COLD HARDY PALMS
Selecting and growing palms for colder climates.
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How to flower Bulgarian Windmill Palm
by Nj Palms- 1 follower
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How do you get windmill palms to flower.I have one Bulgarian trachy how do I tell gender, also any temp requirements?
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Hi everyone, I really believe i am in the right place for palm trees info and helpful advises. My wife already thinks that i am becoming obseseed with palms. Anyway, i was able to germinate a bunch of windmills and they are already 5"-6". I am afraid to place them outside of fear of getting damaged by critters. I also have an upper deck with western exposure and it gets sun from around 2'00pm to around 06'30pm. Do you think if 4 hrs will be ok for the seedlings and what my general approach should be for introducing them to full sun? I live in Marietta GA zone 7b. Thanks in advance;))
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How to kill a palm without digging it up?
by Sandy Loam- 1 follower
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Hello PalmTalkers. I need to kill several chinese fan palms (livistona chinensis) without digging them up. How can I accomplish this? In the past, there has been advice on PalmTalk about drenching the growth point with kerosene/lighter fluid - e.g.: http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/16797-phoenix-dactylifera-medjool/ However, I am reluctant to use kerosene because the trees are right against a wooden fence. I do not want to create a risk of fire. The reason I cannot dig them up is that these trees are attached to other livistona chinensis which I want to keep (sold to me as clustering palms, but turned out to be seeks planted together in the same p…
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How to know my zone for sure?
by Hardypalms- 1 follower
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Hi Is there a way to know for sure if I am in 7a or 7b? I see some people dreaming about what zone they are in, then they are surprised when palms/tropicals that should do fine die. I have killed 2 small windmills in my backyard years ago, they had about a foot of trunk each, I guess that's still considered very small and I know windmills become really hardy when older. Beside that I have 3 large needles, a sabal minor and 2 windmills (4 feet high no trunks yet/grown from seeds) that have been in the ground for 3 winters and have been doing fine without any protection. I would like to keep going and add a filibusta to the list this spring and why not a Sabal palme…
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How to make an accurate cold-hardiness calculation
by Sandy Loam- 1 follower
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People on PalmTalk always discuss specific minimum temperatures for a palm's survival -- e.g. Bismarckia 22 degrees, Sabal Palmetto 12 degrees, Kentia Oliviformis 24 degrees, etc. It's as though a magic minimum temperature is all a gardener needs to know. Surely that can't be accurate. Doesn't the number of hours below freezing have anything to do with it? Doesn't the number of consecutive freezing nights have something to do with it too? Take for example a Bismarckia that sees 22 degrees for ten minutes and is then basking in 65-70 degrees two or three hours later. Surely that Bismarckia has a better chance of survival than the one that has three consecutive nights…
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How to protect a palm (maypan) over winter, 9b?
by Gottagrowemall- 1 follower
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I bought it from a landscaper in ormond beach who left them completely unprotected over this past winter. It only had 1-2 green fronds and the spear was green. I put it in the ground in probably February of 21, fertilized, lots of water, mulch, and it’s looking really happy (on the right you can see one of the left over cold damaged fronds). It gets a good amount of coverage from some banana trees on one side and I’m thinking they’ll take the majority of the cold. what can I do to protect it on cold nights? Should I wrap the trunk? What could I ideally cover it with? Should I try to tie up the fronds? I could also use bamboo poles and frost cloth to build a litt…
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How to protect super large sized palms
by EastCanadaTropicals- 29 replies
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I want to try planting some larger sized palms but im worried of them getting killed off when they get too big. Any methods to protect large palms?
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How to revive palms with spear damage?
by Swolte- 1 follower
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I have a JxB F1 and it didn't quite like this year's winter in College Station Texas despite some protection. Now, it did appear to sail through the exceptionally long-duration freezes (lower than 20 F for long hours) in January with very little overt cold damage. I was mightily impressed as I planted it in the ground as a 5 gallon not even a year ago in a windy spot (the diameter of base has grown a full inch since I put it in the ground). However, it has been raining ever since and I noticed last week that the spear and another new frond started to turn yellow (see pic). None of the older fronds appear damaged at all. So, I am in emergency mode. I can't quite pull…
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How to sprout Syagrus glaucescens seed
by Jeff zone 8 N.C.- 0 replies
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For those of you lucky enough to obtain some of the Syagrus glaucescens seeds recently offered here ( they are all sold now) I wanted to give you an update on how to sprout them. They were sold as very hard to sprout. I got them on Sept. 8th. I cleaned the seed off by grinding them between two bricks and then shaking them around in a jar with a wet sand slush to finish the cleaning. I decided to try several different methods to see if I could get a sprout. I ordered Gibberellic Acid as part of some of the methods I would try but while waiting for it to arrive I decided to try a method without the G. Acid. So I took 6 seeds and de-capped them. That is I used a grinder…
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I have lived in my current home in Cherokee county Oklahoma for about 6 years. Over the years I have planted lots of small sabal minor seedlings throughout my 5 acres of mostly wooded space. I believe I also planted at least a few palmettos too, though I no longer remember which ones they were. Over my time here we have experienced winter lows of -2F, -2F, 10F, -14F, and 8F. Our summers had been pretty mild, without significant drought until the summer of 2022. This summer saw about two solid months of highs ranging from 95F to 105F, and several stretches of 3 to 5 weeks with no rain at all. On the plus side, I didn't do much mowing this year. On the downside, I wate…
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How well do Braheas move?
by Chester B- 6 replies
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Anyone ever move their Brahea? If so do they tolerate it well? I have one that isn't in the best location, and now the plants around it are giving it more shade than it wants. It's still pretty small, less than a foot of trunk. Thanks for your input.
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How wet can Nannorrhops and Uresana tolerate?
by Keys6505- 6 replies
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I have a few vacancies that have opened up on my fence line thanks to the last few TX winters. My ultimate goal is to have a wall of trees so I don't have to see any other houses from my yard. I am including an overall pic so everyone can see the nearby trees that are seemingly unaffected by the soil conditions, albeit they are not desert species like the ones I am looking to plant. The small tree on the left and the larger on the right are L. Chinensis, the second to the right is an Arenga Englerii. All 3 have survived total defoliation over the past 2 winters. The second spot to the left is just a placeholder clearance Majesty and in the middle is an A. Wrightii th…
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How would you protect a palm outdoors if its in a pot?
by MonkeDonkezz- 9 replies
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Winter is here and I have a trachy that I would like to protect, but it is in a pot, and I am looking for good ways to protect it, as for now all I have is a garbage bag over it from wind chill. I know its hardiness is lowered by being potted compared to the ground.
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I’d like to plant a Trachycarpus fortunei in my yard (cheaply). But how young a tree can I plant outside? I live in Central Texas, zone 8b. I have a spot picked out in half to full shade, and I’m planning to make a smallish mound to plant it in, since the soil is heavy clay under about 6 inches of topsoil and drains poorly. It’s Texas, so we have some wind. How young a plant do you think I can plant in the ground? This will be my first palm tree. Any other advice?
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Hows that for a Butia?
by Laaz- 1 reply
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Local Butia.
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Huge Chamaerops humilis in Portland
by Chester B- 1 reply
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I stumbled upon this amazing palm planted in the gardens of a church in NE Portland. I've seen taller trimmed specimens at one of the local palm nurseries, but not one this big in terms of sheer bulk. Wish I had something in for scale. You can't really see it on streetview but it's at the corner of SE 14th and SE Ash St in Portland, OR.
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Huge Needle Palm at Watercountry USA (Williamsburg, VA)
by PalmTreeDude- 2 followers
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A month ago I was at Watercountry here in Williamsburg and I saw this really nice Needle Palm. I just randomly found the picture on my phone I forgot I did not post it yet. There were also a lot of trachys there.
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Huge sagos under my lawn!! First time cycad owner
by Little Tex- 6 replies
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I am beyond happy I thought these were ferns until I dug them up, I think I’ll pot them on up any advice? There is still more to dig up.
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Huge Trachies in VA beach
by climate change virginia- 2 replies
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I was on street view and found these mosters I also some some musa spp near the base of the palm. I think I see some volunteers growing at the base of the palm. https://www.google.com/maps/@36.8323212,-75.9779227,3a,75y,299.17h,83.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8AdIysIRJEum68gjNbdj5w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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Humidity is my friend....:/
by Palmlover_78- 0 replies
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hey Guys, I have a Windmill Palm that I had to bring in because old man winter is upon us, I have electric heat and it does get quite dry in here, I was wondering how often should i mist the tree? Also do i let the soil get a little drier then normal in the winter also and not to water it as often? Thanks
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Hybrid creation: Butia odorata x Parajubaea torallyi var. torallyi F1 1 2
by Jonathan Haycock- 10 followers
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On the 27th December 2020 I began the process of creating this hybrid. Two inflorescence were used on the Butia, but for the purpose of this thread I won't differentiate between them as their timings were less than a week apart. Butia odorata Parajubaea torallyi var. torallyi
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Hybrid or Not?
by freakypalmguy- 1 follower
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Opinions on whether this is Butia X Jubea or straight Butia. It was given to me as a hybrid.
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Hybrid phoenix
by amh- 3 replies
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Has anyone hybridized Phoenix dactylifera with Phoenix theophrasti? I'm curious to the cold hardiness and fruit quality characteristics of the progeny.
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Hybrid Phoenix (reclinata x roebelenii)
by Phoenikakias- 5 replies
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I have potted up my young plants a couple of days ago, and from now on pot is about to remain constantly outdoors till to ground planting. Plants (at least one) while in cold frame took a look of roebelenii on steroids! But air humidity in the cold frame is higher and now plants have to cope with the lower humidity of open air. They will be fine but probably this will change to some extent their appearance. Anyway I found on this occasion a good opportunity to take some stills under natural day light, which capture their greenhouse look. Maybe in Florida with higher air humidity those hybrids would still retain this look...
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Hybrid Trachy seeds, germination, etc.
by BeyondTheGarden- 2 replies
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Got some seeds off etsy from seller, "Desertscapenursery"; 1. Nova x Wagnerianus; 2. Nainatal; 3. Nova. I tried scraping the fruit off the nova x wag but it's totally dry and not fleshy, and the endocarp came off with the fruit skin, revealing the endosperm. I hope I'm getting the terms right. I'm going to plant it and see what happens. Not sure what to do with the rest. I'm paranoid about mold because all of the Trachy seeds that I have tried with the baggie method have molded. Even the ones that I have scraped the fruit and washed thoroughly. With standard fortunei, I know I can sow them directly in the garden, in the ground, and they'll sprout (no id…
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