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Here is an update for my trachy with the mummy wrap technique. It looks pretty good even though it has not been this cold in Montreal for more than a decade.
http://youtu.be/NDhjwE9gpQo
enjoy 🙂
Posted : 31/01/2013 9:15 pm
those are some cold temps! The Trachy is still green. 😯
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Posted : 01/02/2013 9:26 pm
Nice video update Mike, thanks! 😀
Your Trachy looks GREAT!!!!
I do really like the Mummy Wrap idea.
As our palms grow taller, I'm thinking that's our only protection option.
My big palm hut, with 2x4s etc, is such a pain to put up and take down.
Storage is a pain too, running out of places to store stuff where it's out of sight.
You guys had brutal cold ... yet your snow is almost gone.
Our lowest was -17C 1.4F on two December mornings, but we still have a foot of snow that just won't shrink or disappear. 👿
Yabbadabbadoo...February!
Barb
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Posted : 02/02/2013 12:35 pm
Looks great! I'm intently watching you mummy wrap folks because I think my trachy will be to that phase in a few years. The box I put on is already 10' tall and I don't know how much taller I can make it, lol.
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Posted : 02/02/2013 7:53 pm
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Yeah the mummy wrap so far appears to be a good method -it requires more energy and costs more to have heat cables plugged in, but the convenience and storage aspect may balance the additional cost
Posted : 03/02/2013 10:56 pm
Video Mike says -30 F but text on youtube he says -30C big difference in temp, so curious to this lower 48 guy which it was??
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Posted : 04/02/2013 6:46 pm
Video Mike says -30 F but text on youtube he says -30C big difference in temp, so curious to this lower 48 guy which it was??
When you get down that low its not that different -30f is -34c and at -40F=-40C either way its cold.
Posted : 04/02/2013 7:46 pm
Got it
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Posted : 04/02/2013 7:48 pm
