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Problaby first week of april. Still snow and ice everywhere :S Sun is bright though..

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Hey, I believe that low hedge is ligustrum vulgare, pretty tough and robust plant to create thick hedges. Needs constant pruning to maintain its thickness and shape

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Yes, reveal yourself you finnish warrior

Looking hearing from you and your plants. How are they doing nowadays?

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Hey Jim, hey ya goin? The plants are doing fine as I can see from the pics above. I'm back from Australia and Asia and suffered in xtreme tropical heat for almost a half year :P Many precious plants died back home, my brother didn't put too much effort in keeping them alive, but almost all the banan...

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Man, that suxx but I know how you feel, I lost some stuff this winter aswell.. Get some decent soil and a raised bed would be a good idead. My trachy came just trough its second winter without no problems, also waggy from its first winter. Trachy scares me because its gets bigger quite fast and I ha...

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Thnx guys, I think I will protect it with large (80 cm diameter) heating pipe isolation panels and tighten them with makrolflex or similar. In the enclosure I will add some 60 w lamp for the rough times. I think it should work, last years palmhouse has already been destroyed by neighbours cat (bubbl...

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G'day all, it is time to show my mighty trachy

lol Anyway it is doing fine so far and I hope it will do nicely in the future aswell.

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I like the video. I almost can get the touch how does it feel in that evening. That's sad that you have to go, I have moved many times in my life some of them for financial reason so it is hard I know.. I wish you all the luck you can get and the one aswell you couldn't. Hope to hear of you and your...

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Wow, no snow over there at all. My garden is covered with melting snow at the moment

How come your cidp has such a miniature short leaves? Is it a cross with a pygmy date palm? Waitin for the spring too...

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They believed you when you said it came from a nursery in that coke bottle???? Hilarious...they probably wanted one too :lol: Congratulations on your Trachy winter protection! Glad you folks had a better winter in Europe than last year. Will look forward to seeing your additional pictures of Adonid...

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Hi again. It was quite a trouble, the customs asked a lot about it in the airport. I lied I bought it from the market :) Actually I dug it out myself from the beach. Theres a million coconuts there so no worrys about dangered species thing :) I brought some seedlings of christmas palm adonidia aswel...

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Pretty palm I'd say

I brought one germinated nut from Tobago and it is already pushing second leaf under lamp. I'm giving it constant heat and it is moving.

But how is your bottle palm?

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Everything looking good! The amount of trachies create almost jungleish atmosphere.
Do I see correct you have some sort strelitzias there? How sensitive are the plants roots for planting out in spring and digging out in the fall? Or are these kept only in pots?

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a new camera?

Anyway I finally understand the real size of the thai giant when a person is a next to it, the ensete is also bigger than I thought it was.

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Things have really been growing! Is that green form of ensete or the red maurellii? It's kinda green for maurelli and too reddish for regular ensete ventricosum.

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Wow, I guess you sure get the attention of people who are passing by your house. I love the different varieties of bananas you have, did you grow them from a seed or bought as a plants? Last year I managed to grow from a seed only green ensete and musa sikkimensis which are quite large now.

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Hi Jim, nice growth. wonder if it makes that big as the german guys one did. Mine was almost dead in the spring and I was going to throw it away but here it is now. The weather has been crazy past 3 weeks, real tropics after an awful winter which is good for a while.. I also planted different sikkis...

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G'day Yuri! Everything looks good. Haven't been on this board for a while. Nice to see that things are going nicely here. My newly planted trachy is already growing and making some new leaves.

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Looks very promising, hope to see these in a future as huge specimens

btw the lawn looks very nice and green already, does it stay green during the winter?

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They look kinda stretched but still good. I have 2 of roebs and one of them has very short and compact leaves, wonder what is causing it?

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That´s sad

The first pic looks like my trachy now..

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Why not pot plant? It would save you and your palm a lot of trouble :P I have been thinking of potplanting as a way of creating the "atmosphere" in my garden too. Some species I cannot never plant out but creating short illusion is worth it. Some roots tend to push out from the drainage h...

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Will look forward to seeing your new Trachy, corrosion. Is the other one really dead? Might be too early to decide? Barb Maybe but I guess it won´t survive the next winter in such condition. I cut almost the whole trunk and the trunk is maybe 10 cm high now. I treated it with fungicide and despite ...

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Nowadays there are ladders which are foldable

BTW the trachy looks great for an oldie

I´m starting with new trachy in late april when it is warm enough. It looks 10 times better than the one in bad- or dead condition originally looked and it has a rootball which is good for a while.

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Nice to see such rarities in Finland too :) I think we had at least the same amount snow this winter than Finland, but I think Finland holds the record due the northern location. On front of my garage the pile of snow is still 1.5 metres but it is melting in fast speed. I hope spring and summer brin...

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wow. It seems to me you are a man with golden arms

Looks very aesthetical in my point of view. Looking forward to any new pics.

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erm I think if I would try any butia in my zone then only with heating and proper cover :| These plants cost a fortune to just relay on the mercy of the weather. We had the worst winter here in north over 2 decades, my trachys spear pulled yesterday :evil: I cut the stem a bit and sprayed with fungi...

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Hello Jova!
The ricinus look great! Did you grow them yourself from seed? I still haven´t received my castor bean seeds from Canada, it´s more than month already

I like the big clump of Bananas too, I bet things turn really jungleish this year in your place

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I dont know if it is dead or not but I let the time tell.. I think I´ll dig it out and put in a greenhouse recover if there´s anything to recover. I bought new with better leaves and bigger rootball. Guess I have to start again but new start is something what I need at the moment :) Winter protectio...

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The windmills look great :) Too bad mine looks like crap.. Once these start growing they wont stop easily :) Mark.. I have problem with the spidermites too. Hard soaking and misting helps to control them. Occasional neem azal treatments too, but humidity is the key. I mist my bananas and indoor plan...

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Here it is: http://www.butia.co.uk/Palmbooster.html
I know it may sound a bit commercial reading all of this but I´ve read from different forums about it and it seems to be worth its price.
I´ve seen it also on ebay but I guess the shipping to US would cost another fortune

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Dont you guys over the sea use Palm booster which is so widely used in Europe? I´m getting my hands on one soon so I can hopefully tell about its "magical" qualities in the future :) At the moment I´m using 1 dollar russian fertiliser Skoraja pomoch which seem to have all the necessary ing...

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I cut all the dried leaves from my trachy. The spear is still firm and pale. I think it´s too early to judge it. Speaking of Ensete ventricosum maureli. I had a funny story with it. Last summer in august I ordered it from Germany. At the same time I were in Spain on a holiday for several weeks and I...

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Everything is looking great. Seems that the spring is really there. Any plantas nuevos planned for this spring?
I wish the snow already melted in my place

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Wow. The world is strange, places are different, climates are different. The zone only indicates low temps not the highest or temps overall. I´m feeling happy for your trachy Serj. I cut most of the dried leaves of mine today. The spear was still solid but dried and pale. Max temp inside the palm hu...

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Damn, that sucks

I feel for the washy but it´s a big strong tree so hopefully it recovers well. BTW in what zone are you?

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Hmm maybe you guys in Canada have more advanced technology used in ropelights :) Mine is 150 w pure heat, thats why it went black in some parts..Miscalculations and I don´t have thermostat at the moment I´m thinking of getting one for the next winter.I´m not that stupid to put led lights for heating...

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Trachy update. I removed the cover today and noticed that the heating cable has turned black in some points :( Perhaps it has heated the crown too much to cause yellowing in the spear? The spear was really dry and but still strong so the overheating could have been the problem.. Anyway here are the ...

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Hello Barb, nice looking plants :) The weather seems to be quite mild compared to mine :( Anyway speaking of potplanting, has anyone really used this method to plant things out permanently? I read from some site that it help to root plants faster and without complications especially in border zones....

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