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Albey
Joined: Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:49 pm Posts: 831 Location: Christchurch NZ USDA Zone: 9b
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Re: Parajubaea Torallyi
_________________ Rod.
Hottest Month 23.5°c / 14.0°c
Coldest Month 11.5°c / 3.0°c
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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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Re: Parajubaea Torallyi
Hi Doug good to see your name on the forum again that is one beautiful palm you have there did you protect it any when it was smaller?
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douglas horrell
Joined: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:10 am Posts: 26 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Re: Parajubaea Torallyi
Hi Kev, Yes I'll try and find time to do a garden update soon - I have upcoming post -earthquake building work that means I'll need to dig out a lot of plants unfortunately. I did protect it with frost cloth when I planted it. It had no divided leaves when it went in though so it was pretty small.
Rod- I'm in St Albans (the other St Albans UK folks). I measured temperature religiously for the first few years here and noticed it was a lot colder than many other parts of town. Cold air pools here being a drained swamp. For the last 5-6 years it's been much milder, but back when I moved in 11 years ago there were occasional freezes that could dip well below -5C.
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cichlidfish
Joined: Tue Nov 12, 2013 9:21 am Posts: 415 Location: Petworth, uk
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Re: Parajubaea Torallyi
UPDATE
Paid another visit to Wisley and to my surprise the Palm is still there. Can't say it looks overjoyed but it's alive.
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junglejason
Joined: Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:49 pm Posts: 206 Location: arthog, gwynedd, wales
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Re: Parajubaea Torallyi
I'm glad you bumped this up, I was thinking of buying a Parajubaea, after reading this I think I'll give it a miss, unless any one could recommend it for the Welsh coast.
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cichlidfish
Joined: Tue Nov 12, 2013 9:21 am Posts: 415 Location: Petworth, uk
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Re: Parajubaea Torallyi
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Vic
Joined: Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:40 pm Posts: 128 Location: Kent
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Re: Parajubaea Torallyi
I'd be tempted to give it a go Jason, I'm guessing your a bit milder than me? I've had one planted out for about 5-6 years and have protected it every winter.... and I needeny have done as it's only gone to about -5c in the last 5 years, this year it has been slightly colder but with much colder days too. I'm guessing it saw around -5.5c and is clearly in some distress.
It may be worth trying sunka as it is reportedly a bit hardier. I have one that's about planting out size and it's been much slower and all the other sp's (I've grown them all) but it does seem a little more stocky and has stiffer leaflets, so this may well be a better option. Getting hold of one on the other hand may be tricky?
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junglejason
Joined: Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:49 pm Posts: 206 Location: arthog, gwynedd, wales
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Re: Parajubaea Torallyi
Thank you both for the extra Information.
_________________ Change the face of the UK, plant at least one palm a year. Jason
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