Me too; -22C

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourteenday/caon0688

Better then winnipeg

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourteenday/camb0244

I feel your pain. 1 or 2 days of mild weather here then ANOTHER cold front dips in from Canada (KEEP IT THERE BARB!). On Thursday the weather man said that 1 year ago in Omaha it was 81 for the high. I'd love to see 60 right now.

That's the pits, you guys.

KEEP IT THERE BARB!

If you guys would keep it in Alaska first 😆 😆

I think we've had our spring.
We're cooling off on Sunday 😥

Barb

I have many palms on HOLD for shipping and I'm getting antsy.

getting antsy.

Don't blame you.

I practice for planting by shovelling dog poop. 😕

Me too Barb......have 5 dogs so I like to stay on top of it. Hard to do though when snowy.

Question about spear pull. Had some very small trachy plants that I over watered 🙁 and spear pulled, but the rest of the palm looks just fine. One the road to total death? or could it come back if I leave it alone?

Brutal!

We hit 57F today-not a problem....interesting that last year at this time the low was warmer-

March 15,2012 was...... low of 60F high of 82F-looks like mother nature wants to bring March
back to average over the last 2 years-what a price to pay after being so spoiled last year!

it made it to 60 today but was very very cloudy and overcast. I think its going to rain tonight and tomm..should keep the temps around 50 tonight though. I have just beed making new beds and getting some of the hay cover and things out of the old ons..not brave enough to start planting out just yet since the nights are still dipping down around 32-35

We should be cooling down sunday to the 50s. But will enjoy 72F tomorrow at the zoo. Sorry to not feel your pain, but I have enjoyed the last 2 weekends planting and working in the gardens.

Hate to hear about spear pull. Just keep it dry and in full sun if possible. Once it warms up you could use a cooper treatment or peroxide down the hole 🙁

Will do chadec will know better for next time...

Spear pull, Scott?
Yuk.

Really young palms don't do well with spear pull, few survive.
Older palms (as per Jim's method) bounce back nicely.

If you tend to overwater (everything), you should only use a really coarse aggregate growing mix, and then water runs out immediately.
Does less harm if you keep overwatering.

In the meantime TIM, let's hope you warm up and get rid of that glacier out front.

Barb

Barb, I don't think I overwater as a habit, usually use my moisture probe and rely on that.

These that pulled were in the greenhouse where the temp fluctuates wildly. I have a POS Majesty in there that I've had a couple of years and naturally it takes a lot of water and does fine. I know now the soil was to "heavy" in the windmill seedlings pots which contributed to it. After getting palms sent to me by both Steve Anderson in Alabama and Phil at Jungle Music and seeing the growing soil they each use I've learned a lot.

1. Almost NEVER transplant a new palm from it's container it's been growing in into a new pot....instead I simply just put palm/grow pot inside new pot and will stay that way until palm truly outgrows it's grow pot then I will transplant. Even then if the grow pot is that thin walled cheap plastic, I may just slit the sides of the pot so the roots can "escape" gradually into the new soil with less of a transplant shock.

2. Never use Miracle Grow soil...even for palms. Phil has told me he's had more customers loose new palms to any mix that already has fertilizer in the soil and sometimes that kind of soil isn't really porous enough for drainage for some palms.

Luckily, I have quite a few Windmill Palms, but still don't like loosing anything but as long as I learn from it I'll be ok.

Where s the global warming im waiting for ?... Don t worry wxman, im like you and worst here, still ahve at least 12-18 inches of snow, and 3-4 feets along the street 😥 ...we are under the normal since tuesday, and we re looking for a Colorado low coming next tuesday who will bring us a f.... snow again (at least 6 inches).
But at the end of next week it will be warmer, 45 F for next saturday and as long they can see, the forecast is 45F to 55F....go away snow...
Me too last year we had temp. of 75F during almost 5 days 😀 the third week of march, well above normal of 40F.

And my heat cable in my bigger Trachy just stop to work, and i dont know why, the Thermocube works well, so the temp. inside mummywrap go down to 10-15F in the night and goes up to 50F du to the sun effect only during the day. So i think it will go through.... 😉

Ben

heat cable in my bigger Trachy just stop to work

Beny, so cables aren't that reliable after all?
I pity the people who use them on water lines 😕

Did you check that a rodent hasn't been chewing on the insulation?

Scott,
re the moisture probe, look at it this way: if you use only a coarse aggregate soil in your containers, I bet you can throw the soil probe away.
That's how pleased I am with that Sunshine Soil Mix w. Aggregate #4
I'll never again use anything else, even for palms that want wetter conditions like Nannorrhops ritchiana (will just put a big saucer underneath and let it suck that up).

Anyway, wxman, now that we've totally derailed your post
😆 😆 get out there and shovel the snow off. 😆 😆

Barb