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Jamie in Caversham
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:33 pm Posts: 20 Location: Caversham, north Reading, south UK
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T-Rex: winter protection?
Now I'm confused! Watching Gardeners world last night Mr Swift said he was going to protect the Tetrapanex roots with a thick mulch but to leave the stem without protection.
Isn't the growth point the most sensitive?
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Johnwalton
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:47 pm Posts: 44 Location: Ipswich Suffolk UK
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Hi Jamie
Yes I saw that just turned over and here was on about treating it as a half hardy perennial never had any protection here but we have not had
A test for a while have we. So if we did have a bad frost it could kill the growing point and come again from roots?
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Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:24 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Jamie
I fleeced mine first year and lost the growing point, it came back, next year no protection apart from a little mulching with bark chips and it was fine................Did you see them wrapping the trunks of the tree ferns with straw.....I am going to need a lot of straw.
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Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:29 pm |
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Alexander
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:55 pm Posts: 3344 Location: Leidschendam, The Netherlands. (52 N latitude)
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What I know is that the normal Tetrapanax papyfera is more frost-tender then T. papyfera 'Sterodial Giant'. I have seen one wich was 2 meters high and had survived temperatures of minus 20 Celcius without any damage at all! It was at the nursery Exoterra in a colder northern part of the country. They have a display garden there with many exotics. And from more people I have hear that the bigleave forms are hardier.
Regards,
Alexander
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:33 am |
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ChrisB
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:17 pm Posts: 146 Location: Swindon, SW England
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Andrew in Germany
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:48 pm Posts: 764 Location: Herzogenrath Germany
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I don't protect my T-rex or Steriodal Giant. Both have seen cold winters and never had the growing points die.
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:25 am |
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David Matzdorf
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:06 pm Posts: 5321 Location: Islington, London UK
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Can someone tell me how you spell Tetrapanax "Ster??dal Giant"?
On the Oasis, I used to see more "Steriodals" than "Steroidals". Now we have a "Sterodial" as well.
So I googled. And got roughly equal numbers of hits for all three spellings.
The one that makes sense to me is "Steroidal". Are the others just typos or is the correct name something else?
And what's the difference between this plant and Tetrapanax "Rex" anyway?
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:56 am |
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Andrew in Germany
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:48 pm Posts: 764 Location: Herzogenrath Germany
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:35 pm |
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Jonathan Poston
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:08 am Posts: 266 Location: Eastbourne, Sussex, England
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atropica
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:00 am Posts: 129 Location: Newbury, Berks, UK
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Do stems that flower maintain a single growing point or do they branch?
I can't see anything within this flower head that looks like a single groing point.
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:18 pm |
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Andrew in Germany
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:48 pm Posts: 764 Location: Herzogenrath Germany
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Based on my plants, the flowering end doesn't mean it's going to branch off. In fact this has rarely happened for me. Although I have 1 rex that has branched, but didn't loose it's growing point either. I guess the answer is, it could do, probably won't, and if it does branch it may be because the growing point died. Not necessarily because of the flowering.
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:00 pm |
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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Not that I can keep this alive, but....
The ones I've envied have lost the terminal shoot when they flower.
Apical dominance is usually quickly re-established, with only one side shoot taking over: only occasionaly do two survive to produce a fork.
Chad.
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simon
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:27 pm Posts: 57 Location: Slough, Berkshire, UK
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Gaz
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:11 pm Posts: 232 Location: Luton, Bedfordshire, UK
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We suspended some bublewrap above our young T-Rex last year (left the sides open) to keep the worst of anything off it. It was a very mild winter (in the UK) last year, however it sailed through with no problems.
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