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Sabal pumos


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26F and many hours and nights at or below freezing with many mornings with short periods of light frost. Slight damage on old greenhouse fronds. Newest fronds no damage.

Matt in Temecula, CA

Hot and dry in the summer, cold with light frost in the winter. Halfway between the desert and ocean

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  • 4 years later...

Here's a report on the Dec 2013 freeze.

Strong radiational freeze, my garden is on a hillside, lower garden got nailed pretty hard by cold drainage and wind protection. 5 nights below freezing for 9 hours or less per night, worst night was 26.6F, see data and graphs below for details.

Not a trace of damage, specimen full exposed. Note that a potted parajubaea sunkha 2 feet away got significant frost damage (probably not hardened off.)

Dec 4/5: 57.4F high, below 32F at 11.17PM steady decline to 26.6F at 7:30AM with a dewpoint of 16F. above freezing 8:47AM

Dec 5/6: 57.4F high, below 32F at 11:30PM steady decline to 29.8F from 4:30AM to 7AM, above freezing 8:30AM

Dec 6/7: 55.9F high, 50F overnight with 1 inch of rain

Dec 7/8: 53.1F high, below 32F at 11:30PM, steady decline to 28.6F, above freezing by 8:45AM

Dec 8/9: 55.9F high, below 32F at 11:30PM, steady decline to 28.6F, above freezing by 5:30AM

Dec 9/10, 60.8F high, below 32F at 6:30AM, down to 30.9F above freezing by 8:00AM

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Low of 25F, many freezing nights, many mornings of frost, no damage.

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Matt in Temecula, CA

Hot and dry in the summer, cold with light frost in the winter. Halfway between the desert and ocean

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  • 4 years later...

Nearly trunking (8 feet to top of frond) pumos and rosei withstood approximately 24 hrs below freezing with an ultimate low of 20F with very minimal damage to frond tips. 

Clay

South Padre Island, Zone 10b until the next vortex.

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