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Amazing to get such great germination with a rare and exciting palm like this.

Got a little over an inch here . Yard is still soggy haha

It will take a few weeks to know if it survives, 23-25F may be enough to kill one if cold persists long enough. Keep an eye out for spear pull and I would use peroxide/ daconil on the bud area. Hard to believe they delivered a palm with that much cold damage. Best of luck with survival and recovery.

I am not a desert bender but an Atlantic Coast bender lol. Jamaican cherries can take a little frost I bet if you put it on a south facing wall you might be able to grow it. I had one in my greenhouse when I forgot to change my gas tank and it went down to 30f and almost no damage. Barbados cherry too it’s a little more hardy than Jamaican. Flame thrower palm I saw could take down to lower 20s mine is indoors so I don’t have much experience with its hardiness. Although your in 9a maybe 9b I think your best choices are either Barbados cherry or flame thrower just keep in mind a bad winter can easily wipe them out so it would be nice to have some frost cloth and some incandescent Christmas lights around incandescent lights produce some heat so them and some frost cloth would raise the temperature a bit. I like being optimistic so I’d say give it a try maybe start with one of those and if it does well try others. Casa grande was not changed in the 2012 usda plant zone update so it could be warmer in some parts might be even closer to 10a. See if anyone else responds too as there are experts with way more knowledge then me on this.

Thank you for all the great pics! I’m glad to see others with the same attraction to this palm. I hope to see more grown in my area. A hospital in Ventura installed some mature specimens a few years ago . Harry

Less = ? this time of year ..a good soaking ..once a week, ..once every couple weeks? If the soil where it is positioned stays moist for longer than 2 days at a depth of 3+" this time of year you might not have to water much at all.. Damage you're seeing atm could be from too much water just as much as it could be from under watering, though an under- watered banana -anything- would also look wilt-y, as well as showing some deg. of leaf damage. Since the overall plant itself looks healthy, what you're seeing could also be some unexpected, out of season, heat- related burn from the abnormally warm days you've seen out there over the past couple weeks. Cold damage would effect all leaves / leaf stalks, and the Pseudostem ...if severe enough. Regardless, as long as you're keeping the soil moist -but not sloppy wet- new growth to come will more than make up for what damage you're seeing right now. Once we reach March, give it some K < Potassium > to get the growing season rolling..

I consider extreme South Florida tropical. It's the cold end of tropical, but it still fits the definition (as I see it). Kind of like how Nashville would be the cold end of subtropical, but it fits the definition (as I see it).

This is about what I had in mind for Florida based on the recent event.

When considering my available options for a rain event, I decided the best thing I could do is use Banrot on any species that appeared to be struggling with post-cold fungal growth.

Sounds perfectly fine to me. This stuff happens in nature all of the time and nature has it's own way of sorting this stuff out.

I covered it with a sled while it rained yesterday hopefully that will help a bit. Thank you everyone.

Good morning AZ Tropic, I bet you probably get questions all the time concerning Royal palms, I've noticed that at our state capital, amongst the cluster of date palms, there's also a Royal palm growing among them and doing pretty good last time I was visiting up there. I live in Casa Grande, and not all that far from Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert; or either Florence of which I think is zone 9b if I'm correct (although it could be 9a) I'm literally walking distance from the Coolidge/Casa Grande boarder which I think could also be zone 9a/b? Of which I'm not certain. Just giving you an approximation of where I live for assuredly compatible instances....just wondering.......here it comes, if I'm able to grow a Royal palm here in Casa Grande? Being for a few years of babying over time if it'll be able to over time take on the winters here? Also, I'm wondering if the Doum palm (ginger bread palm) and flame thrower palm, and there's one other palm that grows all over San Francisco area, it looks almost identical to the coconut palm (but isn't one, I think it's a coquito palm) don't remember the taxa name, but I've heard outside of handling San Francisco's coastal marine weather climate if they'll thrive here in our deserts harsh conditions over time after babying them over time to standing up on their own? Any help and information would be very helpful. Thanks, and happy grow. P. S. I'm also wondering about growing the Barbados cherry, peanut butter fruit tree; and Jamaican cherry (strawberry tree) as well, and anybody else on here are welcomed to respond with anything you might know in regards to being better zone benders here in the desert thanks again, and to everyone else responding in kind.

I believe where it was planted could’ve seen as low as 23-25. IMO they should’ve just left it in the ground until spring but that’s a liability and eyesore to them, they probably wanted to dump it so they didn’t have to deal with it. Lesson learned on buying palms in early winter, here I thought oh it will be fine it’s cold hardy, Who could’ve predicted a record freeze a month or so later. below is a couple photos from today without the exaggerated sunlight of the frond condition and spear condition. I do spray some of the bone neem oil on some of the scale, not sure how much good it will do

OK thank you I'll look it up!

Yes, my thoughts exactly. When it gets that cold up around DC, it can also bring moisture with that. That would be the main concern here, I'd think.

I was surprised to hear about Christmas Palms in the Orlando area. I am not very familiar with them, but I didn't think they were that hardy. I have seen they could be severely damaged/die at 32.0 F or 30.0 F or 28.0 F. My guess is that it would be best to put these in the warmest microclimate you could find when planting in the Orlando area. Probably some tough ones if they survived this event in the Orlando area.

There are specimens reported to be in Glenside (outside of Philadelphia since 1985). I just read that online.

This. I'm in Melbourne Beach and have ample oak coverage with marginal zone palms ( Kentopsis/ Chambeyronia, Adonia, Buccaneer etc). Makes a huge difference. Not to say we didn't have damage, but it was mitigated quite a bit by the canopy provided.

That I don't know exactly. I read something online about it. It's somewhere downtown I believe. It's up by a building there.

I didn't know that! where's it located? That cool!

A butia capitata (Pindo Palm) seedling could pull through something like that (for a short duration). Ideally, the conditions would be dry. I'm guessing the moisture is the major issue here. They are hardier than people think, but, of course, some can be on the wimpy side.

There's one in Philadelphia that has made it through some impressive stretches under 32.0 F. It has been there since 1985.

I see. Nothing wrong with that, I just think the plant would enjoy not being bundled up tight like that. It would rather be loose and exposed to the air in a warm mini-tent set up. I understand what you're doing. It's going ok so far.