On 5/12/2026 at 9:17 PM, FlaPalmLover said:

Sorry if I missed it, but any signs of life with your fenestralis? 😕

On 5/12/2026 at 10:14 PM, kinzyjr said:

It's recovering.  I'll get some photos when I get a chance.  It defoliated but never stopped growing. 

Sorry it took a while, but travel has kept me busy.

 

On 5/20/2026 at 11:38 PM, kinzyjr said:

Sorry it took a while, but travel has kept me busy.

 

Certainly appears to be recovering to me. Sure it'll look rough for a little while, but the fact that it still has that much green shows how resilient it is.

On 5/8/2026 at 1:38 AM, pj_orlando_z9b said:

Great to hear.  Here is mine.

Location: Orlando, FL south side of town. I'm on the E side of a large lake, giving decent microclimate benefits especially on radiational cooling nights.

Temperatures: 1 night below freezing.
Feb 1: 46F / 25.7F
Feb 2: 55F / 34.4F
Feb 3: 65F / 34.8F

Protection: some (marked with * below)

From my personal experience, I'd rate hardiness of my palms as:

1a) Phoenix roebelenii (40% burn [front], 10% burn [backyard])
1b) beccariophoenix alfredii (10-20% burn, mostly tips)
3) Majesty palms (50%-60% burn)
4a) Foxtail palm (total defoliation, spear had green)
4b) Bottle palm* (total defoliation, spear had green)
6) Coconut palm* (total defoliation, minimal green in spear)
7) Christmas palms* (total defoliation, minimal green in spear)

I don't have Royals but from what I'm seeing around town, I'd put them above Foxtails.  One note about my coconut.  I did experience bleeding and after much research and courage, I did cut some of it away.  thankfully it wasn't deep.  After spraying with copper very well and allowing it to dry, I applied a natural homemade patch of beeswax, olive oil and tea tree.  What I learned is it was caused by a broken irrigation system.  ugh.  Always check your system.  My pump was breaking and basically poured water right on the coconut trunk.  I'm guessing a stressed tree couldn't fight off some early rot.

My recovery method was:
1) Within one week of freeze, sprayed with copper fungicide. Repeated every 10-14 days for 2 months or until I didn't notice any sign of rot. If I was really concerned about rot, applied Banrot to specific palms.
2) Within one week of freeze, applied a root stimulator and repeated once a month for 3 months.
3) 15 days after freeze, applied a recovery formula to soil which is basically a light fertilizer.
4) Once soil hit near 70F, applied fertilizer
5) Watering often especially with this bad drought and heat.

All pics below are about 60-90 days apart.

You’re definitely warmer than my area! Great recovery!

Bizzy Update - 5/22/26

It's trying. It has pushed out everything from the spear pull, but thats about all so far. Its not moving very quickly, but it is moving.

Just gonna let it do its own thing. Ill continue water and probably fish emulsions for now until it gets something other than a stub pushed out.

Random sign of life from one trunk of a quadruple king palm I'd long ago given up on/written off as entirely dead, but just hadn't yet gotten around to removing:

12 hours ago, FlaPalmLover said:

Random sign of life from one trunk of a quadruple king palm I'd long ago given up on/written off as entirely dead, but just hadn't yet gotten around to removing:

How cold did it get?

11 hours ago, HudsonBill said:

How cold did it get?

Roughly 22-23F with strong winds. I did have the fronds covered, but the trunks were not wrapped up or anything. I'm going to have to see if I can't remove those other trunks without jeopardizing the one that is recovering. All four had spear pulls after the big freeze. I treated with H202 but I can't recall if I ever sprayed Daconil on them.

How’s the damage in Daytona: Port orange? I’m scared 😂😂😂🙈🙈

Bizzy Update - 6/3/26

After a few days with highs in the 90s and high humidity, this thing has finally started to show noticeable day to day growth.

This is the first sign of an actual frond emerging. Its still pretty pale, so that worries me a little, but we are getting there little by little.

@JLM Hope the Bismarckia makes it out of the woods for you.

Down this way, winners and losers are sorting themselves out. The seeding Ptychosperma elegans by the parking garage has perished, but on the other side of the garage, the Satakentia liukiuensis is making a solid recovery.

Hudson beach in northwest pasco seems to be an extremely warm micro climate...... not to far inland from this was in the mid teens this winter.

Tons more than this but just some pics I snapped today while on a job.

Hard to get pics while driving but a royal and a bunch of foxtails and idk what this other palm is

On 6/5/2026 at 10:49 PM, HudsonBill said:

Hudson beach in northwest pasco seems to be an extremely warm micro climate...... not to far inland from this was in the mid teens this winter.

That damage looks minimal. I checked a few wunderground sites and lows looked to be about 30, 31, 35. Stations at Rt 1 were 28, 25, 28. Def a microclimate, a good one.

Used my drone to see what is happening inside the coconut. Still waiting for the first spear to be 'normal'. In the 2018 freeze that wasnt until July. A few other drone shots of palm recovery in Orlando.

Bizzy Update - 6/10/26

Making more progress as the days get hotter and stay that way. Frond is emerging at a slow pace, albeit much faster than a couple weeks ago. Already starting to see a little bit of silver coloration on it as well. I did cut back some more of the dead petioles to expose more of the living tissue to sunlight. Gonna go ahead with a light dose of fertilizer on this and see how it responds.

On 6/2/2026 at 11:09 PM, Robert Cade Ross said:

How’s the damage in Daytona: Port orange? I’m scared 😂😂😂🙈🙈

Better than you'd think. There are lots of royals pushing out new growth there. Same thing with several foxtails. They're definitely "on the mend" and not by any means fully back to their prior form but you can tell they're still alive and growing.

Back on May 1st. Coming into Orlando on I-75 from the north.

Interstate Bismarckia plantings quite brown, some worse than others. Ones closer to Ocala were about 100% brown.

Causarina Australian pines mostly dead. Also in this same area there is a large clump of Melaleuca that looked 100% brown.

Enterolobium cyclocarpum ear tree with tip damage

Some damage observations at Epcot. This was on May 2nd.

The Foxtails farther from Spaceship earth were much more brown than some that were closer. The latter were comfortably recovering while a few of these looked questionable whether they would rebound well or at all.

Big ficus at Moana Journey of water didn’t look good.

Damage observations at the Polynesian. May 3rd.

Satakentia at the new DVC hotel building

The garden below used to have more lush plantings and a large Plumeria tree (now a stump). Definitely a lot cut back here.

Slight browning of Phoenix hybrids

Another Plumeria that bit the dust

Golden shower Cassia fistula tree recently cut down, with some root suckers sprouting.

I forget the ID of this large tropical tree (Some Brachychiton species maybe?) but it didn’t look good.

Philodendron Xanadu took a hit

While the garden by the front entrance looked good, I could tell there was a lot of foliage missing that had been there the previous year. That was even with large blower heaters they had pointing on this area during the Feb 1st freeze.

On 6/16/2026 at 2:51 PM, Matthew92 said:

Some damage observations at Epcot. This was on May 2nd.

The Foxtails farther from Spaceship earth were much more brown than some that were closer. The latter were comfortably recovering while a few of these looked questionable whether they would rebound well or at all.

Big ficus at Moana Journey of water didn’t look good.

Would be interested to see any progress. Once the consistent summer weather hit in June (high dewpoints and overnight lows, rain), I'm seeing rapid recovery. My soil temps by my coconut hit has been 84F-87F. My plumeria left for dead just sprouted from the base.

38 minutes ago, pj_orlando_z9b said:

Would be interested to see any progress. Once the consistent summer weather hit in June (high dewpoints and overnight lows, rain), I'm seeing rapid recovery. My soil temps by my coconut hit has been 84F-87F. My plumeria left for dead just sprouted from the base.

Some 23-24° F 2021 Horrible Texas freeze survivors here in South Texas I think this will give you guys some hope and see what’s possible. Peep the huge coconut unprotected that managed to survive absolutely crazy cold ! All these pics are from this April:)

On 2/13/2026 at 9:49 PM, FlaPalmLover said:

The foxtails on 17-92 in Sanford are very bronze... hopefully they will make it because it was a bold move by whoever planted them to plant them in the median somewhere that's a little marginal for foxtails, and they looked great before this cold front. They should be planted in more medians in general, in my opinion. @Merlyn has probably already seen these depending on where he lives in Sanford, but thought I'd share for others not in the area.

 

 

 

These are all pushing out new growth now, FWIW. They likely won't look normal for a while but it appears that most of them might make it.