BILL MA
@bill-ma
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Joined: Oct 6, 2008
Last seen: May 15, 2013
Topics: 42 / Replies: 1230
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RE: Fairfax, Virginia (Wash DC area) palms

I'm pretty sure Gary Hollar told me last year they found some sabal minors in So. Virginia on some island. Like Erik said it's much more temperate th...

15 years ago
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RE: winterproofing bamboo

Nice protection guys, flattening stuff always seems to work out well. Jesse seeing your snow on the ground made me shiver, It is a good insulator rig...

15 years ago
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RE: Northern Palm Sanctuary "greenhouse"

Hey Jim,Man does the greenhouse hold the heat good, after the sunny day two days ago the temps when up in there and stayed up for a long time after th...

15 years ago
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RE: Northern Palm Sanctuary "greenhouse"

I'm going to fill it up with as many tropicals as possible to great a rain forest environment for best optimal growth. All the big palms are coming o...

15 years ago
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RE: Seeds arrived!

Wow your brave to try wax palms. They are so amazing in the tropics, I saw some real beauties in Panama about 5 years ago. I saw to in greenhouses l...

15 years ago
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RE: Grow lights

I guess it depends on what your trying to accomplish with your lights? I use about 12 four foot double fixtures around the edges and 2 metal halide 6...

15 years ago
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RE: T.nanus x T.wagneranius

I really think there all fairly close, within 5f or so, the slower growers can take more duration of cold I think. Jim would probably have a better a...

15 years ago
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RE: Northern Palm Sanctuary "greenhouse"

Thanks again guys! It's nice to be on the home stretch trust me. Not really sure about heat John but I'm thinking it won't be all that bad. I'm hoo...

15 years ago
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RE: Northern Palm Sanctuary "greenhouse"

Thanks so much Jim!Just a few little things left to do other then the furnace but that's easy. I'm going to trade a trachy to a guy to make my duct w...

15 years ago
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RE: Fairfax, Virginia (Wash DC area) palms

Tim,What a nice looking bunch of palms. Is that blueish trachy one of the nanitals from you? And how about the others? The Louisianas sure look lik...

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RE: Trachy Pics Side by Side

Tim,Nice growth this year, you can tell it's really happy in it's location when they grow like that.Bill

15 years ago
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RE: Northern Palm Sanctuary "greenhouse"

Thanks Cameron, I'm going to leave it up, original I wanted to take it down but it's way to much work and then I'd need to store it somewhere too. It...

15 years ago
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RE: Northern Palm Sanctuary "greenhouse"

Hey Paul,Yeah, there's a lot of palms in there for sure. Not really much room to do anything in there either, I can walk down the edges and ends a li...

15 years ago
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RE: Northern Palm Sanctuary "greenhouse"

Thank You Barb and your husband too!The schedule 40 pipe is actually galvanized pipe, I got it from a commercial fence company right do the street. I...

15 years ago
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RE: Northern Palm Sanctuary "greenhouse"

Sorry guys not sure how I posted two post? Can you erase one Jay or moderator?Thanks,Bill

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