Maybe some chicken wire in the
doorway to keep the cat from partying in there! 👿

Only if I can plug it in... 😈

And here that poor cat was keeping the field mice at bay!!!LOL

I know, Don. It's a toss-up. 😕 😆

GJ barb it looks really good...

Well a trick the country folk here use,is to get your dog to pee in that area. The cats can smell it and wont go near it.... and well yellow snow is better then cat spray 👿

Ive never tried it...... so i dont know

As for the smell:S a few boxes of baking soda?? LOL

😆 😆 😆
Barb,
looks fantastic. Beautiful green colour.
I have gone back to using thermocubes but with Jim's placement advice. 😳
Seems to be working alright.
I have let a cat into the palm hut a couple times as I think she will deter mice from moving in. I don't see a downside.
I am trying to keep a cat (we have six, naturally 😯 ) from peeing on the indoor Bizzie by placing broken glass as mulch (quite the animal lover, huh?) with moderate success.
IMO, dog pee does not discourage cats from peeing. But cat pee is a great deterrent to mice.
--Erik

Thanks.

Yup, you had that thermocube in the wrong place...good to listen to papa Jim 😉

peeing on the indoor Bizzie by placing broken glass as mulch

No...not broken glass! Fist-sized rocks, placed closely together will deter the cat from peeing on your Bizzie indoors.
I don't like cats, but even I wouldn't use broken glass...that's plain mean (sorry!) 👿

Barb

your Trachy is look'n great! I'm afraid to open up my greenhouse to see my palms....hopefully OK.

Your trachy looks great Barb! This thread reminded me, I did do my mid-winter checkup inside my palm hut last weekend too but FORGOT to take pictures! We still have 2 1/2+ feet of snow on the ground here... My temp records indicate the hut temp (inside) has remained between 30.9(f) and 43f ever since covering the palms in Late November (on Thermocube). Well mine are beautiful green and healthy looking, just as they would look in July! Even my 5' yucca thompsoniana appears very happy. I split a 5-gallon bucket of home-distilled water between the large trachies and gave the yuccas a little bit too. Should be good to go now until March when they are uncovered.

This also reminds me, we just returned from Las Vegas where we were for my industry's convention (Shot Show). What a place for cold-hardy palms and yuccas! There are more trachies over 12-15' than I have seen anywhere. Oh, and all the awesome yucca rostratas and others... Of course there's more CIDP's and washys than anything, but it is so nice to see trachies everywhere! We took a little time to visit a local garden center. Man, if I only had the time to pack and ship Fedex, or even check additional baggage on the plane! They had 10' trachies with 5+' trunks in 7 gallon pots (yes, only 7 gallon) for $59!! They had 5.5' trachies with 3+ foot trunks (lots of them) for $18.99!!!! They even had yucca rostratas with 3' trunks (about 5+' overall) for about a hundred bucks. Huge queens and washys (fif and rob) for under $40. I was like a kid in a candy store! My wife really thinks I'm nuts now...

Tim, oh man...why wouldn't they be OK?
I couldn't hold off opening up to see.

hi mnpalms...

but FORGOT to take pictures!

You'll just have to get out there again, remove 2 1/2+ feet of replaced snow so we can see 😆
I think that 30.9 min temp inside is perfect for a Trachy, low enough to get it used to a winter but not enough to make it look like crap until July.
Good job.

Home-distilled water :drunken: Hmmm...what else do you do? 😆
I've always wondered whether distilled water has ANY benefits.
Probably a great new thread topic.

Ah...Las Vegas, yes their palms are gorgeous.
We had an earlier thread picture about a (forgot name) casino with three 20-foot Brahea armata out front...so very blue looking.
It never occurred to me during my visit with GFs to go to a nursery...friends aren't interested anyway 😕
Wow those nursery prices would've extended my stay another day...helping the nursery pack things for shipment :laughing5:

Now go get your camera and get back out there... :salute: 😆
and don't forget the Y.thompsoniana please.
Barb

Looking great Barb!!!

Barb your Trachy looks great. I think Trachy`s can handle much more cold than -2 C before the fronds start to brown out. Two years ago mine looked basically untouched after seeing below freezing temps for days on end bottoming out at -17c at night for two or three nights. The bigger they are the better freeze survival. You`ve got one spoiled palm. 😀

John

Thanks guys!

John,
This old palm (34 yrs now) has been so confined in pots that I expect it'll take a while for roots to grow away from the encircled ball.
I don't know how much damage I've done to it in that time.
Next winter I plan to let it routinely see colder temps... -10C 14F

Yours went in the ground without severely-bound roots.

I just wanted to be cautious with this guy...but also didn't want it to get as warm as 8 or 10C (45-48F) with a thermocube.
A bit of winter...more next year.

And then when he outgrows the hut, hopefully he could be on his own?
I'll be totally grey-haired that winter... 😆

Yours have done beautifully John, very impressed when I saw them last month.
We have such horrible windstorms in winter...located just west of the Monashees.
You're easily one zone warmer than me, if not more because of your protected location and proximity to the lake.

Barb

hi mnpalms...

but FORGOT to take pictures!

You'll just have to get out there again, remove 2 1/2+ feet of replaced snow so we can see 😆
I think that 30.9 min temp inside is perfect for a Trachy, low enough to get it used to a winter but not enough to make it look like crap until July.
Good job.

Home-distilled water :drunken: Hmmm...what else do you do? 😆
I've always wondered whether distilled water has ANY benefits.
Probably a great new thread topic.

Ah...Las Vegas, yes their palms are gorgeous.
We had an earlier thread picture about a (forgot name) casino with three 20-foot Brahea armata out front...so very blue looking.
It never occurred to me during my visit with GFs to go to a nursery...friends aren't interested anyway 😕
Wow those nursery prices would've extended my stay another day...helping the nursery pack things for shipment :laughing5:

Now go get your camera and get back out there... :salute: 😆
and don't forget the Y.thompsoniana please.
Barb

I was thinking I might not have to check on the palms again until uncovering them in March, but knowing me I'll probably be back in there in a few weeks... I will remember the camera then though!

Home-distilled water?? From experience I've learned that all my palms, bananas, etc don't much like our city water. Too much chlorine and it is very hard so we have a softner (salt). The water literally sometimes smells like pool water! So I have a bunch of 5-gallon buckets that I fill and let sit out for a few days before use in watering the plants (or collect rain water). I just keep them in a place out of sight and rotate accordingly. Int he winter I keep a few in the 3-season porch where they get sun and remain thawed.

Vegas... If you or anyone here visits there you MUST go to "Plant World Nursery". The yuccas and cold hardy palms will blow you away and the prices will make you go crazy.