Okanagan desert-palms
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Joined: Jun 25, 2005
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RE: Garlic for Spide Mites/Mealybug/Soft Scale?

Here is a site that is promoting garlic as an insecticide. . Mark I think you could forget about 600 cloves for your 75 gal. Queen palms.. Maybe try s...

14 years ago
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RE: Invasion of the Plastic Palms

Barb those plastico palms are always good for a laugh. The ones in Vernon remind me of a Boston fern palm. You know the ones that grow near Boston LOL...

14 years ago
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RE: Garlic for Spide Mites/Mealybug/Soft Scale?

Barb I peeled mine before putting a couple of cloves in the pot. Mark a one gal. pot 1 clove 3 gal 2 cloves 5 gal 3 to 4 cloves .Well you get the idea...

14 years ago
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RE: Garlic for Spide Mites/Mealybug/Soft Scale?

Barb garlic clove`s work wonders as a natural "systemic" insectiside. Not a bug on any of my indoor palms or plants this winter. I also use a little c...

14 years ago
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RE: Hardy palms in Maryland

Welcome to the cold hardiest palm,yucca,cactus,forum on the net.John

14 years ago
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RE: new Cocos nucifera

Fish poop is good for lot`s of things!LOL :lol: John

14 years ago
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RE: new Cocos nucifera

Barb now there is dedication to your palms. Got anything else that needs to be washed and drip hung to dry near those palms :lol: I have humidifier in...

14 years ago
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RE: new Cocos nucifera

I had a Cocconut two years ago and it also croaked. My thoughts are that the roots got to hot in the smaller 3 gal. pot it was in. The temps were near...

14 years ago
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RE: Agave salmiana

Very nice addition to your garden Aaron. Here is an interesting video on a 50 year old Agave in Boston. John

14 years ago
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RE: Trachy fortunei in palm hut

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 bas...

14 years ago
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RE: new Cocos nucifera

Barb nice Cocconut. With that led lighting system and proper humidity that is going to be one happy palm. I have two led`s 90 watt ea.I use for my sma...

14 years ago
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RE: Extreme cold for the Southern AZ, NM, and West Texas

Aaron thanks for the funny flip side vid.John

14 years ago
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RE: Extreme cold for the Southern AZ, NM, and West Texas

But big Al said the debate is over?John

14 years ago
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RE: Extreme cold for the Southern AZ, NM, and West Texas

Here is some more fun with climate change debate. Bob Carter explains what has happened with C02 and our planet Earth. Science is still about debate ...

14 years ago
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RE: Sabal Riverside

Nice to see the S.riverside doing well for you. It is probably root bound by now in that 1 gal. Maybe a transplant in order with it being under those ...

14 years ago
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