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For dry fertilizers, a single coffee scoop every 2-months for a 10-in pot is probably ok. Two scoops for a 24-in pot. With liquids, I water first, then fertilize an hour later. This way there's hydrostatic tension and the fert doesn't run out the bottom.

Threw up a couple new IG videos - sanchosgreenpaws. I went to Wally World and they had left all of the tropical stuff outside, so I snagged another Pink Princess Philodendron for $8 - oh but there's 2 - oh but there's also a pup. Nice score. Also a couple pretty damn big banana leaves. https://instagram.com/sanchosgreenpaws

This thing looks beautiful on radar. Our rainmaker!

Very nice. Have you collected seed?

In the first picture I can see the spear and it looks good. Could these trunks be taken home or where ever. Plunked in a pot with some decent soil,water and basically get some free hurricane cut palms? I'm not familiar with the harvest process for sabals, basically do you have to have a minimum of root mass? Like I said earlier, it's a shame but as they say "when life gives you lemons". ..

PSL is at the edge of where you could grow Christmas palms. With the cold snaps this winter, you might be better off going to MIA next month and buying new ones. Do you know how other z10 palms have done near you (Triangles, Spindles, Bottles)? I would consider some mules (Butia x Syagrus) in case we get more cold in our winters.

My Robusta isn't very leaf hardy. Low 20s , the fronds will turn brown, all of them. I see some they look exactly like mine but seem to handle the cold better. At least mine is pretty bud hardy and recovers fast. I leave the fronds on until they're crispy but the new frond that is currently seeking daylight doesn't look bad at all.

Honestly there's a good chance it's alive snow is an amazing insulator but time will tell. What @Allen Said it is also very true

They looked cooked, not a lot you can do ATM, just wait for it to warm up prune off all the dead foliage and wait and see, you may need to rethink your choice of palm for the position they are in. It looks like there is no thermal protection except for the pool. If it’s still cold watering is making the situation worse you need warm soil temperatures to get the palm’s metabolism moving cold wet roots are not helping.

Miracle grow worked just as good as palmgain in my opinion. It's really hard to tell which one is better . You really have to do a side by side, same growing conditions comparison in order to tell which one is really better and are the most expensive ones really better or is it just the name you pay for? I can tell my palms grow well using both brands. A lot of stuff is growing back in my yard as well. My Robusta is already trying to be the fastest horse on the race track . Pushing out the frond like a champ. The others are slower.

Butia purperesisSometimes you get a a hundred seeds and for some reason or other you only get one seedling, and then that one becomes pretty special. Here’s a couple of one offs that I may never get a chance to get seeds again of that variety! Geonoma bondariasyagrus duartedypsis heterophylla

More trees flowering around here, maples are looking good and red. Pollen is starting to accumulate on surfaces. I can confidently say we are now in Spring in the FL Panhandle. I also still think we get another freeze before the end of March. For now though, highs in the 70s approaching the low 80s at the end of the 7 day period will certainly get all the tropicals going again, especially with the lows only being in the 50s and 60s.

So we all went through a cold snap throughout the entire state. I just thought I would share my observations of palm damage here in SWFL. Cape Coral zone 10b. I will only include my own palms and only the ones that are considered zone 10 palms. Two different temperature readings for the 3 days. One was found on line for Cape Coral recorded: Feb. 1st- low 36 high 52 Feb. 2nd- low 36 high 59 Feb. 3rd- low 36 high 70 This is Fort Myers recorded at Page Field, about 4 miles inland from me: Feb. 1st- low 34 high 51 Feb. 2nd- low 35 high 60 Feb. 3rd- low 35 high 70 First time I've seen frost since 2010. Feb. 1st frost spotty on roofs. Feb. 2nd spotty on roofs and on neighbor's car. Feb. 3rd saw it on the grass as well. Quickly melted all 3 days. On the 3rd, I saw the most frost. The only day I saw it on the lawn. I checked all 3 mornings. Both recordings are cold and we all had crazy windchills. So first a list of palms with no damage as of today, almost 2 weeks later. I did zero protection. No particular order: Chambeyronia houailou, Chambeyronia macrocarpa var. hookeri, Archontophoenix alexandrae, Dypsis lanceolata, Dypsis pembana, Ptychosperma schefferi, Ptychosperma elegans var. paddle leaf, Satakentia liukiuensis, Kentiopsis oliviformis, Pseudophoenix sargentii, Tri-bear, Hyophorbe lagenicaulis, Hyophorbe verschaffeltii. Chamaedorea cataractum, Leucothrinax morrisii, Thrinax radiata, Copernicia baileyana, Pritchardia hillebrandii, and a potted but rooted in the ground Licuala ramsayi. All of these palms as of today show no damage. These show some form of damage: Adonidia merrillii- premature leaf drop. Crownshaft color turns bronze, leaf still green but falls off. Seems to be just the oldest leaf or two. Other than that, they look great. Ptychosperma macarthurii- same type of premature leaf drop but also looks great. Premature fruit falling. Veitchia joannis- has some leaf tip browning from cold, dry winds and not a vibrant green. More yellowish green color. Looks good. Holding all leaves. Cocos nucifera maypan x dwarf green- lower and some mid level leaves show some brown tipping. More browning on the lower and oldest fronds. Looks good. No fruit drop as of yet. Cocos nucifera red spicata- just some lower leaf tip browning on oldest fronds. Looks great. Looks better than the other coconut. No fruit drop so far. And lastly which was expected. My Pritchardia pacifica aka fiji fan. All leaves burned but the youngest 4 or 5. Was expected. Will be fine. No spear damage. This should be listed as a zone 12a palm as it really doesn't like to go under 50*. Every year gets some lower leaf burn. All palms but the Chambeyronia houailou are mature. Even the fiji fan is sending up it's first inflourescen. Nothing was protected. Even palms on the south side of the house were hit with those winds. So just thought I'd share my observations in my own yard. I've also noticed the foxtails and carpentarias throughout town look fine, as well as the royals. One other thing. I DID NOT water for over 1 week before the cold spell. I turn my sprinklers off if the temperatures may fall near 40 in case of a frost. Can't keep them on all the time during the cold, so I play it safe. Always did this. My grass looks amazing too. 😄 Sorry for the long read if you made it this far. G

Just cleared the solar system

I'm in zone 8a/b and I just planted some Sabal species seeds (Caribbean giant and Miamiensis x maritima) in the backyard. Hopefull I'll have a couple of sprouts this summer or spring.

So here in Florida we had that cold front that did a number on all my Clusia plants and my two Christmas palms which are babies and were just put in the ground. The Sylvester palm is thriving great. what can I do to speed up the growth process? the Christmas palms have all turned brown and the new frond sprouting looks brown as well. They do seem to be alive, just need a lot of love. I have been watering them. Anything I can give them to help them.

Why would somebody do this?

A couple of Ferox starting to cone.

I think it’s called another day in paradise! I could not handle a climate unfavourable for tropicals, it’s bad enough I can’t grow a lot of super tropicals but to have 0 degrees Celsius and below with frosts no thank you. I would sell up and move, iam lucky I can get away growing what I have for now, I think the game changer was that’s there is so many new exotic species available now as compared to years ago.

That's a shame.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/338620461 Evidence that it dropped below 30F in coastal Collier county

You can give me nothing below 10, that’s my own personal preference!

I reckon those odds are pretty good! Would be super keen to give them a go, that's for sure. Great idea to put in mass plantings for seed production...that was also the idea behind my little Lepidorrachis plantation. I'm surprised that these haven't been split from the Isalo form yet, clearly a very different beast.

I also planted this little trunking form C. radicalis to go with my non-trunking ones: