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Given the title, I was waiting for someone, probably from USA, to chime in and say weed was too expensive. Kidding aside, I'm in the group that likes seeing volunteers pop up in the yard in unexpected places.

Thanks for all your hard work documenting the resultant damage from this extraordinary event. It's interesting as well as sad. I fear these weather extremes will become more frequent as we go forward in time.

Yes it definitely helped. My tall Adobidias are partially browned whereas others around are completely brown. This freeze has shown to me anyway that Alexandre aren’t much hardier than Cocos and definitely less Hardy than even Adonidia.

Hi neighbor, the cunninghameana are ideal as they’re quite hardy. The alexandrrae if they survive do look great and have been solid here for many years until this freeze.

I don’t have the problem , only a few volunteers from my Archontophoenix Cunninghamiana. I did germinate quite a few as I had tons of seeds a year or so ago. I gave it a go and they sprouted , although it took several months. Now I have some baby palms in wee containers . My friend has a few different species of Archontophoenix palms and his courtyard is filled with volunteers . He dug some up and potted them . When the got larger he gave them to me . They are A. Maxima and Purpurae . They now live in my garden in the ground. What a gift to have ! I do get many Chamaedorea Radicalis and Microspadix popping up every where though . That would be my “weed” problem. Harry

Nice looking palms . I don’t see those very often. Harry

70% off is a crazy deal! How much did you pay for all?

you can look into what all the tropical anthurium and orchid people use for their soil. Also i believe some people use tree fern substrate with orchid bark and either some organic substrate in there or nutricote for more tropical forest plantae. if you're in cali, look into black volcano rock or pumice too!

I'll check that out soon. I'm going to post a lot more to here. The coconuts look cooked west of US1 and I'm not sure the royals make it either, even the pre-1989 royals. I suppose if they survived 1989 then there's hope, but they look like they will take time to recover.

You are correct, I was distracted typing that reply. Massee Lane is in Fort Valley, just below Macon. If you love camellias, it's really worth the drive. They have some massive ones. The town also has some nice old palmettos and some other palms here and there.

Measured above on the balcony fortress 🤗☀️ in the shade Down in the community garden at the Bresser weather station, solar-ventilated 🤗

Probably 22-24°F . (-5.5 to -4.5° C). I’m hopeful they get hardier with size .

1 photo a female plant 2 photos a male plant

I hope you can carry those burdens, mate. Across the pond it's mostly dandelions.

i'm down for 100 pinanga!

Forecast tonight is for 36 or 39 depending on the source. After the last completely bungled forecast I can't trust it at all. I could be in the 30s or upper 20s after the last one being so many degrees off, and I can't trust the forecast at all now. I think everyone is in the same boat so don't expect the temps to be what they say again and don't put anything sensitive back out until Sunday or Monday at least.

@PAPalmtrees Well I took a risk and bought several plants on a major discount in late December. Since the weather was so nice back then I decided to plant them, instead of waiting until spring. I generally don't have good long term luck with potted plants anyways. Well, of course all the extreme cold rolls in around mid January, so I was scrambling around trying to find sheets/blankets and pots to cover them. All in all they look pretty good except for a couple conifers that may not prove to be hardy anyways. Most of the others were camellias, and at 70% off I couldn't resist. A gamble that I probably won't do again, lol, unless I just hold off until spring to plant.

Scilicet: talis palma tam augusta omnia pericula atque discrimina meretur. Mox nos vetabunt, quia non solum Anglice loquimur 😁

Awesome! What’s the last one?

thank you for photos Marcelo! very helpful. your microclimate in that neighborhood had to help!!

Give it a go having a nursery, it’s a great hobby and you can have a lot of fun growing palms, it will bring you great joy your nursery. It will happen, start selling online mail order and contact anyone you can in the nursery trade, It helps build business those contacts. But most of all enjoy what your doing palms are a wonderful gift to have in your life!

Absolutely understood. I've got a plan, I know what'll sell locally and I know what'll go on Etsy. The mail order stuff I want to keep 1g tops because shipping large boxes totally sucks ass. I've tracked historical sales and pricing and think I can be competitive. I still know tons of people in Houston but I don't know if I know any fish people but I'll definitely throw some feelers out there. And I've probably brought this up but there's not much I'd like more than a Three Amigos plate from El Rey with a fish taco.and 2 Cuban tacos. I'm also working on USDA grants to grow tropical fruit indoors since it's hugely unavailable here and I have no issues donating to local food banks which should help me in that regard. Changing to smaller breeds of bananas and sticking with dwarf papayas helps with my space issue in winter. Mentioning the license and the organic stuff won't be a selling point for the local stuff but it should be for the online sales. But you're right. Getting my name out there is gonna take a little effort competing with bigger sellers, the (lord they're annoying) live sales on Palmstreet, selling on here is cool and I've made a couple bucks and have a couple regulars (and it's wild because a few of the people I've sold to have been on here for almost 20 years and almost never post), but it's not gonna clear this room out. The big stuff and the native stuff is my quick local cash flips, the cheap and steady stuff. The exotics are the bill payers. The palms are the long game, it'll be years before they're sellable for the most part. Sure I'll sell a few on here, and a bunch will end up in the yard. But you're right. The networking and building the customer base is the hard part and economically this probably isn't the ideal time since less and less people are having disposable income so you've got to reach the people that do. 2020 was a long time ago, and you've got to use the right keywords just to get people to see you. Everything is ran by algorithms now and most of them cost a few bucks to keep you from getting sent to the bottom of the list. I'm 2 credits shy of a degree in marketing, I just never got around to finishing it. I definitely stand out around here personality and attire wise, so I've at least got that going for me, and years of working in hospitality taught me how to network (and the PTSD from working for some absolute prick monster owners). If this blows up, I'll have to manage it so I don't get disqualified from SSDI (and that wait and application is a nightmare) and if it doesn't blow up, maybe it covers me and Sancho's prescriptions, maybe I just end up with some cool stuff, maybe I've just become way more knowledgeable in something totally irrelevant to my future. Or if I really wanna get crazy, the marijuana grower license prices have come way down here but then I still run the risk of the DEA even though the state legalized it. Anyway I'll throw out some fish feelers, El Rey taqueria is legit, and hopefully I can find something around here you'd want in trade for some banana pups in the spring. But not cannas.

Hahaha 😆

No way , $4.50 each ? Now I'm jealous. I would definitely grabbed some too. The only tropicals we get at the BB stores are Ravenea Rivularis and Chamaedorea cataractarum. I grow both species in pots.