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- Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:59 pm
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Winter protection for Zone 7 by novice
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34592
Replies to Barb
Thanks for your help here. Let me answer some of your questions: Golden bamboo: it does look good. It is growing a little each year. I keep hoping it will take off and run as I gave it a lot of space. The only winter protection it gets is mulch. The chickens scratch that away and expose some roots e...
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:32 pm
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Winter protection for Zone 7 by novice
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34592
thermostatic switch
I'll check on that switch. I am trying to make things as easy as possible. The reason is that I am escaping to Belize for a couple of weeks soon and leaving my wife behind in the cold. I don't really expect her to run out in the cold to turn things on for me when I am sweating in the jungle.....
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:51 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: What do you guys think?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7610
C. humilis
I concur, on the Chamearops humilis. I've tried two, with minimal winter protection. The silver variety was from an expensive 1 gallon pot and did not make it. The larger (5 gallon) was a cheap HD purchase and is starting its 3rd winter. I mulch it heavily and put a 20-gallon bucket over it for the ...
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:05 pm
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Winter protection for Zone 7 by novice
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34592
Butia shelter
Barb, Bill, Jim, thanks for the quick help. For those just checking in, here is a link to the photo of the shelter my 10-year-old and I made for the 15-gallon potted Butia I bought at the local HD last May and planted in ground in between the stumps of two Washingtonia that died last March: http://p...
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:25 am
- Forum: Weather & Climate
- Topic: First snow in your area part II
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7026
BIG storm
Jim, I'm following this one, too, as it will be so big as to hit me as well as you. The local meteorologists are still unsure how it will play out here. As of this morning, the prediction was snow in Kansas and cold rain here turning to snow late but they admit they are just not sure. I have to work...
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:14 pm
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Winter protection for Zone 7 by novice
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34592
Trachy trunk wrap
Here is the Trachy I bought from Home Depot (15 gallon pot) in May. This will be its first winter. I sprayed the trunk with neem oil, wrapped it in burlap, sprayed that, wrapped that with fiberglass insulation for ducts, and then wrapped that with burlap. The slim poles are to support a 19-gallon ro...
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:05 pm
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Winter protection for Zone 7 by novice
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34592
Winter protection for Zone 7 by novice
As I indicated on my "Introduction" post, I am new to growing palms in the ground here on the zone 6/7 border. I made a photo album on Picassa web: http://picasaweb.google.com/terdalfarm/WinterProtectionDec2009?feat=directlink I'll try to embed photos of specific plants I have questions ab...
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:08 am
- Forum: Weather & Climate
- Topic: First snow in your area
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20808
Tuesday storm
Jim, we'll get hit by the same storm coming your way. Hopefully not quite as cold--it was "only" 19 oF here this morning. I finished my winter protection last week. I'll post photos on a new thread and ask for suggestion I can implement before it gets really cold. [url]<a href="http:/...
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:10 am
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Most Beautiful Palm in the World
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8975
- Sun Nov 01, 2009 6:27 am
- Forum: Weather & Climate
- Topic: NOAA winter precip outlook.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8427
El Nino timing
El Nino events can build over weeks to months. Here is a readable update from the Australian meteorology bureau: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/ It was published Oct. 28 and so is as current as I could find. I am still not convinced Oklahoma will be affected. It takes quite a large El Nino event...
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:50 pm
- Forum: Weather & Climate
- Topic: NOAA winter precip outlook.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8427
El Nino
The NOAA is predicting slightly warmer than normal temps (on average) for my area: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions//multi_season/13_seasonal_outlooks/color/churchill.php This is the usual product of an El Nino event: http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/ I am taking more risks this winter in...
- Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:38 pm
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Fungicides?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5584
Neem oil
Thanks! I'll look for it.
I bought, on impulse, a bottle of "fungicide" spray today with the active ingredient of neem oil. Does anyone have experience with it?
I bought, on impulse, a bottle of "fungicide" spray today with the active ingredient of neem oil. Does anyone have experience with it?
- Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:48 am
- Forum: Other Plants of Interest
- Topic: Tree ferns
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5332
- Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:50 am
- Forum: Cold Hardy - General
- Topic: Ginger
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2699
Dig or cover?
Do you dig up your gingers and bring them in or do you leave them in the ground with mulch?
- Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:46 am
- Forum: Other Plants of Interest
- Topic: Tree ferns
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5332
local nursery
My local nursery carries D. antarctica. I bought a large trunked specimen in May and kept it in a large (5 gal.) terra cotta pot on the front porch, in shade except for the morning. In late June, we went out of town for a couple of weeks. Temps were in the lows 100s oF each afternoon and about 80 oF...
- Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:35 am
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Fungicides?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5584
Fungicides?
The fungicide I have used in the past has been the copper-based soaps referred to in Francko's 2003 book. I spray the trunk and stem of my palms before I put them in leaf enclosures, and again in late winter/early Spring. I tend to use it rather generously. I have read somewhere here on this forum t...
- Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:54 pm
- Forum: Germination
- Topic: My New Incubator / Seed Propagator
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11010
Cool 'fridge!
This will let you keep them consistently warm. The fan is to circulate air. Will the fan dry the growing medium too fast?
- Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:30 pm
- Forum: Member Introduction
- Topic: Hello from Oklahoma
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14213
sabal minor seeds
Do you scrape the fruit off of the seeds? Do you scar the seeds? Do you soak them? Am I making this out to be harder than it needs to be?
- Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:09 pm
- Forum: Member Introduction
- Topic: Howdy from Little Elm, Texas
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16533
Lovely!
Rocky, thanks for sharing the photos. I was especially impressed with the pindo palm. I hope mine looks that well in, oh, a decade. I bought it at HD. As you said, they do not seem to pay attention to local climate the way locally owned nurseries do. I can only assume Tulsa got a shipment because it...
- Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:49 pm
- Forum: Member Introduction
- Topic: Hello from Oklahoma
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14213
Name
Bill, sorry about that omission. My name is Erik. Rocky, that's interesting that your live oak is from Tri B in Hulbert, OK. I drive through their fields along highway 51 east of Tulsa regularly for work. It is a truly huge nursery in the foothills of the Ozark mountains. It is slightly colder there...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:51 pm
- Forum: Member Introduction
- Topic: Hello from Oklahoma
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14213
My Jubaea has been a disappointment. I keep it in a pot and change soils annually. It is outside May - October. It lives outdoors in partial shade to avoid the worst heat. (The potted Chameadora radicalis next to it does great.) The Jubaea long ago lost all of its foliage, and has not grown new leav...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:58 am
- Forum: Member Introduction
- Topic: Hello from Oklahoma
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14213
Paul, thanks for the links. I've been to those websites but not the actual store. I keep assuming I'll be in OKC on business sometime and will be able to drop by but it hasn't happened yet. I prefer large specimens, so it makes sense to drive there vs, mail order. I'll be driving to Ft. Worth, Texas...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:52 am
- Forum: Member Introduction
- Topic: Hello from Oklahoma
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14213
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:31 pm
- Forum: Member Introduction
- Topic: Hello from Oklahoma
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14213
Hello from Oklahoma
Hello from Oklahoma! I was referred here by knnn, whom I "met" by commenting on his neat YouTube video showing how to build a minigreenhouse ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfIHf2PNVA[/url]). I'm working on a tropical-themed garden around the pool on our hobby farm outside Tulsa. Her...