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here is a picture of my butia capitata. It is of fairly good size. I have the fronds tied up to save space in front of its window. It really spreads out if left untied.

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Barb, the west facing window is in the family room, inside a heated house. Temps in the mid 60's inside (18C)

I am not sure about soil requirements for the butia. I could not even tell you if mine was acidic or alkaline. Now that I don't know that I'll just obsess on that.

THANKS.

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a belated welcome to you Heidi. Your T Fortuneis look pretty typical of what happens during winter. In your zone they should be fine. In just few years you will be the resident palm expert. keep up the good work.

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I like show and tell. I will take a current pic in the next day or two and post. I am not sure if I have noticed any growth during winters spent indoors, but it does seem to do just fine inside in west facing window.

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holy cow barb , 2 fronds in 2 months, that equates to 48 new fronds in 4 years. seriously, nice looking butia. They are a very nice looking palm,one of my favorites.

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great pics. appears you had lots of snow. by the way those fronds are hanging I am guessing it was a wet heavy snow too.

we just had our Schnauzer put to sleep in Nov 2008. She was 16 years old.

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this picture is not cool or unusual, but I just set it up as my new screen saver for a while. Its a picture taken in March 2005 (springbreak) from the house we rented in Bonita Beach Florida. It was so nice to sit on the deck every morning have coffee, read the paper and answer work emails and no on...

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January 10, 2009 update. I trust everyone had a nice new years. We've had very moderate temps over the last few weeks, highs in the 30's 40 and 50 's F (thats -1, 4 and 10 C) and nothing lower than 20F (-6C) at night. My leaf pile is in the 40's (4C). I am amazed at how warm the pile is staying. If ...

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nice research. I hope that helps. Please let us know the results of your experiment.

I don't have time for research I am too busy eating cookies and cakes and left over gravy from the holidays.

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wes, if I had some CIDP seeds, I'd send them to you. Good luck.

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new temperature report just in. we had 2 days of temps near20F (-6C) and nightime lows around 4F (-15C) and the leaf pile hit a low of 27F (-3C). Last night the low was 32F (0C) and the leaf pile was at 37F (3C) this morning. Somehow it generates heat and it must be the decomposition of grass and le...

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I promise not to provide daily updates. Our temps the last 24 hours were pretty much 32-34F (no sunshine) , and this morning my leaf hut showed 42F , which is actually up 4 degrees from yesterday morning. The ground is obviously still radiating some heat under the mulch and plastic.

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we've had some very cold temps the last 4-5 days , highs in the low 20's F (mostly no sunshine) and lows from 5-10 F. Under the leaf tent the temp shows 38F on Thurs Dec 18, 2008. I am very surprised it has stayed that warm considering the lows we have had.

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Thank you Barb. The shower is a good idea , but I am a very modest man, it makes me nervous to shower when others are in the room :lol: I do have a warm air humidifier in the room with the coco and in winter I run it twice a week for 24 hours at a time. It does pretty well. Not sure of the mature he...

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I took a few pictures Sun Dec 13, 2008 of a few of my larger palms and their emerging and just opened spears (as the case may be). Got more, will add later. Here is my Mexican Fan Palm. This palm does suprising well inside in a west facing window. no bugs, no browning, no problems .... ever. This pa...

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Barb and Steve - nice lookin' stuff you got there. I'll get my camera out this weekend and post some spear photos. I always love seeing other peoples plants this time of year. My Foxtail just opened a nice big frond. Look at it everyday and smile. If it only knew it was 4 hardiness zone removed from...

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Hey Jim. I am following your other threads and I beleive you may be the hardest working zone pusher I know. Please keep up the good work because it helps all of us. I think my leaf massses with covers will keep the ground from freezing solid, but I think where I get all the benefits is keeping the s...

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Barb - I believe"snow" is a four letter word. Usually any snow we get around here melts pretty fast, can't count on snow for insulation, but every little bit helps.

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I am into bamboo, just don't know what to plant around here. Any suggestions? What works well for you?

I bought a cast iron plant earlier this year, got it home, discovered it had some kind of funky goo on it (looked like a powdery with fungus) so I took it back to KMart and they had none left.

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funny you should ask Don because I was going to post some numbers here today. We have had a couple of cold nights in a row, below 20F (-6C), with no sun during the day to help warm up and last night it was 17F (-8C) in my backyard and it was 36F (2C) under the leaves. The coldest of the season so fa...

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I like the fan palm leaves of this palm. I bought 2 seedlings off ebay several years ago and neither one lived very long. Good luck with your seeds and subsequent seedlings and subsequent palm trees.

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nice looking trachy. Good luck with your winter protection. Looks to me like you got it goin' on.
Maybe someday I will have a trachy that big.

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Steve I think you have more than a few sabals to plant next spring. I just saw a picture you took that must have had 50 seedlings in it.

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Hey Steve, I recognize some of those zamias. You got me started several years ago and I still have mine and they look eerily similar to mine. Were you at my house taking pictures?

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I think I would start treating with a systemic also. I use mine sparingly with very good results. use it 3-4 times as needed over the course of a month.

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John, Great pics and you have an unbelievable collection of palms. I showed my wife the pics of your garage and palms just to prove to her that I am not the only one with a problem. THANKS for your help. She now thinks you are crazier than I am (and I mean that in a god way).

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great link Don. Wonder if someday they will find find my little piece of the tropics in kansas and write a story about it?

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The Sabal Louisianas are by far the fastest sabal I have growing. I have the S. McCurtain, S. Louisiana, and S. Minor and the S Louisianas are twice as big as the others and all germinated within a few months of each other. The McCurtain seems to be my slowest grower. Steve, again, very nice pics. Y...

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very nice variety of palms you are growing. Do you ever wonder what your place would look like if you lived in southern florida.?I mean honestly, how could you pick 20-25 palms to plant in your yard.

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nice work there Steve. I have had excellent luck digging PDP's out of the ground and repotting each fall. They are tough palms. Keep it warm and it should perk up in no time. Nice Bismarckia. One of my favorites. Yours look great. Did you start those from seed?

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Barb - you can spend alot of money on a specific grow or plant bulb. 99% of my palms spend winter inside and I use regular old floodlights on palm trees in an upstairs bed room and the palms are perfectly happy. The first year I overwintered stuff I spent hundreds of dollars on grow bulbs, and switc...

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good luck finding a meteorite. It amazing more stuff from space is not found on the planet. I bet if you can find the sock I lost last weekend while doing laundry there will be tons of space junk with it. lol.

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not sure what caused the browning of the fronds. I repotted and treated with systemic granulars a couple of times and it seemed to help. It only has 3 leaves on it today, it looks much better and am hopeful it survives the winter and thrives next summer. They are one of my favorite palms.

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Thought I would post a picture here of what I am doing to protect some of my inground palms. Following is a picture of 3 small palms covered in a mulch of leaves and covered by a plastic trash bag (no lights, no heat provided) . I did this last year and these three palms survived in ground after bei...

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Barb, love the bottle, your palm ain't bad either. Nice find. these seem to be good indoor palms. I've had one that has done very well inside the last 2 years. It had some frond browning issues this summer but I think it will be fine now. Everything looks great at your place. keep up the good work.

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ditto on your stuff. everything looks great. The areca vestiaria have great color for being young palm trees. I hope they stay colorful. The water feature is a great idea. Good luck. Started hauling stuff into the garage last night and setting up the green room in the basement. Things have really go...

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Steve now I know why you never invite me over for dinner - there is no place to sit in the dining room. We are having the family Christmas at our house this year and my wife has already layed down the rules about plants in the house for winter and expecially nothing in the dining room. It seems a bi...

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for what its worth I treat most of my potted palms with granular insecticide before bringing them in for winter as precautionary. I have learned in the past that you can bring in alot of nasty looking bugs and things in the soil that my wife hates. I carry everything into the garage for a few days a...

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nicely done. it appears to have some friends living with it for the winter.

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you could bust through the floor, dig a hole and set your palm down in said hole. then each year your could dig it deeper. Thats what I'm talking about.

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