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Here's a video of a 7 foots Trachy and 12 foots Butia Under protection. I protected these palms 2 days ago, the Trachy is Under the box and the Butia ...

I never had problem with that before, cause the heat produced by the CFL is low. I never had a burned CFL after a winter, but i change some just in ca...

Its -8c ( 15F) this morning, and i still have a lot of Trachy, Needle and Chamaerops uncovered. And all looks fine...will warm up tomorrow, but today ...

HA, Aaron, i felt sad yesterday. Cause now , everything it s gone :D ....feel better now...it s cold today with an high of 25F, cooloing down to 15F ...

We ve got our first snow this pm with dropping temp., it was +2c when i toke these pictures of my yard :shock: ...but now 5 hours later, its all gone...

Good idea Adam, but when using the CFL bulbs (10000 H), im sure they wont burn during the winter. I change at least 1 bulb per year, just in case. But...

Thx guy's, Barb, still at least 13 Trachy , 2 Butia and 1 Chamaerops. Plus a few palms at my house like 2 x 8 feets Trachy, 2 x 5 feets Trachy, 2 Ne...

Yes, i know. i replaced it after taken this picture. The heat cable for pipe is better the one for roof has that problem. That s fried my Trachy too l...

Hi guy's , i started to protect some palms at my customer. Here's some pictures , the Butia is gorgeous, was tough to tie up the palms together :wink...

Thats why i want to go there in summer :lol: ...Ben

HA...like you said Ouch, hope it will be not my turn soon...but i know it s coming :cry: ...nice pictures Barb..one day i will go visiting the rockie...

Keith, If you protect your palms with a 2 inches styrofoam box, you need only a 12 foots cable (48 watts) on the ground for the roots. And a 18 foot...

Yes, But the temperature will go up tomorrow and for the next days, up to 16c friday :D ...but cooling down to the normal on monday :cry: ...Normall...

Hy Barb, I used the heat tape last year with the mummywrap technique and i had no problems. It never go to hot to burn anything. Im gonna start to pr...

Thx Barb, i will try again the mummywrap method with some modification on 2 Trachy and 1 Needle palm...will give you news later on that this winter..B...