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Besides winter in SoCA ends in February, while in our latitude it frequently starts right then! Watch carefully the dresses ladies wear in the open as they enter the Dolby Theatre for the Academy Awards (late February). This gives a tremendous advantage in terms of annual growth rate.

@happypalms yes , they have amazing climate and the growth rate is triple what mine is , but all is not perfect there. There are challenges there as well . My friend has 5 acres on Kauai ( northern end of the tropics ) and he has many palms but also challenges. Harry

I've thought about it but the only socket I have outside is several yards away..

Others on this forum use incandescent lights on timers , along with what Richard suggests. The temp inside will go up with a heat source. I had a greenhouse at my old property and , in the winter , had to put a small boat heater in there for the uber tropical plants . The greenhouse alone wasn’t enough. Harry

Very nice garden pictures , Richard. That orchid is amazing! The palms and other tropicals look healthy . Harry

Yeah, I have noticed that. all my shorts have gotten a lot of views. But my long form video has only got 35. it seems Like youTube likes when you upload shorts more. so They boost them on the algorithm more

I just checked our forecast and it seems our “ Indian Summer “ is about to leave . I was 80f at my house yesterday with only mild offshore winds . A change is coming ! Harry ‘The low temps you see are for the city below our hill . My lows are generally 2-3 degrees warmer up here . You can see the wind direction is still out of the northeast ( offshore) . Living on a sailboat and sailing our westerly islands for many years taught me to be vigilant with weather . Knowing weather systems is not only helpful to gardeners , but can save your life at sea. Harry

I can't tell you too much, just keep them in well draining soil and don't water too much when it's cooler. Supplemental lighting isn't a terrible idea, Wally World has a Hyper Tough shop light for $16 and change that's great. It's 4 feet long so probably more than you need right now, so you'll have to buy more plants to justify a 4 foot light 😂

I don't know if you care about engagement or views, but under 3 minutes falls into the "shorts" category and you get a lot more hits on those and anything 3:00 or over goes into the videos category and will get a lot less engagement. I typically use the same handful of hashtags and for some reason, a 10 year old video of Sancho playing with another dog that had like, 10 views in 10 years is getting hundreds of views a week now from a lot of non-English speaking countries from Facebook links lol. I can't make sense of it, I'm just trying to show the world how you can grow tropical stuff indoors for cheap - and I do think I'm at least somewhat educational. But I'm happy to have Indonesians and Brazilians watch Sancho fight a dog named Boomer for a sock on a video with no title or hashtags or descriptions.

This year was kind to us , but some years are very hot and dry from August through December , but only periodically . I have beach pebbles and wood chips that I soak in the morning . The evaporative effect helps tremendously , especially under the canopy of the larger palms. Our year round climate is kind to our gardens and very moderate for the most part . My biggest complaint is the dry , offshore winds from high pressure systems. The winds can reach 90mph or more! In 1995 we had gusts of 110mph that blew over two of my Queen palms at my old house. This year has been mild with only a couple of mild heat/wind events. When I started this palm journey , my mentor told me we can grow more varieties of palms than most climates . San Diego is even better with some very nice Bottle Palms ( Hyophorb ) in the same yard as Howea Foresteriana. Tropical locations have trouble with species that grow freely in my yard. Triangle Palms , Kentia Palms , California and Mexican Fan Palms , Brahea and Sabal right along side other more tropical species . I think the best would be sub tropical like @happypalms . Richard , is growing many cold hardy palms along with zone pushing tropicals regularly . Harry

You are welcome to the club!

Yeah man. I'm at the point where I've literally told them to either fix me, give me a diagnosis, or just take me out back and shoot me. I applied for SSDI (social security disability) in September and they're so backed up I "should" have an answer by July, and all the doctors can agree on is that I can't work and won't get better but they can't figure out what's wrong. The neuropathy is getting worse and they can't figure out why I keep having the vertigo attacks. They know it's real (they watched my eye movement) doing various exercises but they couldn't find a specific trigger, it just happens when it happens. Lying down, walking around, turning my head, sitting down, it happens but nothing specific seems to cause the attacks. It messes with my vision, I get really bad tinnitus and throbbing in my head and sometimes it lasts a few minutes and once it lasted 2 days and I never know when it's coming or how bad it's gonna be. I've blacked out a few times, and I'm the only one who drives or leaves the house. It's awesome lol.

Thank you!

@happypalms What's this palm?

Defuniak purchased from PDN this summer. Did well with our dip into the teens this week.

Yeah I remember once in Makri it was 10%.. last summer here I didn't see anything less than 30%.. I was thinking yesterday that our much praised climate, sucks for our hobby. Our friends in San Francisco, New Zealand, South California, Florida.. have only one season to worry about; be it the summer (south California) or the winter (Florida, SF..). We have two bad seasons: a very hot and dry summer and a cool but wet winter. Only 4 months a year are actually good for our palms: April, May, October and November. In S. California they have a dry and hot summer that may damage their palms, but from what I have gathered their winter is a walk in the park, much drier and a bit warmer than ours. In SF area winter can get chilly but from April to November their palms must be very happy. Same with Florida.

In my garden at this moment 19.5 C and 55% humidity and it is winter. During high summer in afternoon air humidity is lower than say 30%. Noway I can help it.

I donated that palm MANY years ago. It came from John Bishock as Copernicia sp. so likely it's a hybrid.

Hmmmm my cunninhams kept growing during summer but they are under thick canopy. They are still growing a new leaf now. Humidity right now at 1.15pm is 67% and temperature is 18.5 C

Beautiful garden. Congratulations 😎

Beats the living heck out me! I got no idea.

My moneys on McArthur.

Thanks I was hoping so.

It’s looking like the real thing