Late winter update on a few things with protection

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First Washy filifera ,straw bales and greenhouse plastic,after -18* fried foliage and spear,but no spear pull,trunk is firm all 2 ft of it.
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Second is Livingston Roundifolia,same coverage,leaves are fried,with trunks 6inches four inches and 2 inches,have had this palm 10 years or better,first winter in the ground,spear pulls on both the large trunks,good spear on the smallest trunk.
Not a very good picture as the sun was really bright today,and I was shooting down on to the little spear.
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Third is a Yuzu lemon 5 1/2 ft tall,4 yrs from seed,first second winter in the ground,leaves are fried but the trunk and stems are still green.
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Next to the yuzu is my hardy trifolate orange tree,still good and green.

Posted : 28/02/2011 5:39 pm

Cameron_z6a_N.S.

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good job! how tall is the p. trifoliata?

Posted : 28/02/2011 6:00 pm

lucky1

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Wow -18F = -27C that's cold.

Looks like your straw bales MINUS heat did a better job than a flimsy cover WITH heat would have.
Are you using copper on the spear pulls?

Is the Malayan cocos inside the GH doing better now with warmth and sunshine?

Encouraging about the lemon and orange at those temps.

Thanks for the update, Don.
Barb

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Posted : 28/02/2011 7:12 pm

TerdalFarm

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Don,
thanks. Good news up there.
Did the Washy filifera really go without heat? --Erik

Posted : 28/02/2011 10:50 pm

tropicman

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Hardy orange tree is about 7ft tall or better,had one fruit last summer,but I missed place it somewhere and forgot!!!!

Thanks Barb,no copper,as the crown seem to be very dry,I think the spear pull is from the cold,not moisture related.

Erik yes no heat,I'm surprised,as I have tried filifera many times,but without the straw,just plastic trash containers.straw must have done the trick!

Posted : 01/03/2011 12:46 am

hardyjim

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I hate to say this but I think that Washy is dead,
hopefully I am wrong! 😀
They are very sensitive to moisture in the soil
upon coming out of winter too-so be careful!

Good luck-I hope it makes it!

Posted : 01/03/2011 10:15 am

tropicman

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I hope not too!
But no spear pull,and I tried hard 3 times to get it to pull.
In the past I always had spear pull and the trunks would be soft and mushy.
It does worry me that the spear is fried,but my washy robusta has had the same thing with heat protection and it came thru ok.
Time will tell!!!

Posted : 02/03/2011 12:35 am