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Ye like I said models are already uptrending in temp I haven’t checked but should be warmer now. But forecasts have definitely continued to drop into the negatives even though model runs are uptrending away from those.. ridiculous temps.

Here’s my Prestoniana Hybrid from FB. Got it about 6 months ago and immediately grounded it. It didn’t care one bit. Doesn’t look like much but it’s definitely gotten bigger and shed those ugly stretched fronds most FB plants come with. I have no doubt it will catch steam from here on out. -dale

Interesting observation, i've been reading about these palms [ and this one has been growing outside since 2009 protected with a mummy wrap but no external heat] an no one has ever mentioned that.... well...... being by the Dark Brick of the building all summer really is a hot microclimate at least for part of the year; even in the winter, if it's sunny out, that brick is hot to the touch from FEB-DECEMBER thanks for your comment, DrZnaturally

I subscribed to him a long time ago. Just missing that "YA,LL O METER " lol

I like watching him and max velocity weather they seem to be the some of the best ones on the Internet

Watch this guy yall, he is the best Weatherman. Me approved haha. He’s posting twice a day which has never happened. This ice storm will be insane. With some of these places getting insane ice storms they have never had before. 2 inches of ice is Insane! He’s very conservative in his forecasts an doesn’t like to go crazy with forecasts which is what makes him very good!

I only know what a couple of these are… and one photo bombing anthurium with a new flush.

Congratulations Harry you have a baby boy, get the blue paint out and colour that deck in blue! Richard

Hope the best for everyone involved. Because of the wide array of forecast models, everyone east of the Rockies is wondering how much of their garden will still be standing come March. We could get anything from 23F-37F in inland Central FL. 🍹 May the Jetstream be forever in our collective favor.

They never get boring!

Wow 😍

Place plastic bags over them, use coco peat perlite just slightly moist, squeeze a handful to test if drops of water come out it’s to wet add more dry medium, for germinating them in. Spagnum moss just slightly damp again squeezing as a test for moisture. Bottom heating as @Than mentioned is the best thing to use. And dont overwater them once they germinate and you’re waiting for them to grow a bit before potting up. Bury your seeds to the depth of the seed size ie a 4mm seed at a depth of 4mm is best, and cover them then push firmly on top of your medium. Good luck and happy growing!

Our time will come guys...imagine if you moved to Houston in the early-mid 90s and basked in the glory of a nearly twenty year span of solid 9b sometimes wondering if it was slipping into zone 10 😀. Parts of Florida and the South Atlantic are enjoying that at the moment, with some of the warmest strings of winters ever in modern history. I find it hard to believe we'll be left out indefinitely because reasons lol

I can vouch for this vendor as well. I purchased one 8 years ago and have been very impressed, both with the color and growth rate. Eric does offer smaller, shippable sizes as well. And yes, it does have Jubaea blood in it's DNA, I confirmed this with mine when it flowered this year, as many of the flowers had more than six stamens.

This post is not meant to alarm, only to demonstrate something. Yesterday there was some panic on X because the AIGFS model was showing an epic freeze for peninsular FL. While this was by far the coldest, other models did and still show the possibility of freezes down to Central FL. But if you look closely, this illustrates perfectly what has to happen to get a 1980's type freeze in FL. What needs to occur is the bowl of low pressure that comes down from the north has to dig in and amplify just to the northeast of around Jacksonville, FL so the winds flowing around it inject the cold air directly into the peninsula from the north. The lines around that dark blue area of low pressure are the direction the wind is driven (generally west to east). This is seen in the 500mb map attached below. Now compare to the 12z run of the AIGFS model today. The bowl of low pressure is way up in the northeast and clearly doesn't pull that arctic air down into the peninsula. It's not whether there's enough cold air coming south into the lower 48, It's a question of whether these high and low pressures will orient in a way to transport the cold air at the right angle down into the peninsula. If the bowl of low pressure sits on Alabama or Georgia the cold air blasts the FL Panhandle and then moves over the Gulf before going into the peninsula, and thus it gets moderated over the Gulf. That has been the pattern in recent years. However, lately these troughs of low pressure have oriented a little farther east lately and that is what's causing this recent cold weather in peninsular FL. Still need to watch though, because it's still far enough in time we don't know and on the same token some of the models leave room for the possibility of a digging trough to occur. This potential has been recognized by NOAA and the Climate Prediction Center as seen with the graphics I posted further up in this thread.