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Theres even chamaedorea adscendens and metallica seeds popping up!

Iam sure some would love to have this problem archontophoenix as one mega weed problem, so @dimitriskedikogloy your welcome to as many as you like, crazy how one man’s trash is another treasure! They are coming up everywhere!

while I realize the topic of hardiness between Archontophoenix Cunninghameana and Alexandrae has been discussed for years, our recent extreme cold gave me the ability to take pictures of the two growing side by side in my yard. Official Belle Isle FL (Orlando) low was 25 I live near n a large lake which creates a microclimate that has allowed Cocos Nucifera to live here without dying in the last brutal cold of 2010. I believe we are the only spot in Orlando where Cocos Nucofera survived 2010. My recorded low was 28 degrees but its likely parts of the yard were a little lower. The warmer part of the yard is the back yard near the water. As the pictures show, even side by side, Archontophoenix Cunninghameana are undamaged while Alexandrae are completely defoliated.

Bismarckia nobilis I suspect that the wind had a lot to do with this damage.

Fortunately I haven’t had to buy any for many , many years. I used to grow it for my own use in the seventies when it was a felony. Now a days , my thing is a cup of coffee and a day of gardening. That ship sailed long ago. Harry One of my “weeds”!

From the Sea Surface Temperatures, plan on having less protection at night and cooler daytime highs for a while:

Given the title, I was waiting for someone, probably from USA, to chime in and say weed was too expensive. Kidding aside, I'm in the group that likes seeing volunteers pop up in the yard in unexpected places.

1 photo a female plant 2 photos a male plant

I breed fish, African cichlids. I could produce 1000s of fish a month. The issue is with the selling, getting that going takes work. I gambled on buying a breeding group of fish, not happy with what I got out of them even through the parents look good. I’ve sold over 100 but have that many left. I’m on the verge of giving them to some stores because I don’t want to spend the money feeding them and I need the tank space for more desirable ones that I’m currently growing up. Marketing, Selling and developing relationships is the hard part and moving to Texas I’m back to square one. Don’t want to ship fish. So that is my advice to you @JohnAndSancho Here’s a small sample. Now back to the Palms!

In regards to archontophoenix alexandrae vs Cunninghamiana, I had the same experience. Cunninghamiana looks like it has almost no damage, while alexandrae are 100% fried and brown.

I plant my seeds at the same depth of the seeds ie a 1cm seed is down to a depth of 1cm, 5mm seed is down 5mm. What you see in my photos is just to show the seeds and spacing, I then cover them. Cycas seeds I only half bury horizontally, you can half bury palm seeds, Mother Nature would do the same half bury to completely buried, even some just on the soil surface. I also press firmly on the medium to ensure a good contact with the medium. Richard

Hi PR00636! I know you wish you were here in PR on such a beautiful day. Yes, my one and only Welfia is doing fine. I can see the top of it from my potting bench. At least 20 feet tall and planted down a steep slope with the idea that it would one day be eye level near my house. It hides surrounded by tree ferns and some Euterpes until it opens a new leaf which should happen soon. If I am not traveling I’ll take a photo then, but it looks stunningly red like all the others posted here.

Well you’re gunna need a bigger boat! That’s a lot of seeds and a lot of time and space involved in such a project, you’re little science project has taken on a new level from a small laboratory to full on Dr Frankenstein set up (insert Mel brooks movie here) Time to hit up the old happypalms vault and do a bit of research on a few back issue posts. Dont get overwhelmed by so many seeds it’s easy, community pots or box’s, baggie method your decision. That many seeds myself styrofoam box’s with lids (etoliation method) if no bottom heating plastic bags will help you out for a bit of extra heat. Good luck keep us all posted!

Here’s a great video out Florida. Very primeval looking, worth the watch.

Heptapleurum actinophyllum

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

Other palms in the area, varying amounts of damage.

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

False mastic (Sideroxylon foetidissimum) These were more cold hardy than I thought, apparently more than gumbo limbo, seagrape, or ficus.

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.

Ficus aurea Not completely dead. Looks like they will make a recovery here at least.

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

I've never used it, but I'm right there with you on the coffee. Love Howea as well! Caffeine + Gardening = Pure Bliss.

Unfortunately most purchased seeds rot readily despite the provided bottom heat, either because they are very old or because the seed coat is wounded and pathogens have already found an entrance, just waiting for the right moment (moisture and warmth).

I'll check that out soon. I'm going to post a lot more to here. The coconuts look cooked west of US1 and I'm not sure the royals make it either, even the pre-1989 royals. I suppose if they survived 1989 then there's hope, but they look like they will take time to recover.

Forecast tonight is for 36 or 39 depending on the source. After the last completely bungled forecast I can't trust it at all. I could be in the 30s or upper 20s after the last one being so many degrees off, and I can't trust the forecast at all now. I think everyone is in the same boat so don't expect the temps to be what they say again and don't put anything sensitive back out until Sunday or Monday at least.

The regional botanical gardens in my are has certainly been improving of the last few years, with the curator Rick ackland doing a wonderful job. Full credit to Rick and his staff on this project!

Per periculum et errorem...

It most certainly would save space, but he’s going to need a lot more space if 4000 seeds germinate, I don’t grow archontophoenix, to fast growing, to much water, constantly repotting them and the maintenance of 1000 archontophoenix I would rather grow more rarer exotic plants. That being said my market is limited and growing Archie’s you would sell more than I would a lot faster. Market demands are for the landscaping plants exotic are more gardeners thing. The once you find your market fill that demand by supply. And iam sure the European market is a lot more in demand of more tougher hardy varieties not some Calyptrocalyx that would die as soon as you open the fridge door!

The lows in the yard ranged from 34F-36F this morning. The local airport (KLAL) recorded a minimum observation of 32.7F. The NWS observations for 02/06/2026 are attached in ZIP format. 20260206_obhistory.zip

Firstly @peachy if you remember has a wanted poster on my front gate and her accompanying posy of said palm pilfering gang are on a strict watch and act alert. But a beautiful little palm indeed at such a young age, I wish I had a couple a hundred of them in the greenhouse. And if I remember correctly it’s not on the palm mafia gangs hit list because it suckers, and we all know the peachy gang has strict no suckering palms rule are to be pilfered, so it’s safe for now! Richard

Another fine 69F at 6:59PM MST after reaching 83 ..or 4 earlier under mainly clear skies. Weekend ahead looks ..Just as fine across the valley / region, though a little cooler w/ some rain sneaking into the forecast by Monday across parts of CA.. Temps both tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday could end up a deg or two warmer than what is currently suggested ..as is what happened today. Here, next week?... We'll see how quickly we'll start cooling down. Regardless, even pulling back to the mid 70s later next week, if that occurs, would still be above avrg. for the 2nd week of Feb. While the idea of some storminess returning to the area is on ..pretty much.. all the models atm as we head for mid month, it may not add up to much, even if it brings some rain / snow chances, and a couple days of cool-ish afternoons / mornings. Increasing sun angle / associated time for insolation are quickly ramping up so , ..pattern change that could have brought a freeze threat a month ago is quickly becoming a non concern ..that's not to say a freak cold morning isn't still possible thru ~roughly~ March 8th but ..sustained cold spell threat is almost wrapped up for the winter here. We'll see. Looking at a few early in the month thoughts for March from the CFSv2, you can see how ...for now... the dry / above avrg ( temps ) trend is holding for the west ..if not building a bit < in today's thoughts > Precip anom and probability: Temp anom and probability: Since forecast thoughts from this model are a constantly shifting target that can flip n' flop multiple times per week, always take what it says ( right now, or, ..at any given time ) w/ a grain of salt. We'll see how this looks around the 16th. By then, other model thoughts, that aren't quite as shifty, should have a decent view into what the first month of Spring '26 could look like. With that said, should the dry / trending drier, and high % of above norm temps suggestions hold, March could offer up a decent taste of early season heat.. ..Part of the back and forth in some of the current the forecasts may be tied to what the P.V. is ..or appears as though it may not.. be doing.. for the moment at least as we move through the rest of the month. Trend going forward may still be headed below normal but, ..compared to how the plot below looked a few days ago, a general drop into neg. avrg. territory doesn't look all that frightening.. Any significant SSW and/or possible collapse / reversal are off the table ...for the moment... Will be interesting to see if the trend manages to stay near normal a bit longer ..say thru the 20th / end of the month before starting that gradual slide toward a final warming ( Final warming = Where the P.V. disappears for the year ) For now, enjoy another perfect " winter " weekend in the desert..

Wouldn't say it survived yet. My 20 yo adonidia merillii and 2 royals slowly declined over weeks after looking like they just got leaf burn and ultimately went to the landfill when we had that bad Christmas weekend freeze a few years ago.

Not the greatest pictures, but I got sent these from Pearland. Pretty much everything looks to have survived. Kings:Beccariophoenix alfredii:Bismarckia , Beaucarnea recurvata, and Medemia argun to the left of the Puya:Livistona nitida unfazed:Copernica alba:Mule palm:Phoenix theophrastii and Parajubaea var. torallyi x Butia:Butia and Sabal uresana:Acrocomia green at base. We thought these seeds were totai but may be aculeata. Wrapped in housing insulation and it still burned:

I might be able to help you with the radicalis. I sprouted some seeds last year. We should talk next week. I will have some time away from work.

This potted bamboo was under a large Syagrus R. The seed dropped and sprouted this . It’s been there quite a while , very slow at first. Harry

Here's the freeze damaged palms that have naturalized in Palm Bay, which includes Areca Palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens), Royal Palm (Roystonea regia), Alexandra Palm (Archontophoenix alexandrae), and Burmese Fishtail-Palm (Caryota mitis). There's a photo of C. lutescens seedlings and Phoenix roebelenii that took no damage. None of the naturalized Phoenix reclinata or Syagrus romanzoffiana took any damage either.

Absolutely, thank you so much for this.

I did a dose of hydrogen peroxide on pretty much all the palms yesterday afternoon. Most didn't react at all, but the Cyphophoenix (all of them) foamed up like mad. Those turned black when they burnt, instead of the typical red/brown. I'm sure they are D-E-D. After that I mixed up a total of 2.5 gallons of Daconil and squirted it into the crown of all the palms and almost all the cycads. As expected, the cold damage just keeps looking worse and worse. The 31.3F and heavy snowlike frost this morning didn't help at all. Here's the data logs, frost and local airport temps.

I am in no rush whatsoever. I planted a baby copernicia fallensis as well and in the same time it has only put out 3 fronds. 😛

Yes, I am very fortunate to be growing this palm! I’m curious to see how it does in full sun since I’ve only seen them in deep shade at Floribunda. But I was thinking that since all of the other Hyophorbe do well in sun, this one should too. Here’s another picture. Some nice dark coloring on the petioles and leaf bases. But like all young plants here, the rose beetles start chewing holes in the leaflets.

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.

I don’t have the problem , only a few volunteers from my Archontophoenix Cunninghamiana. I did germinate quite a few as I had tons of seeds a year or so ago. I gave it a go and they sprouted , although it took several months. Now I have some baby palms in wee containers . My friend has a few different species of Archontophoenix palms and his courtyard is filled with volunteers . He dug some up and potted them . When the got larger he gave them to me . They are A. Maxima and Purpurae . They now live in my garden in the ground. What a gift to have ! I do get many Chamaedorea Radicalis and Microspadix popping up every where though . That would be my “weed” problem. Harry

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Lol let's see if the For Trade forum actually gets used this year. Sounds like lots of horse trading in the works.

For me it’s easy and fun. More fun than anything else, Amy grandmother could grow a dead stick, I used to watch her as a kid watering her greenhouse every morning and learnt about winter watering from her. But hey give me hose and I will stand around all day watering just for fun! Richard

By popular demand from @aztropic who sold me this palm. I present to you, the 2nd (that I know of) pure Chilean Wine palm in Florida. location: Deland, FL i have been following @Scott Ws Journey of growing his Jubaea and decided I wanted to try as well. Since I am only a hour south of his Jubaea in Jacksonville, fl. I also have a nice microclimate from a pond in my backyard that might help the humidity issue with airflow. My phoenix Canariensis is loving it so far. I originally was not going to post out of fear of failure but decided why not.

I would say my hemithrinax ekmaniana copernicia curtissii and copernicia rigida....

Yesterday, we published a scientific paper that presents a major update to the taxonomy of Dypsis. This is the result of years of work both in the field and in the lab aimed at addressing the unwieldy nature of Dypsis and working out how it is related to other iconic Madagascar palm genera like Marojejya, Masoala and Lemurophoenix. We approached this work with some trepidation, fearful that our results would demand that we "sink" some of these genera, which are so dear to the hearts of growers. Fortunately, we have been spared that embarassment, but our DNA dataset (which is unprecedented in scale) has obliged us to make one major change. We have split Dypsis into three to ensure that the genera represent natural groups that are consistent with the evolutionary relationships that we determined from the DNA data. As a result, two "old" genera have been resurrected. We now have: Vonitra - the fibrous species Chrysalidocarpus - the moderate to very robust species Dypsis (in a narrower sense) - the small to moderate species We have worked hard to align morphology with the DNA evidence - after all classification has to be useful and usable. But this has been really challenging and some species just don't obey the rules. For example, Dypsis marojejyi remains in Dypsis, despite being robust. This is very inconvenient, but is also a really interesting biological finding, implying that robust life forms can evolve from within understorey dwarfs. You can read all about this in our paper freely accessible here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tax.12797 . This is a technical work, but you will still find much of it very usable, especially the Taxonomic Treatment section which includes a key to the genera and a checklist assigning each accepted species to the revised generic classification. We hope you enjoy it! Bill Baker on behalf of Wolf Eiserhardt, Sidonie Bellot, Robyn Cowan, John Dransfield, Lars Emil, Karolina Heyduk, Romer Rabarijaona and Mijoro Rakotoarinivo Fig 1 from the paper - Dypsis and related genera: A. Chrysalidocarpus lutescens, B. Marojejya darianii, C. Lemurophoenix halleuxii, D. Dypsis metallica, E. Masoala kona, F. Dypsis scandens, G. Vonitra fibrosa