FREEZE DAMAGE DATA
Share Your Experiences of Palm Hardiness
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Sylvester palms
by Dana Calais- 1 follower
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We’ve had our Sylvester palms 2 years. We had a freeze of mid 20’s for a couple days. 1 out of the 3 started sprouting new fronds at the beginning of summer. We know 2 are dead 🥲. 1 has no new fronds but still has its old fronds with green on it. It’s only on the stalk closer to the truck. Is this considered dead?
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Rhapis Excelsa
by DAVEinMB- 0 replies
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Been in the ground through two winters and survived an ultimate low of 13F. The 13F was a dry cold but it also made it through 19F with freezing rain. Never been protected
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Continued issues after Texas snow & ice storms
by GizmoGirl- 1 follower
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Need some serious help and advice, please!!!! 2/21 Texas Snow storm. I got 6” of snow that stayed on ground and kept us in the dark for a week. I lost all 6 of my 30’ Mexican Fan palms. Serious damage to 3 smaller ones, 2 - 15’ Pendos and 3 other hardier Texas trees. i can’t get a break, 2023 we got an ice storm. I have since since lost two of the three smaller (4-5’) Mexican fan palms that showed initial new growth of 2’ fan stilll not opened and then all of a sudden the fan just fell over and turned brown. In pic 1 is my last fan palm. It too is still struggling. If i get a fan, it turns brown. I originally planted them in 2009, but since snow and …
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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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Sabal domingensis
by tank- 9 replies
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In north Florida. Low of 21 F, 10 hours at freezing temps. 3 days of freezing temps. No overhead protection. Little or no frost. No damage. Small plants with a few character leaves in the ground. Even smaller plants in 1 gal pots showed no damage as well.
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2021 - Sylvester freeze damage. Help!!
by Aaron71- 3 replies
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Help!! I have 3 majestic Sylvester’s in the back yard that got hard hit during the Texas Big Freeze this year. Two have recovered well but one is suffering badly. No real new top growth and some weird white stuff has oozed out of the bark (see photos) Any idea what this is and if the tree can be saved? i left the dead canopy leaves on all 3 during the summer to provide some shade to the plants below, but now Fall has begun I have just started to crop them back. Thanks Aaron
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Is this palm dead?
by ParrotheadVol- 1 follower
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Hello. I live in East Tennessee and about 4 years ago I planted a couple of Windmill Palms out in my pool area. This past Christmas we had a string of 3 or 4 days where it was very cold (around zero). I noticed about a month ago that all of the fronds were brown on the ends and some were completely brown. I cut the ones off that were completely brown and cut most of the brown from the ones that still had some green. I'm trying to figure out if these trees are dead, which would absolutely suck if that were the case. I'm posting a few pics here of one of the palms in hopes that someone can advise me on what I should do. Hopefully, there is hope here. I really don't want to…
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Are my Queen Palms dead?
by maholla- 1 follower
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New to Palm talk, so please excuse me if this is a redundant topic. I live on the North side of Houston TX - and have, or had, seven queen palms in the 8-10 ft range that were in the ground in my yard for 3 full years. In Jan 2017, we had a hard freeze, around 19 degrees, that lingered well into the next day. All the queen palms took it very hard, with all losing all their fronds over 1-2 months. I waited a couple of months, and saw nothing positive happening even though we had an extraordinarily warm Feb - in the upper 80's. I'd read about stumping, cutting off a foot or so until you didn't see any rot. I cut three - still about 8' tall - on two I saw cores in th…
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lost all of its fronds in the storm The caudex is intact as is its 4 ft stem. It is still firm and shows no softening. Is there hope for recovery.???
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Palm tree damage
by PaPalmTrees- 1 follower
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my Majesty got frost damage 😞 70222435020__37A474A3-EE4F-4541-B9E9-890551148D29.MOV 70222457000__BA444648-0F1E-4340-A424-B22DC1C9E65B.MOV
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Greenville SC Freeze Damage
by James Robert- 1 follower
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As many may know, In December 2022 we had a cold front came through. Dropped down to 7 degrees. I have several small pindo palms, medateranian palms, and windmill palms about 3'-4' tall in the ground. Almost all of the fronds on all the trees turned completely brow. There is a few spears that were coming out before the freeze that are brown as well. The weather now is starting to break. It is possible to get another day or to below freezing. I'm not sure what to do at this point. Do I cut all fronds off. Pull brown spears. Or should I wait a few more weeks. I'm afraid to ask this question, Are they all just dead. Thanks .
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Is this bad at the base of trunk ?
by john rice- 1 reply
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California current cold spell
by Phoenikakias- 0 replies
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Keep us please apprised about cold hardiness of your tender palms in the affected areas. Such cold spell is extremely rare and perhaps once in a life time opportunity comes up for some serious hardiness test in the warm temperate/subtropical climate.
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I will start posting in this in winter of 2023-2024
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Help! King Palm Winter Burn
by CrescentCity- 1 reply
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Hello all, Interested to see if the palm talk community thinks this Arch. Teracarpa is going to make it. Any help would be more than helpful! I’m in New Orleans and the winter weather is far past us.
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Phionix date palm frond disease?
by kenio- 2 replies
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Hi there folks, i havent been on here for a while but thanks to all who gave me great advice. I have some strange marks on my phionix date palm of 10 years, its just had some hard frost for about two weeks here up in north of england uk just before christmas. It was already under transplant shock from planting in the september 2022 then i moved it again in about mid november as i had put it in a wet area, my bad choice! Its still green in the middle spears but im seeing this black marking hard stuff on the fronds now. I have let it open now from having it tied up from the attached photos to get some son. Any help or advice would be great, im just hoping some warmer …
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Syagrus schizophylla X romanzoffiana
by Jim in Los Altos- 1 follower
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20 gallon plant, 4' tall overall, pinnate leaves, planted last summer in full sun. 26.5 minimum and many upper 20s nights. No damage to speak of.
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Ravenea rivularis
by epicure3- 31 replies
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29F. No frost. 3 in ground. Each is about 7 feet tall with about 1/2 foot of trunk. No damage. One fully exposed. The other 2 in canopy of brugmansia trees.
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Rhapis humilis
by Darkman- 11 replies
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I have a Rhapis humilis that survived the 2009/2010 winter that had lows of 19.3 on two occasions (if memory serves me right). This winter with lows of 24 I thought would be a snap however I did something stupid. I left a sprinkler on a created a Winter not Wonderland but a Hellish Artic Nightmare. My humilis (ten trunks about three foot tall) now has spear pull. Does anyone have any experience with cold damaged humilis?
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Disappointed in my mules
by Nicole Milner- 6 replies
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I wanted so much for my mules to make it through the texas freeze but they look like there is no hope. A lot of money spent for 1 month of enjoyment. The green that is new growth has a lot of yellowing. I wish there was someone local that I could pay to guide me. So disappointed.
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Butia capitata
by tropicalb- 21 replies
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22F...large mature specimen in the ground located at the bottom of a major cold drain. absolutely NO damage:
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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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Rhapidophyllum hystrix
by PalmGuyWC- 1 follower
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No one has reported on R. hystrix, but maybe because it's one of the most cold hardy palms on earth. I have several scattered around my garden, and in my climate they require a good bit of shade in the summer. I'd like to put in a plug for Rhapidophyllum because it seems to be a very under utilized palm. It has a reputation of being slow growing, and it is in its early years, but once established, and in the right spot, they speed up. They are even nice looking as a smaller palm and somewhat resemble a large Rhapis. They are very exotic looking if given the right growing conditions, but they do require a lot of heat in the summer. I have one that is probably over 40 y…