A few trays of seedlings looking set for winter

[happypalms]

With winter approaching it’s time to start slowing the watering down.  
This will hopefully stop the dreaded winter strike rate on seedlings. Just the greenhouse for them in the microclimate I have created there. And try to water on the warm days so the foliage drys out before nightfall. Also no fertilising either, the metabolic rate will be down on a lot of tropical palms that’s for sure. So there on there own for winter we shall see how many casualties we get! 

[Harry’s Palms]

As you are going into Winter , we are enjoying Spring with our gardens coming to life . Our winters are generally not too bad but I’m looking forward to a break from all the bloody wind . It was a very windy Fall and Winter. The upside was all the rain we got . Harry

[PalmatierMeg]

Ack! May your winter be kinder to you than to us here in FL. The damage is well on its way and will continue for months. I lost my favorite palm: Areca catechu Dwarf planted in my yard for years. Im heartbroken but palm life goes on. A 7-10 stretch of nights in the mid- upper-30s did it in and almost killed my Tahina (unless it did but neither Tahina nor I know it yet). A lot of people in FL will see damage and death over the coming weeks & months but don't know it yet. We have been working for weeks to rehab shabby gardens barely maintained over the past 2-3 years before the heat/swelter of summer backs us off.

Your seedlings look great.

[happypalms]

7 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

As you are going into Winter , we are enjoying Spring with our gardens coming to life . Our winters are generally not too bad but I’m looking forward to a break from all the bloody wind . It was a very windy Fall and Winter. The upside was all the rain we got . Harry

Hi Harry yes the dreaded old man winter is coming, autumn for my garden I get a lot of good growth from coming out of summer and all the high root activity from the heat, then when autumn hits the new spears are starting to crack open. 
But iam sure winter will take its toll on the new seedlings. 
Richard 

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Ack! May your winter be kinder to you than to us here in FL. The damage is well on its way and will continue for months. I lost my favorite palm: Areca catechu Dwarf planted in my yard for years. Im heartbroken but palm life goes on. A 7-10 stretch of nights in the mid- upper-30s did it in and almost killed my Tahina (unless it did but neither Tahina nor I know it yet). A lot of people in FL will see damage and death over the coming weeks & months but don't know it yet. We have been working for weeks to rehab shabby gardens barely maintained over the past 2-3 years before the heat/swelter of summer backs us off.

Your seedlings look great.

Yes that winter that hit the US made the news here in Australia. Very rarely we get a black frost hits our area, two in 27 years. But that’s the one that goes the damage. So I feel for the gardeners who have lost advanced palms and plants in the Florida area and the rest of the US due that harsh weather that hit the US. 
Iam sure I will lose a few varieties from zone pushing but that’s growing palms. But iam also sure I will have some good unknown winners as well that will live. And that’s what it’s about expanding the collection and the growing range of palms once unheard of in cultivation, and that’s a great thing for the introduction of whew varieties of palms, you have to try. Hopefully healthy seedlings gives them an advantage in the cold.