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It's slowly pushing a new crown. I probably need to repot it but I'm kinda scared to add any more stress to it. It kinda looks like a sago 😂 I'll take a pic when I go back out there again.

Yeah tell me about it! Down here, the snow bands set up a little earlier than expected and were more intense than expected. At times on Saturday night into Sunday morning, snow rates were between 1" and 2" inches an hour. HUGE flakes might I add. Lived in northwestern NC (the tundra of North Carolina lol) for 18 years and have never seen anything quite like this.

That damage looks very light, I don't think anything will die. Looks good enough to not be something "bad".

That's nice, I thought mauritiiformis was very weak when exposed to cold but now I see that I'm wrong.

Mine looked like that last year. It came back from ot and had a decent crown forming untill now lol.

Thanks for the advice, Harry. I've never seen a Washingtonia look like that here in LA! Maybe this is what they look like with much more water than we get...

Yes, it's a defining characteristic of winter in the central valley. We've had a pretty foggy winter this year. This current stretch of fog tends to burn up by noon, unlike a stretch in Nov and December that lasted over 360 consecutive hours. Fog day and night for weeks on end. https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/92358-cold-fog-and-palms/

First one is Chrysalidiocarpus Lutescens and I do believe the second is Washingtonia Robusta. Harry

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That's crazy for King's. I've had probably 5 25° days in the last decade, and they get bronzed, but recover when the weather warms up in the spring.

Iin Belle Isle, here is my summary for 2/1: 10.5 hrs 32.0 or lower 6.5 hrs 28-32 4 hrs 25.7 - 28 For 2/2: bottomed at 34.5 as light west winds off the lake gave me protection from radiational cooling. Winds were relentless. 50 mph gusts destroyed my coco frame and even started unraveling wraps. Coco and foxtail: protected but heavily bronzed with a smidge of green on some fronds near the top. Foxtail same. Christmas palms: protected. As of now, more green than i expected. But I assume all will brown over next couple weeks. Beccariophoenix in pic below looks good. A few bronzed tips. I'll give other updates soon but these are my priorities. One observation...there js a new 2 story home in Belle Isle that has foxtails on the east side, wind protected. Brown but the one against the house looked as I drove by today, to be completely green. I had to do a double take but was driving by. I will.go verify this week and take a picture if I saw correctly.

Common but colourful Radicalis.

I think I'll give this a shot as well. I don't want to just immediately give up on them. I went and looked at the foxtail some more and there's still green in parts of the fronds. It's kind of a waxy brownish-green in some parts. The bigger spear is still firm towards the bottom and only the top is shriveled up. It definitely won't pull out yet, at least without significant force. The archontophoenix all have green left in their crownshafts, and the spears are at least partially brown but otherwise firm. I'm assuming the spears may weaken in the next couple of weeks. I will wait until early March to fertilize them and then give it another month or two before deciding whether to replace. I don't know how soon I should be applying peroxide and daconil. I won't wait too long.

Sounds like my coconut. Day 3 and still a little green near the top. I'm hopeful that means it's still kicking. Now trying to figure out how t treat with peroxide as the meristem is out of my reach.

I have various citrus in pots. The big challenge for me is flower timing. The hybrids peaked in January and the Key Lime is filling up with blossoms now. When do yours blossom outside?

I would be very interested to see your fertilizer schedule and type, soil improvement tricks and especially seed germination methods! From zone 8a/b Alabama. Red clay soil.

The seed was originally collected in Brazoria County by Lynn Lowery and Bob McCartney (Woodlanders Nursery, Aiken, SC). Somehow NC State University got some of the seed and shared plants with me. The two that I have are really different from each other and from other Sabals in the collection. One of them has huge seeds and initiates blooms in late March, while the other has palmetto sized seed, but has a fat trunk with compressed boots. It is a slow grower. I think that brazoria and xtexensis are the same thing. The one with the huge seeds is listed as xtexensis. The upper picture is the fat trunk, small seed guy and the lower picture (left palm) is the big seed, early bloomer. The Butia on the right is a spectacular silver one purchased as Butia bonnettii, which, I guess, is not a valid species anymore. All the palms are growing in the Sand Hills area of Augusta at the Fall Line in deep sand.

Saw some incredibly low temps in Brevard this morning, multiple personal stations at 21 degrees, all on the mainland of course. Merritt island was far warmer, as was Orlando.

That's crazy! We only got 8" Last week

So it looks like I took a severe hit. Just got home and of course it's dark out, but overall, it doesn't look good from a first inspection. So we hit 26f for around an hour and were under 32 for about 11 hours. The second night, we dropped to 31 for maybe 30 minutes. So here are some data points for anyone curious: The coconut looks like it just took a severe beating. Still has green ribs on the fronds but the leaflets are mostly browned out. Certainly losing all the fronds. Can't tell what the spear looks like at this point. Hate that I have to ask, does any green on the palm mean it's heart is still beating? Maybe there's a chance??? Archontopheonix Alexandrae: this is a small palm, maybe 2 ft of trunk. Totally browned out. Archontopheonix Tuckeri: these were next to a big boulder wall but without much of a canopy. 2ft of trunk. They look great, very little yellowing. Buccaneer palm: this guy was out in the open and took this like a champ. Looks great. We'll see how it looks in the daylight but I'm seeing very little bronzing. One of the top performers for sure. Dypsis pembanas: I have a lot of these. Some bronzed a bit but doesn't look bad. Most of them look really good. I think the clumping ones handle these cold spells the best since the sheer volume of tightly packed fronds help protect each other. They handled this probably the second best to the Buccaneer. Dypsis lutescens: I have a lot of these as well. They did well, also heavily clumped so they managed things just fine. Some bronzing to the exterior fronds that were exposed the most. Some variety of a Christmas palm: didn't do very well, think I Iost these (2). 8ft trunk and 3ft trunk. Keptiosis olivformis: these are big specimens, trunk at least 15 ft. I have 5 of them. One was heavily exposed to the wind and looks really beat up. Lots of bronzing but still plenty of green. 2 that are protected by some bamboo and the side of the house look unscathed. 2 more that were not as well protected but not totally exposed look to be bronzed but ok. They should be able to push through. Areca vestiaria: this little palm doesn't do much growing for me but it didn't skip a beat. I was very surprised to see it not browned out completely. But it looks just as good now as it did before the storm. Roystonea regia: this one is a big tree with plenty of grey wood, at least 15 ft. Its hard to tell how it did. I can see green ribs but can't get a good view on the frond leaflets. At first impression, it seemed like it was ok but now I'm thinking there's a lot of brown. This one was out in the open and was totally exposed. I'll have to report back. Chambeyronia macrocarpa: got blasted. Green ribs and crownshafts look good but the leaflets are browned out. I had 3 healthy ones and 2 that were struggling from the hurricanes over the last couple years. The 2 that were struggling I think got wiped out. The other 3, maybe a chance. It'll take a really long time though to see this recovery since I only get 3 new fronds a year if I'm lucky. Very sad to see all the years of work wiped out so quickly. But that's the game we play up here in Central FL.

Mine froze as a very small palm I thought it was dead but didn’t get around to removing it luckily because it came back as a double and now both trunks have split!!

Snow totals map from the NWS office in Newport...

If the bud is still alive it'll start pushing the "dead" spear further up to "normal" length anyway. If the bud is ok the biggest risk is a fungal infection. For anything within reach I'll be doing a hydrogen peroxide pour and follow up with Daconil. Hopefully that'll be a good preventative for things that don't have a D-E-D bud or trunk daamage. I will probably do a soil drench of Banrot or Alliette on many palms and cycads, starting tomorrow. I am not planning on cutting any fronds or chopping anything down until March, except in cases where it's blatantly obvious. There are some small seedlings that are obviously burnt to a crisp and have no chance. I'll be marking a lot of spears horizontally with a sharpie to check for movement.

I wasn't able to get an accurate measurement in my yard due to all the drifting, but Swansboro in Onslow County recorded 17 inches and Peletier in Carteret County recorded 19.5 inches. Both communities are within a few miles of me.