Saddens me to see some of the damage the cold did to some of your palms🥺, for us it only got down to 15°F for a low, temps are moderating somewhat this week 30s and 40s my 2 sables,going into 3rd year and my needle look fine🙏Praying for good weather for all of us zone pushers🙏🤗🌴🌴
Really interesting, seems like the Styrofoam containers did a decent job protecting from frost damage. So not sure I got this right but the most hard to least hardy is as follows: Needle palm, Sabal minor (straight species), sabal louisiana, sabal brazoriensis, sabal birmingham (least hardy). This is a great experiment since everything is very close together.
So the ground is still 31F under the snow. That is like a built in heater. The palms only needed to be above 5 or 10F under the coolers. Anything higher up doesn't benefit much from ground heat. Put the brazoria as hardier than the Birmingham and Louisiana for my palms at least. Needle palm, Sabal minor (straight species), sabal brazoriensis, sabal birmingham , Sabal minor "Louisiana" (least hardy). I have 5 Louisiana's The big one I suppose is what you are referring to and I have a smaller one (4-5') that got burned bad last year and this year. So it's confusing for sure. The big one had one frond left out of protection that looked pretty good considering.
@@tntropics Great info, thanks TN. I'll be watching to see how your palms turn out this spring, will be interesting to see how the big ones with the trunks turn out.
The mule can take cold no problem. Their weakness is bugs which took out two my two mules. Spay them for bugs every year. They get under the outer layer and destroy them.
Hopefully my last super cold night too up here in New York. Of course I want your Mule Palm to be okay. I will check mine on Tuesday when the temps get better. I’m leaving everything in tact. I did check my Chilean Wine palm today and it’s fine. Anyway hoping the best for you after all of this!
