Palmettos like weeds

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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

 

[WSimpson]

Looking good there Dave . I have a lot of Minors as weeds around here . 

 

My biggest volunteer Minor .

Will

 

[Las Palmas Norte]

The Washingtonia of the east 😄

[fr8train]

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. 

[Las Palmas Norte]

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.

[WSimpson]

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

[knikfar]

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. 

[ChicagoPalma]

Windmill palms are a bit sensitive to wind I think. 

[ChicagoPalma]

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.

[knikfar]

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. 

[ChicagoPalma]

You have to pour peroxide to kill off the rot, fungicide doesn’t always kill off the rot

[ChicagoPalma]

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.