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I got my ones mail order from cairns area, they never stood a chance in my winter coming from cairns area I put it down to a zone push failure. Richard

Nice, give it 1 mild winter and it will recover perfectly.

Although I have no evidence, they just look tender and a bit fragile. Like I mentioned to Jonathan, they seed regularly and germinate easily. Tim

Jonathan, these little guys aren’t uncommon in local gardens, but still you don’t see a lot of them. They seed regularly and are easy to germinate. Tim

Here is the I-drive coconut. Sun was setting but it's 100% brown from what I could tell. It also looked this way in 2018 from my recollection. . Note the foxtail with mostly green fonds against the building and sheltered by the larger foxtail.

Speaking from personal experience, the sooner you start them the better cuz the damn weevils are gonna find em. But I like Happy's idea. Go to Wally World and get you one of the 41qt (maybe 2) sterilite containers, mix a batch of coco coir and perlite, I'd personally VERY CAREFULLY drill a few holes in the bottom of it for drainage, find you something to hold up some plastic up (I used an old curtain rod on these papayas), throw it on a heat mat and sit back and wait.

Go and buy one of those plastic tubs from the hardware store, they have a lid as well, but watch those ones on the heat mat after a little time the bottom of the substrate mix drys out and the root dry out as well. But they work well for humidity and are see through so make it a bit fun seeing the roots. An easy way and fast wat to clean your seeds is a small power wash used to wash cars with, place the seeds inside a small gauge wire cage and in a few minutes work clean seeds.

Fun stuff… and might have a freeze tomorrow night

Yes this is what got me going I read Colin’s thread and thought hang on a minute it’s nothing like the remotifolia I have. Clayton had his say on the Remotiflora and lantzeana even Colin got the spelling incorrect. The palm did come from equatorial exotics and if anyone knows there stuff as equatorial exotics does one would expect equatorial to have it correct. The red stem on the remotifolia I have is another confusing piece of the puzzle, I guess time will tell. The bicon list means it’s an acceptable species at least as far as they are concerned but it ends there. We need the muscles of Mr Wilson @palmtreesforpleasure to throw a spanner into the works and get his two bobs worth on the subject.

You're a good guy so I mean this with all due respect, but the point I keep trying to drive home to you is that Texas is somewhat anomalous in terms of the frequency or duration of freezes, but not that exceptional compared to other locales at similar latitudes east of the Rockies. For example, here is the 10 year period from 2000 to 2010 in McAllen: Meanwhile, here is the same period in Lakeland, FL: No doubt in my mind that as a tropical plant grower, a palm enthusiast or a nurseryman, I would absolutely have preferred living in South Texas vs. Central Florida during that time. In terms of ultimate lows, you're mostly correct. But Archbold Biological Station recorded 13F in the 1980s, so even that doesn't always hold true. Texas can be tough to grow palms, but it's a subtropical climate on the southeast side of a big northern hemisphere continent. It's really not all that crazy.

I have seen that one and as utopia palms states, remotiflora is very similar to lantzeana. And they both don’t look the same as the remotifolia.

I saw that there is a Florida man* selling Butia odorata x Jubaea chilensis F2 seedlings. I was feeling inspired and/or completely crazy, so I bought one. Here we have our new BIG baby, with my lovely assistant for scale. After shipping, I was worried about transitioning back into the light... but it's been pretty darn overcast the past 2 days. I love it already. I am mostly concerned with providing adequate drainage. We have some heavy soils on our lot; even the lighter volcanic-based soils on the lot tend to have impermeable glacial till a few feet down. *as opposed to a Florida Man

Can I just say... Growing these from seeds is a pain in the freaking... I dunno, whatever the most offensive synonym for ass we're allowed to use on here. We want 100% humidity, I seal them off. Then they're too humid. Then they want heat, then they get too hot. Anyway, I've got my heat mats for these guys set at 90°. It's a constant cycle of pulling the baggies down and then lifting them up, using stuff to keep the baggies from collapsing under the humidity and squishing the plants (Oh, that happens), keeping the tops damp, the bottom watering, it's not at all like palms where you just throw them in a baggie and wait a couple months. So the ones in the cups with the Tinkertoys are Rainbow, the ones in the tote are Sunrise, I've pulled a couple Sunrise sprouts out of the tote and covered them with baggies, there's a handful of grocery store papayas, the 5 gallon ones are Red Lady I bought from Wellspring Gardens and the other thicker ones are Kahuka. All the seeds except the grocery store and Red Lady came straight from Oahu and I know that nobody within probably 500 miles is growing these. Thanks again to @WaianaeCrider for the seeds and I hope I make him proud enough and get this figured out so he sends more 😂

I think this is nature’s way of trying to tell me to move further south. This is the second winter in a row with significant snowfall for coastal North Carolina. LOL - if only we had some hills around here. Maybe I can swing by one of the hills next to an overpass before all the snow melts away.

When I do a search for D remotifolia, some interest things pop up: 1. It is on Bicon’s accepted species list 2. It appears in a thread Colin started on Palmtalk many years ago which he then corrected to D remotiflora. There’s some photos of a few in QLD but Dransfield comments that he’s not convinced they are truly D remotiflora. 3. It appears in a very old price list from Equatirial Exotics. Im guessing you got it from Equatorial Exotics? I think based on the above it’s almost certainly a typo and should be D remotiflora. The suggestion on the previous Palmtalk thread discussing this species to help with ID at a young age is to check if the fronds feel very thick and leathery compared to other similar species (at least to check if it is the palm in cultivation known as remotiflora). The lack of red new fronds might not yet be prescriptive as some species develop this trait with age). Id be really curious if the growers who had this palm in the early 2000s now have flowering specimens which seems to be the only positive way to ID remotiflora vs other similar Dypsis. @palmtreesforpleasure, @Matt in SD not sure if you’ve got anything to add?

Agreed. 😆 Plan on planting my Satakentia and Wallichia disticha this weekend.

These are real observations. Radar estimated snowfall totals would be a lot harder to get than radar estimated rainfall totals. You would need to know exactly what the snow to liquid ratio is in any given location. Then, using radar estimated rainfall, you could get a general estimate of how much snow might have fallen. Sometimes the snowfall rates can be higher or lower than what the radar would suggest, which can alter any estimate by quite a lot. This is why the NWS relies so heavily on ground truth during events like this, and other types of events as well.

82F at 4:51PM after reaching the forecasted 85 earlier, despite the stiff easterly breezes through the afternoon.. Same breeziness tempered neighborhood - level highs a hair today as well.. Still, quite warm regardless. Same breeziness likely helped various areas around S.Cal top out in the low 90s / Areas up in the south bay reach into the 80s, even near the beaches in a few circumstances. Anticipated increase in clouds tomorrow may keep temps closer to 80 ..if not slightly below, depending on how quickly they move in. Same quick system might squeeze out a sprinkle or two Thursday night before it moves out.

I just don't think it's a good fit for this climate. I think I got this one from @Dwarf Fan a couple years ago and it's just never been happy here, pot or no pot. This is definitely Sabal country and I've got just a couple seedlings going. Mexicana, Louisiana, Bermudana, Etonia, various exotic Minors, normal minors, palmettos, and I really wanna get my hands on some Causarium and Brazorias. The hot, humid summers and cold wet winters aren't great for everything. I'm getting to the point where if I'm gonna plant it out, I don't want to have to worry about babying it. I don't want to deal with thermocubes and lights and plankets and all that. The grow room is taking up all my energy.

😳😳😳 Holy poop on a stick. That's insane. Did a bunch of penguins show up too? I guess the good news is your size 18s are practically cross country skis.

Thanks both of you for the advice. I was hoping @happypalms would reply I know you’re the palm farmer around here with your thousands of seedlings. I’ll need to find a box to put soil in and get started, ideally soon.

My foxtail was looking a little rougher today. Looks like some brown has started to show in the crownshaft. I went ahead and applied some peroxide to it.

Was there really 20 inches of snow on the ground in eastern NC and more than an inch on the beach in Buxton on Cape Hatteras, or are these precipitation as it falls measurements? Which are always higher.

It is a lovely spot in the garden, there is only room left there now for smaller understory plants and ground cover plants. Iam leaving room for the other larger palms so they are not lost in all the other foliage. Richard

There's a lot of brown, a bit of green, and lots of hope and prayers!!