Your Trachy looks nice & warm. Your protection is similar to my Yucca linearifolia and Yucca carnerosana/faxoniana protection but I don't need insulation.

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I have some modifying to do. We've had some single digit cold this past week..for just one night and inside temps still dropped to 14 deg with 1-100 watt light bulb inside(also have heat tape around root ball) I think my issue is that it sits in the open and wind is getting inside from the bottom so am going to see if I can find some mulch bags and put around the base to block that wind.

sidpook, I watered my grapefruit trees the same tube way when they were in their enclosure outside the past three years.

Very cool! How big / and long int he ground are your grapefruit trees? Do they really give fruit in your climate???

Mike, here is my posting from May when I opened up the Grapefruit protection:

http://palmsnorth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4367&highlight=

It was in the ground for four years, planted when it was (a year old?). It went in to the glass box protection at 28 inches tall, back in Oct 2011. It emerged bursting from the box. Had to dig it up cuz by August it was six feet tall. Now seven feet tall in my living room.

sits in the open and wind is getting inside from the bottom so am going to see if I can find some mulch bags and put around the base to block that wind.

14 witha 100w bulb? Maybe the bulb didn't turn on.

This is my first year of using leaf bags around my Washies, overwrapped with two layers of plastic 'coz it's hard to minimize gaps with round-filled bags.
I'm frankly amazed at how well leaf-filled bags work.
We had -7C (19F) one or two nights.
The next morning the sensor read 5C (41F) and I know the thermocube did not activate (just from the look of the yuccas that are on the same extended line of Christmas lights, but have far less protection.

When I raked and filled all the bags, they were wet from rain so I suppose they're giving off a lot of heat starting to decompose?

The leaf bags look like crap...like a bumpy pyramid 😆
but they sure block the wind and heat up.
And during a sunny day, the black plastic bags really heated up (33C!!!!! 91F) and Washies think they're in S.California :clown:

Wish now I hadn't put the temperature sensor and thermocube in there.
Should be in the "least" protection area.

Now seven feet tall in my living room.

I've got a big grapefruit too Adam, but it spends winter in the cold building.
Maybe it needs a warm winter like yours gets? 😕

Barb

Barb, Oh the light turned on....Looks like a lighthouse sticking up in the air lol. Will add mulch bags as soon as I can since leaves have all long been picked up.

Then it IS the wind Scott.
You're just too neat 😆 😆
I let the plastic overwrap drape over the soil for 2 feet in all directions, held down with rocks.

Ugly works better than pretty...at least for palm protection 😉

Barb

I don't mind learning as I go as long as it's not sacrificing any palms in the process.

Mike, here is my posting from May when I opened up the Grapefruit protection:

http://palmsnorth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4367&highlight=

It was in the ground for four years, planted when it was (a year old?). It went in to the glass box protection at 28 inches tall, back in Oct 2011. It emerged bursting from the box. Had to dig it up cuz by August it was six feet tall. Now seven feet tall in my living room.

AMazing! So cooL!

My Pics. Protection winter 2012/2013

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Nice GH Scott...

The protection in front of your garage will warm up considerably with reflected sun.
I'd tape the lids to a halfway open position, and close them when it gets really cold or no sun for many days.

Nicely tucked in for winter.
Good job.

Barb