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Watching my queens fall apart

byuind

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I’m sitting here In St Augustine watching my queens get their mature fronds snapped all night.

 

 

loaded question: how long before they replace the growth? I’ve lost 2-3 leaves on each one already and the wind is still howling 24 hours later

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D Palm Experienced

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Depends on the weather. You may get 1-3 new fronds before they slow way down around Christmas. If it’s totally defoliated, Should look normal by summer 2023.

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Tyrone Grand Master

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They’ll come back. Don’t worry. They are super tough. 

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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20 hours ago, byuind said:

I’m sitting here In St Augustine watching my queens get their mature fronds snapped all night.

 

 

loaded question: how long before they replace the growth? I’ve lost 2-3 leaves on each one already and the wind is still howling 24 hours later

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Your palms will be fine, and if not, they can be replaced. Odds are they'll sprout new leaves and grow again. Tough expletives!

Hope you're okay!

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Doing well. Everything cleaned up today- surveyed the damage and a couple of the queens were the worst of the bunch. The royals, kings, bottles, etc all did pretty well. But those queens snapped around like crazy!

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Billy Mentor

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Unfortunately it doesn't even take a hurricane for that to happen. The petioles on queens are so stiff they buckle quite easily. In fact, I see several fronds buckle prematurely almost every winter storm that comes through. Just another reason to choose something other than queens for the garden.

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1 hour ago, Billy said:

Unfortunately it doesn't even take a hurricane for that to happen. The petioles on queens are so stiff they buckle quite easily. In fact, I see several fronds buckle prematurely almost every winter storm that comes through. Just another reason to choose something other than queens for the garden.

Well that’s unfortunate… I have to feel like there is a way to protect them.

 

I wonder if bundling the fronds together to the trunk before the storm might help?

what was really interesting is that my neighbors Queens did very well. The only thing that was significantly different was that his were in direct line with the majority wind direction. Mine are between two houses that created a wind tunnel like effect. They got beat up bad

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