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wxman

Yeah, go figure my smaller trachy is the one blooming. Barb that looks great!!

wxman

Jim,

If it dies I'm coming to Iowa and digging up all your trachys in the cover of night.

It's healthy and growing -- spear has pushed almost 6 inches so far this year. Hopefully next year the other one does bloom and I do get seed. That would be mega awesome!

wxman

Planted this one as a 15 gallon in 2010. Let's start at a distance. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/IMG_4886_zpse563aa9c.jpg A little closer. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/IMG_4887_zps36b6f759.jpg Oh my... what do we have here?? http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxm...

wxman

Yes, that big mag is the new one that the garden center ordered in for me.

Ugh, now there is frost in the forecast Saturday and Sunday night. Not only do I need to protect stuff in my garden, I planted a HUGE tropical garden at work that I need to protect.

I'm insane.

wxman

My front yard garden is 95% finished. All I'm waiting for is my elephant ear bulbs to finish sprouting in the greenhouse and then they will be planted along side the ensete maurelii to fill in the gap! So without further adieu, here are some pictures! My two trachies. Applied epsom salt last weekend...

wxman

Looks good. My hostas are about 1 inch tall right now, lol.

wxman

TimMAz6 wrote:Hi Tim,

your -24 below looks OK. Do you think it's OK? I'm sure it will take another month before you see progress with -24 since mags are on the slow side. Keep us updated.

I think its ok. At least the stems aren't turning black like they did on my other Edith Bogue last year.

wxman

Thanks Tim.

What do you think about my '24 below'? Here is how it looks as of today.

wxman

Some updated pics. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/IMG_4852_zpsdbfc87f5.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/IMG_4853_zpsf7794ab7.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/IMG_4854_zpsbd2faa08.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/IMG_4865_zpsf400c157.j...

wxman

I had the local garden center order me in a 15 gallon Edith Bogue as they normally aren't carried up here. Tag on the plant says Zone 5+ so hopefully with some light protection the next few winters this will establish nicely. Planted it yesterday. What's the best way to prune this so I can get it in...

wxman

Well after warm weather the past week - 60s, 70s and 80s (was 87.9 yesterday), my largest one is still showing NO GROWTH. I marked the spear when I uncovered in March and it's still in the same darn spot. No spears pull, but a lot of the existing fronds are bronzed in areas (sunburn? cold damage?). ...

wxman

Glenn --

Looks great!! Should explode this summer for you! How are your magnolias?

My 15 gallon Edith Bogue is coming into Steins next week.

wxman

lucky1 wrote:Looks like a bit of cold damage since uncovering.

Hope you didn't fertilize them when it was cold.

Barb

Nope I don't fertilize til May!

wxman

I'm wondering if my windmill palms have reached the end of their rope up here in Wisconsin. When I uncovered them back in March, they were 100% green. We've had temps in the 30s/40s/50s since then and no nighttime lows below 23 or so. Well over the course of the last month, I've noticed brownish spl...

wxman

Do the petioles feel rubbery? Not a good sign my friend. I had a robusta that looked like that and it gave up the ghost -- root rot from too much moisture / cold soil. Buy a temp probe and take the soil temp next to the palm. If it's below 55-60 you won't be getting any new root growth and the water...

wxman

Scott,

Looks great! I must say I'm really pleased with all the northern trachys I've seen out of zone. Man for the longest time, I thought I was the only nutcase growing palms up here, lol.

wxman

Looks good!!! I still have big piles of snow in the front yard.

wxman

sidpook wrote:Everyone's palms look amazing. Mine are so young comparably. How old is the largest one Waxman?

The large one was planted as a 3 gallon in July 2008.

wxman

Aw, Ben, that's sad. We appreciate what you're sharing about what's not working. I think any tight wrapping on any palm is trouble because of lack of air circulation, especially when they heat up late winter. It costs more to heat the air inside a box/wider enclosure but IMO it's worth it. Barb Yea...

wxman

Wow it came through perfect! Good work!

wxman

Wow Barb! Looks great!! Time for palm fun in the sun until winter!

wxman

Well, it's Palm Sunday and being busy next weekend, I decided to uncover my palms today. It's not ideal out -- 33F and snowing, but what the heck -- they're trachys!!! Forecast is for 30s early this week, warming to near 50F by next weekend, so all should be OK! Just before I started. http://i7.phot...

wxman

Here's an update on my antifreeze experiment with a pygmy date palm. Palm was outside in subfreezing conditions for approximately 96 hours with the minimum recorded temperature of 12 degrees F. After this period (Sunday), I moved it into my greenhouse which varies between 60 degrees F and 85 degrees...

wxman

Down to 26F out. Forecast for rest of tonight:

Overnight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 16. North wind 5 to 10 mph.

If I'm correct, that should outright kill a PDP. Anxious to see what it looks like in morning as this will be the coldest temperature yet in this experiment.

wxman

Pygmy date palm - outside 72 hours after root zone soak and foliar spray of "antifreeze". Low last night was 22.2F. Current temp is 27.0F. Two pics. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/IMG_4797_zps0b455b93.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/IMG_4798_zps41962323.jpg

wxman

I'm in the final stages of developing a palm tree "antifreeze". I quietly started this project several months back as I have always wanted to increase a palm tree's cold hardiness. In order to do this, you need to perform some genetic modification on the palm tree to survive severe freezes...

wxman

This "spring" has been pure torture thus far. Since I've had palms, until this year, they were never covered this late. Here is my forecast for the next week. It's an endless nightmare of January temperatures. Saturday: Scattered flurries before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29. Nor...

wxman

I have mine on my black stone west wall. Full sun for half the day and have taken 50 mph winds + easy.

wxman

Tim, trachies / rhodos look great. Good work. And this year, you're planting a Phoenix again, if I recall. What a whack of snow ... :? How are things coming along in the GH? Barb Nope, scrapped the phoenix idea. Planting a 8' tall magnolia grandiflora edith bogue there that a nursery is ordering in...

wxman

Update on my front yard windmill palms, magnolia and rhododendrons. Hopefully boxes come off this upcoming weekend.

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wxman

Hey it looks really good to me! I wouldn't sweat the brownish leaves, my BBB's get brownish leaves but they fall off and are replaced with new one's pretty quick once the weather stays warm... Yeah, but do you have green buds, brown buds and half brown/green buds? Trying to decide what is normal --...

wxman

Took the cover off today. It had a string of 100 mini lights and one layer of poly for protection. Looks fried, ugh.

wxman

Here are some pictures today of my magnolia grandiflora '24 below' that I planted last spring. Basically it had a wind break for protection this winter, with 100 mini Christmas lights wrapped around it (but I don't think they really did anything, lol). http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/I...

wxman

I get to travel locally in my job and found this strip mall in Lincoln, Nebraska called "The Oasis" and had a line up of these palm trees out front. Nice to see "palm fever" catching on even in obscure ways.... http://s8.postimage.org/kmqvhx49t/225243_10151360433927655_152087850...

wxman

GlennKing wrote:Wowza A 15 gallon EB is a nice size! I didn't think the nurseries around here were accomidating like that.
Awesome score....

Yep, I got ahold of Steins corporate. They are ordering me one in with their first week of April delivery.

wxman

Looks great! I'm intently watching you mummy wrap folks because I think my trachy will be to that phase in a few years. The box I put on is already 10' tall and I don't know how much taller I can make it, lol.

wxman

I just ordered a 15 gallon 'Edith Bogue' for pickup at my local nursery in April.

Woohoo!

wxman

Glenn, I remember Stein's selling the BBB a few summers ago. They stopped selling them because I guess they were dying in our area and people wanted the refund/replacement. I'm trying to get a big BBB this spring and I'm going through hell finding a nursery to order me one in. Either they want to go...

wxman

Hi Tim, your Mag and Waggie look good so far............didn't you have another Mag too? If so how does that one look? Keep the updates coming. :) The other was an Edith Bogue which died in the previous winter. I am still blaming the Wilt Pruf for suffocating or doing something to kill it because I...

wxman

Be careful with Mexican Fan palm's. Mine didn't make it through winter #2. When the roots outgrow the protection and freeze, the plant seems to get root rot or something and just die. Windmill palms don't seem to mind frozen roots though.

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