TommyMacLuckie

I've looked in to getting mules - way way way too expensive. Going with Sabal Palmetto (Cabbage), Butia's (Pindo), Windmills and Euro fans plus various other Sabals.

Rhapis got burned here but not killed.

In Baton Rouge the Washingtonia robustas (and filferas) look fine. Here they're still coming back.

My bismarckia (purple) was in the ground but I covered it and put a 100 watt light bulb under it. The ends that touched the cover got burned a little bit. It's out in the open and is very young so I wanted to protect it. It's got two new spears coming out.

Now on to bananas:

One thing I decided to do, aside from other experimenting with removal of dead bananas vs. leaving them as well as cutting them half way down, was to cut the the top portion of, in this particular case, the Sabas. So that left 6 to 10 foot trunks. The new pups are now 4 to 8 feet tall (and they're growing much faster than they did last year). I'm surmising that by leaving the dead trunks they are a constant water source and have aided in the new growth. And also the root development has aided in their more

Not one Saba came back through the trunks as Orinocos do. Some Orinocos that I left died completely - as in nothing even coming back from the bottom at all. Others have brand new pups. Some grew back from where I cut them.