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Well it managed to get worse tonight. Winds up to 50-60 mph... I had two more boxes pushed off their bases. Found myself out in the dark, putting more bracing up and tying the boxes together with more 2x4's.... what a mess. I'll be fixing things and shoring things up more this week. Lesson learned, ...

wheelman1976

Well I had my first setback this afternoon, my tallest box almost fell over. We had a huge storm blow through and winds were extreme to say the least. I was out there as quick as I could with my impact driver and the longest boards I could find to brace it. It's going to require pulling it apart and...

wheelman1976

Well everything is buttoned up for the winter.... some thoughts.... I am utterly exhausted putting up these boxes. sheets of plywood aren't so bad, it's those darn doors, moving those things just take it out of you. Unfortunately I need the weight to combat the wind in my area. Going forward I have ...

wheelman1976

Managed to get two more boxes up completely. Did not leave them open on one side to see if they thermocube kicked on so I'm hoping it does because I do not want to reshrink wrap those things. <a href="http://s1204.photobucket.com/user/wheelman1976/media/null_zpsfeb46ab6.jpg.html" target=&q...

wheelman1976

That one is one of my new ones I got this spring. It's the largest of them all by far. The more I think of this the more I need to seriously find a different way of winter protection as these things grow.

wheelman1976

First box.... sucker is about ten foot tall.... sure wish I buried that thing deeper when I got it. <a href="http://s1204.photobucket.com/user/wheelman1976/media/null_zps3e92047c.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb418/wheelman1976/null_...

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Just an update for the fall of 2013.... built the first box tonight and the thing is about 10 foot tall.... Dunno how I'll do this for the other two but they're a hair smaller.... I need more wood!!!
I'll try to take some photos later once I make some headway.

wheelman1976

I'm planning on doing this as my next summer project. Found out my local irrigation supplier is a distributor of LED landscape lighting. Initial impressions is the stuff is pricey, but you only do it once, and they're going to be way brighter than those cheap solar lights you find at chain stores.

wheelman1976

Mike,
Are you going to do a walk through with where you're at anytime soon?

wheelman1976

What do you do with that plumeria in the winter? Is that in ground?

wheelman1976

You're screwed in a few years with that larger windmill. It's making me thing "what did I do?" with buying 8 footers this spring.... I hope mine slow down big time and just stay how they are.

wheelman1976

What do you do with the plumerias in the winter time? Are they in the ground now?

wheelman1976

sashaeffer wrote:Coconut Mike really needs to do a video of how HE constructs his Styrofoam boxes he puts up.

I agree.

wheelman1976

I too keep looking for a box that makes sense financially and is easy to assemble and store. Now that I have some big boys in my back yard this is even more pressing. I would like to do something with styrofoam that is reinforced but I have such high winds I don't know now I could brace them. I did ...

wheelman1976

Look just like mine. Are you going to mummy wrap both again or come up with another way to overwinter them?

wheelman1976

Good landscaping, you planted them in nice place....don t worry to protect them, you did good before :) ... Ben I still have some work to do to make the landscaping look a bit more natural and to bring the dirt line up to the top of the root ball. I found it's a lot easier to dig a small hole and p...

wheelman1976

Thanks everyone, I'm already thinking of my winter protection options.... I hate the idea of the cost but I'm thinking 3/4 inch treated may be the best long term option as the wood won't rot out and may be easier to handle vs my heavy doors I have currently.

wheelman1976

From Mike in Cananda. We had some poor communication from the shipper that the broker used but in the end I was able to get them in time. They almost sat in the terminal for the weekend but Mike's broker located them and they turned out to be closer to my house than my place of work that I was going...

wheelman1976

Well after some stops and starts and a rise in my blood pressure I finally managed to procure my larger specimen windmills. Here's some photos of this afternoon. After getting them in the ground it's finally starting to hit me, boxes this winter are going to be a pain in the butt..... :shock: :shock...

wheelman1976

Can't tell you about soil type but I have three 7 footers coming to me this week and I plan on burying them with half the ball above the ground and pile soil to even it out. Reason being is to allow the tree some room to sink as it gets established. As for protection, I have no heat tape (I'm in Mic...

wheelman1976

Thats a lot of palms. I would hate to pay the shipping charges for them but would love to have all of those in my yard. if you know someone with a semi most of the time they will just charge fuel. I have a few on stand by but if I pull a 10ft from FLA it will die over winter.not enough time to root...

wheelman1976

I'm looking right now at flurries outside my window and rain for the next 6 days after having rain for 6 days prior..... this certainly isn't like last year!

wheelman1976

I have to say, being from Michigan, it's depressing to see how easy it is for the residents of the keys to grow palms and bananas.... coconut palms spout all over the place like weeds....

wheelman1976

So I'm down in key west for my final night of my vacation. My wife and I found a couple coconuts and are going to see if they'll grow when we get back. One I'm pretty sure meets the requirements (it has the juice still in it). the other makes no sloshing sound and it's about half size. Will this thi...

wheelman1976

If anyone is interested in larger quantities of Red Canna Rhizomes, please touch base with me. I'm selling alot of my overgrowth from last fall and spring is just around the corner. I've been doing a large priority mail box full for a little over $30. Touch base if you're interested. Here's a link t...

wheelman1976

nice that you can over winter it the way nope, only good for another year maybe. Then it's outgrown the palm hut. I think we all will have to one day learn coconutmike's and beny's Mummy Wrap process as our planted palms outgrow what we can build. The other pain, Scott, is that these structures tak...

wheelman1976

Yea, I've thought long and hard about how to protect as they get taller, and after seeing the one guys video in New Jersey? using wire cages and just adding to it as needed is seemingly the way to go, and what I will do. Common sense really, but until I watched his video I hadn't thought of it. Got...

wheelman1976

Doug, Maybe the shrinkwrap getting fried is a good thing, because it holds in so much humidity. With your 2 strings of lights, those Trachies should do fine. A couple of years ago, I used spray foam to plug gaps :shock: where I could see daylight between panel connections. The carpenter fellow remo...

wheelman1976

Today high for me is around 20F, and I'm still seeing consistent temps of 35-50 in my windmill boxes. Only running two strands of c-9 lights this year in each box. My shrink wrap took a beating last night with the 30-40mph winds though. I hate to say it buy any palms I get will pretty much require r...

wheelman1976

I leave for a few days and this is what happens to my thread????? Thread high jackers!

I kid.....

Nice photos. Question on that temp greenhouse, how do you heat it?

wheelman1976

Closed up the boxes tonight. Not the most ideal weather... had heavy rain all day but I don't have much choice as they're talking snow storm. I covered the top roofs with plastic and then shrink wrapped as best I could considering my deck in the way. I'm not going full blown on the plastic cover in ...

wheelman1976

I see Daphniphyllum macropodum shows zone 7-9 for where to grow.... would I kill it in michigan? :-) I have a feeling if I protected it that I would be fine, but if it goes to any decent size that I may be looking at building a greenhouse over it. That foliage would complement my banana patch next y...

wheelman1976

I kind of play it by ear, if there's a snow storm coming I'll put the final panel up. So far the highs are still in the mid to upper 30's. If the lows get below 23 I figure that's when I'll close them up for good. You have to remember, I have the lights going on and off keeping things in the area up...

wheelman1976

With how they are right now (three and a half sides up) I can get temps around 45 degrees in the crown area. Later this week my highs are looking like low to mid 40's so the covers aren't going on yet.

wheelman1976

Saw some sleet and a bit of snow today. Still don't have them fully closed up. Temp sensor is still showing things staying in the 30-45 range. My ten day is showing the lowest low being 28. I'm wondering if I'll get to Christmas at this rate. On a side note I'm seeing the bananas I dug up and keep i...

wheelman1976

Wow keep that white stuff up there! That's a neat scene you have there. I like that pergola on the water. You ought to under plant those windmills with sabal minors and variegated alpinia. You're already protecting the area... That stone bordering the boardwalk would look nice with yucca filamentos...

wheelman1976

Well snow if flying and blowing something fierce. It was time to enclose them a little more. I call this stage 2. Stage 3 is full boxing and plastic wrap. http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb418/wheelman1976/7832AC65-3D4D-4191-A980-4D54C56DCF8B-801-000000DACFC3B0AC.jpg http://i1204.photobucket.com...

wheelman1976

On that first photo of that one that looks fallen over do you just cut all the fronds off?

wheelman1976

It's a pond that runs along the back of 10 houses in my subdivision. I'm the last guy touching it on the east side and I own a thin strip of land around the back side of it to the halfway point of the the pond while the owner on the west end owns around the other back half. It's nice having that str...

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