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Ben
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Beny's bang-on with that advice.avoid if possible any leaves to touch very cold enclosure.
So the frost cloth between the fronds and the drums won't do me a bit of good? If so.... darnit.... I have everything on and the upper portion covered with plastic and shrink wrapped to water tightness (at least on the top). The issue I noticed with the barrels is even with me pulling the fronds up, I can still see it's a bit of a tight fit in the drum. And since I can see there's little between the plant and the outside I thought the frost cloth barrier draped over the fronds would do me some good....lucky1 wrote:Beny's bang-on with that advice.avoid if possible any leaves to touch very cold enclosure.
Fronds cannot touch the cold surface at all.
Barb
expecting 2-5 inches thursday, heading into freezing as we speak. I had to build my boxes this past friday and monday with a wicked cold.... I was physically exhausted doing these things this fall.... really makes me want to find an easier way. Although with that said, I can whip out a box in about 30-45 min. which isn't too bad. Long term with what I'm doing I don't like the idea of buying new strands of c-9's every year as I've found the bulbs are only good for one season, after that they start burning out. Getting down to a mummy wrap with a compact fluorescent makes more sense.TerdalFarm wrote:Wheel,
well, will do some good. You'll just get foliage damage where frond tips touch the outer surface. The palms themselves should be fine.
So, how cold is it there now? Snow?
Frost cloth will help somewhat; the cloth won't feel as cold as, say, plastic.So the frost cloth between the fronds and the drums won't do me a bit of good? If so.... darnit....
Might want to bring the tender stuff back to your North Vancouver home in Spring.-6c at my cottage in Harrison
Wow, that's quite the growth spurt.Phoenix went from 3'6" to nearly 6' in one summer
Scott, I do exactly the same thing. When in doubt, fire up the heat cable. Mine is 100 footer and used around the base of multiple palms and roots as a back up.sashaeffer wrote:I'm sure in time I'll have to use the heat cable when in the ground palms here get too big to build cages around. Most though I installed a 6ft heat tape in the ground when I planted the palms. It's thermostat stays inside the enclosure so may never come on if thermocube does it's job, but at least if it fails OR we get some un heard of cold temps where the Christmas lights can't keep up the heat tape in the ground is to me a 2nd tier of protection.
In the Spring, I apply a few shots of warm water to each tree with Epsom salts, as the salts also prevent freezing. No need to plug the cable in at that point, just for extreme low temps.Brooklands wrote:Do you ever fire up the soil heat cable in the spring to speed up the early season growth?
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