Chip most of the time especially with trachys it takes a while to show cold damage just keep it dry it will come back.

It has bud damage. The emerging leaves were damaged and possibly deformed by the cold while they were forming. Here is a picture of my kentia palm. We had a freeze in Jan of 07 that fried the fronds off of it. During the freeze the frond on the left was still a spear (unopened)so it had minimal, if any, damage once it opened. Then the frond on the right followed and that one was damaged and significantly smaller because it was damaged while it was being formed. Now the third frond in the middle looks like it is going to be a large, healthy frond without any damage from that freeze.

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I would agree to some extent about keeping it dry but if your weather has warmed up now I think its fine to water,I think cali has got the right idea and as long as this palm is growing still its in good shape,it is when they show damage and are not growing this time of year that I would be concerned,but it sounds like your palm is growing and thats a good thing!The fungicide will not hurt in right dosage,as far as the leaves "wilting"the warmer temps have caused the same thing with my"larger"trachys,I would not worry about it,it's natural for some trachys.

Hi all,
Thanks for your replies! I feel a little more confident now and makes sense and will cross my fingers.
If I see the branches not pushing up anymore, then I will panic. lol I will follow up in a few weeks to report the outcome.
Also, I have a larger windmill in the back yard that I covered with my sons play house and has open windows. This is the 2nd winter in the ground and faired MUCH better than the previous winter.
I removed the house about 3 weeks ago and like turning on a light switch, its working on its 3rd branch emerging! AMAZING the way this thing is performing!!

Ill post pictures on another thread when time allows of this and my Butias and sago.

Thanks again all!!

Chip

I would mix up some copper and pour in the bud just in case. Just mix according to bottle.I have lost more palms from this then cold damage by it self.

He has that covered david,good advice though,I have have never seen a plam die from fungicide in the right measure as you said

I was talking about damage from fungus not copper but copper will kill it if you use to often. But as you said if you use it properly it will be ok.

jim I should have clarified my self what I meant was keep the crown dry.

Yea guys if that spear does not pull and is actually growing,I'd say you(your palm)had a close call!very good news if its growing.Its amazing how long a palm can hold on and not look too much different and then "suddenly"they lay a stinker on ya and its to late.I had a fotunei inside that looked "o.k."and then the leaves closed up,so I thought lets give the spear a tug,and out it came such strange feeling,I cut the trunk right below where the petioles extended dead, cut down to the base dead,it had been dead a long time,even though it just looked alittle sick.

I have a waggie that is in a warm, sheltered spot that is simply NOT growing! I thought it made it through my muld winter with NO damage, but now I am wondering why it is not growing. My big Sabal minor has a large flower spike coming up, and it is opening a spear leaf. The Sabal previously stayed dormant until may or June in the last two years. What gives here. The spear on the waggie seems alive.

Wait for the magic of may,or....