I want to try planting Pygmy Date Palm in NJ, US (zone 6a/6b)

[PashkaTLT]

Hi guys,

I haven't tried planting zone 9 palms yet, but all my zone 8 palms did will last winter in boxes (+mulch, +heating cables/Christmas lights).

So I think I could try planting my Pygmy Date Palm (which is zone 9) ?

I think the worst case scenario - it can lose some leafs? I can also try adding more mulch and maybe a 2nd heating cable/Christmas lights row).

Btw, I didn't see a big difference between using heating cables and Christmas lights. I did an experiment and used heating cables in half of my palms and Christmas lights in the other half of my palms. All did well and the monitors didn't show a big difference in temperature. But heating cables consumed less electricity. All electricity in heating cables goes to heating, while in Christmas lights part of the energy is "wasted" on light.

[vbandz]

i grow them in 9a and some actually die, you may want to get a really mature one and protect it harder than the others. although my friend (“new york tropical garden” on youtube) has one that is doing better then mine! so yes 100% possible.

[vbandz]

7 minutes ago, PashkaTLT said:

Hi guys,

I haven't tried planting zone 9 palms yet, but all my zone 8 palms did will last winter in boxes (+mulch, +heating cables/Christmas lights).

So I think I could try planting my Pygmy Date Palm (which is zone 9) ?

I think the worst case scenario - it can lose some leafs? I can also try adding more mulch and maybe a 2nd heating cable/Christmas lights row).

Btw, I didn't see a big difference between using heating cables and Christmas lights. I did an experiment and used heating cables in half of my palms and Christmas lights in the other half of my palms. All did well and the monitors didn't show a big difference in temperature. But heating cables consumed less electricity. All electricity in heating cables goes to heating, while in Christmas lights part of the energy is "wasted" on light.

check the post i made on the topic 🙌🏼

[PashkaTLT]

@vbandz

>check the post i made on the topic 🙌🏼

Do you mean your previous message?:

>i grow them in 9a and some actually die, you may want to get a really mature one and protect it harder than the others. although my friend (“new york tropical garden” on youtube) has one that is doing better then mine! so yes 100% possible.

[vbandz]

Just now, PashkaTLT said:

@vbandz

>check the post i made on the topic 🙌🏼

Do you mean your previous message?:

>i grow them in 9a and some actually die, you may want to get a really mature one and protect it harder than the others. although my friend (“new york tropical garden” on youtube) has one that is doing better then mine! so yes 100% possible.

yes sorry 

[vbandz]

1 minute ago, PashkaTLT said:

@vbandz

>check the post i made on the topic 🙌🏼

Do you mean your previous message?:

>i grow them in 9a and some actually die, you may want to get a really mature one and protect it harder than the others. although my friend (“new york tropical garden” on youtube) has one that is doing better then mine! so yes 100% possible.

forgot to mention i’m from jersey too! bergan county my grandpa is a retired cop

[PashkaTLT]

@vbandz

Thank you, I see your friend is in 6a, so I think I'll try!?

[vbandz]

2 minutes ago, PashkaTLT said:

@vbandz

Thank you, I see your friend is in 6a, so I think I'll try!?

now i believe it is 6b with the new usda map

[PashkaTLT]

@vbandz He has a great channel btw, thank you for mentioning it.