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Welcome to Palmtalk! It looks like they are in a container? In ground they are very cold hardy (assuming that they are the common Rhapis excelsa). Regardless I wouldn't trim off any frond that is not completely brown since the palm can still get nutrients from a frond that's partly green. I think it will recover but it will take a while for it to look good again. Jon

Very interesting topic, any info on seed germanation and growth rate of young plants?

At that stage,I would remove it from the community pot and put it into its own separate container, with the root buried, and just the seed above ground. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

The only palm that had damage here was Crysalidocarpus Lafazamanga. It browned up a little a couple days after our brief AM lows of 34-35F. Possibly not a great palm for cooler areas. It was fine before this and never showed issues in previous years.

I thought I'd try this again, hoping somebody might have an aggressive stand of them and willing to send me a pup or 2, I have limited funds but I can handle shipping depending on the cost! thanks!

I'm in Savannah Ga and my lady palms got hit by our last freeze first time in 15 years, should I just cut the brown fronds off and hope for the best? I just joined today.

Jinxed. The old misguided philosophy or rationalization of random events/words effecting unrelated incidents. My wife has a gamblers fallacy and won't allow me to wish her luck when she leaves for the casino for fear of it being bad luck. 🤣

Starting off, Plant in question is a Cordyline, rather than a palm.. With that said, the two types of plants behave similarly in that the roots of both aren't generally considered a danger to foundations / other nearby concrete or asphalt surfaces since they aren't as woody as roots produced by trees ..Plane tree, Elm, Oak ..those sorts of things for example.. That said, ..from the angle of the pictures, it does look like it is planted a touch close to the house ..which might not allow enough room for the trunk to expand ..which could cause issues later. Then again, these ..and look - alike plants in the Genus Draceana, are planted all over the place in California, within 10ft of a houses foundation and i've never heard of anyone having damage - related issues as the bases grew larger. ..Not to say that can't happen though.. As for any concern involving the roof, A: I'd have whomever did the survey prove the branch closest to the roof is causing damage to it ..And i mean proof beyond any sort of refute.. B: You could trim off all leaves below the roof line ..so that the canopy stands above it ( Leaves can't " mess with any drainage from the roof if no leaves are blocking the flow of runoff off that specific area ) If any branches growing near the roof aren't rubbin' against it, then there is no issue ( ..caused by them ) If you are actually forced to remove it, branches of these are very easy to re-root, so, ..while you might end up loosing the original plant, you could stick any branches you save in the ground a little further out from the roof ...Say near where the fences meet, ..what looks to be the far right corner of your pictures. Yea, that might block the view of ..what looks like some sort of Barberry ( Berberis / Mahonia sp. ) a bit but, ..at least you'll still have the plant. As for your neighbor? ..As long as any branches aren't hangin' over their side of a shared fence / wall, they have no say in what you can grow ...on your own property. Sounds like you've gone beyond being a respectful neighbor in doing your part to keep the plant out of their way. Shot in the dark guess but, if they whined about any leaves falling off your plant that would end up in their yard, I'd bet they were the type of people who complained about any / everything any chance they got. Don't doubt you're glad they're gone. I'd throw a party to celebrate, lol.. Good luck.

For anyone wondering about Chrysalidocarpus basilongus, mine survived once again this year and has some spear movement, but was defoliated mostly even covered with a sweater. Ultimate low of 24-25 inside the sweater (it wasn't a great protection honestly) and the spear has moved about an inch since. Chrysalidocarpus titan had no cover on the spear and a leaf, and dead fronds on the rest, with no damage yet discernable. I'm impressed and surprised by that. Minimal damage on a similarly covered B alfredii on an exposed leaf. No losses yet, but on the fence for my spindles, bottle, adonidia (on purpose not cared for) and possibly my bucaneer if it keeps dealing with infection and likely decline disease. My losses were last year mostly but will add some this year, just hoping not the palms left. The forest had minimal to no frost, the front was open and hit harder on subsequent nights, including one unforcasted that did the most damage to a redneck leaf open to the sky (it's opposing leaf is fine, but it was all heavily covered in the 24 degree night and winds before). Chambeyronia are angry but should come back, and chrysalidocarpus lanceolata is another surprise good performer.

@aabell I had 24.5F in the front yard and 25.2 in the back.

"Imagine", that's the key word. Often when current views change over time, and they will, and depending on what motivates them, affinity changes. I'm no where near as enthusiastic about palms and exotics as I was 20 years ago. Currently, I'm happy with a minimalist approach to the hobby.

Those look like great seeds, hope they all germinate well. Which vendor did you acquire them from?

Hi, should I cover the root by soil now or when I repot it? I'm a beginner in growing palm seeds, so I'm asking for advice

It's a little early, but as Vinny would say "It's time for Dodger Baseball!".... Butch

That's what I think/hope for, obviously march is still a problem, even here, but I'm thinking it will be just barely warm enough for the panhandle 🤞. Can't get too confident though, especially after this winter. Don't curse me please if I jinxed us!

Lowest temperature outside was -7,8 celsius. Not sure what the temp was inside the wooden boxes. I had plenty of wool around the palms that day. Photo from today:

@D. Morrowii Thanks for the extensive survey, very interesting. Maybe I missed it if you said earlier, but what temps did you get there?

No rain in our forecast either, I'm still not believing that I'm supposed to get 50"/year. Fortunately my ground has moisture in it, so it should help a lot now that everything is actively growing. I've spent days cutting back all the above ground dead material on the perennials, dieback shrubs and leafy things like bananas on top of pruning fruit trees, etc. The sheer volume of material I've put out at the curb is shocking. I'm about 80% done but had to take a break and do something a little more enjoyable. So the odd day I'll plant a few things. Last night, was three Yucca rostrata hybrids, a Texas Sage, Sabal domingensis and a green Sabal uresana. Potted up some variegated Oleander cuttings and divided up a patch of dwarf sugarcane. This is Go Time for me

interestingly, I remember Rod Andersons flabellifer had no orange in his Arizona garden but his Aethiopum did have plenty of orange. Could it be that climate adaptation is the cause of this color? My aethiopum in florida had no orange either, it had lots of black, but Rods Aethiopum in AZ looked a lot like petioles on Megs palm. I did notice that the Aethiopum is a lighter green leaves in both places Gorgeous palm Meg! Thanks for the pic!

Hi I have lived in my flat for over 20 years, my front garden has a palm. First my neighbour complained about falling fronds which I cleared up. Then it was blocking her window so on several occassions I cut it so she had a view, it cost me money I dont have They are selling and the buyers surveyors report said the following apparently and my neighbour wants me to kill it from the root. Well I dont want to kill my beautiful palm The following is an extract from the surveyor’s report:- The palm tree in the front garden is leaning / growing onto the front roof thus it is encouraging both mechanical damage and lifting of tiles and overloading of tiles by disrupting rain run off and driving it sideways below the tiles. I recommend the tree be felled for this reason and to mitigate risk of subsidence in dry summer months. The last image is their small overhang roof I have never had an damage or damp from the palm, the fronds are touching their overhang roof there are no branches so I have no idea what potential damage they are talking about. As for felling my tree because of possible subsidence we have had some really dry summers and then some really wet ones and my palm has never been an issue. I understand palm roots are nothing like tree roots, the fronds are touching their roof there is no damage I wondered what anyones thoughts were they had been in a similar position. They cut a beautiful tree from their back garden and overhang branches have always been an issue with them. The problem has become more official now and I wondered what i could have in my arsenal to refute their claims I have attached some images Thanks

I do understand that. I actually really wasn't trying to seek him out, I did see his nursery did shut down, I just wanted to know if he was still growing any palms at all or anything of that nature

I actually joined the SE Palms Society, even though I know I will never go to a meeting I just wanted to get the newsletter lol

Because he doesn’t want to be associated with the business anymore . 5 years down the road he still has people like you seeking him out. He told me 4 months after the 2/21 freeze he wasnt going to waste any more time trying to salvage things. He may very well lurk on here, but most likely he got burned bad and wants to move on in life.

I've actually never been in that area i've been in the north carolina side, but not that part of virginia, I would love to get down there someday