It's so amazing! Thanks for the update, Jim!

Thanks Igor

Happy New Year to you!!!! :occasion5:

Things are looking good Jim! Not too bad so far. What a huge melt you guys have had. We hit 50f today for a bit!! No snow here as well and I'm loving it.. Thanks for posting the pics.. Happy New Year..

Thanks Scotty

HNY to you too!

Looks like the next few weeks will be a little closer to normal here,
which is nice,with no snow on the ground temps will have a chance to moderate some
and go above guidance for a change.

What was the min temp experienced for the ones that spear pulled?

everything looks really good dude:D So far winter hasnt been that bad here either. Hope for the best for the next 2 months or so!!!

Jim, I could look at those pictures 5 times and still not figure out how you can succeed trunk cutting a palm...oops, plural, palms.
Especially since my Nainital attempt bombed :cwm21:

unhealthy "yellow" coloration of the leaf just opening and the closed blades on the one that's a little bigger

Ah...I missed that stage with mine...saw a brown spear and knew it was cooked.
Your closed blades on the same pic look dry...but the telltale trouble sign is that other leaves still looked fine, hinting the problem's at the terminal bud.

And look at that baby today!
Wow.

Agree that you should have taken more photos of the process(es), but it's pretty hard to take a daily pic of a palm that's croaking.

Your trunk cut resembles a pyramid, probably saving more of the center for the sun to warm.

The "other fortunei" pic looks like its growing out of a shoe covered in dog hair 😆

Takagii also pulled but is holding steady

by "holding steady", do you mean it hasn't collapsed? or what?

Sheesh...leave that lovely princeps alone (that's an order, Mr. Neem). 😆

Has that Sequoia ever grown...looking ahead, will you keep it there on the boulevard?
Might have to reroute cars in a few years.

Love that cactus bed pic (you really C U T a hole? 😆 )
I remember when the biggest thing shown in a similar photo was your shoes.
Well done, Jim.

You must be itchin' to get started in this new year... 😀
It'll be your best yet!

Thanks for posting the update.
Barb
sorry for the long post

Yea Jesse,not to bad here really just consistently pretty cold
although we did see the 50s 4 or five times in December,pretty spread out though.

Let's get winter over with so be can move on to spring,warm weather in Jan-Feb usually just leads to a
****** up spring anyway.As far as I am concerned we turn the corner in Jan,once we are in February
we are in the home stretch!

Tim

I am not sure which spear-pull you are referring too,the spear-pull this year is all because of
neem oil for sure,if not the Chamaerops would have pulled as well,in addition,the palms that
were not sprayed are all fine and even my palms inside(almost all of them were also sprayed)have pulled as well!

Last year's spear-pull was caused more by the temps dropping suddenly with no hardening off
period before the cold hit.
So,not really able to give you temps that cause pull,as moisture in the crown plays a big part as well.

Barb

I cut all the palms so the cut side faces the sun,cut faces south.

You hit it on the head....who want's to take pictures of their dying palms! 😯 🙁 😀

The Sequoia will probably grow 3' this year if it is mostly green to start.
They don't grow as large in these parts and this thing will probably brown out every year at best
from our "Arctic breezes" 😈

I will probably keep the Princeps covered from rain until the spear moves in spring but
it does look healthy right now and so do the others.
Usually I lose the small ones to Neem oil,the larger ones grow out of it.
That is what I meant by,holding steady,the newest leaves closest to the bud pull are
still opened up and not declining anymore,so I think they have stabilized.

If you look at the WagxFort,Princeps and Takagii you can see all the upper most leaf
blades still open and healthy,it's when they begin to fold that you know they are in trouble
of losing them.

I agree, usualy the everage high temps here jump 5 degrees in february or march. Last year, by march first, alot of the hardy stuff i had started to grow ( lilys, with peoney not to far behid by mid march). Im hoping to uncover my bamboo my march this year as well, same with starting some plants......

I already hae 6 pommegranate seedlings, hopefuly some more things to come:D

I've certainly learned from your pics what to watch for.

But my hands could never saw a palm down....will just send you a plane ticket next time.... 😆
Next time is when my Trachy outgrows the ~10-foot palm hut.
Barb

great pics Jim. Your stuff looks really good. hopefully january will be a mild one and we can get a little growth going into spring.

Jim,
thanks for the updates!
I'm sorry I missed this thread over the weekend but I'm catching up. I'll just ask things that you haven't already been asked.

Neem oil: I had no idea it could do that. I haven't used any this year and now I won't.
Do you think it has any legitimate use or is it all-around bad stuff for plants?

Cordyline: looks super. I'm sure it will make it through the winter.

T-ferns: amazing. When you have some free time, share these photos on GOTE; the good folks there need to know how to protect them.

--Erik

Thanks Kent

Erik

Neem oil is great stuff,I just think for plants with open crowns
there is the danger it sits and festers.

As mentioned,works great on leafy plants.

It was very effective at killing the scale on my lemon tree 😀

I will copy and paste this thread to the GOTE forum 🙂

Jim,
I'll keep the neem oil handy for my Meyer lemon but will keep it off palms and cycads.

Yes, the GOTE folks need t-fern tips.

--Erik