i didn’t protect it all last winter. we had an absolute low of 8F and maybe 3 total nights throughout the winter of lows in the mid teens everything else was 20 and above. no issue other than the ring of damage on the 2 spears that were growing in after those 2 nights of 8F
i’ve been away from it weeks at a time and we’ve had an exceptional drought in central va this summer so it’s been irregular. i think we had 2 inches of rain from early june-late august, when usually we’d have 10-12 inches during that period) but i gave the ground a very heavy soaking roughly every 10 days.
i just got 2 palms here in south jersey 7b. im also 20 miles from a zone change which is 8a (crazy ik) and mine put on around 1 inch of growth on one and 2 on the other and both got 2 new fronds and are pushing our their third which i think will begin to open before our first freeze in november. however im thinking of moving one of them because i don't like its placement and i think sometimes it gets too much sun. however im stilll not sure if i should because then wouldn't that cause it to take an extra year to start to take off or am i wrong? Overall im hoping they takeoff soon and maybe will even put on more growth next year than it did this year
8a in jersey always sounds so bizarre to me but i believe it ahaha. This palm was planted in full sun and had a pretty slow first growing period as well. i believe i counted 4 or maybeee 5 new fronds during its first growing season. But we had a pretty long one last year from april to late october! i had planted it mid may so i believe it had just the right amount of time to adjust and settle in before it got cold again. personally id let it stay there, they don’t mind full sun in northern climates, especially as long as they’re well hydrated(amount of water per watering not necessarily frequency) i believe my palm was grown originally in a shady area since all of the original fronds always closed up completely in the full sun, however each new frond that grew out after i planted it in full sun became more and more open mid day. now most of them stay wide open! I say try it there for one more year and if not, id consider moving it! thanks for watching :)
@@CentralVirginiaJungle okay I'll see how it does. to be fair the newest frond is actually pretty large and green but it still is curled up. maybe i can extend my mulch bed and add stuff around the palm to balance it out. which could provide additional protection from the wind. i thought it had good wind protection but hurricane debby proved otherwise when it came here. the palm was blowing all over the place to the point where i thought there might be wind damage but it actually did fine. i just had to fix parts of the fronds that got bent over
It looks great. They will grow even faster in time. Amazing little palms. My before and after pics in four years is nuts. Go from a small 8"-1' of trunk to about 4.5' trunk with an overall height of about 6'. They are fun to watch season to season. Yours looks great man.
i’m in central virginia, zone 7a. This previous winter i had 2 nights down to 8F and about 4 or 5 nights in the lower teens with only 2 days completely below freezing. Most of the winter it’s upper 40s and mid 20s! I got a total of 10” of snow spread out over a couple snow storms
@@CentralVirginiaJungle makes sense. even the new frond is a little droopy but i’ve also noticed some mature ones i’ve seen in person are still droopy so that might just be its genetics 🤷🏻♀️
@@CentralVirginiaJungle you can tell its a Trachycarpus Wagnerianus by how stiff the leaves are. Great little palm because the leaves don't suffer wind damage like the fortunei.
@CentralVirginiaJungle When you prune it tells the tree to direct energy to new growth. If the leaf is brown you should remove it. It also improves the appearance of the tree. I assume you fertilize.
@@2good2leaveunow Yes! The leaves at the bottom still are largely green so i’ll keep them around for a little longer. sooner or later they will turn brown naturally!
thank you! i thought about that actually. i’m just worried we get too much rain here. 50” of rain for the entire year, every now and then i hear about them not getting through rainy cold winters! maybe ill give it a shot
I am in zone 7 in Virginia, and my windmill palm is super happy. Mid August and it has already 15 new fronds for the year. But fast growth means thinner trunk, and I wonder if that's a problem down the line.
i just got my first windmill palm this may here in south jersey 7b. because of the cooler wet spring, it has shown very little signs of shock and has in fact put out new growth. the spear it came with is opening and it is now putting out a new spear! it’s crazy!!
thank you! i was a little surprised when i planted it and took a few steps back, didn’t realize how big it was till then. but the nursery was/is a hidden gem, so glad i heard about it!
Good info. One nice thing about transplanting windmill palms, unlike sabal palms, is that when you cut the roots it will grow from that point again. Sabal palm roots die back when they are cut. That's why it's more difficult to get sabal palms to transplant. I hear spring peepers in your video. It's a great time of year, huh?
those sabal palms can be a huge pain if not transplanted carefully, i think that’s why im straying away from them at least for now ahaha. but thank you! and yes it really is the best season, right now specifically before the allergies get too bad lool
