Pindo Palm Progress

[DTS]

From February to September The Butia has suprisingly put out 4 fronds since when it was in that pot, never seemed to have transplant shock at all.

[Fusca]

Looks like it's happy.  🙂  Butia can grow surprisingly fast in the right conditions.

[Harry’s Palms]

Are you planning on protection for it in winter? Butia are pretty hardy but don’t you get very cold winters there? Harry

[DTS]

1 hour ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Are you planning on protection for it in winter? Butia are pretty hardy but don’t you get very cold winters there? Harry

Im 100% protecting it here since im on zone 6b. But my winters have been pretty “mild”, and hasnt gotten below -5 in a while, and hopefully no artic blast brings it down past -10 again. I think on the about section you can see how low it's gotten since 2000 in my area.

[DTS]

Also, I will protect it maybe mid November depending on how cold it gets, because that's when it starts getting cold, and maybe late November for the needle, as I know it can take under 20f without a problem.

[Chester B]

2 hours ago, DTS said:

I know it can take under 20f without a problem.

I'd be cautious about this comment and wouldn't count on it.  I've seen plenty of Butitas killed at 20F in a northern growing zone.

[Las Palmas Norte]

Small, young unestablished Butia are susceptible to cold weather of most types. If it was mine, I would not subject that palm to anything below 25°F (-4°C).

[Jack Lord]

Ditto.

 

I had one here and wrapped it every Winter. After it hit around 10 ft, I got lazy and did nothing. It was clobbered and the Winter was not exceptionally cold.

[DTS]

1 hour ago, Chester B said:

I'd be cautious about this comment and wouldn't count on it.  I've seen plenty of Butitas killed at 20F in a northern growing zone.

i meant the needle palm can take that, my bad 😅 I would never let the Butia see 20f, lol

[SeanK]

Jelly palms can't take frozen precipitation in the bud.

[DTS]

Here it is with everything else;

[MarcusH]

On 9/3/2024 at 8:22 PM, SeanK said:

Jelly palms can't take frozen precipitation in the bud.

Here in SA , Butia palms survived our Palmgeddon ( 9f with snow) and this year with frozen precipitation at temps at around 18f.  I don't see any fatalities not even defoliation the last couple of winters. Last year it got down to 16f.  Just saying.  

[DTS]

Updated picture for today: 

Also I’m in the middle of a cold front so the temperatures are way lower than normal for a bit:

[RFun]

On 9/2/2024 at 4:41 PM, DTS said:

From February to September The Butia has suprisingly put out 4 fronds since when it was in that pot, never seemed to have transplant shock at all.

Pretty decent size when you did the transplant.  That doesn't hurt.  These aren't as picky about transplanting as the Sabal Palmettos tend to be.

[Colin1110082]

9 hours ago, DTS said:

Here it is with everything else;

What colocasia is in the background? Do you leave it in the ground all winter?

The butia looks great, hopefully it grows big quick so you can eat the fruit. You just gonna build a box around it?

[DTS]

2 minutes ago, Colin1110082 said:

What colocasia is in the background? Do you leave it in the ground all winter?

The butia looks great, hopefully it grows big quick so you can eat the fruit. You just gonna build a box around it?

The Colocasia is your ordinary Esculenta, I dug it up last winter but I might see what happens to it if i leave it because I had a smaller one that survived last winter until i stupidly cut the dead stuff off in march which made the corm rot. Im gonna get another pop up greenhouse to keep the rain/ice/snow off the butia, with a frost cloth and inc. xmas lights like what I did for my needle palm.

[Colin1110082]

1 minute ago, DTS said:

The Colocasia is your ordinary Esculenta, I dug it up last winter but I might see what happens to it if i leave it because I had a smaller one that survived last winter until i stupidly cut the dead stuff off in march which made the corm rot. Im gonna get another pop up greenhouse to keep the rain/ice/snow off the butia, with a frost cloth and inc. xmas lights like what I did for my needle palm.

Oh are you talking about one of those plastic ones on amazon? How did that go did it get too hot in there?

[DTS]

9 minutes ago, Colin1110082 said:

Oh are you talking about one of those plastic ones on amazon? How did that go did it get too hot in there?

yeah, when the sun came out i would unzip one side to keep it from overheating.

Edited October 15, 2024 by DTS
spelling mistake

[DTS]

1 minute ago, DTS said:

yeah, when the sun came out i would unzip one side to keep it from overheating.

unless when an artic blast happens though like last january

[Colin1110082]

39 minutes ago, DTS said:

unless when an artic blast happens though like last january

Yeah I was thinking about buying one of those for my Sabal minor from northeast Ohio palms I reached out to the guy and he said that a Sabal in my zone is more likely to get heat damage than cold if I used one of those. Maybe next year I’ll try it. I would just thing going out and constantly zipping and unzipping can be tedious 

[DTS]

7 minutes ago, Colin1110082 said:

Yeah I was thinking about buying one of those for my Sabal minor from northeast Ohio palms I reached out to the guy and he said that a Sabal in my zone is more likely to get heat damage than cold if I used one of those. Maybe next year I’ll try it. I would just thing going out and constantly zipping and unzipping can be tedious 

ngl opening and closing for meit isnt bad because most of the time the sky is gray, and i only leave it on the needle palm from mid november to mid march

[DTS]

Like damn stop opening more fronds it’s 51 degrees out 😭

[RFun]

31 minutes ago, DTS said:

Like damn stop opening more fronds it’s 51 degrees out 😭

Pindo doesn't know when to quit.  I guess the ground temperature will take a while to reduce there.