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Tipsy Filabusta

TonyDFW

By TonyDFW
in COLD HARDY PALMS

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TonyDFW Mentor

TonyDFW

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The worst prolonged cold in 20 years, with a minimum of 15 F, and 4 consecutive days below freezing had the effect of wiping out all of the W. robusta. In Dallas, TX in 2011

Here are some images of that winters effect on filibustas, 2 years later.

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What is your prognosis?

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Wow tony, thoise fillabusta have some thick trunks, lots of fillifera blood. And yet they were hammered.... This helps me appreciate what folks in texas have to deal with in winter...

Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

 

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_Keith Grand Master

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Time for some tree surgery, aka de-heading, it looks like.

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Will be curious to see if this happens to any of the survivors from this year in TX....

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