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The cold is really digging in this winter across the northern hemisphere. All 3 continents - North America, Europe and Asia have seen record cold now. First Asia with the record breaking Siberian cold in Nov/Dec. This January it has been Canada and USA with record breaking cold. Scandinavia has had it as well in late December / early January. Now a new record cold wave is about to begin in Eastern Europe as well.

Isaac Dawley home in Santa Paula. House and Palms still standing or they where when my grandmother showed me where it was. She was born there but it has long since been someone else’s farm.

I am planning for upper 20sF wind chill and mid-30sF cold here in Pembroke Pines, S. Central Broward. I am also planning to water thoroughly on the mid-sized palms and smaller stuff in the ground. I brought in everything. If it can be moved I moved it. My wheelbarrow got a workout. I have some containerized items, like Sabal minor variants and Encephalaros sp. that could prolly take the cold, but they are in pots and have never seen this cold and wind chill before. Taking no chances. For the orchids I have in trees I have been wrapping them with pillowcases and taping or pinning them together after wrapping. Larger ones get bed sheets. I have a few crotons but they are small. They are getting pvc-pipe frames and more bed sheets, small tarps. The sheets are taped on, the pvc-pipe is taped to trunks, walls, etc. As for which Croton cultivars should be protected before others, I do not know them well enough. Your tarp at a 45-degree angle idea is a good one and should be a lot of protection compared to nothing. The key is to make it strong enough for the 30-mph gusts we may get. Any blockage of the wind counts for a lot. Try to avoid having any plastic sheeting make contact with plant surfaces as they may cause damage. Everything on your list needs to be protected if possible, but for an order of most urgent to less... A. Licuala cordata - Hydriastele beguinii 'Obi Island' - Licuala grandis - Areca vestiaria B. Licuala lauterbachii and the var. bougainvillensis - Licuala ferruginea C. Ptychosperma elegans 'Lisa' - Caryota mitis variegated - Chamaedorea deckeriana - Chambeyronia macrocarpa - C. hookeri - Ptychosperma schefferi If the 12 ft. tall Hydriastele beguinii 'Obi Island' is in addition to the one on the list, it should be a priority. Start with tying the leaves up, then wrap the crown and the crownshaft with blankets and sheets. Wrap the trunk last. Tying those bifid leaves might be tricky. Start at the petioles while holding them together, squeeze upwards and wrap with twine, etc. Adding bundles of Xmas lights or other corded lights, individual incandescent bulbs could help under any covered structure. I may do this for some smaller things in-ground, but I haven't decided yet. Most of my sensitive stuff is too large to cover. Keep the bulbs away from anything that can burn. Ryan

Honestly I see it as a very good possibility. I'll be up all night so if it happens I'll see it lol

Anything that directly touches the box or bucket has a good chance of burn. But my testing with a plain cardboard box over a palm showed 5 or so degrees warmer in the box than outside. That was using an optical thermometer outside and inside. It might be even more useful with a windy night. It works, even if it's not perfect.

Some models have a band of anow forming right over me tommorow night and giving me 1 to 2 inches of snow lmao. Tampa area

Maybe 25-26° briefly when mature. This and my purpurea are my most sensitive zone push . Hoping I can get both to have around 5-7’ of solid “wood” before they die out.

I took this pic of a friend Vai Nu'usa in western Samoa on the island of Upolo. I thought it was a different species, but Dr. Hodel said it was B. insularis. They were quite prolific there up by Stevenson's place on the mountain. in deep jungle

Sorry I don’t have the address . Somewhere on West Telegraph close to Santa Paula.

Thought I would check on one of my Fayetteville sourced Washingtonia today. All appears good. Post any you have and want to share.

I think Florida may return to the 1990 zone map after this winter.

I wrapped all my king palms up then covered them in incandescent chrostmas lights and then wrapped them with frost cloth. My mangos, sapadilla etc I built enclosures cicered them and have heat lamps under them. I did thsi to 10 or so fruit trees and palms on top of the kings. We have already been into the upper 20s many times this year.

I took some pics before the storm today. I think the worst cold is mostly over here. Hope so anyways. Sabal ‘Alabama” has been sitting in frozen pine straw for a week.

Some nice colour on this Butia odorata inflorescence.

So as pretty much everyone knows already, this weekend is going to be rough for palm (And other tropical/subtropical plant) growers and collectors in the Florida Peninsula. This upcoming freeze could break the temperture records of their most recent bad freeze in 2010 and reset the growing zones to lower numbers (Like Orlando Zone 10 ➤ Zone 9). I created this thread so that floridian forumers could post before/after photos of their collection and other palms growing in this region. When the 2021 freeze happened, the Palmageddon Aftermath Photo Thread was created by @ahosey01 and I personally learned a lot from it, and from my own experience with that freeze killing my coconut, royal and adonidia palms. I think it'll be very interesting to see what gets hit and what doesn't, what recovers and what doesn't recover. Will definitely help guide people in similar zones and climates to know what species to plant. Fortunately for floridians, everything indicates that this will be a mostly dry freeze, there are no signs of freezing rain coming with it. This might change as the hours pass but it's most likely that there won't be rain with this. Best of luck everyone, remember to protect your palms before it's too late and feel free to share your photos.

There’s a ton of stuff at Disney and Universal that will be seriously damaged if this event pans out the way it’s forecast. I know Eric in Orlando is more up to speed on what’s there at Disney especially but this is what I can think of off the top of my head. -Coconut palms and a lot of warm zone 10 tropical vegetation at Volcano bay at Universal. I had heard from employees who worked there in Jan 2018 that they had heaters on the Cocos. Not sure how that will work with 35 mph winds and these temps -I recall at the new hotel they built at Disneys Polynesian Resort some good sized Satakentia planted on the backside facing the lake. And of course there’s just so many tender tropicals at the Polynesian already. -Numerous Pandanus around the Disney Parks: one notable one in Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom and a few in Avatar land at Animal Kingdom. -Plants like Shefflera arboricola, Copperleaf/Acalypha, Duranta erecta are used as a standard shrub hedges all around the parks and Orlando in general. They will for sure come back from larger branches or the base of the plant if dieback occurs but wow that would be a lot of brown foliage to look at for a little while. -The common stuff like Bottle/Spindle Palms, Croton, Adonidia, Ficus, Wodyetia, Philodendron, and Monstera will probably be quite a sore sight. -Heliconia and Gingers, and Strelitzia are practically used as foundation plants in the Orlando area nowadays. Many will probably have to start from the ground up after this. -I’m curious how Royal Poincianas will do. I don’t recall reports of high damage in these from Jan 2018 but maybe I forget. I know I’ve seen some good sized ones in the Orlando area that didn’t seem to show evidence of significant past damage. -One of the saving graces though is that it’s been so long since freezes like this in the Orlando and other areas that some of these plants are so large their size is in their favor to better withstand this freeze event.

Been driving around the Naples area and even though this winter the fronts haven’t been as typically linear with the cold being west of the gulf, as in the previous four years I’ve owned a home here, there’s clear demarcations driving west on Pine Ridge going into Golden Gate proper. The cocos about 1.5 miles west of i75 are really looking iffy(there’s several very prominent tall ones that are visible). Theres a home with a fairly large(for FL standards) plumeria that has taken a beating and is mostly defoliated. Took some photos around Baker Park which is much closer to the coast than my home(my location is typically 2F colder during the nights and 1-2F warmer during the days) and things are visibly unhappy.

I'll let you know how this beccariophoenix does in Orlando. Current forecast is 25F. Way too big to protect so I'll just water the soil well

That early cold wave in the middle of the second week of November may have been an omen. It left me with symptoms of cold denial. Now we are at the end of January getting beach bullied by the arctic with little end in sight.

Rain Saturday AM south of I4, then a chance of flurries west of I75 as the cold pushes south.

When this whole episode is done, I'll be curious about how the list of palms below perform in central Florida. For years, I've heard how much cold they could tolerate. I've planted them all based on this but still doubt they can tolerate the worst a 9b winter can throw at you. This isn't the worst but bad enough to be a good test. These weren't as widely planted back in 2010 so this is the first real, widespread test in a multitude of locations and conditions. Beccariophoenix alfredii Chambeyronia macrocarpa Chambeyronia (Kentiopsis) oliviformis Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) pembana

Looks very good. How much cold can they usually take?

Alexandre no damage thankfully 😄. all my citrus are okay looking. Hopefully this upcoming freeze will be the last till next winter 🤞

Wow local media and NWS way off this morning again, they had a light freeze 30-31F forecast for "Houston". And yet nowhere inside the Beltway is remotely near that 😂, a good chunk of 610 is above 40F 😂. Even Katy is in the mid 30s and not upper 20s

Sabal SP. details

Bismarkia

Oh my! What a display. Harry

Licuala ‘mapu’ inflorescence. Tim