three feet wide, just grew...

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Barb. I have at.least four gojis

Hope they. Aren't all the same sex

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Tim, that might be true.
Barb, the gojis have been in ground now three years, flowered but no fruit yet. Getting quite tqll and woody.

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We got down to 31f but snowed all night and we have heavy but fluffy 1.5 inches of snow... a few towns south of us have 4 inches. Here: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/11084321596/" title="First snow Nov 27 2013 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://f...

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All my palms and bananas are wrapped or boxed except my large Sabal minor. We are at -4c this evening and going as low as -7c. I added a layer of foam board insulation to my newest planted (Sabal palmetto, June), youngest (Washingtonia filifera, 1.9 years old from seed) and my most irreplaceable (Br...

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Hardhat indeed. Not a good tree to overhang a driveway, house, road.... Anything.

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Barb, thanks. If you want, I have HUNDREDS of seedlings and thousands of seeds. Anyone? Maclura pomifera Family: Moraceae (mor-AY-see-ee) (Info) Genus: Maclura (muh-KLOO-ruh) (Info) Species: pomifera (pom-EE-fer-uh) (Info) Synonym:Ioxylon pomiferum Synonym:Toxylon pomiferum Trees Height: over 40 ft....

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I'd cover the trachy for the 22'f. Call the local appliance stores or Lowes or Depot. Ask them for a cardboard box from a stove or fridge. Use that. saran/plastic wrap the top. Quick fix that can fold up. Good timing for the cold. Appliances are a big commodity approaching Black Friday (As they set ...

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Brought the family out to collect Osage oranges after a movie this past weekend. Usually, I include them in our winter urn arrangements. Maclura pomifera has some of the hardest, most rot resistant wood there is.. aside from some exotics. : ) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/10...

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Got home and all the boxes were warming up with their lights on. Two of the boxes are lit with eight c9 bulbs each on a tc-3. The Medjool date palm is on a constant four c9 bulbs with additional switch controlled 13w CFL for nights getting colder than -9c. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/...

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What lamp holder are you using? Isn't a problem if the lamp is too close to the thermocube? Tavi, my thoughts exactly, and is why i have the pigtail of about six inches and a plug on it then the thermocube, for some distance (instead of directly plugged in to the t-cube). I used a plant stake with ...

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Barb, 25 plus 15 bucks? Nononono. eBay: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/ThermoCube-Thermostat-Controlled-Outlet-TC-3-120-VAC-/320300528585?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item4a936633c9&vxp=mtr&_uhb=1#shpCntId That's 17 and ten. They offer combined shipping. You would have paid 40 for ...

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Barb, 1. Yes It can make a difference, but mine is as yours is and works fine. 2. Yes I prefer to keep a spare. 3. Yes they can fail in the first year, especially in a moist freeze/thaw environment. My Brahea has a new remote wireless thermometer to reassure me. No worries, if you've kept it dry, 32...

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I woke up at 4am to the screams of palms

Me too, but mine were like, "Yeah, we're all toasty in our enclosures and its gone down to 30'f out there!" YAY!![/quote]

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Beny, My son and I were just commenting on your second last photo... that sequence of : extension cord, thermocube, socket, splitter, 2 bulbs, extension cord out from there... we have the exact same protection measure sequence in our Brahea enclosure, but i have two different colour bulbs. That way ...

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Yucca schottii? Maybe torreyi

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I have some bamboo from Jim in Niagara growing in this here pot. I reuse soil from up-potting and failed seed sowing attempts, so I often get volunteers. In this pot is a volunteer Fragaria vesca, I know that, but a new plant is growing between the alpine strawberry and the bamboo. It grew quickly a...

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I was so happy to see it snowing even though it was 6c outside. Indeed it was snowing but melting on contact. So no pics.

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I have had this plant since 2007. This is the first serious fruit crop. S o yea, like six years. Totally hairless

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Thanks Barb. Good luck on your Brahea. Yeah plenty rain last night... had to insert flexible conduit arched across the ceiling/roof from inside for the very reason you mention, but rain.

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It should keep the chill off my nannas and fig. As well as serve as outdoor storage for larger plants. Decided not to build a flimsy hoop house this year. The inspiration was a glass shower door for 90%off as the entrance, not bad for 11 bucks. http://s15.postimg.org/g0ug0e6rr/IMG_00000314.jpg To th...

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Although we lost the leaves in the hard freeze two nights ago, the kiwis persist on the vine an are really tasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKTMPrIiFzo

Anyone know how big do the fruits get on Actinidia arguta 'Issai'?

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Hasty, very nice... I used the same material over my Y gloriosa in a potentially winter wet area. Tim, I'd use t-cube and heat in the americanas and the euro. I added no heat to my musas, fotuneis or rostratas last year, only kept them dry and the musas mulched. Bulbs with t-cube were between 5 and ...

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that's a beautiful plant! any idea what it is?

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I suggest Seqouiadendendron giganteum. It has done fine for us here in 7a. Sequoia sempervirens is much more finicky, rated at best 8a, and prefers coast cloud forest conditions, which I know I cannot replicate. Our S. giganteum grew from 31" last year this time to 62" now. Seed grown from...

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I have grown Q. chysolepis from seed. One died in the first year outdoors, the other two died in the third year outdoors. Respective lows for those years: -17c, -18c, -11c. Getting a firm establishment is definitely key to their survival (deep roots!) I have a Q. fusiformis. Trying it in ground this...

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Mine has been hit hard its first two winters... coldest was -18c on one day. But quite a bit of leaf discoloration. Then slow to start in the spring. This past winter I had a pane of glass angled above the rostrata to keep it dry. This summer had growth better than ever, since there was minimal setb...

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My observation is that rupicola also has "twisty" leaves and a more "orangish" serrated margin

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from: Hardy Palm and Subtropical Board , ( http://members3.boardhost.com/HardyPalm/index.html?1380663175 ) Posted by Clint - Niagara Falls ONUser Info on 9/30/2013, 9:00 am I realize that this is short notice but we have decided to have our meeting on Saturday,October 12th at 2pm at my place. Please...

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Mike, Thanks, those Phormiums are 'Rainbow Sunrise'
Yeah they were regularly 40 a piece.. 5 bucks each was good for me

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Our yucca rupicola

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Andy a beautiful yucca anyway. The last pic is very nice. Any chance it is a hybrid aloifolia x rupicola? That would be interesting. I should put up a new pic of my rupi

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I did an experiment last winter with my Washingtonia filiferas. One in a rose cone and lots of mulch. One in a clear plastic (inverted) bucket and lots of mulch (got steamy in there, you could see daytime condensation ) One in a plastic and foam insulated box with thermocube actuated Xmas lights x 8...

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My answer is no Dasylirion nor any Nolina will survive in 6a. But I have seedlings of Dasylirion texanum, longissima and wheeleri off to a good start on my heat mats. The test for 7a will be next winter. Biggest factor is wet/cold freeze-thaw cycles. One or two thaws is alright for these on the edge...

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Thanks for the tip Scott. Ryan, Barb, Tim and Tim, you like those? I thought I was seeing things when the $25 price tag appeared on that Chamaerops. It was old and ragged and require about 20 minutes of trimming off old fronds and weeds. It was the only one at that price. Guess they did not want to ...

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Okay so I bought a few plants today. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/9900602424/" title="Today's Rice Road haul by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5517/9900602424_d042586838_c.jpg" width="800" height="449&...

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in that mini hoop house without supplemental heat, on a day of full sun, it will get too hot and humid in there for the palm. You want growth in the winter to slow, since new growth is susceptible to cold and your nights can still get nippy. My hoop house which had thermocube actuated light bulbs (4...

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We spent the day skiing today!

Ski resorts haven't opened this early in 25 years!

What is your most precious, rare or irreplaceable plant?

Okay we have snow

Osage orange collecting this past weekend

Night Lighting, Palm boxes lit and thermocubes working

Plant ID Please

No pics but snow today

Not pretty but

Our Hardy Kiwi

This years Southern Ontario meeting is October 12th

Today's haul