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Interesting, I may try some sort of heat stratification with it.

I just moved outside a bunch of T.fortunei and S.minor plants. I see we're expecting two or three nights in the mid-20's, F this weekend. I may just leave them out and cover them.at this point. More delicate stuff is still inside.

@happypalms These would be so cool to grow, but I know the US shipping would be crazy!

Supply and demand, it’s that simple. Such a shame you can’t put your excess plants into the ground for stock plants. You must be getting ready to run out of room in the grow bunker?

Thanks y"all, greatly appreciate the info, and this will be a great help for me. In fact, I do have a Barbados cherry, In fact, the one I had last year grew like a weed, and it and it flowered like gangbusters before the heat of summer came on, but than the leaves although green were very dull green as far as their growth went. but they held on until fall, oh....and the flowers dried up as well instead of turning to fruiting. During the fall, as the temps were under the century mark, they flowered again and started fruiting. So, i did manage to enjoy some of the fruits from the tree. I do think that my biggest problem was that instead of having the plant in the ground, i left it in a big pot that I had it in, and although the plant was approaching 6 foot tall, I brought it indoors growing under multi spectrum grow lights. It grew well, and flowered even more indoors then it did outside. although it wouldn't produce fruit. I guess they're not self pollenating indoors. I had to use a brush to pollenate them by hand, and only ended up with a token few cherries. Then the following spring after the final frost passed, I put it back outside, and it grew well, until the heat of summer came on, and from there, the poor thing struggled to hang on, of which it did. Came cooler weather, it started pining away, yet slowly until it finally died. Plus, I had the plant sitting outside on the west side of the house, of where there is some shade up until around elevenish, or so then it starting to get sunny and remains that way all day until sunset; meanwhile the plant starts to roasting. Maybe if I had the Barbados cherry .on the south side of the house, it may have survived, being it probably would've survived. Instead of bringing it inside like I did from the start, I should've placed it on the south side of the house where it could've slowly acclimated to the weather starting to cool down a bit until winter. Perhaps being on the south side it probably could've even endured the brief cold during the winter months. But, maybe I could be wrong about that even, perhaps I should find a spot on the south side of the house to plant in good ole terra firma. OH, by the the way, Great pics of y'alls plants. The palm looked like it was doing really good, but like you said, summer paints a different picture when that plant isn't used to our sun from hell lol. and the Barbados cherry looked really good. I'll find a suitable spot for the one I have once acclimated to the outdoors, being I have another one growing in a pot, but not as big as the other one yet. I'll let y'all know how things go once I get the ball rolling on which other plants mentioned, whether I get them, or not. But knowing me, I'll end up getting them lol.

From the looks of the picture, it just looks like foliage burn, I do see a green leaf in the middle. They should recover and as you say they are slow growing so expect a few years of something a bit unsightly. After your winter trim of any obviously dead leaves, apply a good fertiliser and sit back and wait for the recovery. It’s heartbreaking to see a plant you love and have been growing for some years take a beating. It must have been cold, during that freeze it even made the news in Australia.

The one is gonna survive for sure, right? At least the cold unless it gets a disease or falls over with those thin spots in the trunk.

Rhy. gigantea, var. illustre. A rescue from one of Home Depot’s 1/2 dead 1/2 price shelves. Purchased in FL 2 years ago. Been a long, slow nurturing process. First time blooming for me. Humidity in the house is very low in winter and am surprised it bloomed. Life is better for this orchid in the summertime, where it can luxuriate outdoors, in all the humidity and balmy air.

My B. Alfredii palms after the recent florida freeze. I'm in Orlando. Had these in the ground for about 9 years. Not very cold hardy if you ask me. I went to lucas nursery and they have several that seemed burned as well. They trimmed all of theirs fairly aggressively after the storm. Most of them have 4 or so fronds on them now. Anyways, I sprayed copper fungicide on the center spear more so into the center of the crown. Hoping that helps. Most worried about appearance since these have been sloooooow growing so will take forever to replace these crowns.

Glad to see some survivors at FIT. Me and Justin McSweeny have been planting a lot of stuff over there the last few years, the coconut and Pritchardia (and the Carpoxylon earlier in the thread) all came from us. The Pritchardia is a Hawaiian species with some hardiness (I think remota) and in a relatively protected spot, so I'm not too surprised but the coconut is a shock. Kinda surprised about the Carpoxylon too, I didn't think they were very hardy.

The larger Borassus here is B. flabellifer, then smaller stunted one is aethiopum.

I also had a couple copernicia that were potted and infected, one fallaensis and one hospita had spear infections. They were fine till I put them in a shady spot. Dew is everywhere here for a good part of the year. Sun burns the dew off, if its direct for several hours. I treated them and moved all my potted copernicias into direct sunlight and they responded with good healthy growth. I have one cuban copernicia in mostly shade, a macroglossa and it just sits there barely grew in 4-5 years. A second same sized one I put in direct sun 8 hrs and it is 3x the size. My experiences with the cuban copernicias( I have eight) is they hate shade plus being frequently wet with dew. Wet soil, they are fine, wet leaves/bud is a no in shade. Some of mine near irrigation sprinklers have mold spotted on oldest leaves. They love rain but they also want the crown to dry out. Once they get some size up off the ground, dew is less an issue, and they may be fine. But overhead water, lack of sun and incessant dew in florida has led to spear pull on mine. Overhead water is not a problem when in full sun, as the bud consistently dries out.

In certain spots it's more dependable than the panhandle I think, so has its own unique opportunities, but once your north of SR 52 in Pasco it's a different world and look than to the south. Inland is variable of course as you know. My yard has a mix of northern trees like hickory and cedar, and stuff like Encyclia tampensis that won't survive in the panhandle. If you tolerate winter damage and summer issues there are some cool things that do well like triangle palms, but the soil is sand and better matches what is seen in desert climates at the same latitude. I could imagine some humidity tolerant xeriscapes there that look more like Phoenix AZ, with some plants off the list due to invasive status. Rock yards with weedmat and cacti are not the image that the tourism and home industry groups want though, and the experience of local "landscaping" companies is minimal and reflective of the wishes of a tropical paradise. My hope is this commentary ends up in internet searches about the area, and people see that where you are here is almost as important as the microclimates in California. We have such great opportunities as well as challenges, but a holistic approach is missing for most so here we are.

WOW!! What an awesome collection of well grown mature Cycads you got there🤙

They can stay viable for years. They usually germinate after fires in the grasslands where they grow.

Its insane how many people move to the spring hill area and are absolutely blown away by how cold it gets. I have a buddy who moved to the area went through 1 winter and moved to st pete. The spring hill brookesville area isn't much better for palms than the panhandle

I went by there again today and found a couple of fruits on the Acrocomia. Stabbed myself getting the fruit out from between the old leaf bases! Probably only the larger one is viable so I'll try to germinate it. In a year or two I might have germination!

Hello Everyone i thought this would be a cool forum to start. I want everyone to show their best tropical garden pitcher of their garden or what their garden looks like right now. This is mine back in august

I took this picture of this beautiful sunset in Holden Beach NC last August

Turkey Creek: Ardisia elliptica Psychotria nervosa Ximenia americana Erythrina herbacea Coastal Melbourne: Ficus microcarpa Annona glabra Allagoptera arenaria West Melbourne Swietenia mahagoni

A nice medenilla created by Neil pudey of Vireya Australia, a breeder who supplied gardens y the bay with some of there vireyas!

Here are the 2 mature Coconuts growing across from Fashion Square Mall at the former smashburger restaurant. The one on the left is totally brown but the petioles are still green. The one on the right actually has a couple leaves in the center with green. These palms are less than a mile from the Executive Airport which has an official NWS station and recorded 24F. If both or one survives it will be the new I Drive coconut.

It seems to work for me I like it, a free potting bench, let me look into my crystal ball, I see bigger and better things to come, you will need a bigger potting bench.🔮 Richard

You gotta appease the palm gods!

Take a look at plant diversity in Florida and you will see what I'm "trashing" Florida about. I actually very much appreciate the native diversity in North Florida and the deep south, and wouldn't bother with palms where you are. Palms are not long term above I4 but who in the industry will say that? No one so they all come down here, rip out natives, and put in adonidias and coconut palms. If a little "trashing" of the Central Florida climate makes someone change their mind and leave some natives alone I'm a for it. Come down to spring Hill and drive around and see what I mean. It's not a tropical paradise, and maybe the facts on this thread will make people wake up. I love many things I need more chill hours for that I can't grow either, so it's very much a challenge and why our agriculture also suffers. I get it, the grass is greener on the other side, but facts are facts.