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Never get tired of Chambeyronia macrocarpa var hookeri new growth.

This is the Jubaea you can see behind the little trailer in picture from last year. We have been having an unusually warm winter with plenty of rain. I have two Jubaea at 5’ one at 3’ and two others at 1’ . I messed up last winter and left my potted palms out for a freeze . I lost several and set most of the survivors back a year.

This is a common drive through South Orlando post-freeze

There are two species; N ritchiana and N baluchestanica which is the blue/silver one from Iran. My understanding is that N ritchiana is still variable from green to bluish, but never as silvery as N baluchestanica. I feel like the one pictured in this thread is likely N ritchiana. Photos are N baluchestanica I’ve seen seem to show them being ghostly white/silver from the first frond.

Very similar temperatures and observations here in Fort Myers (in town, with a combined urban heat island and some protection from the river.) Overall this event was comparable to Christmas 2022, the only two times I've seen evidence of frost, both times in a small dip in the lawn where the weeds turned black. Only thing I'll add is I have a small Areca catechu, regular form, which has grown quickly and beautifully up until now but every day since the cold looks progressively worse, leaves are now all completely covered in spots and it will probably end up mostly defoliated. Not surprised at all but I'd say this species is worse with cool weather than even Pritchardia pacifica. Overall I feel like I dodged a bullet, not much permanent damage to speak of, just lots of slightly yellow leaves and several long months of hand watering ahead of me.

My Robusta isn't very leaf hardy. Low 20s , the fronds will turn brown, all of them. I see some they look exactly like mine but seem to handle the cold better. At least mine is pretty bud hardy and recovers fast. I leave the fronds on until they're crispy but the new frond that is currently seeking daylight doesn't look bad at all.

More trees flowering around here, maples are looking good and red. Pollen is starting to accumulate on surfaces. I can confidently say we are now in Spring in the FL Panhandle. I also still think we get another freeze before the end of March. For now though, highs in the 70s approaching the low 80s at the end of the 7 day period will certainly get all the tropicals going again, especially with the lows only being in the 50s and 60s.

I reckon those odds are pretty good! Would be super keen to give them a go, that's for sure. Great idea to put in mass plantings for seed production...that was also the idea behind my little Lepidorrachis plantation. I'm surprised that these haven't been split from the Isalo form yet, clearly a very different beast.

Cibolo TX Post Winter storm report: Temps in my neck of the woods hit 19F or 20F, with some freezing rain. As usual, I think the freezing precipitation was the bigger problem. C. radicalis with East Northeast exposure and partial overhead protection from the eave of the house. P. dactylifera was almost immediately dead. It was about 3 ft in overall height and very healthy going into this event. I covered it, but not until it was already wet. So it's spear pulled almost immediately after the freeze. It's leaves were brown within a few days. I cut the trunk down and there was no living tissue left, despite treating it with hydrogen peroxide within a couple of days of the ice. Butia took a little longer to show damage. It was covered with a large patio umbrella, but it blew off during the storm. It was a couple of weeks before the newest leaves started losing color. Spear pulled, and I have been treating it with H2O2 as well. No signs of a new spear yet. Even my S. mexicanas (No protection) have a leaf or two that have lost their color. This surprised me: My Washingtonia that grows like a weed looks pretty much perfect with no protection: Not all Washingtonians are created equal though. This is what another one just a couple of houses down from mine looks like: Small trachycarpus F x Ws took no damage with a bucket to cover them:

Here’s the one in Mt Joseph University Cincinnati, OH This was planted in 2000 it was cut down for unknown reasons by the Landscapers around 2020~ and yeah came back strong! Somerset opens at 2PM so we will check that out later!

Dioon rzedowskii with its first flush

Dypsis basilonga seedlings looking good, somewhat a few years behind @Hilo Jason but they will get there.

Chrysalidocarpus Basilongus

I really wanna know what was going through the landscapers mind to decide to randomly cut it down

Ok thank you so much

I think it is just wait and see at this point. I am sorry to see this but , hopefully , by Spring you will see new life. Harry

Another flushing Zamia. This one is Zamia tuerckheimii.

I believe this is a Nannorrhops, but am unsure of the species. I'm hoping the bloom might help with a positive ID. The bloom is the center stalk Anyone know this tree?

So we all went through a cold snap throughout the entire state. I just thought I would share my observations of palm damage here in SWFL. Cape Coral zone 10b. I will only include my own palms and only the ones that are considered zone 10 palms. Two different temperature readings for the 3 days. One was found on line for Cape Coral recorded: Feb. 1st- low 36 high 52 Feb. 2nd- low 36 high 59 Feb. 3rd- low 36 high 70 This is Fort Myers recorded at Page Field, about 4 miles inland from me: Feb. 1st- low 34 high 51 Feb. 2nd- low 35 high 60 Feb. 3rd- low 35 high 70 First time I've seen frost since 2010. Feb. 1st frost spotty on roofs. Feb. 2nd spotty on roofs and on neighbor's car. Feb. 3rd saw it on the grass as well. Quickly melted all 3 days. On the 3rd, I saw the most frost. The only day I saw it on the lawn. I checked all 3 mornings. Both recordings are cold and we all had crazy windchills. So first a list of palms with no damage as of today, almost 2 weeks later. I did zero protection. No particular order: Chambeyronia houailou, Chambeyronia macrocarpa var. hookeri, Archontophoenix alexandrae, Dypsis lanceolata, Dypsis pembana, Ptychosperma schefferi, Ptychosperma elegans var. paddle leaf, Satakentia liukiuensis, Kentiopsis oliviformis, Pseudophoenix sargentii, Tri-bear, Hyophorbe lagenicaulis, Hyophorbe verschaffeltii. Chamaedorea cataractum, Leucothrinax morrisii, Thrinax radiata, Copernicia baileyana, Pritchardia hillebrandii, and a potted but rooted in the ground Licuala ramsayi. All of these palms as of today show no damage. These show some form of damage: Adonidia merrillii- premature leaf drop. Crownshaft color turns bronze, leaf still green but falls off. Seems to be just the oldest leaf or two. Other than that, they look great. Ptychosperma macarthurii- same type of premature leaf drop but also looks great. Premature fruit falling. Veitchia joannis- has some leaf tip browning from cold, dry winds and not a vibrant green. More yellowish green color. Looks good. Holding all leaves. Cocos nucifera maypan x dwarf green- lower and some mid level leaves show some brown tipping. More browning on the lower and oldest fronds. Looks good. No fruit drop as of yet. Cocos nucifera red spicata- just some lower leaf tip browning on oldest fronds. Looks great. Looks better than the other coconut. No fruit drop so far. And lastly which was expected. My Pritchardia pacifica aka fiji fan. All leaves burned but the youngest 4 or 5. Was expected. Will be fine. No spear damage. This should be listed as a zone 12a palm as it really doesn't like to go under 50*. Every year gets some lower leaf burn. All palms but the Chambeyronia houailou are mature. Even the fiji fan is sending up it's first inflourescen. Nothing was protected. Even palms on the south side of the house were hit with those winds. So just thought I'd share my observations in my own yard. I've also noticed the foxtails and carpentarias throughout town look fine, as well as the royals. One other thing. I DID NOT water for over 1 week before the cold spell. I turn my sprinklers off if the temperatures may fall near 40 in case of a frost. Can't keep them on all the time during the cold, so I play it safe. Always did this. My grass looks amazing too. 😄 Sorry for the long read if you made it this far. G

Couldn't resist . Another pigym for the big container. What I like about those is they're low maintenance and don't mind being outside in the 30s at all.

They looked cooked, not a lot you can do ATM, just wait for it to warm up prune off all the dead foliage and wait and see, you may need to rethink your choice of palm for the position they are in. It looks like there is no thermal protection except for the pool. If it’s still cold watering is making the situation worse you need warm soil temperatures to get the palm’s metabolism moving cold wet roots are not helping.

I'm in zone 8a/b and I just planted some Sabal species seeds (Caribbean giant and Miamiensis x maritima) in the backyard. Hopefull I'll have a couple of sprouts this summer or spring.

I think it’s called another day in paradise! I could not handle a climate unfavourable for tropicals, it’s bad enough I can’t grow a lot of super tropicals but to have 0 degrees Celsius and below with frosts no thank you. I would sell up and move, iam lucky I can get away growing what I have for now, I think the game changer was that’s there is so many new exotic species available now as compared to years ago.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/338620461 Evidence that it dropped below 30F in coastal Collier county

You can claim it for free. We'll call it a door prize.

With forecasts looking good, I made my first planting moves of 2026. I removed my dead papaya tree and fishtail palm. (may they rest in peace) I replaced them with a couple of golden cane palms I grew from seed that my daughter collected at Discovery Cove on a vacation in 2021. Like the fishtail last year, the golden canes are getting big enough that I don't want to keep moving them around in pots forever. So, they will be a nice annual near the pool this year: There are a couple of Rajapuri banana stumps there alternating with the palms as well. The bananas have shown just a centimeter or two of growth since I chopped them down low, so they definitely survived the winter.

From livestream today by YouTuber ResortTV1. The large Pandanus in Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom doesn’t look good. Mast trees also look rough but I see a little green farther down.

Just added to eBay- Chrysalidocarpus × lafazamanga Dypsis nodifera (cool hardly plant from seed I collected in habitat)

Such an amazing palm! Thanks for sharing pics and distributing seeds a while back 🙏

spent the last couple days building a new potting bench. Long overdue! I can sit on a lab stool and pot up now; much nicer on my back and neck. 😎

It seems like my brazoriensis for me is the toughest of them all but they all fall into this 0F-5F range it seems

They look like my deceased Ravenea xerophila. Tyrone, they're a real beauty! God willing, I know where to get the seeds from a very trusted friend. I'd call him more of a brother than a friend.👌

These should do fine in New Zealand. I barely water these and the top layer is sand overlaying peat. Absolutely easy care. They’re not slow when they’re happy.

Well I’ve got about 15 in the ground so if there all one sex I’d be totally miffed. I planted them so they’d be good for seed production and at the rate they’re growing it won’t be decades away. When they do I will be sending you seeds. They will grow for you and you must have them.

I was able to stop by my old garden today and got these pictures of the parent plant. Much taller than it was about 18 months ago.

I watered the soil really well last weekend. Wanted to do 2x a week but I was so busy with work this week I didn't get a chance. I have been following my spear growth and all my palms are at least alive. The bottle is now pushing up green which makes me happy. I'm planning to add a root stimulator. Lukas said they also recommend a nutritional spray but I thought I read no fertilizer until at least March?

I'll admit to not watering or fertilizing at all. If we actually get rain on Sunday, it will help. More than fertilizer, I might do a Banrot on a few things.

They're looking great Tyrone...fingers crossed for a boy and a girl!

Wow Tyrone they are beauties! One I’m not growing but would love to.

Did you see the YouTube video where the guy tried to grow in pure Osmocote? I mean, I don't think I need to give you any spoilers here but his theory is that it failed because there was nothing to retain moisture and so much of it just fell out the bottom of the pot. I've always gone with the "less is more" theory - you're right on the watering. I mean, if you've had a plant long enough you can basically tell if it's dry by how much it weighs when you pick it up. Osmocote is popular because it's a slow release and it's almost impossible to overuse. There's also the Jobes plant food spikes. They just break down into the soil over a few months and they tell you how many to use by pot size. Adding some fish emulsion and/or liquid kelp or liquid seaweed every other watering isn't a terrible idea - stuff like this activates the bacteria that allow the palms to absorb the fert more effectively. I do not reccomend you use it at full strength indoors, unless you don't have a nose or buy Febreeze by the case. The soil you use plays a role, too. Lots of soils have fert and food built in, and you don't wanna overdo it and most peat based soil just turns into worthless dried out crap over time, and palms are so stupid about not telling you there's a problem until it's too late..... I can't really tell you what's gonna work best for you. I've used Carl Pool, the Jobes spikes, liquid fert, Jobes palm food (the pelletized 🐔 💩 kind, my dog found it delicious), now I'm using some Dr Earth stuff in some plants and I'm just using some cheap 4-4-4 slow release in others, I keep forgetting I've got Osmocote. I mean, there really isn't a one size fits all with pots. I personally disagree with the idea that more nutrients get leached out of pots, I might be wrong here - but it seems to me and my simple mind that more of the nutrients would stay in the pot unless you're just flooding them regularly. However, this ain't my background and I'm - there's no manual for this, all we can do is ask the people that have been doing it longer than us, because we learn how to grow stuff by killing stuff. At least now I'm down to killing stuff I grew from seed while it's still small instead of killing $150 plants. So basically I just wrote 8 pages to not give you an answer to your question.

Some pictures from today mid summer. Going for 32C today and forecast overnight thunderstorms. It doesn’t get better than this.

After a few months : dictyocarium lamarkianum first leaf !

The bulging crownshaft on this almost twenty year old Chrysalidocarpus decipiens makes me think there’s something good lurking underneath it. Could it be about to produce an inflorescence? Will have to wait ‘til the attached frond dies and falls off.

While I plan on giving the coconuts here time to recover or check out on their own, there's a lot of other stuff I'm considering removing just because I'm tired of looking at it. Plantae-palooza is coming in less than 3 weeks, and that will be my best chance to get plants hardy to 20oF at cost. Then there's the whole pen full of Livistona and Brahea species I ordered from RPS last year that need a spot in the garden and a tray of silver Serenoa repens from @PalmBossTampa. It's tough to put off instant gratification.

I'm near you in Jacksonville and this freeze really bummed me out. I'm taking a (small) step back from palms this growing season to focus on some bulletproof natives trees for canopy and microclimate creation. I'm hoping it gives me some quality conditions to try a few more potential/marginal palms in upcoming seasons. At the end of the day it's all personal preference, but if your coco is still alive, consider keeping it around, waiting and seeing what happens vs. just replace it. It may take a while to come back, and may get hit hard again next year, but it's already adjusted and stronger for what it's been through!

Satakentia, trunk is clean, smooth, and straight as an arrow. Looking good in the afternoon sun. Tim

Good Jubaea chilensis, my friend. It will take shape as it grows. It will become a majestic palm tree, and you'll look like King Solomon, in tremendous glory next to it.

In Chile, they can withstand sub-zero temperatures. But they must be large. Michael Lancel's Belgian friend sells them to Europe at very high prices. He lives in Chile and ships them in containers.

In the ground. The rest of the mound area will be redone with weeds killed, more sand brought in and cannas moved. I’m going to put in some Encephalartos cycads, move some Ravenea xerophila to this area and plant the rest of my Ravenea glaucas.