January Palm Photo's in Zone 5b

Jeff_Ajax · Post by **Jeff_Ajax** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:42 pm

Ok guys, I took a couple photo's of my Dwarf Palmetto and my Needle Palm last Saturday before we had our cold snap pass through this week with -18 at night. Here they are.\\

My Dwarf Palmetto with a rose cone for protection. If the weather was above 3 celsius I removed the rose cone to get it fresh air and a lil sun.

My Needle Palm. Up until Saturday, January 18, the only protection was a blanket over top of it and a tarp when we were expecting rain/snow. As of the 19th, I put a garbage pail over the top of it with our night time lows getting down to -18C. We are seeing a warm up at the end of this week so I'll probably remove the garbage pail again. One of the new fronds pushing up is not very green though. Was like this already near the end of the summer. I did very little with this guy. No fert and not a lot of water this summer.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:10 pm

your palms look great so far...............keep us updated.

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:12 pm

Nice work! Keep us updated on how the progress through this cold snap.

Jeff_Ajax · Post by **Jeff_Ajax** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:41 pm

Well, we are supposed to get a couple days next week of 4 and 5 degrees so as long as it doesn't rain, I'll be uncovering them and taking a look.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:41 pm

They both look good.
Nice specimens, Jeff.

Barb

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:01 am

Good Job Jeff...

looks like the Sabal might have a bit of leaf damage, but you wont know for sure until the spring when it warms up. The needle looks right happy though!

Jeff_Ajax · Post by **Jeff_Ajax** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:42 am

The sabal did have a little going into the winter to begin with so I'm not too worried. Needle is very happy though.

wxman · Post by **wxman** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:33 am

Looks great! I'm going to try some needles this spring.

coconutmike · Post by **coconutmike** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:39 pm

Palms look Great!! Jeff. Hope our cold snap does not last too much longer we have down to -32C with the windchill so -25.6F
Cheers
mike

Jeff_Ajax · Post by **Jeff_Ajax** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 5:08 am

Mike, you guys are a good 6-7 degrees colder then us during the cold snap. We are more or less back to seasonal on Sunday. Monday and Tuesday we are pushing 6 degrees.

GlennKing · Post by **GlennKing** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:27 am

My Needle palm protection this winter, I plan on finding good spot to plant it this spring along with a few others i have stuffed in my barely heated greenhouse.

My sabal minor with no protection seems to be holding its own

Heres what it looked like towards the end of summer.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:48 am

Glenn, welcome to palmsnorth! What has been your coldest temperature this winter? your palms look good!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:00 am

Welcome aboard, Glenn!

Good looking needle and sabal.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 9:41 am

Nice palms! Makes me want to try palms again.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:54 pm

Jeff,
welcome.
Excellent choices for palms. They will do great for you.

GlennKing · Post by **GlennKing** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:17 am

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Well the coldest it's been here so far was -4F last week. Below zero temps happen at least once or twice around here each winter,it's unavoidable. I keep a gas heater in my green house for those really fridgid nights. I have a ton more sabals and needles in there I plan on planting outside in the spring.
Winter is a long time going up here

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:54 am

Glenn,
Would love to see pics of your GH and what you've got overwintering.
So we can drool.

We go ga ga over photos...

Barb

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:44 am

Good stuff!

I love Sabals, but man are they ever SLOW this far north. I don't know what we can do to speed things along... maybe heat the soil?

GlennKing · Post by **GlennKing** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 2:57 pm

Oh yeah I love the sabals too,to bad they grow so SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. I really didn't start to get nervous until the temp. started to drop below 0.F around here with that one planted out in the open like that.

Jeff_Ajax · Post by **Jeff_Ajax** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:48 pm

Very Slow lol. Even with warm ground temps all winter they would still grow slowly just not as slow. It would still be like watching a 500 mile race between 2 slugs lol.