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Survived the hard freeze - coldest night was “only” 23.7° F (Manvel ) spring please hurry up 🙌 I’ll venture over to Alvin in a few days to see if anything is dead lol.

Where I grew up there were only Washingtonia and Phoenix canariensis palms. When I attended UCSB in Santa Barbara, CA I was stunned and intrigued to see Howea forsteriana ground planted outdoors as a landscape plant. Now, all these years later, I have about 15 plants on a garden 8 meters wide !

In a month or two, we will read about the "warmest winter on record". Guaranteed

How much soil do you buy for one palm in the garden? I wanna make a raised bed for a new Syagrus.

You should give my 9B a try here in Houston. 23F last night and the last two years lows of 19F. I wouldn't even dream of a foxtail or king palm.

Boy, I'm sure glad the NWS predicted a warm, La Niña winter.

Yep the angle the winds are coming from determines most of how bad the freeze is in the peninsula.

First night of palmageddon and I hit 31.2. Pretty much hovered around 32 till sun up when it dipped quick. 12z gfs still showing the winds coming onshore for west coast of fl with the cold this weekend.

22 this morning here for my first 9A night. 22 forecasted again Sunday morning. Hopefully we are home free for the season after this.

Well it's been freezing forever, there's not much heat left to radiate 😝. Yesterday's brief sun didn't provide much of a "charge" either

The UHI didn’t help as much as I thought. When I left Sugar Land at 7:30 the car said it was 24f, when I made it to Uptown at 8:15 it was still only 26f.

I wouldn't use a thermocube in your situation if we are talking a couple days, just plug up at night when temps are low and unplug in morning. If loosely frost cloth covered and not touching fronds or bunched around spear you can use C7/C9 carefully! If mummy wrapping use mini incandescent lights or heat cable and touching fronds won't matter. I don't use heat cable. You need a cheap temperature sensor in there to see what temps you are getting, either close to spear or at fronds depending on what area you are most concerned with. I don't know what temps those fronds damage. Usual advice is get to 35-45F range but I don't know temps for those 2 palms Example cheap temp sensor or they have these similar at Walmart usually https://amazon.com/dp/B0BYF6CTRK

I have one of the palms from that Seller in Florida as well. Definitely has a different look than my straight Butias, but not super silver in color. It showed up lighter in color and now that it's been in the ground for 9 months it has grown tremendously but only has a bluish tinge like one of my other Butias.

Buttomed out Between 21 and 22° F . Downtown was probably a bit warmer. Not bad at all. If we don't get a more severe cold front we would have a zone 9a winter for the 2nd time in a row. Come on baby .

I’m curious how these big public plantings of coconuts will do in Orlando in a couple days. I’m not incredibly familiar with how predictable Arctic blast forecasts are but I’m at least seeing really low temperatures in the forecast that might not be survivable. 23f

@AllenThanks for the tips. You have lots of super useful videos. Have you had better luck with Christmas lights or heat cord? Also, if I use a thermo cube, is it best to but that somewhere in the middle of the tree (I'm assuming the base of the trunk would be too low to get an accurate temperature. Hoping this helps my two cold sensitive palms survive. Orlando is now in zone 10a however it is going to now get down to 25 potentially this weekend. Very worried. I have several Areca's that I think will get burned bad. I don't have enough frost cloth to cover the larger areca's. Anyways hoping this will do the trick to keep the temp just high enough for the foxtail and royal palm. I also have three somewhat mature B. Alredii palms. Hoping those will do fine in the mid 20s with no help from me.

If you don't want to wrap, throw a big tarp over it (Use long pole to shift) with ropes tied to all 4 corners and tie in a umbrella. Then fire up that patio heater underneath if you want to get wild but careful not to tip it. Or aim a couple big spotlights shining into umbrella

Exactly lol. i only have two sable miners protected but i have good reasons for protecting them. The first one was planted very late in the season. the second one was not looking so good so i decided to protect it, so it would not get any more damage. It was not cold damage, but some other stuff And this spring i will nurse it back to health. i know protecting the one planted very late in the season was probably unnecessary but i saw how long this cold was gonna be and decided to

My potted plants are staying inside atleast until Sunday. But the lows here for Friday and Saturday night are only mid to low 20’s. The species I have should be able to take it. I might cover the Brahea edulis again to protect the fronds. . Depending how they look in a couple days.

Not the prior two nights due to the howling winds but last night's raciaitonal freeze absolutely you could see UHI in action. Even the suburbs stayed quite a bit warmer than the fringes. Midtown and Montrose only saw 27-28F this morning with 25-27F elsewhere in the Loop

Next Saturday is looking to be a cold one so keep an eye on that. I'm leaving my protections in place for a couple of days and make a call on whether to wait until Sunday to remove.

Only 22°F in my yard this morning . Dramatically higher than the 15°F predicted a few days ago . I unwrapped all my palms in Lago this morning. Some didn’t get any protection, including the Brahea armata pictured above .

Brutal

Same for me 23F. I noticed during this event inner Houston did not have any sort of bump in temperature.

Mine look just like that. They are unprotected and about half covered in snow. I’ll see how they do as is. It’s my older, trunking palms that have me concerned but my goal for all my palms is minimal to no protection…understanding that my zone requires winter attention but trying to narrow down what will ultimately work best and at this rate, it will only be the McCurtain and the Needles…😂