Winter is comeing... O god no.

InsanePalmNinja · Post by **InsanePalmNinja** » Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:29 pm

How should I protect my Washingtonia filabusta. Problem is I can't use heat. Any ideas that can help protect this palm. I thought about building a 6 foot Rose Box(Cone) Or should I follow the Palms won't grow here Book. winter is myt Bible for me in the winter lol.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:56 am

I did an experiment last winter with my Washingtonia filiferas.
One in a rose cone and lots of mulch.
One in a clear plastic (inverted) bucket and lots of mulch (got steamy in there, you could see daytime condensation )
One in a plastic and foam insulated box with thermocube actuated Xmas lights x 8.

Guess what lived. They were harder than yours, my filiferas.

Only the one that had heat. It did phenomenally. The others didn't stand a chance.

Our maximum cold was 11'f one day and 13' f on three other occasions. An 8a winter essentially.

So good luck with that Ninja.

Cheers

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:45 am

Why no heat? Frankly, I'm not optimistic.
Distance to electric outlet? Try a long cord. If that won't work, you can put plastic milk jugs full of hot tap water under the protection every evening. A pain in the back, but better than nothing.

InsanePalmNinja · Post by **InsanePalmNinja** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:33 am

TerdalFarm wrote:Why no heat? Frankly, I'm not optimistic.
Distance to electric outlet? Try a long cord. If that won't work, you can put plastic milk jugs full of hot tap water under the protection every evening. A pain in the back, but better than nothing.

I would try that but There no way to get heat to the garden I live with my Parntas... Then I again i could go behide there back and doing that way.

Zabola · Post by **Zabola** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 12:57 am

This is the material you should go with.. (its a termoinsulator for roofs)
http://imageshack.us/a/img69/5894/img0752lc.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img808/3798/img0753l.jpg

this is the construction
http://www.dodaj.rs/f/2I/E3/49ddymZv/img4430.jpg
http://www.dodaj.rs/f/3H/I0/3tJ335i2/img4650.jpg

voilà
http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1P/8X/1c9hsabc/imgp2940.jpg

The most important thing is to dry the soil before the first frosts, essential for Sabals they dont like their feet wet!
Please use this on Sabals

InsanePalmNinja · Post by **InsanePalmNinja** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 4:41 pm

Zabola wrote:This is the material you should go with.. (its a termoinsulator for roofs)
http://imageshack.us/a/img69/5894/img0752lc.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img808/3798/img0753l.jpg

this is the construction
http://www.dodaj.rs/f/2I/E3/49ddymZv/img4430.jpg
http://www.dodaj.rs/f/3H/I0/3tJ335i2/img4650.jpg

voilà
http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1P/8X/1c9hsabc/imgp2940.jpg

The most important thing is to dry the soil before the first frosts, essential for Sabals they dont like their feet wet!
Please use this on Sabals

Really I didn't have much of a problem wiht the dry the soil before the first frosts, essential for Sabals.