GONZ
Good plan with the fertilizer schedule.
I like to start them out with some potassium and epsom in spring then hit them(palms) with something high in N as May turns to June,then something more balanced like I will be trying this summer(per Bill :wink:)Carl Pools.As we move into the end of August I start moving back down the scale(higher middle number)then end of Oct go with Potassium again and finish with some epsom too.
Great to hear Basjoos are so tough,I look forward to seeing mine in the spring,HOPEFULLY-

healthy looking palms!

Barb-
I did find a multiple sensor weather station it's in the weatherunderground section on joining there system of weather reporting stations-cost $1000 😯
Don't know if extra sensors are more or not,I can pick you up a few if you want 😉

Just learned of epsom salts about 18 months ago. Amazing what it does to plants.
Need to remember to put some down during and after days of heavy rains. Maybe add a little palm food as well.

Basjoo has a beautiful velvety Dark green/bluegreen color when the sun hits just right. I might put one in a pot when the back patio is done.

I hope my Basjoos do better this year coming up from the roots.
Last year I kept them inside trying to keep some height.
They didn't do squat all summer.

I agree about the Epsom salts,it seems to really green them up before/after winter ❗

Gonz, sounds like your Honeywell is as reliable as my Bios remote reader.
Odd that in the last few days my La Crosse remote hasn't failed...it probably didn't like the cold!

And Jim, thanks

stations-cost $1000

but I'll pass.
Interesting relating the fertilizing to a scale, up and down, made a lot of sense.
I'll do it that way too.

Glad to see Gonz' link on the mycorrhizae.
I've been interested in the symbiotic relationship of roots w.fungus, etc. for quite a while.

Barb

Right now the weather channel says it's 24F. Windchill is 12 I think. Winds finally down to 25mph NW.
My outdoor sensor reads 26F
Inside the crown is 30.7F
The probe inside the spear base is 44.4F

The tree in the back is covered and reads 27.0F in the crown.

I knew the snow was coming but I decided to cover everything yesterday morning when I found out the winds would be over 30mph.

I just had to send my wife out in this--she is a night ICU nurse. Right now I'm more worried about her than my palms, but when she calls to say she made it I'll go out to check. My Butia shelter definitely can NOT take a snow load. I may be sweeping snow off the roof every few hours. (+ need to warn Santa not to land on it.)
I'll take photos tomorrow.

I just had to send my wife out in this--she is a night ICU nurse. Right now I'm more worried about her than my palms, but when she calls to say she made it I'll go out to check. My Butia shelter definitely can NOT take a snow load. I may be sweeping snow off the roof every few hours. (+ need to warn Santa not to land on it.)
I'll take photos tomorrow.

I am glad it's not the wet snow like last March. I was brushing off the snow a while ago but now I am going to leave it alone....maybe insulate some.
Have a mulched Australian dwarf bottle brush that I covered with a box....thought it would be dead by now but it is still alive and look pretty good.

Interesting.....the temperature inside the crown of my big palm has gone from 30.7F to 35.8F and the spear base is up from 44.4F to 50.F.

*I have about a dozen C9 bulbs clustered around the outside of the spear base on both palms and a cluster around the bottom of the trunks*
They have been on continuously since yesterday morning.

No heat source for the one in the back but the three 1 litter bottles of hot water I put around the base before I covered it. The water must be cold by now.
The temperature has gone up 0.7F after falling for 4 hours since covering.

I guess the snow must be insulating now.

Hey you guys in the Tulsa area, I think its moving your way. 14 inches or more in OKC. Temps in the low teens or lower. 30-40 mph wind gusts. Thank God and George Bush for this global warming! Here are some pics from tonight.

Here is a snow ledge.

Merry Christmas
Jim

Snow is a great insulator.
Some of my palm covers stayed near freezing when it was 0(F)without heat.

Hey you guys in the Tulsa area, I think its moving your way. 14 inches or more in OKC. Temps in the low teens or lower. 30-40 mph wind gusts. Thank God and George Bush for this global warming! Here are some pics from tonight.

Here is a snow ledge.

Merry Christmas
Jim

Looks like you're going to have you own avalanche.
They say that's a record in OKC.
I can't tell what's going on outside. Too windy.Windchill is 5F.
I am glad I covered these. I don't think the big one was ready for this.

Snow is a great insulator.
Some of my palm covers stayed near freezing when it was 0(F)without heat.

Good to know.

Snow is a great insulator.
Some of my palm covers stayed near freezing when it was 0(F)without heat.

Good to know.

I agree,it probably wasn't ready.
You guys (I'm sure) had a warm Nov like we did.Not much time for palms to acclimate to winter.
It definitely caught a few of my first years out!

I'll have some good photos up tomorrow, but right now I am too tired to do the upload.
Update: wife, who lived 40 years in Michigan, could not get to work. She was in a 4wd pickup. Spent an hour to go 4 miles, then turned around. Hope nobody had a heat attack today.
The barn has over a foot of snow inside. Yes, despite a roof and four walls, there is a foot of snow. Ice is crusted on the horses. The foam board I had set aside for the palms was jerry-rigged to add insulation for the hens.
My worry was the flimsy Butia shelter. It is doing fine. The wind is too strong for any accumulation on top. The water jug inside has not frozen, so the heat tape must be doing the job.
The Trachy has some snow on the leaves where that door has blocked the wind. I took a few photos just now and will take more by dawn's light.
Off to bed now, before St. Nick comes by.

Here is my Trachy last night:
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and here it is this morning:

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BRRRRRRR!

Whats that blue stuff above the trees? I have not seen that recently 👿