Posted by Tom Broome on 3/22/2009, 2:33 pm, in reply to "Reclaimed water"
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: Tom, It was good seeing you last week.
: You know we have major new watering
: restrictions.I have reclaimed water
: available but have not hooked up. Do
: you have any information on the
: effect the higher salts will have on
: the cycads? I will probably just
: hand water until the rainy season
: starts(I hope!).
:
I don't think the salt levels would be all that high when it comes to reclaimed water. I'd worry more about the viruses in the water all over the yeard before I would worry about the salts. There are many cycads that are very salt tolerant. Cycads like furfuraceas and Dioon edule have been known to live where salt spray constantly hits them froma large body of water. Even some coonties in the intracoastal areas on the east side of Florida have been known to be flooded for a week with salt or brackish water. I know hildeas don't do good in this same situation. But the only cycads I might think twice about would be the more picky south or central American zamias, and even some of those probably wouldn't mind that water.
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