Palms Indoors for winter

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:30 am

Kent, can you remember WHO it was (with the 2 leaning Queens)...palms, that is

Otherwise Search comes up with 35,432 matches...

(I like that one too!)

...egg nog

(once on the lips, forever on the hips)

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:42 am

No I don't remember who it was but I do remember the pics. He had some great looking big palm trees inside his house.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:47 am

This'll drive me crazy...
...short trip.

Barb

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:51 am

Found it!

Mark from Illinois: http://www.palmsnorth.com/forum/viewtop ... 30&start=0

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:43 pm

lucky1 wrote:Found it!

Mark from Illinois: http://www.palmsnorth.com/forum/viewtop ... 30&start=0

I just love the fact that Barb found the extension pull out menu of the emoticons.....You go Barb!!!

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:40 am

just found and clicked on the "view more emoticons". Its like christmas morning the week before christmas morning. :lickice:

know what I mean.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:24 am

oppalm wrote:just found and clicked on the "view more emoticons". Its like christmas morning the week before christmas morning.
know what I mean.

totally!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:41 am

Erik, you didn't reply to comment(s) from 3 pictures of your indoor palm set-up.
How are they doing now?

Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:02 am

Barb,
sorry--I've been busy and must have missed them.

Dining room palms---
Triangle palms: doing well; spears growing!
Caryota: fine, but no new growth.
Bismarckia: looks good. I adjusted the grow light to give it more. One of my cats has taken to using it to pee in, so I am trying to place stuff in there to discourage her.

Chamaedorea (eneresti-augustii, geonoformis): look good; spear on each opened to healthy looking new leaves while I was gone!

Roystonea: looking fine, but no growth
PDP: (left outside one night too many in October; spear pull) still there, but no signs good or bad.

Ballroom (=cool storage room with window and lights on timers) palms---
all look fine. I moved the big Washy closer to the window per your suggestion.

--Erik
P.S. check out my temps!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:08 am

Excellent they're doing so well, Erik.

One of my cats has taken to using it to pee in,

That's an easy one...top dress with gravel, or, fist-sized rocks so soil isn't exposed.

My palm hut door was open for several days during mild weather.
Now the interior smells like cat pee.
I don't have a cat.
Or:

Great temps! You weren't kidding when you said winter doesn't start till January in Oklahoma

Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:50 am

Thanks.
speaking of temps, I'm heading back outside. We're going to grill on the patio today.
We have friends up from Florida; love that it is warmer here than there.
Serving? Goat, of course!

--Erik

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 3:51 am

Kent,

You have a beautiful Queen Palm there! I have found some up here in Omaha for sale, but I try and do some research on any new palm I buy. From what I've read on the internet, Queens reportedly grow really fast and require lots of sun and so aren't recommended as a indoor palm. If I bought one of these I would want it to be a indoor palm. I have high enough ceilings in two rooms, one faces the East, one the West.

What advice can you give me on owning a Queen? do you put yours outside in the summer? or keep it inside all the time? any advice would be a big help.

Scott/Omaha

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:33 am

mine stays outside as soon as it's warm enough in spring time and comes inside when it gets cold in the fall. This year it was outside in late March and came inside last weekend, about 7 months outside. It spends the winter in an east facing room that has a large picture window and is very bright. It does not skip a beat when inside over the winter. Good luck with your palm.

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 3:53 am

LOVE the foxtail palm. Never have seen any around here, and don't have much room left.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:38 am

Those are beauties, aren't they? I got mine as a gift, but the local Home depot has them in 5 gallon pots for $35, marked down from $40.
--Erik
PS to get back to the point of this thread, mine is back outside on the patio as we are in a warm spell now

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:24 am

Our local box stores never get cool palms like the Foxtail. So had to order one on Ebay this weekend.

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:59 pm

I can blame this purchase squarely on Oppalm! after seeing his Foxtail beauty at the beginning of this thread I knew I had to have one, yet I've never seen them sold here by any store, but thanks to Ebay found this for $6.95+shipping($14.95 total). Plant came with a root system every bit as long as the plant/stalk itself so very happy with purchase.

Wife asked me as we were making room for it if it was the last one (is there ever really a last one?)

While she is gone tomorrow I plan on getting a Bamboo Palm that I've seen at one of our local nursery's...

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:10 pm

Perfect addition!
Decent price too.

Will W notice a (new) Bamboo Palm tomorrow evening?

Foxtail won't like the hot dry air from the vent, maybe turn it off? deflect it?

...then one day, it'll look like this:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/southslope/6360640803/" title="foxtail_palm_b2js by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6234/6360 ... 735f_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="foxtail_palm_b2js"></a>

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:26 pm

Barb, no air from the vent will hit the palm, it's on the side.

Also, out of the picture I have a humidifier. Between that and the heat pump humidity is always around 50-60% in that room

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:30 pm

Barb,
forgot...I'm sure she'll notice the palm because she knows I've been talking about getting one. She doesn't even fight me about it anymore although she did say she wishes she got as much attention as my palms......must be a hint??

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:24 pm

Sounds like a perfect set-up then ... the palms that is.

Hey, why not give W a gift?
A palm tree might be nice.

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:28 pm

Sounds like a plan! I will try that tomorrow and see how it goes.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:37 am

LOL the retriever in that pic look like "I LOVE PALMS!!". I vote that that dogs face is our mascot!

Bamboo palms are probably my favorite, yet I dont have one!

My advice, get the palm, take the wife out for supper.... Its win win!

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:40 am

Bought the Bamboo Palm today, while wife having a "girls day" with her sisters. I took a pic with my phone though and sent it to her so lessen the shock...

Her is pic in my garage with the pot I'm going to put it in.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 11:15 am

so lessen the shock

Chicken!

Nice palm, good size.
Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:25 pm

Nice palm! One of my favorite genera.
As for the W, my trick is to take her someplace with coconut palms in winter. Give it a try.

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:28 pm

Great idea, but I'm sure she would tire of me pointing out all the ones I knew, or looking to see if there was a nursery to go to....

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:32 pm

I buy W a big pina colada and then she happily tunes me out as I explain coconut milk production etc.
Meantime you can enjoy the view. This photo of coconut palms was taken last December...

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sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:39 pm

Which view! lol

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:34 pm

sashaeffer wrote:Which view! lol

palms

sashaeffer · Post by **sashaeffer** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:53 pm

Jim, Have you wrapped your windmills yet this fall, or still waiting and watching the weather. I'm kinda following your lead here since this is my first year.

forecast here doesn't look that bad still for yet another week.

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 6:50 pm

nice coconuts.

Scott nice foxtail.

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