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Originally Posted by Kevin2685
Looks beautiful.
What did you use to protect it through the winter?
Did you cut off the leaves and wrap the pstem up?
I'm trying to figure out what would be best for me to do this winter
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Kevin,
I cut the stock down to about 1.5'. The first winter it was mulched, leaves and a tarp, i didn't like the results as I had to cut it down pretty much to the ground and luckily it did come back.
This year I built the same protection as I do for my palms (see Windmill in background) which is a rigid insulation box with 2 sets of 4' shop florescent lights hooked up to a thermocube (switching to thermostats this winter) I maintained between 1 and 5 degress (Celsius) inside the box and I'm sure it dropped colder.
We had an incredibly cold winter this year and they did very well.