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What's the humidity in the summer where you are? Does it affect them?

Richard, no one is a farmer here anymore. Being a farmer here would mean starving to death; you don't earn anything. But my brothers have a piece of land where they grow lots of fruit trees, and my sister's husband (with whom I get along very well) makes olive oil, wine, and tomatoes at home, and he grows a vegetable garden.

How did you plant it? Bare rooted? How much were the roots disturbed? Any chance there's concrete or building materials thrown inside the soil? Did the soil dry out between rains? Was it in shade at the nursery but under the sun in your garden? Did you fertilize when you planted it? Many things might have happened. You live basically near its natural habitat so normally it should thrive there but make sure it is in shade all day long, roots are minimally disturbed and the soil is always moist or wet. Don't fertilize until you see visible growth

It's the updates with way lower temperatures that get me. Mentally I prepare when I see the lows, takes me a while and a lot of anger but I calm down. Then when Im finally calm and have a plan... the low predictions go even lower. Then I look at the thermometers around my hood in accuweather and I see the temps dropping everywhere. It's panic for me. Not sure how to calm myself until it's all over. My palms are already all covered. I even used trashed bags for some. At this point I dont care if they choke. As long as no ice gets on em.

Lovely color on that . Harry

spectacular! What's the palm giving overhead protection?

Keep an eye on how much water you give it, your soil mix look ok but possibly on the too wet side . Perhaps your over loving with water before you left may have been to much!

Omg that’s a lot of seedlings if you do them all correctly. I don’t grow them they grow to fast in containers and require constant maintenance in containers. I will leave the archontophoenix growing to the experts!

Ok you got me there, that’s a cracker of a palm. You have found something that grows to perfection in a refrigerator!

I’ve got all Archontophoenix species growing and some groves of them, but I’ve now got 2500-3000 Archontophoenix maxima seed, so I need to make some groves of them. Probably about 1000 will do.

I love the photo of both of them they both look like one big palm together! I have seen them in habitat on creek bank with at least half the root ball exposed to the elements from erosion, there sure tough as adult palms, seedlings a different story. You did well as a palm lover transplanting them from the office to your garden!

Beautiful pics! They are still a favourite of mine. As yo say so easy to grow and very forgiving just add water and you have a fast growing palm. Next time iam on the Gibraltar range west of my town I will try to collect some of those ultra cool tolerant varieties that grow up there at high altitude. Its no wonder they are so popular overseas planted on mass there just divine, although I don’t think Hawaii would think so being such a weed there.

Damn.

Troy is the best grower, ever !

Cool, no copyright laws @happypalms

#4 rotted. But #2 is starting to push new growth and is firmly rooted in a 1g pot. So I'm batting .250. I dunno if I'll try again, I'm sure I will at some point. I don't know what I did differently other than running peroxide through the crown of this one, maybe that's the key to growing them indoors in pots.

Following since this is gonna be an issue for me next year. Right now all of mine are thriving indoors. A couple are thriving too much 😬

Just let it ride, it's really all you can do. I think the humidifier will help. It's kinda funny how fast palms will decline and how long it takes them to recover. Not funny haha, the other kind.

My foxtail ended up sustaining some mild burn/brown spots but still looks solid. There's a possible low in the high-20s in the forecast for next weekend, so it will be interesting to see how it does. My king palm is still doing fairly well as it is under canopy. I haven't driven past the coconut that's not too far away to see how it's handling everything yet.

Currently, the NWS is a little more favorable than Weather.com. At this point, we'll see what happens and live with the results. There are some tattered fronds here, but nothing near death yet. After this mess, that could change.

Well, good luck to my fellow Texans the coming days. I still working my way through protecting palms but I am 70% done. Thankful for headlights so I can continue this evening. Unfortunately, this has now become a yearly ritual. I am also facing the tough decision of cutting fronds in advance or not!

@kinzyjr they are saying lows of 35, 36, 40, 34, 36, 40 here, with highs around 55 to 65. Given those estimates it may be several days around 30-34 for me, with frost likely every day. Lots of stuff here is already mushy bronze. @Jdash the Nesophila look pristine, under only partial cover. Both are about 5 to 8 feet from the house, so I am sure fhat helps. Furfuracea exposed are all 100% defoliated, but probably will grow back fine. I'll have to go look at the others, I don't recall what they looked like when I was wandering around the yard yesterday. Most are under heavier cover than in past years, so I expect they will be in ok condition. The frost was a bigger hazard to those plants than just cold temps. But my absolute low this year was also about 27.5 compared to 24.6, which could be the difference between minor and heavy damage. The Hookeriana look nearly pristine, with just some brown spots but no significant burn. The Autograph plant and Seagrapes are both torched on the upper exposed leaves but fairly clean below. Ficus Auriculata are both torched top to bottom. Kings are 100% burnt. I'll have to do a full inventory this weekend before next week's front.

I can get fluctuations in temperature from 2 degrees Celsius to 23 degrees Celsius in one day in winter, and then in summer 20 degrees Celsius to 40 degrees. So i have an average of 20 degrees Celsius fluctuations. I can’t be home all the time in summer on those crazy hot days to irrigate. I will say your temperatures are pretty out there in regards to weather in WA!

I am in the Northeast suburbs of San Antonio TX, and I am staring down the barrel of a low of 18F this weekend. I have a couple of rajapuri bananas that have about 3 to 3.5 ft of pseudostem on them. I would like to keep them from starting their flowering cycle over if possible. Option 1: I can dig them out and store them in my garage. I haven't ever done that before with bananas because I have only ever had musa basjoo the past. I don't know if that process is pretty fool-proof, or if there is a decent risk of killing them. Option 2: Alternatively I can make a mulch cage around them with chicken wire and try to insulate and cover them in place. This would give very little chance of killing them, but I don't know how likely I am to be successful in preserving the pseudostems. If it makes any difference I was already planning on digging and separating one of them in the spring to move it to a different position in its current bed.

If I can impress you Tim iam doing well, thought you might like those two varieties. Hopefully 🤞I can get that dictyocarum to live one special palm. Iam now finding that the true water loving palms, will require very special attention in the way of amended soil and water. It’s the 6 weeks of no rain and high temperatures iam up against. Summer is so unpredictable in Australia you can get ten years of great rainfall and then opposite go into a ten year drought slowly and agonising all the way along as a gardener!