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Hope you all, and your gardens, are safe and warm.

I hope I'll never have to do that. I must love a plant very much to do this. Perhaps for my Ravenala if it survives; it looks pretty battered right now..

Konstantinos what palm is it?

Definitely, never again! It is an enormous job, which I can not accomplish alone, let aside that I would have to butcher much of the crown.

So this is not this year? You've stopped protecting it?

Νο, Pritchardia

Roystonea?

Εκεί που έχεις έρθει, ήμουν κι έφυγα!

Syagrus hybrid. There's coronata in that.

Not sure, I can't seem to find information about it.

You need to copyright it and make sure this rule is given your name! I'll go check and let you know!

I think the initial snow pack and briefness helped alot with that storm.

Bismarckia around here survived worse (knock on wood?) ice storms in 2011, 2014, and 2018. So I'm betting mine will survive. The crown is too big to cover now and I'd rather focus my efforts on the zone 10 plants. Might not be pretty though

I have found out, that Royals in our imperfect climate become relatively cool hardy, after their their petioles have attained a diameter of one and half to two hand fingers.

My guess is that the new frond might have a mild iron deficiency. Sometimes that causes the random light green splotches on new growth. You could try a foliar spray of something like EDDHA. I occasionally use a product here called "Palm Nutritional Spray." https://southernag.com/product/palm-nutritional/ This has worked on palms with deficiencies caused by root rot. That's been a random problem in my nursery area with too much rain and soggy soil. Sometimes the root rot just prevents the palm from getting all the nutrients out of the ground. If you do try a foliar iron (or magnesium, manganese combo) just be aware that the spray will stain concrete and probably tile grout too. So if you spray it on the palm in the shower, make sure to wash it off the tile asap!

What is the min order for those seedlings?

Hello, which species or hybrid of Phoenix is this? Thin trunk ~ 6in diameter, no signs of suckering. Thanks!

Or it could last another 10-15 years. Wrap the growth point in a heater cable. That will probably be enough for this storm

Sure its going to be 19F but if we get that freezing rain, that is so much worse.

What is the two finger test?

I fear it will be fried by end of winter. let us hope that growing point will remain healthy, since this sp has a great regeneration ability

I'm going to try and wrap and at least get the spears on most of my palms as they are small and unestablished. You don't want ice in the spear. I really only have the Bismarckia that is borderline and I've developed a love/hate thing for that palm. I love it cause its awesome, but I hate it because I know its days are numbered. I'm thinking I'll wrap the spear and if it dies, it dies. Last year I had damage to around 30/36 palms and most of them were hardy ones like Trachycarpus, Rhapidophyllum and Sabals, this is what concerns me. The majority of my plants are zone 7 and 8 hardy but I've been down this path too many times, and know that even they are vulnerable I Just need one winter with normal temps to try and get some size on things. 19F at my house that last two Januarys. 2 nights a year ruins the party, it's going to be 70s all this week and then that. The fact that its going to rain, is just insult to injury considering how dry its been for the last 6 months. Plus whatever temp they predict as the low will be higher than what we will actually see.

This! How big is your plant, have you applied the two finger test?

Same question...

This is what next weeks forecast is looking like I just Want a normal winter😭