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Fruiting like crazy. Steady for a few months now. It's about 17 years from seed

Congratulations ! Here are a few habitat images from Argentina.

Purchased a strap leaf seedling about a year ago that was believed to be pure Jubaea. It's clearly a hybrid with strong Butia influence. The growth has been phenomenal. I just potted it up to 15 gallon in less than one year.

I would love to have an equal number of Coconut Palms in my yard, LOL!!! John

From what I understand hybrid seeds look just like what the mother palm (listed first in the hybrid designation) would normally produce so there's no way of knowing until it grows up. So @Fallen Munk is probably right assuming that it is Jubaea x Butia if it is indeed a hybrid sold as Jubaea that was grown from a Jubaea-looking seed. I think that's one of the reasons for the high price of hybrids - the hybridizer has to go through a lot of effort to emasculate all of the male flowers and also prevent additional unwanted male pollen contaminating the female flowers. If a mistake is made in the process of producing BxJ hybrids the hybridizer could unknowingly sell a plain Butia as a BxJ.

Nicest Aceolorrhaphe wrightii I have noticed, all survived but this is the only one I’ve seen where the existing trunks survived, even a big one on the island died to the ground and started regrowing. There were only ever a handful around to begin with that I’m aware of.

Just looking at this today and very proud I have kept it alive from a 4" seedling from Floribunda about 10-11 years ago. Very slow for me but the greater the risk, the greater the reward.

This morning the water was like glass with a bit of fog rising off it....great reflection!

Also a couple non palms. A nice double trunked Ravenala madagascariensis that has stayed short and a Bayur Tree, Pterospermum acerifolium.

I was in the Ivanhoe area just north of downtown Orlando this morning. Several mature Dypsis lutescens growing in protected courtyards.

That one has been in the ground for 2 or 3 years I'd have to check the records. It gets bright shade in the morning some more filtered light midday and more shade late afternoon. It has grown well but I have planted another elsewhere in the garden that gets light shade and it's doing well. They don't seem to thrive as much in the summer heat.

Princeps is way hardier than latisectus. It’s not cold enough to test princeps here, certainly not established ones, but I hear they are similar in hardiness to fortunei.

48 hrs of hybrid vigor lol. Even jubaea dominant hybrids are soooo much faster. JxB over an inch and a half of spear push since wed night. (Sharpie mark)

I cut my red banana back and it is still alive with green growth. It only had a blanket over it and it was lying on its side off the ground. May as well wrap them every year and see what happens. This is the second year for ch. radicalis to over winter without protection and without any damage. 19F was the low with 4 days below 32F.

@Chester B that's sad, so much time and effort. Not to mention money! It seems like there are a lot of us who do the same thing. I plan on moving but want to make my own Eden here just in case plans change. In fact part of me wants to stay.

I also think potting up to the next size very quickly helps. It went from the square tree pot, to one gallon, them up to five gallon in just a few months. By summer, the roots were filling the five gallon real well so I planted it in the ground. My rule is, if you wait until the roots are coming out of the bottom of the pot, you've already restricted growth.

Some updates from the first growing year heading into the second... S. Mexicana (bought before the storm as 15G, and made it through the lows) ! This thing is getting big! Butias (planted last year after the freeze, spear pulled after our 18F event few weeks ago. Hopeful they will come back and put up a new spear. They got peroxide just in case Another S. Mexicana, much smaller planted after the freeze

Hard to say, I haven't got out and looked close or anything, I don't know the homeowner. If it's a seedling it wouldn't matter anyway.

Did that one resprout above or below the graft?

Here is a mango survivor, hard to see through the fence, but that trunk is decent size. This is actually pretty encouraging, this means you can grow and enjoy mango year in year out between catastrophic freezes, but even after catastrophic freeze, the tree lives and will again provide tasty fruit, provided you protected the graft or it is seed grown. I’m going I have to pick up some more, @Xenon based on your recommendation I’m now in the market for a lemon zest.

Drumroll please……..these are the only surviving Foxtails I have seen anywhere around. There is no reason for newly planted foxtails to look this bad, and I can match most of them up to pre-freeze street views. They have to have had substantial protection, would love to hit up the homeowner about it.

One of my fears unfolding before my eyes, every one of these Sabals getting planted right now used to be a P. sylvestris. They were newly planted before the freeze and every single one of them died. Now apparently the owners of this development are afraid to put them back, even though the vast majority of the established ones elsewhere recovered well. There is such an opportunity here to landscape with some cool stuff, and the hotels etc. just can’t plant anything but Washingtonia and Sabal, what a waste of what could be.

Man this guy really likes papayas, and bananas, I suppose the bananas are pre freeze, they all came back with a vengeance.

Not a notable survivor but duuuuuuuuude stop planting these Washies with the base of the trunk so far above the soil line!!!! They look like trash like this and will still look like trash when they’re 50 ft tall and still have the base of the trunk floating in mid air. Come on guys out of all the crap causes in the world that people get all uptight about. This a cause I could get behind, stop this practice. Or just prop it up with a stick rather than plant it correctly, whatever.

Another Bizzy survivor

These Giant BOPs had 10+ ft trunks pre freeze, making a nice recovery already, hopefully will replace those trunks

Sea grape looks like nothing happened save there are no tree-like specimens around, proves this is a great choice for coastal areas here. I have 3 of these thanks to @Mr. Coconut Palm I’m thinking of pruning one to grow up into a tree form like I’ve seen in Floriduh. Clusia back there looks good too.

Black mangrove in recovery

Honorable mentions around town, all cell phone pics, so you know, quality

Best surviving roebelenii, 2 out of 3 trunks survived, almost all others perished.

Ok not an excellent photo, and was taken a few months ago, queen palm on right recovering well enough, the one on the left was off to a good start, but declined and has since died I believe. There are some other queen survivors around, but I’m never in a position to get photos.

Not sure variety here, but a nice Phoenix

Most of the W. robustas survived, I think I’ve only noticed a couple in this large parking lot at the mall that never made it back.

These what I suppose are Medjools look pretty good except for small crown, I’m not sure if this is all the regrowth they’ve had or if the landscapers got to them. Very nearly all P dactylifera survived, although there aren’t a ton of them around, wouldn’t mind if they used more.

Almost all Bismarcks died, this is a notable survivor in decent shape, I know of only a small handful of others. This one is on the island

Almost all P. sylvestris survived and look like nothing happened. Please excuse dashboard pic.

Spotted a number of Advocado trees around London as well as some citrus. Taste test... A few more...

I agree with this.

I believe he’s talking about T. martianus. I have the “Nepal” form started from seed of T. martianus in my greenhouse. They grew fine in the summer, but are not liking the cool, dark weather right now and look like crap. I’m hoping they recover and take the conditions a little better as they get larger as they are certainly a pretty Trachy.

Blows my mind to see a Cocos surviving in costal CA because that seems like the worst place for one considering they don’t see the sun nearly enough and it never gets above 80. Makes me want to remove a dragon tree by my driveway and go for it since that seems to be the best spot between concrete on three sides with my house at its back also giving off warmth.

I have heard that they are Guatemalan avocados, but I can't say for sure. As for the oranges, I don't really know what is what really. There is some evidence of actual Valencia oranges being grown, but others look like tangerines. There appears to be a fruiting lemon tree growing next to the big CIDP in Egerton Terrace, London. Can anyone confirm whether this is citrus limon? @Silas_Sancona @gurugu

Hi Josue, I have 3 HD Foxtails planted at various sizes in 3 very different locations in my yard. The largest was purchased as a 15 gal and is in full direct sun(4-8 hrs depending on the season) The second largest was purchased as a 5 gallon and is in morning sun and then filtered light under canopy. The smallest was a 3 gallon and is in full shade on the north side up against the house. The first two are happier and grow about 15”-18” a year. The largest put out 5 leaves last year and is starting to finally fatten up. The one is full shade was the youngest to start but still grows the slowest due to lack of light. All are tough palms and super wind tolerant which is nice with the Santa Anna’s.

Here are some additional shots of the coconuts: Del Mar: Santa Ana:

Most of the T. fortuneis in Longview survived the -5F unprotected, but it was scary. I had a 10 footer wait until May before anything started happening. All the waggies died.

Another queen survivor I had a pic of

I lost one in Natchez, Mississippi in a protected, shady spot in the 13F experienced in early 2018. It had made it through three days of sub-freezing temps (repeatedly to 18F) in 2010, a number of other hard freezes, but that really cold jab, though brief to 13F, appeared to be the end of it. It was a very pretty little palm, but very slow growing for me. Perhaps I needed to have it in a sunnier position. I had a number of fortunei that were bulletproof through that, plus a couple of different martianus types came through with little to no damage, but this one collapsed.

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