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cuter than a bug in rug!!!!

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Thanks Kent your welcome anytime. Yep it takes more and more to prepare for winter every year,almost 2 weeks this time,and it takes everything out of me too! Health ain't what it use to be!!!! It just as much work trying to acclimate all these plants in the spring as well,not enough places to keep t...

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Funny how things work out,no I didn't want or need to start a business,but you plant 100 seeds thinking you might get 10 to pop and you get 90 to germinate,and after several different varieties you got so many plants you don't know what to do with them all. No I haven't even thought about getting in...

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Barb, Its the same here,nurseries truck in there annuals,and with perrinals,I notice there taking cuttings and growing them on and not as ordering them as much as they use to,so you tend to get smaller one gallon plants now,than you use to get,which in turn might make them more hardier anyway than b...

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As anybody else in the surrounding area. I have Mexican And Texas Sabal Palmettos,Trachycarpus Fort, Sabal Minors,Sabal Louisianans,Pindos Capitata,and Brahea Armatas,Also Washy Robustas and Filiferas,for cold hardy palms. And on the tropical side,I have Kings,Queens,Chameadoreas,Fox Tails,Fiji's,As...

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Yep,I'll need to amend my soil for better drainage as well,these types of palm do not like wet feet for very long!

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Quite a few of the Ma&Pa nurseries that have been in town for many years have already gone under in the last couple of years,cannot compete with big box stores. There is about 5 left,that are doing good,but they do quite a business with local businesses as well,where the box store are mainly for...

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Yes I have a couple about 4 yrs now from seed,I plan on putting in the ground next year. It says they are as hardy as a washy robusta,I will use Xmas lights on them as same as my robusta 4 yrs in the ground now. I have a couple dozen seedlings in case my 2 gallon size don't make. <a href="http:...

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Thanks
I haven't been to my flicker photos in a while and enjoyed seeing them again.

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Thanks Barb
Yes right now I have lots of jelly palm and Brahma armata seedlings going,I definitely want some of these growing in my landscape,

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Erik, Sounds like with that much insulation over it,you should be just fine. Mine was about your size or a little larger,my thinking if I just kept the crown dry,I would be fine,so I just covered it with plastic and threw a quilt over it,but the cold did it in anyway,funny thing it looked good all t...

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Erik,
My weather channel was showing you might have gotten some freezing rain yesterday is that true?

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Hi Barb, Yes the wind here has been really terrible,several days of constant 45mph,and it makes my palm hut really sway back and fourth,I used regular heavy duty plastic 6 mil,instead of greenhouse plastic,and the wind has ripped in a couple places,so I had to throw a tarp over it,to make it to spri...

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Thanks everyone Well its 14* outside now,and it suppose to dip to 9*,and it is 36*inside there now,so if the the heat tape comes on at 40* the trunk should be warm,the wind is up and blowing,so I'm guessing there is a pretty cold wind chill out there now. 59* in my big greenhouse now,so I might need...

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Erik, Last year I tried to over winter a pindo about same size as yours,had it cover with just plastic,it looked great all winter,stayed just as green as it was when I covered it,just like my washy robusta,except without any heat source,and when I removed the plastic come spring,I had spear pull and...

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Robusta has made it 3 winters in the ground,with the rope Xmas light around the trunk,last year no Xmas lights on the leaves and lost them all but one,but this I put the Xmas minis back on the fan leaves,so far they look great,this is pretty much 7ft tall. I had to Raja Puri's musa in fruit,wrapped ...

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Its has been about 40 days without any rain or snow,and with todays temperature about 70* today,I thought,I'd better do some watering. First I wanted to check the soil temperature. We have had single digit temperatures twice so far this fall and winter,but the ground hasn't froze over yet. <a href=&...

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Yes Erik,please try again.
I have quite a few large palms,but the Coco is the ultimate palm to grow,I really enjoy just looking at its leaves blowing in the wind,then I daydream for a second or two,that I'm on a Island somewhere!!!!!
Then reality comes back,and I'm in Kansas again!!!LOL

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Actually they are really easy to grow,just need southern window exposure,mist daily,and keep a fan on them.just a gentle breeze during the day,water every couple weeks,only if the top inch is dry. I keep night time temps above 65*,during the winter. Its best to keep them in dappled shade while outsi...

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Thanks everyone

Erik,I devoured the chicken already!
Heck I can make the trip from T town in hour and 35 minutes,just be careful of John law,on top of the hill as your leaving Hominy!!!LOL

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I just finished off the chicken,and it was wonderful!!!
The rest is still on the smoker,which should come off,about 8pm,another 2 hours.
I believe the Majesty palms are the easiest to grow,I keep them fairly dry ,but mist daily,and it works for me.

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Kind of like looking out from a greenhouse in a few pics,took me a while but I finally got everything outside. Even after several weeks under shade cloths,first 80% to 50%,then only morning sun,things still fried in the sunshine. Coconut trees burnt the worst,and they were in the sunroom at a south ...

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Sadly I don't get enough time to post or respond here,as of all the overtime hours,at work,and a wife with Alzheimer,and trying to grow a tropical paradise,with more plants,than I can take care of. But today I'm smoking a weeks worth of meat outside,and taking time to relax a little. Thought I'd tak...

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They say this second blast of cold air coming,will be colder than this cold blast!
17* here now,and we got about a inch of snow last night.

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I'd throw something over the queen leaves,just to keep cold from settling in the crown,the light helps but something over her keep some heat inside next to the crown,probably will fry the leaves anyway,being that cold.

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Where is a little of that global warming???Just when you really need it!!!!LOL

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I'm with you on that one!
Plus seed packages almost always say the same thing when it comes to planting seeds!

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Barb,I thought you Canadians were know for strong will and Patience!!!!!LOL I'd almost buy and send you one if you promised a video of you trying to drop kick one one over the fence!!!LOL Sargent Preston of the Royal Mounties with his side kick dog King!!! That guy had nerves of steel along with gre...

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Thanks
Well they say it takes 6 months to a year to germinate,even in the best of climates!
Looks like a deep arctic freeze is coming our way,temps below zero maybe,next week!
Better throw on a extra blanket or two!!!!

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Hey Steve

Forgot to ask you the other day,if all your coconuts have germinated?
Thinking I might get some more,for when these get a little taller,I'm going to have to get rid of them,and would like to grow some more!
Where did you get yours from?

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Might I ask where you keep such a large collection?
Lot of keep house plants and have greenhouses,and even some of us keep them in our garage thru the winter months.
Always looking for good tips on overwintering palms inside thru the winter months.
You have any summer pics of your palms?

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After all I do see a sign saying let it snow!!!!LOL
Welcome aboard.
What other palms to you grow,including the ones inside during the winter?

Don

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Yep,you got nothing to lose.
Good luck

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I had red sensation in a pot,a light frost and 35* did it in!
Turned to mush!
It was to wet for the cold.
Good luck with her!

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Shake it if you hear water inside,your good to go,if it was on the ground more likely it fell on it's on,it needs the liquid on the inside for germination to take place. The outside husk is still on it,you'll be just fine. Keep it in the most warmest and humid place you have,keep the soil just moist...

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Hi Mark,
Did your friend say he picked it or got it off the ground?
If he got it off the ground,you have a better chance in getting it to pop!
You got nothing to lose either way.

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I can't even buy the seeds at those prices!!!!

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The record for snow on the ground in Wichita on Christmas Day is 4 inches, way back in 1894.

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/news/story/110187 ... z0ZxG3187P

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Thanks
I'll have to get some new pics,I have lots of seedlings from the ones I planted this summer,around August.
But a lot just planted at Turkey Day.
I also have just planted a bunch of pink bananas and candlestick bush and a few Mexican bird of paradise,also known as Pride of Barbados.

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Nurseries here in Wichita,Ks

Jelly Palm

Try again

Freezing rain

Picassa

Pindo palm

Washy robusta

Bananas and Queen palm in Winter greenhouse protection

Coco's

Coco's

Well you better hurry!!!

Yep it does!

Smoking in Paradise

How many?

Nice collection

Advertise for it!!!LOL

Looks good so far

Shake it

Oh Lord

Xmas snow