Magical, Mystery palm lives in California, will it continue?

[quaman58]

Tyrone, these are as fragile as it gets for me. Seems like anything below 40f will take them out. Of course a 40f night is usually bookended by months of cool/cold on either end so it’s hard to know if it’s the cold or prolonged cool. Barring some severe climactic warming, these won’t be growing around here any time soon. 

[richnorm]

On 6/21/2019 at 12:09 PM, Tyrone said:

This is valuable information for others attempting to grow this species. Temps in the 30C plus range can be fatal, as well as freezing temps. That makes sense though for this Andean mountain rainforest species. No wonder they do well in Hawaii.

I want seeds of this species now to try at my new place.

Do a search here Tyrone.  Pete grew them in pretty warm temperatures (with warm nights). They can grow pretty low down too (on the equator...).  They want more heat than I can give but almost 10 years in now and still making progress albeit very slowly.  One thing that is a must here is to plant them very small (first leaf or so).  I would buy 100 seeds to get a handful (or less) established in the ground.  good luck!