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Mm. I think it's dead. The Red Ladies I potted up were a lot more established. Oh well. 90% chance it was already dead. I take no responsibility. Unfortunately they have 0% viability in the yard here and they'd get smoked right around Halloween. I just started growing the grocery store seeds for rapid summer shade knowing they're going in the compost pile.

The beaucarnea trunk was wrapped in heater cables and a large tarp was put over it. It probably would have been ok with just a tarp in these temperatures, it looks like the leaves may have some burn though.They are fast growing in wet humid climates, that was a 5-10 gallon maybe 4 years ago . Here it is in May 2022 compared to now. You can’t tell but it has two trunks now.

@JohnAndSancho Papayas are weirdly picky plants to grow from seed in pots. As you have experienced they’re never truly happy no matter what you do. I’ve only really had luck with them either by keeping the pots outside or just throwing seeds in a hole outside and waiting for one to assert dominance in a good spot. Moving/repotting one is like a 50/50.

Many thanks for the info.

Might make it

That bronze color looks very bad. Your royal will 100% make it I'm very sure, your Pseudophoenix also has good chances of surviving. Not sure about the Ptychospermas, Coconut and Chrysalidocarpus though.

All in all doesn't look too bad.

The standard suggested for COOP stations is 4ft-6ft for temperature and 30ft. for the anemometer. This is only possible if the anemometer is separate from the temperature sensor. If the unit is all-in-one, then you have to go one way or the other unless you buy additional sensors and link them for the models that allow that. There are stations in town that are mounted high. In particular, there is an Ambient Weather mounted at 30 feet not too far away that seems to record reasonable numbers. There's a slew of documents available to guide installation for official records here: https://www.weather.gov/coop The average urban or suburban property isn't capable of meeting the NWS reporting guidelines. In my own case, too many trees, bushes, fences, concrete borders, etc. The manual for observing the various aspects are available at this link: https://www.weather.gov/media/directives/010_pdfs/pd01013002curr.pdf

Watching* not "watch" Stupid dyslexic brain lol

Brooksville airport is cold for the area.

Please let me know if you didn’t get my PM. Thanks

Thank you! There was a lot of back-and-forth in my mind before I got the DVP2, but in the end, it was something that I thought was worth it to get more accurate assessments of the actual high and low temperatures experienced. The Ambient Weather stations do a good job for their price point, but they tend to read ~3%-5% high during the day and about 2%-3% low at night. In my own case, the Adeniums probably would have been fine if they weren't elevated at or above the fence line. That's 100% on me for not remembering to put them down on the ground between the bricks or bring them in. My curiosity got the best of me today, so I took a ride around town and realized there weren't any real microclimates where plants had no damage or minimal effects, other than areas where the wind couldn't blow full-force. It didn't appear that Lake Parker helped all that much since the area around it is so flat. The wind could just race across it and damage everything. My take on pushing the envelope was always that I'd do it once while the milder winters persisted, but as as soon as we got the next bad one, I'd revert back to everything being hardy to 20F or below. That's the direction going forward. My decision to order all of the Brahea and Livistona species available on RPS last spring is looking pretty good as far as having replacements ready if they are needed. Hopefully at least a few of the coconuts survive in everyone's gardens. There is hope for yours and the one on I-Drive due to the microclimate keeping them otherwise healthy right up to the major freeze.

It's funny, I still want to plant it but I kinda don't now that I know it's irreplaceable.

Great report @kinzyjr. I also have the fan aspirated Davis station. Well worth the cost. I did have one desert rose die but another hardly even showed damage to flowers. Nature is amazing.

The Arenga looks great, especially given it's fully exposed. Mine are going to lose all their leaves, even though they have a bit of cover. I guess they toughen up a bit at that size.

It’s such lovely day already, work haddabe done so I did it. Removed and cut up some volunteer Archontophoenix tuckeri, one of which was about 20 feet (6.6 M) tall. Bummer but it had to be done.

Hey everybody. I really got obsessed with the chamaedorea radicalis tree form but they are really hard to get here in europe. Does anyone have some seeds to give or sell and ship to the netherlands ?

Good question. I think it depends on the mixing. It probably reads a bit higher in an radiational event and a bit lower in a advective event. I'm not sure it makes much of a difference though, we are usually 1-2°F lower than the closest reporting stations. That could be the thermometer within the weather station. I meant to get another thermometer to mount 2M up near the weather station but that dogsled has left the igloo.

I’ve got a few to add if you like! This year has been another bumper crop! If I don’t do anything and just let nature take its course then I will have more “weeds”. Harry ‘Chamaedorea Radicalis tree form in full sun . I have no idea how this gets pollinated , it is so tall. An infruitescens from a shade grown C. Radicalis hiding behind a Caryota Mitis . Most of the fruit has fallen ( babies soon!) Seedlings abound(weeds?) From last years seed drop. A weed popping up from two large Howea Foresteriana A “ mini jungle “ created from not digging up the weeds. Two Howea and a few Chamaedorea. This used to be a flower bed but the weeds won! Harry

@Husain Quite lovely ! I saw a few varieties of the Latania Palm when I was in Hawaii , even gathered seeds while I was there but they never germinated. Harry

Heres the ‘frozen coconut ‘

Heres an assortment of species that took 29,25,23 without protection. I thought the Copernicia i bought as bertroana was actually an alba BUT it got toasted so maybe it was in fact bertroana! Beccariophoenix alfredii got blown over last year by hurricane so its had a tough life . Bismarcks are really exposed but certainly will be fine. The green Bismarck I was covered with the 100gal bucket after the 29 degree night . Small Licuala spinosa is surprising survivor with live spears. Livistona nitida had heavy frost at 25 but fine

So i do believe the fallensis and gigas WILL recover from 29,25,23 uncovered. Heres yesterdays pics

There’s a lot of valuable nutrients in those burnt fronds with green rhachis. Leave some substantial ‘stubs’ 2-3’ if you do remove the burnt foliage. They’ll also protect spear from wind events