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I had a small Trachycarpus Wagnerianus that I got last year from Mike from Montreal. I had it in the ground all winter with some Christmas lights. This is a picture from a winter night when the temperature was under -20 C (the tall structure is a magnolia that did not survive)



With the very warm spring I opened it quite early and it was doing very well. We had some days with almost 30 C, so I watered it. After a few cold days I noticed that the middle fronds started to dry.



I remember that I read on this forum about cut trunk, so I did it right away. This is a picture from the next day:



A few days later:



After a warm and dry month we have quite a lot of rain again. I'll try to keep you posted.

Thank you for your help, you're an inspiration

Tavi

Hi Tavi

I think your OK now.......you just need more time and it will look good again. I'm not sure if your damage was from too much cold or getting too hot in the protection? Keep us updated.

Tavi, thanks for the pics.
Glad the trunk cutting worked...wonderful!

We've all learned so much from "trunk cutting Jim"

Barb

Tim, when I pulled the middle frond out it was wet (mushy) and rotten inside. I cut till there was no more black material.

Hey Tavi --

Good work. How cold did the structure get in the winter? Hopefully it will sail through the second winter much better.

What kind of magnolia was that? Did you use extra heat or did you just wrap it?

I have a structure made of plywood with foam insulation that I wrap in a tarp where I keep my 'big' trachy. It's heated with Christmas lights on thermocube. The temperature there never went under freezing. The palm is growing now like crazy.



(that window is the one that the contractor installed on my front door. It's an insulated (double glass with some gas inside). I kept it after I installed a nicer one and it proved useful. This year after I decided to buy a washy to keep in the ground, I posted an ad on freecycle and I got three more for free. It's a relatively new neighbourhood, and a lot of people don't like them and change them)

For this little waggie, all I did was wrap it in one layer of some packing foam and one layer of buble wrap. It had only a very small set of Christmas lights on thermocube. I don't know what was the temperature inside, as I did not have an extra thermometer. It looked perfectly healthy when I opened it up, but with those few days of heat (it was almost 30, it looked like summer) I watered it heavy, like in the summer. Two days later it was gold again, nothing too drastically, but still below freezing.

The magnolia was a Bracken's Brown Beauty Magnolia - and it was a beauty. It was all green when I unwrap it in the spring, then it started slowly to dry, till it lost all the leaves.

I replaced it with a little Magnolia Virginiana 'Ned's Northern Belle' from
http://www.thehoneytreenursery.com/Magnolias.php

This new one is just a twig, but promises a lot

Cool, thanks for the info. Did you use any heat on the magnolia in the winter or was it just wrapped?

no heat for magnolia, just wrap, and the top was just a mesh to prevent the snow to go in and to let the air escape. So I know for sure that it did not overheat in the spring.

still growing:

Nice recovery!

Nice job-glad it came back.

Great work!

Yipppeeeee!

Great, is this possible with the smaller palms? Or the seedlings are too weak to come back after leaf pull i cleaned all the black stuff from S. Mexicana which roted in the same place because of too much water..

this was actually quite a small palm, not more than 30-40 cm tall, but it had a trunk.
This is how it looks now 2 years later.



It did not grow too much, but it's healthy and very green after a long winter in the ground.

Tavi

Great like i said but this is just a seedling i was talking about, im not sure it'll recover i gave it a little hydrogene and leave it alone.

Pretty tough for small seedlings to come back,Takil is one of the best even as a seedling.
Probably needs 3 leaves or more(in size) to have a chance.



Great recovery on that palm,you won't even notice by the end of the fall,
I think the palm would have died if you left it alone.

No chance there i'm afraid, friend sent me a bigger one..