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miketropic
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Ugly but alive

Post by miketropic » Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:50 am

I picked up all my palms today out of the unheated storage.of 9 I have 4 left..not a good ratio but what can you do.

Silver med fan..as stated ugly but alive spear is solid

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7 gallon cape hat..pulled

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Sabal " birmingham" spear is ok fronds are fried

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Windmill looks best of them all some leaf tip browning but ok

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Sabal Minor "blue pot special" 2 in this pot one pulled the other did not

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RIP to a green med fan, needle in the ground, the cape Hat, Butia and a Waggie. I will replace the Waggie the rest are compost..might get another Cape Hat. All might spear pull later on but there alive for now.



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Post by lucky1 » Sun Apr 06, 2014 1:26 pm

Oh Mike, that hurts. How awful, especially losing the green Med.

Fingers crossed the rest don't pull.

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Post by chadec » Mon Apr 07, 2014 12:31 pm

Hate to hear all the bad news Mike. Im right there with you, after this recent warm up everything I have in the ground started going down hill. Only indoor palm I lost was my Bismarkia.

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Post by miketropic » Tue Apr 08, 2014 5:51 pm

silver med fan pulled today..I think the others are not to far behind it...

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Post by lucky1 » Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:11 pm

darn it, mike.
and some palms take a long time to die.
They sure suffered this winter.
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Post by Zabola » Tue Apr 08, 2014 11:44 pm

A shame really, unheated storage is not a place for potted palms.
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Post by chadec » Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:18 pm

Hate to hear it. But on a bright note, our Lowes is loaded with silver euro palms rights now. You might be able to replace it.

miketropic
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Post by miketropic » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:28 am

our lowes never gets any cold hardy palms..all the blue pots come from walmart around here.ill be on the look out the next few weeks

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Post by Zabola » Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:42 pm

Can anyone explain what's the problem with blue pots, some say black pot palms are more hardy then those in blue is that true or just a stupid joke?
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Post by sashaeffer » Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:36 am

Had two Blue pot Needle Palms both died after first year in the ground, where the 3rd one I had from Jungle Music lived on.
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Post by 905palms » Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:40 am

2 years ago I had a smaller 5 gal blue pot Trachy and Pindo (Monrovia I believe). Both toast... Not a big fan of Monrovia in general, even for zone friendly plants.
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Post by sashaeffer » Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:43 am

Not that I've bought 100's of palms but seem to have much better luck buying from independents where palms were germinated and grew from seedlings in somewhat of a colder climate close to what I experience.

Stuff from Steve Anderson has been rock solid, as well as Jungle Music.

Just ordered from Chilly Palm Tree for the first time, so will see what that product is like.
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Post by miketropic » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:10 pm

sashaeffer wrote:Not that I've bought 100's of palms but seem to have much better luck buying from independents where palms were germinated and grew from seedlings in somewhat of a colder climate close to what I experience.

Stuff from Steve Anderson has been rock solid, as well as Jungle Music.

Just ordered from Chilly Palm Tree for the first time, so will see what that product is like.
Thats the sad part I got the cape hat and the waggie from steve and I know he sells top notch palms. The birmingham I got from him is the only one alive. I also agree that getting the palms from someone who grows in a colder area is best. no cold hardy palm that has lived its life in south Florida is going to make it in my winter no matter what color pot its in.

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Post by InsanePalmNinja » Thu May 08, 2014 9:05 am

All of potted palms died except the one my Brazoria Palmetto was the only survivor. All windmills died outside except for one lucky one. All sabal palms lived but still waiting on the Brazoria and other cabban palms.
Nobody panics when people plant normal trees because its part of the plan... if someone plants a Palm EVERYONE LOSES THERE MINDS!

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Post by InsanePalmNinja » Wed May 14, 2014 4:12 pm

InsanePalmNinja wrote:All of potted palms died except the one my Brazoria Palmetto was the only survivor. All windmills died outside except for one lucky one. All sabal palms lived but still waiting on the Brazoria and other cabban palms.
As of Sunday may 11 Broazria and Oldeist cabbae palm lived.
Nobody panics when people plant normal trees because its part of the plan... if someone plants a Palm EVERYONE LOSES THERE MINDS!

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