Gonz
@gonz
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Joined: Sep 12, 2008
Last seen: Feb 22, 2014
Topics: 1 / Replies: 25
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RE: Trachy's Tougher Than I Thought! ~ Watch Your C-9 Lights!

Excellent, Gonz!Any photos?BarbThis was taken with my Iphone last June.I had to trim off the damaged lower leaves. Which is reason behind getting the ...

13 years ago
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RE: Trachy's Tougher Than I Thought! ~ Watch Your C-9 Lights!

That has also been on my mind.I usual keep a cluster of about 10 C9s around the spear area. I turn them on and cover the crown to trap some heat. I ha...

13 years ago
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Nov.2010

Windmill is doing fine. I have been trying to push it's growth through the summer with Palm food,organic fertilizer,and plenty of water every other d...

15 years ago
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RE: Oklahoma Windmill Palm

I don't think I will wrap it that way next year. Some of the frond fingers have straightened out though.Next fall I am going to arrange the lights a d...

15 years ago
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RE: trachycarpus video

Very good video.

15 years ago
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Re: OK windmill palm in Tulsa's first blizzard

Here is my Trachy last night:<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="

15 years ago
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RE: Oklahoma Windmill Palm

Snow is a great insulator.Some of my palm covers stayed near freezing when it was 0(F)without heat. Good to know.

15 years ago
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Re: Oklahoma snow

Hey you guys in the Tulsa area, I think its moving your way. 14 inches or more in OKC. Temps in the low teens or lower. 30-40 mph wind gusts. T...

15 years ago
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Re: OK blizzard

I just had to send my wife out in this--she is a night ICU nurse. Right now I'm more worried about her than my palms, but when she calls to say she ma...

15 years ago
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Ok we have a blizzard.

Right now the weather channel says it's 24F. Windchill is 12 I think. Winds finally down to 25mph NW.My outdoor sensor reads 26FInside the crown is 30...

15 years ago
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RE: Oklahoma Windmill Palm

GONZGood plan with the fertilizer schedule.I like to start them out with some potassium and epsom in spring then hit them(palms) with something high i...

16 years ago
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Re: I little colder in Bixby,

Gonz. Thanks for the update. I've been wondering how your palms have been doing. Those are tough plants and the lights must help a lot. In my (limited...

16 years ago
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RE: Oklahoma Windmill Palm

Gonz, thanks.I have a similar display unit, part of an anemometer.Great accuracy.But if there are, say, 4 separate units with 4 displays, could the re...

16 years ago
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RE: Oklahoma Windmill Palm

Nice size specimens, very healthy looking.The silver fan palm will be slower than the windmill but they'll both grow so wide, you'll be relocating you...

16 years ago
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RE: Oklahoma Windmill Palm

Back patio area. This is the windmill and silver euro fan palm I bought from Home Depot in late spring.I will mulch it good and put a card board box o...

16 years ago
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