FREEZE DAMAGE DATA
Share Your Experiences of Palm Hardiness
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This past Texas freeze
by Figo- 2 replies
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The past vortex greatly affected parts of Texas by damaging palm trees and tropical plants. my Mandeville was in a shelter at the time there was a heater in the shelter, but it could not keep up with the vortex and therefore froze in the shelter damaging them. If anyone got any ideas how i can help them recover and please notify me. I will keep on updating the progress of recovery.
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Needle Palm Surviving Indiana
by Quasarecho- 0 replies
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Fingers crossed, my Needle Palm seems mostly unscathed (as well as a couple of Southern Magnolias). We had a Christmas weekend blizzard/winter storm in the Great Lakes region. Temps down to about 9 below F. I wrapped the magnolias in a teepee of sheets and burlap. The Needle is near the house and has been in the ground for the past 1 1/2 years. I did pile about a foot of oak leaves around the Palm and threw a rug over it for the 3 coldest days. Windchills were down to about 40 - 50 below zero F. So far all looks good. Back into the 60s a week after the storm. Maybe their leaves will tell a different story in the spring. I've got McCurtain seedlings ready to…
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Normanbya normanbyi
by D. Morrowii- 1 reply
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Normanbya normanbyi in the ground about 10 months from a 2 gal. pot. Its between a fence and a boat but otherwise unprotected. The temps went below 50F around 9:30 pm on the Dec. 23rd and didn't get back to 50F until 11:30 am on the 26th. Temps went below 35F on around 5:30 am on the 24th and stayed there until 8:30 am. It never got above 46 on the 24th and again went below 35F at 3:00 am on the 25th and stayed below that until 9:30 am. Ultimate low on the morning of the 24th was 34F and ultimate low on the morning of the 25th was 31.8. No frost but we did have some sleet on Christmas morning. The palm is about 4.5 to 5 feet tall and showed very little damage as of now 1 …
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Florida Christmas Freeze 2022 1 2
by JLM- 3 followers
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This freeze impacted areas north of a line from Roseland, FL to Arcadia, FL to St Petersburg, FL. Temperatures dropped into the 20's as far south as Lakeland, FL, and temperatures dropped into the teens for areas in the Panhandle. There were several nights of cold, spanning from the 22nd to the 26th. In central FL, not all of these nights dipped below freezing, but temperatures in the 30's did occur. My official low was 19F in my back yard, although i suspect that the front yard may have been 17F or 18F based on the degree of damage to my Queen. I will be posting pictures of my palms in my yard here, and i encourage anyone else with any damage to post them here …
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See this pdf. Easier to properly lay out the story and not have to reduce the resolution of each photograph to stop the post becoming huge. Untitled document-5.pdf
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Sabal birmingham
by Allen- 1 follower
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2022 Low of 12F some frond spotting. 3 or so in video
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Sabal minor "Louisiana"
by Allen- 1 follower
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2022 low of 12F ice on fronds collapsed some fronds minor spotting.
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Sabal brazoriensis (Sabal brazoria)
by Allen- 1 follower
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2022 winter 12F minor frond spots Brazoria around 5:20
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Dypsis decaryi
by Zoltan- 0 replies
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Full sun by fence for years 2 of them . At cold I do protect w sheets or maybe light but even when I didn’t it recover just fine. The reason I like to protect because I don’t want to take chances and also it gets fuller as they don’t get any damage im in Jacksonville Florida at Pulaski exit
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Hey guys. I know I'm late on this, but checking in with my 2021/2022 winter in-ground palm damage. Worst I've had in quite some time, but I'm sorry, I don't recall the exact temps. I'll note just the ones with damage: All four Hyophorbe lagenicaulis had completely fried leaves but lost only one. Both Elaeis guineensis (not trunking yet, but flowering) completely fried leaves, but fully recovered. All four mature growths on Dypsis cabadae killed, but younger offshoots were fine. All three Dypsis decaryi had some damage of the leaves but nothing terrible. Surprisingly, all of Satakentia liukiuensis leaves were completely fried but it appears…
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Butia eriospatha
by BeyondTheGarden- 2 replies
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Well it's late spring now so I think it's safe to say no latent damage. Palm is roughly 3' tall, less than a foot of trunk. Put in the ground last summer. A week of sub-freezing temps (only got above 32 for 3 hours in a seven day period). Ultimate low 16f. The only protection it had, was that I piled snow around the growth point on the coldest night (16f). ZERO DAMAGE, even to the fronds that were not insulated in snow, fully exposed, not even overhead cover. A couple months later we had 3 or 4 nights in a row that got down into the low twenties and even one night down to 17f. This time no snow and again ZERO DAMAGE. This species seem…
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Bad Freeze in Florida - Royal Palms In Bad Shape
by Tiffany8282- 2 replies
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I really need help! I am having a hard time finding a professional in the area that knows what to do with my royal palms. We had them planted one year ago, they are about 20’ tall. I pulled the dead lose pieces off the crownshaft today and Splitting, moldy and narrowing. Any ideas? We fertilized them two months ago after the freeze.
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Strelitzia Nikolai (giant bird of paradise)
by DAVEinMB- 6 replies
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This was its 3rd winter in the ground here in Myrtle Beach, zone 8b. The first 2 winters it really didn't get tested as temps were basically in the 9b range. This past winter it went through freezing rain and a couple dips to 19F unprotected. First pic is before the storm, 2nd is the aftermath of the ice, and 3rd is the recovery pic from today (4/7/22).
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A suggestion
by Than- 8 replies
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I check this forum often looking for species data but sometimes I feel that the information people share here is of little practical value because we only share the minimum temperature a species has seen but how about next day's maximum? Knowing only the minimum doesn't help much to know the real hardiness of a palm. Some of you live in climates where it may get, say, 26F at night but then will reach a balmy 60 next afternoon. Whereas others will see 26F at night and then just 35F or even 32F next day. We all know that these two hypothetical situations would affect the same tree in totally different ways. So how about everyone shares not just the minimum their palms have …
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Foxtail palm
by G Escamilla- 9 replies
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My foxtail palm is drying I planted back in November when I got my new home and we had some cold weather like 30 degees I live in texas what can I do to help my palm
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Any hope?
by LI_Pets- 2 replies
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In Florida a few weeks ago we had low temps. I see new growth, how might I proceed to save this palm?
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Advice for Dypsis decaryi in 9a
by Almisa- 1 follower
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Well - here’s my précious Triangle palm -I rescued her 2 years ago - she survived last year’s 14 freeze temps here in St Augustine while tucked against the east side of the house during a construction project. She is now placed in a lovely but lonely location in the open on the south end of the house near the pool. Our last frost day was 2 weekends ago. Fronds have evolved to this deep bronze over the past week. I applied copper fungicide to the spear area but that’s it. Any suggestions?
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First winter with palm trees. Most of the damage is already done on my Sylvester since there shouldn’t be anymore freezing nights. The shorter tree had it worse than the taller tree, but just about all of the fronds are burned on my Sylvesters but some fronds are almost completely burned with a tiny bit green at the bottom of each frond and some are only burned half way down the frond. And the baby fronds in the middle are still green so they’re not dead. But how should I go about treating this in spring. Should I cut off everything except for the meristem or only cut the lower fronds? And should I spray fungicide or is there no need to.
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Chamaedorea Cataractum
by DAVEinMB- 5 replies
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Planted this in a protected spot in my 8b garden as an experiment. Well we just had back to back weekends of winter nonsense, freezing rain and 19° then snow and 19°. The first weekend my weather station wasn't working so I can't verify my yard actually saw 19° but the second weekend I can. Today will be 2 weeks since the initial event and here's how it looks. We hit 70 degrees yesterday and today.
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Chamaerops humilis
by BeyondTheGarden- 1 reply
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I don't see a thread for Chamaerops so here's my contribution. Green form, around 15 gal size, in ground, subject to 7 days where it only got above freezing once for a few hours (during the PNW Arctic Outbreak around Christmas of 2021 through New Years. Ultimate low of 16f. Zero apparent damage, and that was a month ago. I have a smaller one in the ground, around 1 gallon size, very small. It was covered with an upside down tote box and no heat. Also no apparent damage. I don't know what the limits of this palm are but I honestly expected some kind of damage to show. I'm impressed.
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2022 January 2022 Florida Freeze Report 1 2
by kinzyjr- 3 followers
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This topic is started to document the cold damage, or hopefully lack thereof, due to the cold spell. Initially, it looks like most of the damage done locally was due to frost. As you get outside of town, the damage can get pretty severe on the "high-9b/low-10a" palms that have become more common due to the advent of Lethal Bronzing. I'll begin with this photo I captured west of the airport on Medulla Rd. The damage didn't even wait for the warmup to manifest. For my own garden, I'm going to wait until it warms up to do my report. There may be palms that look undamaged now that will show damage after the next three days go over 80F. There may also be palms tha…
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I’m new to this so please bare with me. I have 2 queen palms (one that’s 12 ft tall & the other that’s 7 ft) that have been planted in our house early this summer. The palms are being heavily watered & heavy mulching already added. Antitranspirant Spray added & Christmas lights added around the trunks as well. I’ve ordered frost wraps but my order is delayed & won’t arrive until tomorrow. I live in Jacksonville, FL & tonight it will be 35 degrees but with gale force winds will cause a wind chill in the teens (very unusual climate for here) & tomorrow it will be a low of 27. Local stores & palm nurseries are out of stock of frost covers & …
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Livistona chinensis froze
by EJPalm05- 0 replies
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We just had 5F -15C and the leaves of my livistona chinensis have been fried I hope it comes back just gotta wait for the spear to pull!
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Brahea Bella
by Meangreen94z- 0 replies
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Brahea Bella at John Fairey Garden burned but all recovered from 5 days straight below freezing and an ultimate low of 6*F.
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SEED
by Bill Austin- 0 replies
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Calyptrocalyx elegans var.boxlak .50, hydriastele flabulata .50, .75, areca catechu alba, dypsis marojejyi $3.00, cyphosperma tanga $2.50, licuala fordiama .50 , licuala mannii .50, iguanura multifida .50, iguanura polymorha .50, $20 min. order pm with ADDRESS I will be adding to this list of seed later on.