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Dion
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Hello from Lumberton, NJ

Post by Dion » Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:18 am

Hi all,
I am new to this forum. I've read a lot of interesting stories about cold hardy palms. Last year I planted my first Trachy in the ground, a nice 5 foot triple. So far it has made it through the winter. I uncovered it a couple of weeks ago, looks good. I had a cage around it with plastic on top and Christmas lights turned on when the temperature dropped below 20. I've recently bought some cold hardy palms off of ebay. they have all come to me in good condition and all within 6 days of ordering. I bought a couple of Trachy's, Pindo's, Needles, Queen's, and some musa's. I already have some Texas Palmettos that I grew from seed a couple of years ago that are ready to go into the ground. I always plant a couple of 7-8 foot Majesty's in the ground but I always have left them out to die treating them like annuals. Has any body tried to over winter Queens and majesty's, I see they are cold hardy into the twenties, I am going to try and overwinter them with extensive protection because mature queens and majesty's really look good, but I am not going to spend the money for mature ones just to have them die on me. I also have some dwarf date palms I'm going to try and overwinter along with 2 Chinese fan palms.I have lots of tropical fruit trees growing that I keep in my heated sun room for the winter. Boy, I can't wait until it gets warm enough to put them back outside. I have the following tropical fruit trees growing:

1) Meyer Lemon 4 feet producing fruit
2) Key lime flowering
3) Calomondin currently flowing and producing fruit
4) Papaya (2 trees) currently producing fruit
5) Banana plants 1 is about 9 feet and ones is a dwarf about 4 feet, hopefully they will produce bananas this year.
6) Mango tree that is currently flowering
7) Atis (sugar apple) Still dormant
8) Brown Turkey fig (technically not a tropical but it gets to cold here to leave out without protecting it)
9) Passionflower that actually tried to flower last year but didn't produce any fruit yet
10) Grapefruit that is still to young to produce (4 feet)
11) Valencia Orange that is also still to young to produce
12) Eureka lemon grown from seed that is currently about 5 feet
13) Mexican guava (2)
14) Starfruit (2)
15) Pomegranate 2 wonderfuls and one Dwarf that produced small fruit last year
16) Date palms that probably will never get big enough to produce dates but they look good (grown from seed)
17) Avocado grown from seed that is about 2 feet big
18) Meiwa Kumquat that should produce this year
19) Pepino Dulce
20) Naranjilla
21) Tamarillo I had 2 one died over the winter
22) Coffee plant
Plus other non fruit bearing tropical plants that are all crammed in my sun room along with my annual supply of fungus gnats and white flies

I also have a nice supply of fruits growing in my yard such as Blueberries, strawberries, artic kiwi, cranberries, lingon berries, and a Georgia belle peach tree. :lol:


Dion

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Post by Cameron_z6a_N.S. » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:00 pm

welcome! thats quite a list! :D

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Post by Jay-Admin » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:41 pm

Nice list you have. Welcome to the forum. :D

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Post by oppalm » Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:07 pm

welcome. thats quite a list of tropicals. best of luck.
Kent in Kansas
where it's cold in winter (always)
and hot in summer (usually)
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Post by Okanagan desert-palms » Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:13 pm

Dion welcome. It`s a shame you didn`t pot plant your Majesty palms. Majesty palms are quite the challenge to over winter in the dry environment of indoors they need a humidifier and lots of light. I have one and won`t buy another. Queen palms are 10 times easier to over winter than the Majesty. Pygmy date palms are another difficult palm to over winter indoors. I would try Triangle palms and Spindle palms for ease of care.

John
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Post by lucky1 » Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:12 pm

Hey Dion, welcome aboard...plus one or two other folks I've probably missed (sorry.)

It would be great if we Canadians could get palms cheap enough to use as annuals.
Seldom--if ever--are tropicals a decent price here.
So we baby 'em

Wonderful selection you have!
Hope you're going to take lots of pictures as spring arrives.
We love viewing peoples' photos!

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Dion
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Thanks for the warm welcome

Post by Dion » Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:10 am

Thanks for the warm welcome to PalmsNorth, I actually posted a couple of pictures of my yard and palms in the photo gallery.
I actually do have 2 triangle palms and I will have to look into the spindle palms.

Dion
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