trachycarpus growing temperature

[palm789]

What are the day and night and soil temperatures,both lowest and highest/optimum to kickstart new growth of these palms,its nearly summer and none of my fortunei and the one up my parents house seem to grow as of yet

[Rickybobby]

Can we see some pics?

[Allen]

Fortunei will grow with temps anywhere to some degree.  Best 60-85F.  Take a marker and mark one new spear with a line then mark across to a older frond and look in a couple days to see the movement.  

[palm789]

2 hours ago, Rickybobby said:

Can we see some pics?

 

 

Edited June 2, 2019 by palm789

[Allen]

Transplanted palms wont grow much the 1st year

[palm789]

The first palm is growing and been in ground for a year the second small one in pot is starting to grow slowly but this big one aint moving

Edited June 2, 2019 by palm789

[Rickybobby]

They look good   The one in a pot looks like it has had a lot of fronds trimmed off lately? 

[palm789]

3 hours ago, Rickybobby said:

They look good   The one in a pot looks like it has had a lot of fronds trimmed off lately? 

Was bought like that a sickly coloured trachy for a discount price

[Chester B]

Sometimes they sit and sometimes they move.  As long as the fronds and spears are green you're good to go.  Just give it some time.  For me once the nighttime temps are around 50 and they daytime over 60 they start to move much faster.  I think 75-85 might be the sweet spot with plenty of water.

[RJ]

2 hours ago, Chester B said:

Sometimes they sit and sometimes they move.  As long as the fronds and spears are green you're good to go.  Just give it some time.  For me once the nighttime temps are around 50 and they daytime over 60 they start to move much faster.  I think 75-85 might be the sweet spot with plenty of water.

Agree, mine have been growing even into the low 100's, but they get watered every other day when the heat is like that. My night time lows have been 71ish recently. 

[Chester B]

6 minutes ago, RJ said:

Agree, mine have been growing even into the low 100's, but they get watered every other day when the heat is like that. My night time lows have been 71ish recently. 

I see some people say they don't grow over 85F but I disagree.  As long as they get enough water they won't stop.  Mine grow year round,  but much slower in the winter.  

[Rickybobby]

13 minutes ago, Chester B said:

I see some people say they don't grow over 85F but I disagree.  As long as they get enough water they won't stop.  Mine grow year round,  but much slower in the winter.  

I agree we get 90s here in Ontario but what I think helps it is a night time cool down in the 70s

[Steve Mac]

We put one in and it did not grow for about 4 or 5 years,  but is growing well now.

I would not worry, they all look fine.

[palmsOrl]

I agree with the above.  The one I had at my parent’s old house in Maitland, near Orlando grew and looked great.  It always had a ton of water though.

I don’t see many in this area and the few municipal plantings I see look rough, or dead, like a couple at a nearby new apartment complex.  

[palm789]

At the moment day temperaturs lately are about 60f to 68f in the day and night between 53f and 57f,as i live in the uk the weather this year is not that nice as last year just rain.

[mdsonofthesouth]

Honestly mine grew at anything above freezing it seemed. Will baby the nearly 15g I put in the ground up against the house. Usually slow the first year but they really open up in year 2! 

[Allen]

During peak months last year my trachy were opening a frond every 10 days or 3 per month.