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Current Stats (06:53 AM, March 10): Outdoor Temp (Arbon Stachen 425m, solar-ventilated Bresser) 0.4 C / 32.72 F 95 % humidity Balcony Temp 443m (4th floor, shaded Intertronic): 6.9 C / 44.42 F / 55 % Pressure: 1018 hPa

Actually 32.72 F / 0.4 C community garden 425m

Thank you very much, Harry 🤗

@Tracy I recall you hosted the PSSC for a meeting at your place in Leucadia, then in Carlsbad. R

Copernicias seem to like the desert a lot better than the beach out here.

@guillerman looks like a nice crop of seeds on your palm. Plant some in a community pot, keep moist and they should sprout in a few months.

Hello, looking for a 3g or larger copernicia like hospita/fallaensis/gigas/baileyana. Thank you

Thanks @Tracy how much room are we talking about? And thanks for the links, it will be an interesting plant to grow. Your wife may be onto something there safety glasses, it will save her a trip to hospital with you, and it will save your eyes, we only get two eyes and can’t replace them.

I have already discovered they are quite deadly. I would ask you the question about heat seeing as it’s from the Andes, but you don’t get the extreme temperatures I get. Full sun and good drainage it can have and dry conditions along with space it is.

@Mazat this is what your country needs a spectacular show of palms for sale, if one had the investment money a two acre climate controlled environment would be the place to start your business!

Too right. You would have done the same @DoomsDave, I know a palm nut when I see one Dave!

I run out of room in the car, I had offers other goodies, just no room to bring them home. Next time I suppose. And there where other beautiful palms there some I had already or missed out on them! Richard

If there are holes present, you will be looking for ox beetles. The damage to your sabals does not look like cold damage to me.

I will check it out tomorrow. If holes are present, what should I be looking for that would cause them?

Here is the temperatures I observed thru this event. Morning temperatures on the left side, daytime highs on the right side. Freezing hours on the far right are event total, not necessarily restricted to a specific date. For instance, the freezing hours for February 1st began when the temperature dropped below freezing the afternoon of January 31st (which was like 4 pm). With this now in mind, the only thing I really have that feels worthy to report on is my Bismarckia nobilis. It had a sheet that was loosely wrapped around the trunk, I say loosely because it had been there for over a week already and I did not fix it before the second hard freeze event. With the highs in the 80s recently, it has began to push some growth. The spear has remained firm, and the palm itself actually took a few weeks to completely defoliate but it finally got there. I expected this palm to not make it, given there was no additional heat provided, but it has surprised me. Photo is from March 6th, which was 3 days ago. It has pushed more during that time. Also adding that I have not taken any measures to help the recovery of any of my palms. No peroxide, no copper fungicide, just letting nature take its course this year. I have to say based on what temperatures were observed down south, I consider myself lucky that I only got to 20F being in one of the coldest parts of the state on average.

Check for holes in the ground around the base of the trunk.

Hollywood Studios

Currently staying at the WDW Resort area. Adding some photos for posterity. This set includes Epcot & Hollywood Studios:It should be noted, at the flanks of Spaceship Earth most of the palms were Foxtails with two exceptions, on the right hand side there were two what I believe were some exotic livistonas(don’t know which type)with extremely thin trunks, they have been removed and replaced by Washingtonias. Theres visible recovery on most of the satakentias on the walkway towards Guardians Of The Galaxy.

Me too! Does anyone have photos since the big freeze?

I wonder how this garden did with the very cold winter for Gainesville 2026. Probably endured 2 or 3 nights of low 20's at least. I'll be there in April and will try to get pictures if no one else has first.

@happypalms Yike a Rooney you went hawg wild!

I hope you are right. I am in the same boat with most of my plants on their second winter in ground. By next year, they had better be settled enough to handle the low twenties. I was out mowing today and I checked the spear on my other Sabal mexicana. Now it pulled too. Two weeks ago, I would have said they were fine, now I am treating them with fungicide and wondering if the current course is riskier than trunk cutting them and waiting the painfully long time it would take for them to look normal again.

Aztropic can grow Carribean palms better than they can grow them in the Carribean!

A few pictures from JLBG’s Winter garden. I thought the palmettos looked especially good.

I also have a Dioon Edule to plant. Not sure which form. Got a little sunburnt, so I’ll probably acclimate it and plant it next year.