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Awesome. I have noticed a small growth spurt with this hot weather.

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Thanks, I will give a go and see how well it does.😃

Hello guys sorry I took way too long to post the pictures, but just been a ruff month because my dad was having some health issues.. but he is getting better, also I think my palms are getting better, but please find attached and let me know what you all think, thank you!

I had no idea they took those sort of temperatures, pretty good for a tropical palm. Sumawongii are just as beautiful if not better than ramsayi, but iam impressed at the low temperature they can take. Handy information to know thanks.

Headed out? ..Yep, me thinks it's gonna be a good summer ahead... Broad winged Hummingbird meeting, ..Take #2. Anna's ...and others? ..i think?? Side note: While this hummingbird species had been confined to mainly southern AZ since wandering north out of Mexico for years, with the rarer sighting or two in this part of the state, it has recently started to expand it's range ..both in AZ, and beyond the state lines.. Sometime after 2015 or 16, they started turning up in / around San Diego, and have explored -potential- new territory further north since that time. At the same time, the species has also wandered into areas to our east ..N.M., TX, S. Louisiana, and N. Central FL / far S. Georgia in seemingly increasing numbers. If my hunch is correct, these could become a ..relatively frequent " Yard Hummer " sight here around the valley, and in ..at least... most of CA, below the Sierras, West and S. TX, and possibly parts of FL. Current observations map from iNat.. Pick your area.. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/6141-Cynanthus-latirostris Will say, unlike the " common " hummingbird species we're accustomed to here and in CA, these make very distinct ..and distinctly unique.. calls.. You can hear them flying around from a further distance than either Anna's, Black Chinned, Costa's, or Allen's as well. Seem to like more shaded areas vs. those that are more open to the sky. That said, if the usual hummers are fighting over your feeder(s) / favored nectar rich plants, good chance these will join the fray for a preferred spot too, if present. When not at the feeder, the two?.. i saw yesterday seemed addicted to the large patch of Mexican Honeysuckle, AKA, Justicia spicigera nearby. BIG draw with the Sulphurs, too.

Yep a lot of tropical look for very little effort, if there was a list of palms that are die hard easy to grow and a lot of bang for buck this is one of those palms in that list.

Sabal plants are beautiful and very tropical, some more so than others. I have Sabal Riverside plants, which are more resistant to Chile's freezing climate.

Ah okay, that makes sense to me. It has been dry and quite windy these past few weeks. We had one day with gusts up to 45mph! Granted it's against a neighbors wall/home so it has somewhat of a wind break, but the fronds were still getting battered a decent bit. As for fertilizer, none yet! The only thing added at planting was mykos beneficial fungi to the root ball.

03 /24: Catch Phrase: Catch Fire.. 03 / 30: Hot puffs ...n' such..

03 /22: Ribbons 'amore.. 03 /23: This way and that..

Ramsayi, Grandis and Sumawongii do well for me here, though Grandis isn't tough enough for my typical 27-28F frosts (-2 to -3C). I've kept one alive here for several years under porch canopy, but this winter's 22.5F (-5C) might have killed it. The two in ground Ramsayi did well and so did my three Sumawongii. Ramsayi is definitely an easy grow for me, and tough for sun or shade.

Time to play catch up... Those March Madness 'sets.... Actual, colorful ones, too, lol.. 03 /16: Red Glare ...Take 1. 03 /17: Red Glare, Take 2. 03 /18: Red Tape Skyward..

A few links in regard to the February cold snap. Some locations did set records for February. Melbourne WFO February Summary: https://www.weather.gov/media/mlb/summary/FebWinter2026.pdf US Sugar Summary: https://www.ussugar.com/record-breaking-freeze-impacts-florida-agriculture-sparks-widespread-coverage/ Men's Journal: https://www.mensjournal.com/news/florida-deep-freeze-breaks-117-year-record-strange-sky-phenomenon-2026 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January–February_2026_North_American_cold_wave Additionally, the Google map was updated with more records for the February 2026 Freeze.

It sure looks stretched out to me, maybe being stuck between other palms at the nursery was just enough shade. I don't know anything about planting in clay other than sometimes a new planting hole can act like a "big bucket" and fill up with water and not drain. A common recommendation here is to leave a hose soaking on a trickle for 30 minutes every other day. I'm not sure if that applies to CA clay. It's been hot and dry recently, so some fast burn on old fronds seems "normal" for a stretched out new planting. The new spear growth looks encouraging! Hopefully you didn't put fertilizer in the hole when you planted it. That is a common way to burn new roots.

Yeah, there are issues with using anything and everything. Even with the NOAA stations, I've seen instances where the reports don't line up well with the personal stations nearby. For reporting purposes, I compare them to models that tend to report very accurately, like a Davis or, if that brand isn't close by, Ambient Weather or Logia. ----- All: The Feb. 2026 map has been updated to include a few more stations that had not reported yet as of the last iteration. One example is Bartow: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1QwsArS8xqOQ1Bbw_4LqRrurwD6cf3Q8&usp=sharing

Looks like you have a Thai dwarf there. Very nice. I just repotted my Vietnam dwarf. I won't separate the clump any time soon.

@Plantking165 Just a heads-up that almost all of them in Florida are hybrids of one type or another, even if they aren't labeled as such.

This is truly beautiful. Would love to see pics of it today.

Yes they’re always in or near water in natural habitat.

Im tempted to buy a sabal just to prove naysayers wrong. The sabal is a tough palm like the washingtonia. If we can grow Howeas, Archontophoenix, and syagrus the sabal should be no issue at all.

Easy to grow and looks as nice as the most tropical Licuala - what more could you ask for? This one has done well for me in the pot since I got it, finally picked out a permanent spot for it. Excited for bigger leaves once it gets established.

Definitely have some spear movement as of April 18 (17 days post transplant). That gap in the center of the spears was definitely not there 2 weeks ago. 🤞🏻

Oh ok, makes sense.