Miracles never cease in these parts

[SailorBold]

Anyone want to help skin some washingtonias?

[jwitt]

The form exists,

You need to light the form

[SailorBold]

How long until you think it will seed?

[jwitt]

15-20 years from seed is my guess.  Could this seed be your trees?

[jwitt]

It's been flowering?

[SailorBold]

Wow! Those are the TorC trees!  Could be!  No hasnt been flowering.. those are leaves that are growing into the crowns from the other trees.. I did add the lighting..

[jwitt]

@SailorBold

Your pic deserves another reposting as "miracles never cease in these parts"!

Coming out of winter in zone 7b unprotected!!!!!

AMAZING!!!!

[jwitt]

Mile high winter.....

Or is it summer?

 

[jwitt]

Winter low of 18f. A mild winter in my yard. These filifera were in the garage and did not see that 8b low.  I had a 6% survival rate! In fact, the lowest these saw was around 25f. 

6%!!!!!

[ABQPalms]

@jwitt

In my humble opinion, plastic growing bags get considerably colder faster and for a longer period. My own rule of thumb is if planted in a plastic nursery pot, you subtract about 5⁰f from the actual temperature. Now plastic growing bags have a very thin layer, so it would be significantly lower than that.  I'm still trying to gauge how much that temperature difference might be.

Were the survival palms in the middle of the group or the exterior? If they were in the middle or against a wall, than my guess is that they were more insulated.