Sick Sago Palm - Droopy Fronds
Kim
11 years ago
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Comments (3)Hey theseventhlegend, I think you may have some kind of fungus or even bud rot. This can happen in the winter, especially with cool damp weather. You should try applying a copper fungicide or try Consan Triple Action 20 fungicide. I have just started using this on some of my sick coconut palms and a sick silver queen that I have. It was recommended by a palm nursery in the south Houston area. So far, I have only lost one sick coconut palm, but I am afraid it was already to far gone by the time I started the fungicide applications. Since then, I have not lost a palm, and I appear to have 5 other palms, 4 coconuts, and the one silver queen that all have similar symptoms. Whatever you do, I have found that you really need to taper off on watering when the weather is cool. Palms, especially the more tropical ones, really need to dry out between watering. I used to water mine twice a week in the winter. Now I am tapering off my watering to every 7-10 days. Anyway follow the directions on the fungicide and good luck. John...See MoreSick Sago Palm
Comments (2)Those "worms" are catepillars, the larvae of beetles. There's a possibility they chewed into the plant and started off the rotting. But it's also possible they might have just got in to a damaged/rotted part of the plant and kept burrowing inside. Don't know which way around it was. It's an unusual problem, I haven't heard of it happening before. Maybe someone else here has experienced it....See MoreSago Palm toxic to humans?
Comments (64)oh my gosh......i'm so very very very sorry!!!!! Our other dog got ahold of one too (4 days after my first dog died). It was during the holidays so we could not get our two large sago palms removed for 4 days. Somehow the 2nd dog found a seed that must have rolled under a bush and we didn't see it. Anyway, we got him to the the vet within MINUTES and they made him throw up and ran charcoal thru his system to absorb anything that might have left his stomach. It worked, and he is fine 1.5 years later BUT the seed had not left his stomach. It is my understanding from my vet that had the seed or part of the plant gotten out of his stomach and into his system he would have died too. I'm just wondering if they keep running charcoal thru your cat if they could absorb the poisons? I'm so so very sorry that i can not be more help. Does he/she have black black stool? It's a sure sign of liver failure i was told. Please let me know how your cat is! It took approximately 4 to 5 days for our dog to die (i'm guessing because she really didn't show signs of even being sick for the first day and was just lethargic with black stool until she was completely down)...our hearts are completely broken as i feel i should have known about these HORRID POISONOUS PLANTS! Even now as i tell EVERYONE about them they don't remove them...it is beyond my comprehension. Prayers for you and your kitty!...See MoreSago Palm Distress-- Brown Fungus?
Comments (15)I had to get my husband's help with the photos, but I wanted to make a few notes about them: 1. you can see the "clouds" of fluff that accumulated once I tried to scrape/wipe the stuff off. 2. the photos are kind of bright-- the fluff is actually more of a medium brown color than it appears, and there is a thin film of the fluff covering most of the caudex (I'm learning new terms!) and especially in the crevices of the scales. 3. Although with the photos all enlarged you would think otherwise, the stuff really isn't THAT easy to detect until you rub some of it off, and the caudex (under the fluff) is super-firm and the branches are still deep green and very spiky-- no wilting (except for the patches of fronds that I have cut off). Also, no black spots anywhere, which is what most of the rot pictures I could find looked like. I've been on every website I could find (and thank you for the links-- very informative), but I couldn't find a description of this stuff or any pictures of plants that look like mine does, so I'm having trouble diagnosing the problem. Does it look like rot? I'm stumped....See Moreprinbama
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