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Beautiful palm they are, iam fortunate enough to live in there native habitat, just a short dirt bike ride over the hill and they are everywhere. They survive fire drought and flood super tough palm. Be kind to the one you have and it will reward you well! Richard

Isn't the conventional wisdom that you're not supposed to let any rain/water get into the heart of a palm when it's sick or whatever? Preventing that sounded really tedious, so I didn't do anything prior to tonight's rainfall.

They are water hogs and love almost swampy conditions. The ones in metropolitan garden in Athens are huge, because they are benefited by the replaced water of the nearby duck pond.

Looks like a pup there!!!?!? 🤔 -dale

Wow, stunning indeed! I wasn't aware of this species. If San Diego is marginal for them then I might as well just chuck mine into the compost bin already!

I love the crocus, I have some booming right now too.

Trying to find space for more palms

@FlaPalmLover I recognize the Foxtails, but haven't been through the area recently. On my last bike ride I took some "after" photos of a batch of Royals, Foxtails, and Christmas Palms at 3 houses in a row. In the last big freeze the Royals grew back fast, one of the row of Foxtails died (maybe 2? I can't remember) and the Christmas batch are all new. I plan to watch these to see what happens. @kinzyjr my Reclinata (which *looks* reasonably pure) didn't burn at all with 22.5F and direct wind exposure. I thought they were all pretty tough, so the burn photos seem pretty wild! I did a hydrogen peroxide pour on almost every palm in the yard, about 5 and a bit 32oz bottles worth. I then went back with Daconil in a sprayer and did a stream of it into almost every plant in the yard (palms and cycads). I did about 2.5 gallons total. I then fertilized everything with my normal spring dose. I used about 40lb of Sunniland 8-0-10. It's pretty warm, in the 60s to 80s...I can't think of a scientific reason to avoid fertilizing. It's warm enough with plenty of sunlight, and damaged palms need nutrients to grow. Why wait?

65F at 7:58PM after a perfect afternoon reaching -at least? 79F for tree trimming cleaning out some beds. One more day in the 70s before ..what continues to look like.. a quick ride thru the 60s before ..resuming ..and ending.. our journey thru " Hot " February??. Despite the " good " looking thoughts in various model runs, the closer we get to the " suggested " rain chances ahead this week, the less impressive things look in the nearer term forecasts ..for the valley at least. Ft. Hill areas N and N.E. of the valley might see -something- but, ..won't be surprised if we see less than .15" ..if even anything beyond some pavement wetting sprinkles.. Along the same idea, ..for now at least.. what rain chances might pass through after tomorrow night / Tuesday morning may not add up to much. Interesting that the NWS is touting a chance of T-storms ( Cool season type, of course ) in their current forecast yet none of the other current forecasts ( WU / T&D for example ) are. Not surprised if they're yanked by the time we reach Wednesday at all. Don't see anything dynamically impressive for storms from any of the systems headed through the area over the next few days. . .Unless the NWS'es idea of a storm is a weak flash or two of lightning up in the clouds, and a burst or two of widely scattered / occasional pea sized hail from maybe a single storm as it rolls out of town. regardless.... Headed for the final few miles of the month ..and " winter "?.. We'll see if the suggested < ..rather quick > jump in temps occurs come next weekend.. If so? the suggested jump from 71 on Saturday to the mid 80s for next Monday in WU's current forecast could feel a bit toasty after a few days in the 60s this week. Individually, model runs continue their indecisive flippin and floppin between a quick -and sustained- return to " Hot February ", and continued unsettled conditions thru ~ about the 25th or 27th.. before things settle down as March rolls in so, devil will be in the details over the next few days. Of all the longer-term model thoughts i'd put -any- faith in, GEFS 00z 840HR ( ***Updated daily, just after 8PM locally ) seems to be the only one that has remained fairly consistent in what the final few days of the month / March'es opening act could look like ( ...Rather warm, Btw, currently ) On the flip side ..If the " precip " forecasts ( 7 day total precip Anomaly in the GEFS'es data ) pan out as suggested right now and we see no ..or very little... rain across the area / low desert in general over the next few days ..that may be it ..for awhile... That includes adding any more snow to whatever does ..or doesn't.. fall up in the mountains this week, too. Is ..what it is.. For the " cool -ish " enjoyers out there, ..enjoy what likely will the last " cool " spell of " winter" 25 -26.

Amen! Rich, sandy loam for the win. After this last cold blast, we'll all take your version of cool in a heartbeat

@pj_orlando_z9b + @Kiplin + @PalmBossTampa + @gyuseppe These are my Phoenix reclinata hybrids with a juvenile coconut that got 100% defoliated for comparison. My best guess is that they are crossed with Phoenix canariensis since that was the closest other species, but they don't have enough trunk to say for sure. Guest appearances from Livistona chinensis, Syagrus romanzoffiana, and Washingtonia robusta as well.

So far none of mine have

I did do hydrogen peroxide when it first pulled and it did fizz

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Allen, my Louisiana has been very Hardy for me we were below freezing for 9 days And had a couple lows in the negatives and mine had very minimum damage I did protect it with a bucket i'm sure that did not do much. I know most palms species take a couple weeks for the damage to show up but the past week we have been consistently in the high-50s and most of the damage has shown up, its very minimum

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It had a foamboard box with a lot of lights both palms for 2 years. This year they both had the reflective bubble wrap teepee. The small palm did fine and all green, but this one didn’t due so well due to the rest of the lights not working.

That's pretty impressive!

Did any of the seeds germinate ?

Yeah definitely i've noticed the best Butias are always more inland where the soil is more clay Yeah I've seen a bunch of them on the lake on google maps, they look amazing over there!

My king palm survived 24 degrees with some leaf damage but probably would bounce really fast with no microclimate zone 9a the one next to the house has less damage umbrella tree no damage

They look good along the fall line. Lake Norman area north of Charlotte has been good for them. The lake mitigates some of the cold.

They don't care much for sandy soils as micronutrients are quickly leached out. Clay helps to hold in the minerals and Butias look better. HHI South to I10, across the Gulf they flourish.