foxtail palm how many times to water the foxtail palm seed per week? and it have to be in sunlight or not?

[treelover]

pls answer my question

[kinzyjr]

@treelover

If they are just seeds, you shouldn't have to do much watering with the right germination setup.  If you have a heat mat, you can speed things up.  If not, put the container near sunlight or another heat source.

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[treelover]

ok got it, thx

[TheMadScientist]

These are my 1 year old Foxtail seedlings.  You can see they are on top of barrels to keep bunnies away and in the shade of a large California pepper tree.  The last 2 days where I am 45 miles north of Los Angeles, the temperature has been 93 deg. F and we only read about rain.....I water these each day as they are in fast draining soil mix with 8 holes in the bottom of the containers.  In the winter, I don't water these as often as the evaporation is much less, so I'm checking water retention from top to bottom.  I promise you, putting these in direct sunlight here WILL BURN THE BEGINNING LEAVES.

 

[Breaktheory]

10 hours ago, TheMadScientist said:

These are my 1 year old Foxtail seedlings.  You can see they are on top of barrels to keep bunnies away and in the shade of a large California pepper tree.  The last 2 days where I am 45 miles north of Los Angeles, the temperature has been 93 deg. F and we only read about rain.....I water these each day as they are in fast draining soil mix with 8 holes in the bottom of the containers.  In the winter, I don't water these as often as the evaporation is much less, so I'm checking water retention from top to bottom.  I promise you, putting these in direct sunlight here WILL BURN THE BEGINNING LEAVES.

 

On a related topic - with something like a 25G foxtail grown in partial sunlight, will it burn if I plant it in direct sun?

[TheMadScientist]

Are you sure about "partial" sunlight?  I didn't post a photo of my 4 year old Foxtail in a 5 gallon black container.  I did an exceptional job from Thanksgiving to March keeping all of my seedlings from letting the 31 deg. F on a number of mornings kill even a single palm.  Half of these were kept in the race car trailer with a 200 watt reflective drop light bring the front half of the trailer up 10 deg F to around low 40's and the more sensitive seedlings were kept in the garage where it stayed 50+.  The dumb thing I did in Dec. and some of January was to take these outside after 9 am and back inside after 2 pm to sit in full sun....rationalizing the less intense sun.  They all got sunburned on the first growth.  3 months of not doing that any longer, the 2nd growth is all healthy green.  I would NOT plant your 25 gallon Foxtail in direct sun, but you could place the container there and put shade screen over the top for 2022.