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[Accy cyclist]

Out of interest, what do you feed to your palm tree? Ours just gets rained on every now and then.
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I think you need to re-pot your palm tree as the pot it's in is far too small for the roots to flourish. I'd like to 're-home' mine, or better still plant it in the ground. If I were to plant it in the ground, or more the case pay someone to do it for me it'd flourish, but then if say I were to move I couldn't take it with me, plus the housing association can be funny about such things and tell me to remove it if it was planted in the ground, especially if one of the petty neighbours were to complain. My best option would be to pay someone to re-pot it in a much bigger planter. Having said that, it seems to be quite healthy in the planter it's in and seems to have grown about 3 inches in height since this time last year. I bought it 8 years ago. It was about 3 foot high and the trunk was about the circumference of the average sized wrist. In the 8 years since I bought it it's now over 6 foot high with the trunk's circumference seeming to be about the size of the average thigh. I feed my palm tree on bananas, or just the skins, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, in fact any veg, apart from onions and garlic as the acid in both isn't good for the tree. As you can see in the below photos, the soil attracts many dandelions, which seem to be there all summer. Maybe they flourish due all the veggie stuff I put on the soil throughout the year. I did buy liquid palm tree food a few years ago, but it was a tenner then and it didn't seem to do much for the tree so I went back to household veggie and fruit waste. The veggie waste would decompose faster if I could bury it under the soil, but the soil is very compact and I couldn't fight my way through all those dandelions, but even when just placed on top, it does eventually break down and when it rains it washes over the veggie waste, allowing the goodness of the waste to seep into the soil, reaching the tree's roots.

 

[Stevo 666]

I think you need to re-pot your palm tree as the pot it's in is far too small for the roots to flourish. I'd like to 're-home' mine, or better still plant it in the ground. If I were to plant it in the ground, or more the case pay someone to do it for me it'd flourish, but then if say I were to move I couldn't take it with me, plus the housing association can be funny about such things and tell me to remove it if it was planted in the ground, especially if one of the petty neighbours were to complain. My best option would be to pay someone to re-pot it in a much bigger planter. Having said that, it seems to be quite healthy in the planter it's in and seems to have grown about 3 inches in height since this time last year. I bought it 8 years ago. It was about 3 foot high and the trunk was about the circumference of the average sized wrist. In the 8 years since I bought it it's now over 6 foot high with the trunk's circumference seeming to be about the size of the average thigh. I feed my palm tree on bananas, or just the skins, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, in fact any veg, apart from onions and garlic as the acid in both isn't good for the tree. As you can see in the below photos, the soil attracts many dandelions, which seem to be there all summer. Maybe they flourish due all the veggie stuff I put on the soil throughout the year. I did buy liquid palm tree food a few years ago, but it was a tenner then and it didn't seem to do much for the tree so I went back to household veggie and fruit waste. The veggie waste would decompose faster if I could bury it under the soil, but the soil is very compact and I couldn't fight my way through all those dandelions, but even when just placed on top, it does eventually break down and when it rains it washes over the veggie waste, allowing the goodness of the waste to seep into the soil, reaching the tree's roots.

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Ta for that, good tips about the feeding, I had never heard that before. Ours is already a decent size - that's a 6 foot fence next to it - and seems to be doing pretty well with a spot of benign neglect.

We did actually replant it in the ground last autumn - that photo was from late summer last year when we bought it, as I CBA to trek up the garden and take an up to date pic on the weekend ☺️ I'll take one tomorrow...

 

[Accy cyclist]

Ta for that, good tips about the feeding, I had never heard that before. Ours is already a decent size - that's a 6 foot fence next to it - and seems to be doing pretty well with a spot of benign neglect.

We did actually replant it in the ground last autumn - that photo was from late summer last year when we bought it, as I CBA to trek up the garden and take an up to date pic on the weekend ☺️ I'll take one tomorrow...

Ah, I thought the small pot looked like one of those you buy them in. If it's now in the ground it should do very well!!

 

[Pinno718]

I think you need to re-pot your palm tree as the pot it's in is far too small for the roots to flourish. I'd like to 're-home' mine, or better still plant it in the ground. If I were to plant it in the ground, or more the case pay someone to do it for me it'd flourish, but then if say I were to move I couldn't take it with me, plus the housing association can be funny about such things and tell me to remove it if it was planted in the ground, especially if one of the petty neighbours were to complain. My best option would be to pay someone to re-pot it in a much bigger planter. Having said that, it seems to be quite healthy in the planter it's in and seems to have grown about 3 inches in height since this time last year. I bought it 8 years ago. It was about 3 foot high and the trunk was about the circumference of the average sized wrist. In the 8 years since I bought it it's now over 6 foot high with the trunk's circumference seeming to be about the size of the average thigh. I feed my palm tree on bananas, or just the skins, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, in fact any veg, apart from onions and garlic as the acid in both isn't good for the tree. As you can see in the below photos, the soil attracts many dandelions, which seem to be there all summer. Maybe they flourish due all the veggie stuff I put on the soil throughout the year. I did buy liquid palm tree food a few years ago, but it was a tenner then and it didn't seem to do much for the tree so I went back to household veggie and fruit waste. The veggie waste would decompose faster if I could bury it under the soil, but the soil is very compact and I couldn't fight my way through all those dandelions, but even when just placed on top, it does eventually break down and when it rains it washes over the veggie waste, allowing the goodness of the waste to seep into the soil, reaching the tree's roots.

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Find an old shopping trolley and put the planter in it. That way, if you need to move...

 

[Accy cyclist]

Find an old shopping trolley and put the planter in it. That way, if you need to move...

Heck, No way could I move the thing! Someone put it in that garden area for me almost 7 years ago and the tree was much smaller then. I tried just out of interest the other month to slightly move it. It hardly left the ground, it's so heavy! Besides! Suppose I was moving to say Blackpool 30 miles away! Imagine pushing it in a shopping trolley all that way!!

 

[VinSumRox]

The day disappeared in washing the cars and the MH, tried a spray on ceramic coat on the car, looks ok but took a lot of buffing off...

 

[blackrat]

I think you need to re-pot your palm tree as the pot it's in is far too small for the roots to flourish. I'd like to 're-home' mine, or better still plant it in the ground. If I were to plant it in the ground, or more the case pay someone to do it for me it'd flourish, but then if say I were to move I couldn't take it with me, plus the housing association can be funny about such things and tell me to remove it if it was planted in the ground, especially if one of the petty neighbours were to complain. My best option would be to pay someone to re-pot it in a much bigger planter. Having said that, it seems to be quite healthy in the planter it's in and seems to have grown about 3 inches in height since this time last year. I bought it 8 years ago. It was about 3 foot high and the trunk was about the circumference of the average sized wrist. In the 8 years since I bought it it's now over 6 foot high with the trunk's circumference seeming to be about the size of the average thigh. I feed my palm tree on bananas, or just the skins, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, in fact any veg, apart from onions and garlic as the acid in both isn't good for the tree. As you can see in the below photos, the soil attracts many dandelions, which seem to be there all summer. Maybe they flourish due all the veggie stuff I put on the soil throughout the year. I did buy liquid palm tree food a few years ago, but it was a tenner then and it didn't seem to do much for the tree so I went back to household veggie and fruit waste. The veggie waste would decompose faster if I could bury it under the soil, but the soil is very compact and I couldn't fight my way through all those dandelions, but even when just placed on top, it does eventually break down and when it rains it washes over the veggie waste, allowing the goodness of the waste to seep into the soil, reaching the tree's roots.

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What you need to do is to take some pics to show us.

 

[Pinno718]

The day disappeared in washing the cars and the MH, tried a spray on ceramic coat on the car, looks ok but took a lot of buffing off...

Rapid ceramic or long term? Ceramic coatings need ever so slightly damp cloths to buff.
You can apply the Autoglym Rapid ceramic to wet paintwork, believe it or not.

 

[Pinno718]

Heck, No way could I move the thing! Someone put it in that garden area for me almost 7 years ago and the tree was much smaller then. I tried just out of interest the other month to slightly move it. It hardly left the ground, it's so heavy! Besides! Suppose I was moving to say Blackpool 30 miles away! Imagine pushing it in a shopping trolley all that way!!

I'm sending Freddy, Ralph and George round.
Only downside is that you'll only get 2hrs sleep as they will be there for 6.30am.
Best not bother going to bed.

I'm off to Heathrow to get steal one of these:

It's s low-rider version. Bit of a see saw but that's like the waves of the sea that the palm tree should be looking at instead of staring at concrete walls in a sink area of BB5. You should have roses - red ones anyway.
So there: don't bloody tell me you ain't moving the frikkin palm tree 'cos you're a bit frikkin feeble.
Donate the Palm tree to the recently impoverished Norfolk Islander at their his new state of the art cardboard box asylum centre in Newport Pagnell.

 

[VinSumRox]

Rapid ceramic or long term? Ceramic coatings need ever so slightly damp cloths to buff.
You can apply the Autoglym Rapid ceramic to wet paintwork, believe it or not.

Rapid one, can't remember make, in a black spray bottle!

 

[Pinno718]

Rapid one, can't remember make, in a black spray bottle!

Brand - 9H, Trinity, Car Pro, Carbon Collective... most are in black bottles. That narrows it down.
Did you clay bar the car before CC ing?

 

[VinSumRox]

Brand - 9H, Trinity, Car Pro, Carbon Collective... most are in black bottles. That narrows it down.
Did you clay bar the car before CC ing?

Sams ceramic wax spray. Just cleaned and dried the car, not looking for a concours finish just something the dirt doesn't stick to as easily!

 

[Pinno718]

Sams ceramic wax spray. Just cleaned and dried the car, not looking for a concours finish just something the dirt doesn't stick to as easily!

Yeahbut, if you don't decontaminate the surface (concours or otherwise), the ceramic or any wax/sealent for that matter, won't adhere to the surface properly.
So it will be 'rapid'; it will rapidly come off.
Do some Googling if you don't believe me.

Oh and use the ceramic on your bike frames.

 

[sungod]

Yeahbut, if you don't decontaminate the surface (concours or otherwise), the ceramic or any wax/sealent for that matter, won't adhere to the surface properly.
So it will be 'rapid'; it will rapidly come off.
Do some Googling if you don't believe me.

Oh and use the ceramic on your bike frames.

many years back some itinerant bike cleaners visited the gmc garage where the bike racks are, on a whim i had the commute bike cleaned and for an extra fiver they also applied the coating, definitely kept it much cleaner in bad weather

 

[Pinno718]

many years back some itinerant bike cleaners visited the gmc garage where the bike racks are, on a whim i had the commute bike cleaned and for an extra fiver they also applied the coating, definitely kept it much cleaner in bad weather

It definitely comes into it's own in winter and the bike is much easier to clean.