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It's been a few years so figured I would update on our Sabal rosei. It handles cold extremely well and looks like it will start getting ready to push a trunk soon

Still have plenty of green on this coconut. Trying to mark the spear to get an official read. Buccaneer is browning, starting to get a bit worried. I keep applying hydrogen peroxide and there's a minimal amount of bubbling. Everything else seems to be trying to push through. Just gave the plumeria a good prune to get off the squishy tips. I'd be surprised if it made it but honestly the wood looks pretty good so we'll see!

I agree, i Was hoping for some pictures

You can't make a post like this and not include pictures. 😉 Enough on the tease, pictures please.

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Uncovered my bxj last weekend. I kept it covered for all of December and January thought the coldest lows and ice. Really glad I did. But I purposely uncovered it early enough to still see some temps in the teens this past week. Any discoloration was there prior to being wrapped up.

All of them would go great in your grow room!

Due to its irregular shape, geographic terms for Texas can be a little confusing. Brownsville is extreme south Texas (aka Lower Rio Grande Valley). Extreme southeast Texas is Beaumont-Port Arthur near the Louisiana border. Brownsville is approximately 200 miles farther west and 280 miles farther south than Beaumont. The areas are different culturally and climatologically. And yes, Brownsville would be considered more desert-like with an average yearly rainfall of 30 inches versus 50 inches for Beaumont. The tallest palms were very likely Washies, but there are also some native Sabals in the grove as well. Hope this helps.

I got 5.2 acres and seeds are bountiful. I already spread a couple pounds of (hopefully) good Palmetto seeds in the woods and along the tree line in a few spots. I'm hoping putting them in the shade grows them into short fat trunks but the chances of me seeing them get that big aren't that great.

There's a lot of subjectivity with this topic which is why I wanted to try and get everyone to agree on a specific definition of what is "truly tropical." However, it's probably not possible unless you make the definition more specific. I thought about the ability to grow the red sealing wax palm as a benchmark but that likely wouldn't work either because of other nuances...for example, the climate of Dubai. Personally, I just consider sea level within the tropics as "truly tropical" in terms of weather but I fully acknowledge that there's still a lot of variation (i.e. Tampico, Mexico has recorded snow and much of the west coast of South America is cooler due to the cold water current).

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Very interesting and informative Glenn. Thanks!

Yeah it definitely would be better just to leave it. I've tried to dig some that are that size and it is pretty hard not to break their roots

Oh yeah I never thought of that. That's a good idea, it would be cool if you could make it trail in that area and plant some more

These are Sabal palmetto for sure. Sabal minor, Louisiana, and Brazoria all grow extremely fast here in Louisiana, but none trunk with boots spaced nearly anywhere that widely. I see mass plantings of Sabal minor in commercial developments here and inevitably there are a few Sabal palmettos mixed in that look like these.

Might have been labelled as C. litoralis

Hi- lit portion of this statement says it all... Aside from a couple that extend further north to ~approx. Cen. FL., South FL. is where you'll find all the other Epiphytic Orchid sps that occur in the state ..let alone anywhere north of Mexico / the Caribbean in this section of North America.. Same thing with most epiphytic Bromeliad sps ( wider / green - leaved species esp. ) and all New World Cycad Genus / sps that are native to areas north of Mexico and / or the Caribbean. If South FL. didn't exhibit the right characteristics, ..the ones that most authorities consider tropical in nature, Keys would be the only locations where species within these families would be found. Keys would also be the well defined northern limits of all the other tropical family plants that grow much further north in the state. Reproductive Coconuts can be found at 3+K ft in Mexico / other areas in the tropics that can experience chilly, sub 40F mornings, so using them as a reference to define how " Tropical " an area might ..or might not.. be ... is glorified conjecture, rather than an anything i'd bet on.

Thanks Allen. Cheapest price I've seen. I'll blow through this bag in 2-3 applications, but I find that is usually enough for the year.

If he digs it, he will kill it. Better to leave it and let it seed.

Welp The fun thing is, down here so many different types of trees cluster together so I'd be untangling the roots from cedar, there's some oak saplings under there, and god knows what else. So I think what I'll do instead is go out there with the chainsaw and the loppers and just clear out around it. And I've still got pounds of seeds so no biggie.

That's a really cool idea!

I have this exact same variety I got given a couple pads from a neighbor and I collected some down in North Carolina