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cuja1
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by cuja1 » Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:29 am
Sabal minor mccurtain
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Our conures
Mexican fan palm (wife stripped the boots off) I've had this since 1996
Castle spires holly
Needle palm. Leaves are smashed bc i had a cover over it.
Brackens brown beauty
Edith bogue
Opuntia and y glauca. Agaves are covered.
Potato cactus grew alot
Sabal palmetto seedling that i dug up in destin fl
Yucca rostrat from chisos mtns according to kelly grummins they are hardier than typical rostrata
Torch cactus and barrel cactus
Sabal minor
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cuja1
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by cuja1 » Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:32 am
Sorry just noticed everything is sideways
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DarkNight
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by DarkNight » Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:05 pm
Very nice
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by cuja1 » Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:29 pm
Thank you DarkKnight
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hardyjim
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by hardyjim » Wed Dec 30, 2015 7:44 am
Nice....any holes in the plastic
covers on the Agave to let moisture
out/keep from overheat?
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cuja1
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by cuja1 » Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:55 am
hardyjim wrote:Nice....any holes in the plastic
covers on the Agave to let moisture
out/keep from overheat?
Yep, I drilled maybe 15 holes on each side. I did notice last year that the agave neomexicana and agave harvardiana had spots and wilted (is that the correct word for it?) areas. I think maybe moisture collected on the top of the bins and dripped onto the agaves. I think when they get a little bigger I might put chicken wire around them, cover the chicken wire in bubble wrap or plastic and then put a piece of plywood on top to cover it and see if that helps.
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hardyjim
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by hardyjim » Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:37 am
When they are smaller that happens
but as they get larger it wont be as
much of an issue,mine could get rather
spotty as infants as I recall
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cuja1
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by cuja1 » Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:17 am
hardyjim wrote:When they are smaller that happens
but as they get larger it wont be as
much of an issue,mine could get rather
spotty as infants as I recall
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Remember the winter of 2013/2014? The winter from hell? I had an agave parryi outside. It was just starting to get to be a nice size. I uncovered it in March and everything looked fine. Then a light dusting of snow came along. I figured that that happens in El Paso so why bother covering them. It was barely at 32 F. A few days later the leaves (is that the right name for agaves?) swelled up and rotted. The same thing happened to my harvardiana that I had just planted outside in March (so it wasn't out side all winter). The spear was still looking good. So I waited a month or so and saw that it was slowly opening up but it had some whitish color and it looked shriveled. Later my wife pulled on the spear and a bunch of rotted leaves came out. I thought it was dead.
Later it started shooting out about 4 pups so I left it. This year I noticed that new leaves were growing out of the main agave. But they are small leaves coming out compared to the way it looked before.
I kick myself for not having protected it in March from the snow.
I'm still not sure though if it was the cold from that winter or the snow that almost made it lose it's spear.
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hardyjim
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by hardyjim » Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:44 am
Had to have been the earlier conditions I would think....
That small amount of snow and cold should not have done that-weird.
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by cuja1 » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:48 pm
hardyjim wrote:Had to have been the earlier conditions I would think....
That small amount of snow and cold should not have done that-weird.
I could see the spear rotting being due to the cold but it seemed like the leaves rotting was caused directly by the snow.
One proof of this was that my harvardianas leaves swelled up and rotted but it didnt spend the winter outside. I planted it in march.
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by chadec » Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:06 pm
Everything looks good.
Agaves tend to be extremely xeric, and their hardiness depends on them being hardened off ( dry ). So once winter sets in my xeric agaves like havardiana and parryi will get covered a day or two before cold weather. The clear plastic actually helps dry the ground around them.
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by cuja1 » Sun Jan 03, 2016 9:57 am
chadec wrote:Everything looks good.
Agaves tend to be extremely xeric, and their hardiness depends on them being hardened off ( dry ). So once winter sets in my xeric agaves like havardiana and parryi will get covered a day or two before cold weather. The clear plastic actually helps dry the ground around them.
Thank you!
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by cuja1 » Sun Jan 03, 2016 11:14 am
Here are pictures of my agave parryi. How it looks after the spear rotted.
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by chadec » Sun Jan 03, 2016 5:25 pm
Samething happened to my Montana last March. All the leaves turned purple then the meristem rotted. But since it has regrown nicely.
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