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Aaron,
Hope the little J-Tree pulls through! It's such a cool plant. You're probably right about the sudden shift in temps. having an unusually adverse effect on the plant. It looks bad, but not that bad? Neat to see y. rostrata handling -25c so well. Thanks for the pics!
Duncan
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Posted : 13/12/2010 2:09 am
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Here's an update on the j-trees and some other stuff.
Not first time I have lost plants and not the last. 🙂
I think I have lost the last of my white-sands echinocereus trigs. I had the big plant for awhile now. (dead) 🙁
Big one
and my other last one (maybe dead)
Very hardy basilaris, first time I have seen it burn.
y. filimentosa, burned. I have seen this before, but always grows back
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 23/01/2011 2:15 pm
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Big j-tree
badly burnt on the crown, but I think it will keep growing.
Dwarf j-tree, may be dead, but should grow back from the roots. 😕 
recurvifolia, burnt but should come back from the roots.
And the hardiest agave I have ever had. A. neomexicana x utahensis
Only showing burn from last winter. 😀 
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-Aaron-
Posted : 23/01/2011 2:23 pm
Darn lack of snow cover...
But I see a bit of green on cactus in the first pic 😀
Barb
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Posted : 23/01/2011 2:24 pm
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Darn lack of snow cover...
But I see a bit of green on cactus in the first pic 😀
Barb
Yea, it only looks good in the pic. As soon as the weather warms it will be mush.
Its ok, I'm on a qwest to find plants that live long term in zone 5 so people can have good cold hardy plants. 😉
I have a started a trend. Most of my less hardy plants are for AZ. 😀
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-Aaron-
Posted : 23/01/2011 2:43 pm
Looks like the smaller/baby Trigs might be o.k.?
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Posted : 23/01/2011 3:38 pm
nice update! I hope your Y. brevifolias will be fine. That A. neomexicana x utahensis is great!!! Where did you get it?
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Posted : 23/01/2011 10:52 pm
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Looks like the smaller/baby Trigs might be o.k.?
In the bottom pic, the small pup on the right might be ok. But the top pic they look worse in person. 🙂
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 24/01/2011 8:53 am
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nice update! I hope your Y. brevifolias will be fine. That A. neomexicana x utahensis is great!!! Where did you get it?
Thanks Tim. 😀 The agave cross I got from Plantasia Cactus Gardens. I pulled it out of a flat of A. utahensis he had. I was looking for a A. neomexicana but he had none except one different one in the flat his dealer said must of been a A. neomexicana. It looked so different than the others so I took a chance and bought it. I also bought some of the utahensis but none of them are still alive. 😉
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 24/01/2011 8:59 am
Oh boy! Unbelievable Y. filamentosa looks so awful! What was the minimum t there? Recurvifolia is too bad as well. Mine was touched by the hard prolonged frost last winter but rot at the middle of the stem after late April frost... Friend of mine has Echinocereus for many years growing outside. What is a Hell a difference between your zone 5 and my so called zone 6!
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Posted : 24/01/2011 10:11 am
That's a special Agave! Keep us posted on it's progress this winter.
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Posted : 24/01/2011 11:36 am
Unbelievable Y. filamentosa looks so awful
Surprised to see that much cold damage too.
They're usually bulletproof.
Barb
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Posted : 24/01/2011 12:41 pm
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Unbelievable Y. filamentosa looks so awful
Surprised to see that much cold damage too.
They're usually bulletproof.Barb
I never thought they would burn untill I watched them up close. This one in the pic may have burned to the ground but was mostly snow coverd.
What is wierd is my Y. torryi looks fine and last year had burn and was coverd. 😕
Never know how things will do year to year. 🙄
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 24/01/2011 2:37 pm
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Oh boy! Unbelievable Y. filamentosa looks so awful! What was the minimum t there? Recurvifolia is too bad as well. Mine was touched by the hard prolonged frost last winter but rot at the middle of the stem after late April frost... Friend of mine has Echinocereus for many years growing outside. What is a Hell a difference between your zone 5 and my so called zone 6!
The min. was 13.6F/-25.3C
I think what happened was the j-trees and the filimentosa were still growing and the other yuccas had slowed down in fall. I have always noticed that other than spring time Y. brevifolia likes to grow the most in the fall.
It was still growing in Nov and we had the cold spell in the last part of Nov. With out a dought that is what hurt it so bad. 😡
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 24/01/2011 2:51 pm
hope that joshua trees will survive. today i looked mine in basement. looks just fine. in spring definitly it goes outdoor,and till next winter i need to think how to protect it against moist. rgds
Posted : 25/01/2011 12:25 pm
