4.5 months in a straw cocoon, opening the Dicksonia antarctica. Spring 2014
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:09 pm
Its that time of year, the grand cracking of the Dicksonia antarctica cocoon
4.5 months with no water, light, or airflow. This winter has been interesting due to the lack of any real cold, loads of rain, and some decent sun on the black bin bag surrounding the straw cage. I've had a temp sensor in the cage and on some days its hit 26*c in there
Will I find a rotten crown? bone dry cooked crown?
Lets find out
This grand opening was overseen by shedcat ©
wheely bin bag with holes pierced throughout...
Haxnix draw string fleece bag
Extremely dry straw at the top
On getting near the crown the straw becomes very wet, with the same result i've had every year so far, a moist crown with a furry head full of knuckles!
Trex un-cokebottled
Washy had simply had a fleece bag on it all winter and stuck under the large Trachycarpus for shelter, removed the severely wind damaged leaves
shed Musa made it through in the straw cage
West border Musa fine too, some serious girth on this one now
A couple of small unprotected musa pups I planted came through unprotected thanks to the way winter panned out, with new rollers on the way
Finished off by hoovering up
4.5 months with no water, light, or airflow. This winter has been interesting due to the lack of any real cold, loads of rain, and some decent sun on the black bin bag surrounding the straw cage. I've had a temp sensor in the cage and on some days its hit 26*c in there
Will I find a rotten crown? bone dry cooked crown?
Lets find out
This grand opening was overseen by shedcat ©
wheely bin bag with holes pierced throughout...
Haxnix draw string fleece bag
Extremely dry straw at the top
On getting near the crown the straw becomes very wet, with the same result i've had every year so far, a moist crown with a furry head full of knuckles!
Trex un-cokebottled
Washy had simply had a fleece bag on it all winter and stuck under the large Trachycarpus for shelter, removed the severely wind damaged leaves
shed Musa made it through in the straw cage
West border Musa fine too, some serious girth on this one now
A couple of small unprotected musa pups I planted came through unprotected thanks to the way winter panned out, with new rollers on the way
Finished off by hoovering up