Bismarckia Frond

[ahosey01]

FINALLY! Four months after planting, enduring 12+ hours a day of full blazing sun in the hottest Arizona summer on record, the Bismarckia opens a frond.  There was a period there where I was watering this thing every single day because temps were just so relentlessly high.

Edited September 7, 2020 by ahosey01

[Palmcycasnut]

Congrats! It's been brutal over here. Hopefully we start " cooling" down. 

[Silas_Sancona]

2 hours ago, Palmcycasnut said:

Congrats! It's been brutal over here. Hopefully we start " cooling" down. 

Heat is supposed to back off after Tuesday.. Might only be in the upper 80s/ low 90s Wed. Lows -outside downtown- may drop into the upper 60s for a night or two also.  Crossing my finders tomorrow is it for anything above 110F for the rest of the year. Front Yard, lots of stuff in/around town looks terrible.

[Palmcycasnut]

Sounds great! It's those temps above 110 that most plants just can't handle. 

[Silas_Sancona]

3 minutes ago, Palmcycasnut said:

Sounds great! It's those temps above 110 that most plants just can't handle. 

Agree.. As crazy as this summer has been, definitely a good lesson in just how much extended extreme heat + no rain different plants can tolerate..  You should see some of the Queen palms around here.. Oof!!    Don't ever think i have seen mature Bottle Trees ( Brachychiton populneus ) just up and die -from the heat- ever either. 

[aztropic]

Queen palms seem to have had the most casualties this year,compared to all the other commonly sold palms in our area.If not already dead,most look terrible.Nurseries are already promoting mule palms for their replacement.Even with the extreme heat,those mules still look fine.

 

aztropic

Mesa,Arizona

[stingray]

Your Bismakia look great. Yes it's been a brutal summer for sure, no rain hasn't helped any, the ground has been hard and dry up until the showers last week. Many Queens dead around the west valley. My Bismarkia has held onto a 6 pack of spear leaves for 3 months and is just now opening up some of them. Butia has also been looking a little ragged but is now showing signs of regrowth. Hang in there we'll have 8 months of good growing soon. 

[96720]

I agree with aztropic queens are dead or dying all over town a lot of people I talk to think this is the new norm if that’s true we will have to see what the new norm is for winter if we have warmer winters we can start planting more royals. I think we can also say good bye to Phoenix roebelenii if the rest in the valley look as bad as mine.

[Silas_Sancona]

1 hour ago, 96720 said:

I agree with aztropic queens are dead or dying all over town a lot of people I talk to think this is the new norm if that’s true we will have to see what the new norm is for winter if we have warmer winters we can start planting more royals. I think we can also say good bye to Phoenix roebelenii if the rest in the valley look as bad as mine.

Agree 100%.. Queens look awful ( to put it lightly ) everywhere this year... LOTS of big, well established ..n' dead ( or just about dead ) specimens almost everywhere i have seen them across Chandler..  Phx. roebelenii are more of a mixed bag, locally at least.. Some very sad ( ..n' just about dead, err.. at the " Please just put me out of my misery" stage ) specimens, but numerous others that while burned, should recover well now that the worst of the heat is behind us.. Agree though that if summers like this are to become more frequent, even roebelenni may be on borrowed time here..  Sounds crazy but even the tall Washingtonia r's in the street island out my front door suffered some burn from the heat this summer..