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- Is the honey palm hardy?
- How do I overwinter a young honey palm?
- How do I overwinter an old honey palm?
- Worth knowing about the honey palm:
- Tips
Older honey palms can handle frost of up to -15 ° C well
Is the honey palm hardy?
Although the honey palm is hardy from Chile, the plant needs to grow properly first. With a growth of about 5 cm per year, it takes about 5 years until the honey palm is allowed to hibernate outside.
How do I overwinter a young honey palm?
A young honey palm should overwinter as frost-free as possible. This is hardly possible in German gardens. That's why you give your honey palm a bright, not too warm winter quarters. This can be both a frost-free greenhouse, as well as an unheated conservatory. If the honey palm is very warm in winter, for example in the well-heated living room, then in the spring it has to slowly become accustomed to colder air again.
Pull your honey palm as a houseplant, then it may stand all year in the living room. It needs no hibernation, like some other plant. The warmer the honey palm is, the more it should be watered. With a honey palm as a houseplant, you do not have to make any difference between summer and winter, at least not when watering. You can reduce the amount of fertilizer in winter a bit.
How do I overwinter an old honey palm?
An old honey palm can grow up to over 20 meters. At some point, it is too big to be moved to winter quarters. However, it is already hardy and tolerates frost to about - 15 ° C. Potted plants need winter protection especially for the root ball. If this freezes, then the plant enters easily, because it can no longer draw water from the ground.
However, there is a risk that your honey palm will die of thirst if it does not get water in winter. Pour the palm on frost-free days, as it evaporates a lot of moisture through its leaves, especially on sunny winter days.
Worth knowing about the honey palm:
Tips
Since the honey palm grows only very slowly and is not hardy in the first years, it is recommended to keep this palm tree until around the age of 5 as a houseplant.