When do palm trees in Miami Beach start dropping seeds?

[Fish2026]

I live in South Texas  which has similar climate to South Florida . I cant remember what month I went to Miami Beach but there were seeds everywhere.

Id love to gather and bring some home to plant.   Might the 3rd week of September be good?

[idontknowhatnametuse]

Depends on the species, there are a lot of palm species in that area.

[Looking Glass]

Always.  Something is always dropping seeds around here depending on the random pruning schedule.  I think it’s just luck of the draw.  Unlucky if you are the one cleaning up 100s of lbs of seeds (me).  Here’s the yard right now.  4-5 species currently dropping seeds  

[MJSanDiego]

Is there a big difference in winter temperatures, especially the winter low temperatures, when comparing South Texas to Miami?  Miami is considerably warmer overnight during winter months I thought. In fact the warmest in the USA? So that can have an impact on the species and seed germination, etc

[donalt]

Miami winter nights average in the low 60s. Checking Brownsville, Texas, I see average winter nights are low to mid 50s (more like Tampa and Orlando)....and still ok for tropical palms to do well IF freezing temps are rare rare rare. But seeds need warmth to germinate and produce seedlings, so they would need many consecutive months of nights in the 70s to pull through.

[Looking Glass]

4 hours ago, donalt said:

Miami winter nights average in the low 60s. Checking Brownsville, Texas, I see average winter nights are low to mid 50s (more like Tampa and Orlando)....and still ok for tropical palms to do well IF freezing temps are rare rare rare. But seeds need warmth to germinate and produce seedlings, so they would need many consecutive months of nights in the 70s to pull through.

Way warmer than that….  In December & January 2/3rds of the nightly low temps will be in the 70+s normally.  There might be a scattered couple of nights in 50s or 40s over those months.  1/3rd of the lows will be in the 60s.  Just about every single day, every month, the temperature will reach at least 70+ during the day except for a few exceptions.  By February it’s hot again.  

I wish the average winter low was in the 60s at night.  It’s a treat when that happens.  

[Scott W]

There's a reason why Adonidia merrillii are nicknamed the Christmas palm....

[cocoforcoconuts]

On 9/3/2024 at 7:28 AM, Fish2026 said:

I live in South Texas  which has similar climate to South Florida . I cant remember what month I went to Miami Beach but there were seeds everywhere.

Id love to gather and bring some home to plant.   Might the 3rd week of September be good?

As others have pointed out, South Florida is actually much warmer than Brownsville during the winter.

Central Florida is a better comparison for deep south Texas.