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Re: INDOOR-GARDENING digest 305

At 04:02 PM 5/27/97 -0400, Ashley Howarcl[ny][none] wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 14:47:58 PDT
>> From: "Diana Pederson" <dlpederson@hotmail.com>
>> To: indoor-gardening@prairienet.org
>> Subject: Cycad and Sago Palm
>> Message-ID: <199705252147.OAA22094@f8.hotmail.com>
>> 
>> Hello:
>> 
>> Has anyone grown cycads or sago palms?  My sago palm's leaves have all
turned 
>> yellow and drooped, the cycad's leaves are turning brown.  They have
been in 
>> windows or under shoplights all winter.  They did well last winter and
outside 
>> all summer.  It was only after I brought them back indoors that I had
trouble.  
>> Are they worth saving or should I toss them?
>> 
>  Cycad is a catch all name for a number of different species of which the
>Sago Palm (Cycas revoluta) is only one, albeit the best known one. It
>appears that your shoplights were not bright enough to sustain your palms
>and they are in decline. You should try to save these living relics from
>the dinasaur age before you throw in the towel. We are at the beginning of
>anohter growing season. My small cycad has put out two leaves, that is
>probabably all that it will produce this year. My much larger Cycad has
>not done much of anything except give me painful pricks in the shins when
>I stand close to it to reach smaller plants on the windowsill. Put your
>plants in better light and hope for the best. I doubt bugs are the problem
>Cycads are such tough leaved critters, still a good thorough once over is
>warranted. Good luck.
>
>
>
Sago is the first cycad I frew, in an unheated office building (on
weekends) in Boston. if the old ugly old leaves offend you, chop them off
and keep the plant warm and moist. await new fronds. you may have a while,
but they will come. I grow lots of cycads now and often prune off their
unsightly leaves. occasisonally one does mysteriously croak, a cause for
much howling and screaming, but we somehow get on with it. check out the
site, their may be cycads up...dunno, have not played with html in a while
as it is the propagating season!

hermine

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