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Our W. filifera was sown feb of 2012. Planted in our garden as a two-strapleaf seedling in May 2012. First pic from August 26 2012 (two plants):
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And one year later, August 28 2013 (removed 2nd plant this May):
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It is pushing its eighth and ninth spear this season since May.
Thanks for looking!

nice growth on that Washy......keep the updates coming. Mine did very poorly this summer.....as it only grew 1 new leaf. I 'think' the roots may have been frozen and were killed?

What a difference a year makes, very nice and my all time favorite palm.

Nice...that thing will be moving your air-conditioner in no time.



Tim

They require a foot of mulch during winter here and
the whole area around the palm for quite a ways out....

My guess is if you look you will see your Washy has put out
a bunch of giant new roots from just above where the old ones were-
if that is the issue and it most certainly has to be with just one leaf this year.

Adam,

That's a ton of growth in only a year.

How'd the other one do (the one you moved)?

Barb

Barb,
I had three clumps planted thru winter.
Onne had a clear plastic bucket filled with mulch in it over top of it. It died by spring.
I had one with just a rose cone and a layer of mulch. It died.
Then there is this clump. Heated box over it. Did great. I split the two and put the second in a 10 inch pot and is doing great. But not as well as the one in ground, which barely had any root disturbance during the separation.

Adam,

Heated box over it. Did great

That's the trick.

Xmas lights controlled by a thermocube?
If so, how many C6s or C9s for this guy?

Barb

yes indeed, Barb. I think 8 c9's

Okeedokee, Adam, thanks.
I just ordered another Thermocube...here we go again...sweating buckets over their survival this winter.

Barb