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Did anyone keep track of their temperatures this winter? How are your tropical palms faring?

kylecawazafla

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I'm currently living in Grenada, so have been occasionally monitoring the temperatures around the USA this season from a distance, and have been so astounded by the drastic deviation they've been from the norm! The local ski resort I went to outside of Seattle in high school never even fully opened this winter (first time ever), Tahoe closed many of its slopes mid season, and Jim is growing a Coconut in Los Altos! XP I read an article that stated that the mean temperature this winter for Salinas, CA was 57 F! Paradise on Mount Rainier has recorded up to 1,122 inches of snow in a season, but received less than 150 inches this winter!

I was just curious how people's palms have been doing for this unusual season and what people's mean temperatures were compared to what they normally observe. The weather has been pretty consistent in Grenada! 85/75 F pretty much every day!

I'm always up for learning new things!

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Well, Kyle, you ask a profound question.

Share pictures of Grenada. People. Plants. Your adventures there.

I wasn't keeping tabs, on the temps, just hoping it would rain.

Which it did, a bit, but.

Here, we're deviated, too, on the high side.

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It's been so long since my garden experienced a real freeze (2007) that my confidence level for growing tropical palms is ridiculously high right now. No frost at all this past winter but still several nights in the 30s with an ultimate low of 32.5F in December. Daytime winter highs were higher than normal the last two winters. I've got a few Carpoxylon macrospermum that look good as well as M. dariani, Loxoccocus, Pinanga, and various other tropical palms and most of you have seen pics of my robust Lemurophoenix. Tweny four years ago, when I planted my first five Archontophoenix, I thought those were as exotic as it could get up here and they're sky high palms now. Today I planted three Calyptrocalyx polyphyllus, two Geonoma bondariana, three G. cuneata v. indivisa, a Dypsis utilis, and D. mahajanga even though I had vowed not to add any new palms this season. :hmm: Now, if it would just rain some more!

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Hello guys! Grenada is nice! Full of friendly people and comfortable weather… surprisingly more tolerable than Miami! I hope you guys get more rain soon! I have my fingers crossed that maybe a decrease in winter rain will mean an increase in summer monsoons! That's pretty wishful thinking, however. Jim! I hope those palms do well for you! I wish I had been interested in palm trees just a few years sooner so I could have had some palms starting up in Corte Madera, CA. Here are some pictures of Grenada. It's very gorgeous, but I rarely get to go out and explore!

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I'm always up for learning new things!

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Hey Kyle !

Yea the weather has been freaky.

I had 3 sub freezing mornings.

Which is hit and miss .

But our winters have actually been quite mild.

Most days in the 60's and low 70's.

March has been really warm our avearge high is about 79-80f and low near 50f .

Our high temps at 37north have been warmer than Brownsville tx. This March

Only Palm in my garden that saw damage was a lowly King palm I planted last fall.

Modesto, CA USDA 9b

July/August average 95f/63f

Dec/Jan average 55f/39f

Average lowest winter temp 27f

Record low temp 18f

Record high temp 113f

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what a tropical paradise!

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

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Hello guys! Grenada is nice! Full of friendly people and comfortable weather… surprisingly more tolerable than Miami! I hope you guys get more rain soon! I have my fingers crossed that maybe a decrease in winter rain will mean an increase in summer monsoons! That's pretty wishful thinking, however. Jim! I hope those palms do well for you! I wish I had been interested in palm trees just a few years sooner so I could have had some palms starting up in Corte Madera, CA. Here are some pictures of Grenada. It's very gorgeous, but I rarely get to go out and explore!

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Kyle, I've enjoyed your Facebook entries a lot too. Grenada is a tropical paradise and you must be loving every minute of being there, except all your studying time of course.

Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

zone 10a/9b

sunset zone 16

300+ palms, 90+ species in the ground

Las Palmas Design

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Las Palmas Design & Associates

Elegant Homes and Gardens

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Ah, Kyle, more pictures.

We don't all Facebook . . . .

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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