Ooops...cold damaged

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:14 am

These saw -2C 28F after they were on the front porch during a week of really mild weather.
Siimply had to get them out of the house and into fresh air.
Wish I hadn't done that!

Flimsy plastic that was stapled to the overhang posts obviously didn't protect much.

Dioon spinulosum...this hurts!

oh man!

I'm an idiot!
Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:28 am

Your not an idiot,your plants are

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:35 am

Two steps forward, four back

Last night a friend said he was moving to Australia.
I think I want to go too.

Barrie · Post by **Barrie** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:36 pm

Watch that center growth point on your Dioon spinulosum for damage or ill effects from that frost.
Both should recover nicely.

Cheers, Barrie.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:45 pm

That's encouraging, Barrie, thanks.

Barb

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:38 pm

Soooo Sorry Barb!

Hopefully they'll be ok.

We just had 2.5 inches of snow yesterday.

Thank God its gone today.

Mark

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:28 am

Sorry to hear about your plants Barb, that really sucks!
They should have been tougher, I'm surprised they got
that beat up with no frost on them

Bill

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:47 pm

Very sorry, Barb.
I get eager, too. I wanted to move my "ballroom" palms to the front porch before coming down here to Belize but the W said that was silly. She was right. --Erik

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:41 pm

I should've listened to H, he said the same thing as your wife.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:32 pm

I won't even post a pic of the crunchy Nainital. Too sad.

Dead cat palm:

Dead hibiscus:

Almost dead Sabal minor:

Sick (again) sago:

Still hasn't bounced back:

Even the indestructible crown-o-thorns is toast:

Pachypodium lamerei...this time it's going into the garbage!

Jeez, thinning the herd this year just about decimated the gene pool.

Oh well, room for new stuff

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:40 pm

Can't believe I missed a few...
here's chapter 2:

Papyrus:

I think this WAS a cordyline:

The saddest of all, the Y. rostrata x.

This Norfolk Island Pine is so crunchy, it's almost petrified:

Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:12 pm

I'm so sorry. That is heart breaking. --Erik

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:51 am

[quote="lucky1"]I won't even post a pic of the crunchy Nainital. Too sad.

Pachypodium lamerei...this time it's going into the garbage!

Don't throw the Pachy away,the top still looks green.

Is the whole thing mush?

If not it should recover fine

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:47 pm

Thanks folks.

Jim, nope he's going into the trash.
Each year the Pachypodium gets some kind of a disease, wasn't robust when I bought it so it should have probably been culled at the nursery.
So I repot it, and it comes back gangbusters, only to do the "death throes" all over again at the end of winter (cold or not!)

I'm tired of playing nurse with this stuff.

Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:08 pm

[quote="lucky1"]

I'm tired of playing nurse with this stuff.

Barb[/quote]

I feel like I'm a nurse to my wife's sick Washy--the one that spent the winter in the dining room.
So, it's hard to know what to do.
I'm going for hardier plants, hence my recent purchase of Trachy "Takil" (?) and the needle palms.
My wife recently bought Royal palm and Traveler's palm.

--Erik

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:15 am

[quote="lucky1"]Thanks folks.

Jim, nope he's going into the trash.

So let it be a cactus in winter and a palm in summer.
I let mine lose it's leaves over winter,
I think it helps it bloom in spring,my Pachypodium brevicaule is going to flower this spring.

Is it getting spider mites?
You know these can lose their leaves if the temps drop much below 40(f)?

I would keep this one,yours is right at the size where they really take off!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:37 pm

OK you're its saviour.

Mine had low light this winter, but was in the warm house.

How do you know that yours will flower this year?
Wish there was a way to tell for sure.

Nope, no spider mites, just that horrible little white and beige bumps on it.
Scratched them off with my fingernail, then wiped leaves with a bit of rubbing alcohol.
What a job!
And it infected three of my baby palms as well as my beautiful two Brahea Armata, which I've just finished trying to clean.

Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:58 am

lucky1 wrote:OK you're its saviour.

How do you know that yours will flower this year?

Barb

I think you will be glad you saved it!
My Pachypodium brevicaule is going to flower,
it has a little flower stalk poking up out of the new leaves.

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