Almost end of the year pics

[macario]

Sorry guys this year I didnt keep up with my yard like I should have was very busy. Now my work is over and its back to palms. Heres my end of year pics of the yard. Everythings kind of ugly looking cant wait until next spring! Things are starting to get big. Sabal minor putting on some trunk, waggy and trachys too!! My needle starting to rebound.

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[Mark]

Nice collection Mike.

Everything looks great!

Looks like you have quite a bit to protect. How many are staying in the ground and being protected this year?

My hat off to you.
Mark

[macario]

Thanx mark. My two big trachys my waggy and my needle, sabal minor and cactus and yucca all stay in the ground. everything else comes in.

[Mark]

Cool.

Digging up that queen then? right? Looks like you got some nice big specimens this year, Like that queen and Adonidia or is it a king palm. And is that a Butia in the pot? Sago's look great too!! Where you getting these from?

Mark

[DesertZone]

Amazing!

[macario]

Thanx aaron Its been a while how was this year for you?

Mark thats a double christmas palm. I brought it back from miami this spring. The big pindo I got last year from Texas. I was in galveston so it and brought it back. The queen and sagos I got locally. The queen from a nursey for 120 bucks and the sagos from lowes in orldand park. They put out a huge flush each this year. I have a huge bismakia also I brought from texas with the butia in a big pot.

[BILL MA]

Nice collection you have there Mike! Did you have access to the car wash last year to store your potted palms or is that new this year? How do you feel your insulated boxes worked last winter? Did you heat them? I love the Christmas palm too!

Looking great!
Bill

[hardyjim]

Hey Mike,hows it going?
Trachys look nice,glad to see your Sabal is doing well.How is your Butia and cactus bed doing? I did not see pics of these on your link.

[macario]

Bill I used the car wash at work to hold my bismak and some bananas. I will being sticking the christmas palm and the queen and an few others in the car wash. The insulated boxes work like magic. I had 4 or 5 spiral lights in them and that was it for heat. Trick to using the insulated box is keeping it air tight. I wrapped mine in plastic and stapled it tight.

Jim The butia in the ground got burned last year and never recovered. I have a new one to replace it next year. I was told the cactus wouldnt make it and the agave would and it was reversed for me. The agave rotted and cactus is growing out of control. I have regular opuntia humifusa and opuntia machrohiza both need no protection. The yucca rostrata just has dry tips at the end of each winter. and I also have Opuntia fragilis and opuntia imbricata growing no protection really needed just a cover from rain

[BILL MA]

Mike by spiral light do you mean the screw in florecents? If yes how many watts were they? One more question did you keep track of the temperatures in the boxes?

Thanks Mike I'm trying to come up with something for my oleanders and gardenias.

Bill

[Windmill Palm guy]

Have those windmills flowerd yet?

[macario]

Windmill Palm guy yes they flower every year. Thats how I know I have a male and a female.

Bill yes the spiral florecent ones. They say 27 watts each but they are supposed to put out the same light as a 100 watt. I put two or three at the base of the trunk so heat would rise and 2 glued to the top of the enclosure kind of hanging about the palm. I had the weather channel sensor set up from home depot. It got down to the low 40's at night and upper 80's on a sunny day. It has to be completely air tight. I had one palm that wasnt and it froze to death.

[Okanagan desert-palms]

Macario great to see everything doing well! I bet the neighbors don`t think your that crazy Cuban guy growing palms in the ground now after the few years they have been there now?

John