DAVEinMB Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 Just a sabal palmetto appreciation post. It's amazing to me how little these things require to get themselves established. They also are really good looking trees if you remove human intervention from a pruning standpoint. Here's a few pics from downtown myrtle 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Simpson Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 Looking good there Dave . I have a lot of Minors as weeds around here . My biggest volunteer Minor . Will 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Las Palmas Norte Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 The Washingtonia of the east 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr8train Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 I didn't know they were so incredibly hardy too. They're even tougher than trachycarpus, which I thought was the hardiest trunking palm. This area got a ton of ice on top of the cold temperatures this winter, and most Sabals look like nothing had happened. They're great looking palms too, I love their costapalmate leaves. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Las Palmas Norte Posted Wednesday at 05:15 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 05:15 PM 20 hours ago, fr8train said: I didn't know they were so incredibly hardy too. They're even tougher than trachycarpus, which I thought was the hardiest trunking palm. ... That statement applies in certain regions. It certainly does not apply to the PNW region. Sabal minors do OK though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Simpson Posted Wednesday at 05:27 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 05:27 PM Speaking of hardy palms , my Sabal palmettos look better than my Trachys after 4 morning lows in a row of 11F, 6F , 15F and 17F and a High of 28F the day before that morning low of 6F . That coldest day was windy too . Weird , because I thought the Trachys would laugh at one night of 6F , and I thought the Palmettos would be damaged more than the Trachys by that 6F with wind since they are frond hardy to only 7F , supposedly . Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knikfar Posted Wednesday at 07:54 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 07:54 PM 2 hours ago, Will Simpson said: Speaking of hardy palms , my Sabal palmettos look better than my Trachys after 4 morning lows in a row of 11F, 6F , 15F and 17F and a High of 28F the day before that morning low of 6F . That coldest day was windy too . Weird , because I thought the Trachys would laugh at one night of 6F , and I thought the Palmettos would be damaged more than the Trachys by that 6F with wind since they are frond hardy to only 7F , supposedly . Will I posted about this on a few of the FB groups. We had a low of 11f here in Raleigh during the Polar Express in December. That was really the only cold we had all winter. Three of my trachies had spear pull over the past two weeks. Not a single one of my sabal palmettos have given me any trouble at all. Some of the smaller ones have tip burn on the older leaves but nothing else. I even left one of my sabals, in a pot, on my patio with no protection at all. You'd never know anything happened just be looking at it. It looks just as good as the palms in my greenhouse. But I'm really developing some animosity towards trachies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoPalma Posted Wednesday at 07:57 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 07:57 PM Windmill palms are a bit sensitive to wind I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoPalma Posted Wednesday at 07:57 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 07:57 PM 3 minutes ago, knikfar said: I posted about this on a few of the FB groups. We had a low of 11f here in Raleigh during the Polar Express in December. That was really the only cold we had all winter. Three of my trachies had spear pull over the past two weeks. Not a single one of my sabal palmettos have given me any trouble at all. Some of the smaller ones have tip burn on the older leaves but nothing else. I even left one of my sabals, in a pot, on my patio with no protection at all. You'd never know anything happened just be looking at it. It looks just as good as the palms in my greenhouse. But I'm really developing some animosity towards trachies. Trachys can be a bit tacky, but these things are beasts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knikfar Posted Wednesday at 08:02 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 08:02 PM 4 minutes ago, ChicagoPalma said: Trachys can be a bit tacky, but these things are beasts. I've killed three trachys in my yard, no real idea how. And now these latest three with their spear pull. I've sprayed them with copper fungicide but that didn't work with the last three I killed so I have no reason to believe it'll work with these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoPalma Posted Wednesday at 09:50 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 09:50 PM You have to pour peroxide to kill off the rot, fungicide doesn’t always kill off the rot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoPalma Posted Wednesday at 09:52 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 09:52 PM My palm is still alive after pouring peroxide in February, haven’t sprayed fungicide in over two weeks, just did today and it seems alive. I got severe spear pull and I’m surprised it’s still alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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