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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.

These three are my only Archontophoenix purpurea and I’m just wondering if the heavy black tomentum on their trunks is unusual or typical. Whichever it is, I like it. These were purchased as seedlings from Floribunda a few years ago.

Four pairs of healthy Phoenix roebellini / Pygmy Date palms (8 palms total) currently have a date with a chainsaw. 😢 Thought I’d offer them here in case someone wants to rescue them. I’m in Carlsbad (North San Diego County). Another palmtalker was interested, but the logistics didn’t work out. These are mature palms, already planted when we bought the house in 2007. They were transplanted once many years ago (from backyard to front), so digging *might* be a little easier than if they’d never been moved—but they’ve been in place for a while, so not sure on that one. The deal: You do the digging. My husband can help move them to your truck, and the smaller plants around them would be removed in advance for easier access. Hard to get a good pic, but here’s a few of them. There are 8 total, in pairs of 2… And here’s a ChatGPT interpretation of them in early March if no interest… It’s a bit sad to cut healthy palms, but something’s got to give to make room for the more exotic stuff. PM if interested in them.

A nice bit of summer heat and sunshine along with a lot of irrigation has the garden holding up pretty fair. All the critters are out waiting to bite or sting or whatever they do, just waiting to get a hold of you!

Calyptrocalyx hollrungii!

Either that or someone has been eating too many chocolates! Wanted seeds those one Jim!

Whoa @Jim in Los Altos that’s freaky! Maybe call them Johnny Cash Palms?

Couple of classics for sure, tashiroi are fast and I had a good germination rate, see how they go this winter as a test! Iam sure you will be interested in one or two👍

Update:

In League City TX, just south of Houston. We had one night at 25 and the next bottomed out at at 23.5. It did get above freezing in between. Mule unprotected Majesty that I defoliated and wrapped with blankets and heat. Too easy to protect to risk losing it. L. Chinensis (unprotected) and Acoelorrhaphe Wrightii (blanket and Xmas lights) C. Alba just got a blanket (had lights on it but they didn't work!) and the Arenga Englerii had no protection. Another Chinensis behind that. Decora unprotected Bizzy unprotected Chamadorea Hooperiana (I think?) just had a pot flipped over it What I thought was Seifrizii but got absolutely toasted with canopy Cham Costaricana that just got a blanket. I may have overestimated it's cold tolerance Licuala Spinosa strap leaf just got a pot flipped over it A small Cham Radicalis and some transplant Rhapis did fine Chuniopheonix Nana had a pot flipped over it with a string of Xmas lights laying next to it Licuala Fordiana? Lanonia? I have to keep better records. Had a pot with some Xmas lights next to it. Cham Elegans unprotected A Cham Tepejilote that I decided would be easier to just dig up and replant after the freeze. Doesn't seem to have missed a beat. And last but not least, a potted Ptychosperma Elegans that I somehow missed when I loaded up the greenhouse. May he rest in peace.

Yeah unfortunately. I wonder if you could get a greenhouse grant if you could that would be really cool

We had wind gusts up to 35 mph. So far nothing fell or broke, but I haven't walked the two acres as it's also been raining. At least I'm saving irrigation money. 20260208_145221.mp4

Hello everyone I was looking on facebook and I found this post of a "Naturalized" Or possibly natives sabal minor in Sandbridge VA And I would love to hear everyone's opinion on this. The creator of the post didn't really give a clear description of where it was. In my opinion I believe this could be remnants from a old population in the Great Dismal Swamp or the Back Bay Area Or even just naturalize from a specimen on monkey island NC. Please let me know your thoughts on this I was looking in the comments but everyone was just arguing about climate change LOL. I'll post the Facebook link on here I'll also post a video of it if anyone doesn't have Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19xGTRLt4c/ 2026-02-11 22-40-16.mkv

This sounds awfully familiar 😂 I still can't believe I started with the idea of overwintering literally a handful of plants. Thankfully I don't have an HOA to worry about. My closest neighbors are 1/4 mile away, I've got a lot of land to play with out here and we're so deep in the country they have to pipe in sunshine. I think the cats would shred a greenhouse or a shadehouse unless I used the panels. I've got a plan, I know what'll sell locally and I know what'll go on Etsy or whatever. If I have a good summer and get good news from SSDI I want to start growing from tissue culture - Plants Without Borders has some rad stuff but shipping comes from China and Hong Kong, and they've got a $450 minimum order. And the plants are dirt cheap for the most part - the good news is the $140 shipping is part of that $450 and it covers phyto, customs, all that jazz. It's where most of the sellers on Palmstreet seem to order from.

And I would like to add another little tidbit. The use of fertilizer by many. That fertilizer is most often itself buffered. Leaning away from alkalinity. If you can grow azalea, gardenia, and such in your soil, I do not believe filifera will be happy.

I am not in the league of 1000's of seedlings, but up there. Close. What I can say is many traits of filifera/robusta can be turned off/on with soil acidity/alkalinity. It is readily apparent in Maui where filifera have naturalized in alkaline areas and morphed into something not filifera with known soil differences I have proven the same thing in my backyard. Suffice to say I can turn off/on red petiole streaking on trunking and seedling filifera with the use of highly acidic fish emulsion. On and off. When you realize filifera have been in cultivation for only half of of it's lifespan(250 years), we may not know really much about it's true characteristics. I believe people confuse wet/dry and overlook soil ph. Never once "heard" anyone try to grow one with the use of baking soda...........never! But they sure try to grow this swamp and water pumper in "dry" desert conditions. But they are not found in the open desert. If filifera grew in the open desert, they would be all over like prickly pear, creosote, mesquite. They grow in highly alkaline swamps found in the desert. I've reported my findings on this forum before with little interest Here is a 5 month old seedling grown from seed from a filifera palm preserve. In acidic soil. Nuttin but red..... Maybe even some "stretching" at the base

All participants received an amazing electronic brochure today 12 pages long full of information and links which is something new for this Biennial. Not sure if I can get it on PT, but above you can see the opening page. Perhaps the detailed itinerary with links can be posted one day at a time on the topic which will document the trip on PalmTalk.

Understood, reconsidering shoe selection at this point! But extremely excited about going on my 1st Biennial.

Hi i have been wanting to order from rarepalmseeds for so long but its expensive shipping and some need permits. we will split the price of shipping and the permit. Ill probably order still even if no one wants to join in. If someone wants just one thing i don't mind paying for the permit for you (if i get to keep 1 seed) lol. I wanna start a nursery and because I'm still in school i have tons of time to plant/repot and ship stuff.

Good idea. I won’t join you as I’m in Australia, but due to costs I always split with others. Hopefully you get some interest as the shipping, phyto, permit, inspection etc costs can be hard to justify going alone.

Some beauties there! P tashiroi must be quite fast, you only got those seeds recently right? It’s definitely one Pinanga I’ll keep an eye on. If I had your climate I’d try to grow them all!

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Not unusual from what I've see on mine. The tomentum starts a red-brown color then turns black over time before it wears off. Nothing like Jims though.

I have several of these 7 gallon triple C. klotzschianas with a couple of rings on the trunk. Pretty nice, 7' tall.......$175ea Pickup only in San Marcos, CA Thx -Joe 760-300-7339

Pics from phone look better....

Also have a bunch of singles in 5, 7 and 15 gallon. $50+ I'll take some more pics of these

I think that's very wise advice. As long as there's still a chance, I would wait and see.

Plant other staff that you like looking at and caring for while the cocos is recovering. This way you'll keep your mind and eyes busy with smth else. However, even if it pulls through, this damage will happen again and again where you live. So if it pains you to see the cocos in a poor state, better get rid of it. A cocos that will go through your winters looking good is a chimera.

Looking for seeds or palm either will do, pm me if your selling.

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!

I suspected this would be the case... I'm in the Orlando area and we haven't seen temperatures like this in at least 40 years. I wonder if any of the coconut palms further South on A-1-A directly on the ocean survived. I was over there back in August and we drove down to JB's Fish Camp. And on the drive down there I saw lots of coconut palms, many looked like they had been there for a number of years. So, perhaps some of them directly on the ocean survived.

Further up A1A, Paradise Beach park https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KFLINDIA326/graph/2026-02-2/2026-02-2/daily 1/31 34.3 2/1 26.2 2/2 32.7 2/3 35.4 Sea Hibiscus (Hibiscus tiliaceus) Coconuts are cooked, even on the beach Sea Grape (Coccoloba uvifera), I never thought I'd see them like that on our beaches. Spiny Fiddlewood (Citharexylum spinosum) last picture are sea grapes facing the beach

Here's empirical evidence that shows planting on the south facing side of a large building, blocking the cold winds of an advective freeze event, is a sound strategy. These palms were much less damaged then their nearby counterparts. In the second photo with the Flamboyant (Delonix regia), at the bottom right, is a volunteer royal with no damage at all, and that wall protected it from those freezing winds.

Palms in general . Will any of these make it?

Typical sad royals you'll see a lot of throughout downtown. Not well taken care of and embarrassing. This freeze could be the final nail in the coffin for these sickly royals

The mango trees are defoliated. I don't know how bad these are set back. Some of these trees in the old downtown part are pretty old, like the size of laurel oaks. In residential areas where the trees might be around 30 years old, are in the same damaged condition.

There are several other 2010 survivors in downtown. One of them is certainly dead, the bud is leaning like it is falling out of the crown, the others look like the coconuts pictured above. My coconut palm looks like these as well.

Next stop, downtown Melbourne. Closest weather station reported the following: 1/31 33.3 2/1 26.0 2/2 28.3 2/3 32.6 2010 coconut survivors. I'm not sure if they will pull through this time.

Mangroves for the most part seem to be undamaged, but there was some damaged that I noticed and took pictures of

I'm not afraid of spending money especially when there's an end game. It would be fair to assume I've spent untold amounts, much of which was during my years operating a home based nursery. I didn't make a ton of money, but I liked what I was doing and it was a niche market selling palms and exotics.

Sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera) vs red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle)

Gumbo limbo (Bursera simaruba) 100% defoliation

Mexican plumaria (Plumeria rubra) All of these trees got knocked back at least year, maybe more. Some were in better condition, some worse.

Next stop, Indialantic: closest weather station here https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KFLINDIA359/graph/2026-02-2/2026-02-2/daily 1/31 34.9 2/1 26.8 2/2 31.8 2/3 40.1 Coconuts

Wow 3,500 is so much money for plants!

I have some bad news. No surprise these palms I previously posted suffered from the freeze. See updated photos from today, all of the tropicals in the nearby neighborhoods are fried

That reminded me of a time I rented a cube truck, took the ferry over to the mainland and loaded it full. I spent $3,500 on plants alone. In all fairness, much of that was re-sold which ultimately paid for all my expenses & plants.

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

Dallas zone 8a palms in January 2020 before 3F and 135 consecutive hours below freezing.

Cold hardy palm trees in Dallas zone 8a at 15F after sleet storm. 🌴🥶