It look great nice and warm!!

Wow, thats one big box! Your plants always look great. Enjoy!
I hope you manage to come up with a way to protect it for many years (It is getting really big though!).

Good luck!

That's awesome! I'll be very interested to see how you continue to protect it once it outgrows your current protection method. Mine is a few years behind yours, but I'm certain I'll be faced with a similar issue when it gets too big...

Kevin, do you show me the pindo palm pics?

Hello Arctictropical. I love the fact that you are getting great results. I've tryed many experiments myself over last 20 years. In the early years I used yucca, hibiscus, olive trees oleanders etc. In the last 6 years mostly palm,yucca,banana experiments. For the small palms I used large rose cones,with arbotex,burlapp,hay.water pipe insulation, silver wall insulation, pink panther insulation,dry kilm sand,gravel,bubble wrap,peat moss, tarps,copper based fungicide. I have 20 palms outside that have experienced no artificial heat at all in 6 years This winter I have 75-100 palms around the Montreal area. I have 1-11ft windmill and 2- 8ft windmills. 10 varieties as well this winter. Many 4ft palms. The system I use for large palms is styrofoam boxes(blue) caulked together with 2 flourescent energy saver bulbs and heat cable from base to top top trunk. I am testing a different method this year this method will work for palms up to 20 feet. It is collapsable method and takes very little room. It looks like a space suit over palm and took 15-20 mins. total for installation. I am using this method North of here and a half zone colder. I used a windmill palm 7ft tall. I will put pics up in spring. For now I will put pics in recent gallery until I learn to upload pics here --take care--keep up good work.

Wow! I didn't expect that it's so huge!
How big protection box will grandson care? :)
Very nice picture, looking into the future.

Wow, that's huge. Do you own a crane or something lol

You should take another picture with the trachy this fall for scale. I built a box this year but it's less than half that size, and I had trouble getting it on with two of my friends.

Can we see a picture of the palm without the cover? I bet it's a beauty.

Wow - Big box.

Cute kid. Very cute.

You don't look old enough to be a grandpa.

dln949

Thanks everyone, for your comments.

Serj ukraine, my pindo palm made it through the winter last year just fine, but for some reason during the middle of the summer it died. Maybe from not watering it enough. I replaced it with a California fan palm. However, I did buy another pindo palm and will plant it outside in a couple of years.

coconutmike, I can't believe you have that many palms! I definitely want to see pictures in the Spring. Also your plans to cover the big ones. Amazing!

Fr8train, till now I lifted the box over the palm with my father's tractor loader, but it's too tall to go any higher, so I will have to come up with another plan next Fall to protect it.

southern il boy, Yes, I will take pictures with a person in front, next Fall.

dln949, oh yes, I'm old enough! I'll be 58 this May.

Thanks again everyone. Good luck! It's nice knowing there's others out there as crazy as I am with growing outdoor palms. My next experiment will be with an outdoor Mandarin orange tree since they are quite hardy.

Kevin, it is so miserable your pindo!

Serj, what palms are you currently growing outside? How have your winter temperatures been in the Ukraine? We've had -18 F. so far this winter, a mild one for us, compared to the -30 to -40 F. we usually have. Regarding loosing the Pindo Palm, it's OK. I grow alot of plants not normally grown in our area like magnolias and wisteria. If one variety dies, I simply replace it with something new until it does not die. The same applies to my palms. I will just keep replacing the palms if another one dies for some reason.