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Here is mine in Phoenix it is in grass so gets lots of water plus I run the hose on it and give it more!!’ I have 3 others that are not in grass and they grow but don’t look good I probably should run extra water on them but am tired of crazy water bills!!!

Looking good Don! That's a 10K palm at moon valley ...😄 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

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Be super careful my friend! We need you and these palms are heavy enough to make angels. I know you have more to do and every one of them can be deadly. Harry

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A toasty Monday underway in the low desert.. 107 when i took the screen shot a few mins. ago, now up to 109 ( at 1:45PM ).. We'll see if we notch ..or eek past.. the 110F mark. Regardless, depending on your neighborhood, it might be in the mid -100s, or already topping 110 / 110+ right now. Always a bit surprised by this part of Chandler / Sun Lakes part of town.. Infested with neighborhood Golf Courses yet, as you can see, some of the hotter readings on the hotter days occur down there.. ..Not that it is exactly cool outside those areas.. Anyhow... Luckily, this looks like the hottest day of this particular warm up as temps start the forecasted downward slide to a more " normal May heat " level tomorrow.. Further abroad? Nice, late spring surge / flirty tease of monsoon -esque moisture driving some storm development over the Sierra Madre Occidental on the Satellite loop today.. With just a little of that moisture trickling into the mountains down around the borderlands. ...where they always get the fun stuff, first, lol. Closer inspection reveals maybe a brief, dry storm or two could be trying to form over the Santa Rita, Huachuca, and maybe the Chiricauhua mountains.. with a few weak build ups trying to bubble up as far north as the Sups < local nick name for the Superstition Mtns > just east of the valley.. If we're lucky, maybe a little of that southern moisture arrives overhead ..in the form of scattered, " here and there " clouds... by sunset.. Could see a slight uptick in buildups / storm or two more down across the borderlands tomorrow, otherwise, ..hot n' sunny locally ..though it should be a few degs cooler than today, ..w/ maybe a few more clouds around to make the sky a bit more interesting.. Gotta share / spread the fun stuff around a bit, ya know..

Absolutely a straight queen palm... aztropic Mesa, Arizona

I've tries this palm multiple times, in the most sheltered spots in my yard, but they simply don't live long here. By long, I mean, they don't survive a single winter. Our winters in Fresno have not dropped below 34F in approximately 10 years, which in theory would be within lutescens' tolerance range. We have a prolonged, cool/wet period from Nov through Feb each year with lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s, and highs in the 50s and 60s. No frost some years, but even without frost, these begin to slowly die. Whatever fungal issues arise from the prolonged cool/wet conditions, they're accelerated by warm temps in April, and whatever canes may look ok/decent by then, inevitably rot with the arrival of warm weather. Just a short drive south, over Tejon Pass and into the Los Angeles basin, winters are dry and sunny so this palm does great with very little care.

Here's an update on growth speed from my neighbor, Ray, who bought one of my 5 gallon jubaeas just 4 years ago. Full, blasting, all day Arizona desert sun, planted in a 24" box equivalent cement planter. Tree grows like a weed with little to no burning, even after experiencing occasional 120F daytime summer temperatures. I'm super impressed with his growing skills. I think consistent moisture has mainly been the key to his success. Jubaea chilensis is definitely a viable species for a low desert growing environment. Congratulations Ray!👍 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

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Phoenix canariensis is the hardiest in wet cold. They have come back from 0°F and a week below freezing in Texas

Here's a few more flushes turning my garden back from brown to green! On the left middle an unknown "big green Encephalartos" is flushing. It could be an Equatorialis or just natural variation of Ituriensis/Whitelockii. Just behind it the big one is a Gratus x Laurentianus. Common Zamia Furfuracea are flushing bronze in the middle. In the foreground a Sclavoi x Ituriensis has 5 leaves going, and in the bottom center a Natalensis x Horridus has 5 finished leaves. Just to the bottom right is a Horridus x Natalensis with 3 new fronds in process. Not really visible behind the Pygmy Dates are a couple of Zamia Vasquezii and Picta also flushing. Also not really visible is a double-coning Cycas Simplicipinna on the other side of the path from the Gratus x Laurentianus. So this is sort of a 10-fer flush! In the center rear bed a few more are going gangbusters! The middle is a big Dioon Spinulosum with a pup flushing too. Just behind is to the left is a 2-headed Cycas Revoluta flushing just one of the two heads. Just below it is a single frond growing up on a tiny Encephalartos Umbeluziensis. Bottom left corner is a "fasciated" Zamia Furfuracea. The lower right cone is an unfortunate timing on a male Cycas Multipinnata that was completely defoliated. To the right behind the Spinulosum is a solid flush on an Encephalartos Ferox. In the background left of the Spinulosum is one of the triple Encephalartos Whitelockii/Ituriensis with a solid 8 leaf flush. The other two in the triple are thinking about it...but not quite yet!

I've been growing this species in ground and from seed for about 10 years in the low desert of Mesa, Arizona. We have MANY nights each summer with nightly minimum temps in the 90F to 95F range,and it doesn't seem to have any effect on the species survivability. Pics of my tree that has been in ground for several years, some of my 15 gallon plants,and pics of a local nursery offering Jubaea chilensis in 72" boxes for about 5 years now. If they didn't survive our conditions, I suspect the nursery that even guarantees them would have stopped offering them by now. aztropic Mesa,Arizona

Yes you can’t beat them for easy growing and predictable growth plus cold tolerance opens up many a gardening opportunity in most situations they even take a bit of sun well not hot afternoon sun but definitely bright dappled shade.