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can we talk grow set ups????


EJ;)

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New to this, have no green house or grow set up for seeds n seedlings. 

Please talk to me about your success in setting up a grow station for palm babies not quite ready for the ground. 

Or new seeds your experimenting with? Im in Zone 9b. Looking to protect seeds and seedlings which may take months 

before they are ready to be added to my jungle next spring.  

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Erika,

I've got a heat mat set up in my spare bedroom set at 95°F on a timer 12 hours on/12 hours off.  I place baggies and community pots on the heat mat for germinating palm seeds.  Bought a shop light with cord and purchased florescent plant light tubes with the red/blue/green LEDs and set it above a table where I keep my newly germinated seedlings.  Once they are past the baby stage and have more than 2 strap leaves I put them outside behind shade cloth on my back patio where they receive filtered sunlight for several hours and continually bright shade conditions at other times during the day.   I set them on plastic plant trays (I got from Lowe's for free) so that I can bring them in my garage on those handful of nights each winter when temps dip below freezing.  Exceptions are palms that can handle full sun immediately such as Bismarckia, Medemia, Brahea armata, etc. that get exposed to more sun from the get-go.  My patio is tiny (as is my yard) and my set-up is a couple of shelves that still give me room to move around.  I also have a couple of milk crates I set on the floor for the taller seedlings.  Not very attractive but functional.

Jon

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Check out my YouTube. Southern Ontario palms and tropicals. I made a palm room that I keep climate controlled and have a lot of videos on my progress and setups 

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I use my aluminum work desk in my garage.  It has 3 heat mats laid on top of towels.  As far as what I've had success with, I post a lot of the better results in the New Arrivals thread:

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/53287-new-arrivals/

Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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I keep many of my palm seedlings under canopy sitting on vented plastic shelf units in the back yard. I also keep tropical palm seedlings on shelf units on our back lanai under a birdcage (in FL like a pool cage but without the pool). I have two layers of commercial grade shade cloth stretched across the screening to blunt the ferocious sun. I have also added two small greenhouses mounted on wheeled carts. I keep my sunlover Sabals, Coccothrinax, Copernicias etc. on shelf units laid on mulch under the sky. I have irrigation to water everything.

I do most of my potting work in or around our 10' x 16' garden shed, the largest Cape Coral code allows. It is tied to the ground according to Miami-Dade Hurricane Code.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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I use my garage to store my palm seedlings durning winter. Have done it this way for years. The darkness doesn't really effect them as long as they're not actively growing. I usually just open up the garage when I'm home to let in sunlight when I can. My problem is I have to many plants. Greenhouse should be built this year (hopefully).

Heat mats & grow lights is the way to go though if you want to keep everything happily growing :greenthumb:

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Hesperia,Southern CA (High Desert area). Zone 8b

Elevation; about 3600 ft.

Lowest temp. I can expect each year 19/20*f lowest since I've been growing palms *13(2007) Hottest temp. Each year *106

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Outdoor in the backyard when weather is good.  In our garage during the winter.  We keep a thermostat run heater in there, heat mat with thermostat underneath, and led grow lamps from Amazon.  We put all of this on a wire shelving unit with lights on each level hanging from the wire racks.  I bought boot mats for each shelf to catch runoff watering so it wouldn’t run over the lights below.

 

That was last year.  I have so many seedlings now I don’t know how or where they will fit…..  :)

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