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Starting a Washingtonia from seed


MSX

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On 8/4/2022 at 8:00 AM, Will Simpson said:

Wow , they grow fast . In 4 months mine went from blades of grass to real plants .

March 

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That's impressive!  I have some that I germinated from seed two years ago that are just now getting to that size.

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On 8/4/2022 at 10:00 AM, Will Simpson said:

Wow , they grow fast . In 4 months mine went from blades of grass to real plants .

March 

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Four months later :

 

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How did they grow that fast? They need temps in 90’s and tons of sun to grow and you can’t be getting a lot of days like that in March April and May no?

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10 month old.

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Fertilized row vs unfertilized, no difference for now.

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Red outside, green inside. but why?

 

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Nice cotton palms!

I like how you use the rocks.  

You had a question about the red on the petiole. The pic is from a native filifera stand near Palm Spring CA..

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Exposing to cold is best way to filter out the weaker specimens. I have held onto 8 specimens out of the ~100 I germinated, and after leaving them exposed to the elements this past freeze in December in the low teens 4 of the 8 have zero damage, 1 was nearly completed fried, 2 have varying about 50% leaf burn, and one just on the tips. 

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I’d be putting those potted ones under cover. Those are temps that can freeze the pot solid and that is almost certain death to any palm. 
 

Palms in pots aren’t nearly as hardy as those in the ground. 

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On 1/15/2023 at 7:21 PM, Chester B said:

I’d be putting those potted ones under cover. Those are temps that can freeze the pot solid and that is almost certain death to any palm. 
 

Palms in pots aren’t nearly as hardy as those in the ground. 

My first tought as well. But I actually did this to a seed grown filifera as well, which I later planted out. But not -14°C plus snow LOL. This winter I had a very small P. canariensis in a 11cm pot just forming its first split leaves outside during the cold spell in Western Europe Dec '22. It was covered and next to the wall but due to the duration of the frost it froze through. With all of that I bet it has seen temperatures down to at least -3/-5°C in a WET POT. It's not showing any damage yet. NONE! And it has seen enough warmth by now to show any damage. Still can't believe it! But it's one of two survivors of a formely very neclected community pot. The other P. canarienis has been planted out last year and protected (covered) during that cold. Also NO DAMAGE yet. If they actually make it into the summer... WOW!

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Yes it's me Hortulanus 😂

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On 1/17/2023 at 5:09 AM, Hortulanus said:

My first tought as well. But I actually did this to a seed grown filifera as well, which I later planted out. But not -14°C plus snow LOL. This winter I had a very small P. canariensis in a 11cm pot just forming its first split leaves outside during the cold spell in Western Europe Dec '22. It was covered and next to the wall but due to the duration of the frost it froze through. With all of that I bet it has seen temperatures down to at least -3/-5°C in a WET POT. It's not showing any damage yet. NONE! And it has seen enough warmth by now to show any damage. Still can't believe it! But it's one of two survivors of a formely very neclected community pot. The other P. canarienis has been planted out last year and protected (covered) during that cold. Also NO DAMAGE yet. If they actually make it into the summer... WOW!

I keep mines in a bone dry soil, regular soil from the future planting site. Watered last time in the mid-fall, and the snow we have is dry like dust, so there's almost no impact on soil moisture

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10 hours ago, MSX said:

I keep mines in a bone dry soil, regular soil from the future planting site. Watered last time in the mid-fall, and the snow we have is dry like dust, so there's almost no impact on soil moisture

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I'm very pumped to see how it all worked out in spring. 👌

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Yes it's me Hortulanus 😂

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Potted & unprotected overwintering report : No survivors

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Garage palms have been repotted & continuing in the second year of life

16 month old

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MSX was the garage heated? If not was the low temp inside the garage where the survivors came from?

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8 minutes ago, Dwarf Fan said:

MSX was the garage heated? If not was the low temp inside the garage where the survivors came from?

The garage is not heated and ins't insulated, so during the coldest nights we had to quickly insulate the doors using materials at hand to seal the space (blanets, foam sheets, that was funny as it strongly recalled "The Day After Tomorrow" lol), so with this setup the lowest temp inside was -5C(23F), luckily all potted stuff survived

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4 hours ago, MSX said:

the lowest temp inside was -5C(23F), luckily all potted stuff survived

Wow, that Filifera variety is lucky you guys were so vigilant well done!

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