Tepid water in crown's?.

[karl66]

How many are pouring tepid water in & around crown/spear?, or could this do more harm than good?. karl.

[kata]

To what Karl?

Crown I think of Fern, spear I think of Trachicarpus etc.

[Dave Brown]

I wouldn't, with the windchill, and lack of sun, as any warmth in the water will quickly be blasted away and then may freeze the crown of a palm. Probably less so for Dicksonia antarctica. It is normally ok for night frosts in April with sunny days, but not the Ice Age type freeze we are seeing.

[Arlon Tishmarsh]

IMO Karl, with the temps as they are, dry / cold is better than wet / cold in the crown of any plant. Plants are not actively growing at the mo and don't need additional water

[karl66]

Many thanks. Arlon, it wasn't to add additional water but to melt the thick snow/ice on the growing point's, i've been off work since thursday & am also snowed off today!!, we have had it really bad here , there's no sign of sun to melt it!!. karl.

[Tom2006]

Best thing is go get the gloves on and manually remove the snow/ice from around the palm leaves and growth point. Also worth doing this for any Dicksonia antarctica.

[karl66]

Done that yesterday tom!!, two thing's though, first its impossible to do this with large trunked yucca's especially multiheaded thompsonia , lastly try doing it to over 100 plants!!. Believe it or not i've just come back from looking at a job 8 miles from me it, there was no snow 3c ? here i'm almost snowed in 1c . karl.