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

Not at all... it means that is IS healthy! :) Those seeds will get bigger, turn orange, and then start to fall off.

I can only grow these guys as containerized indoor/outdoor palms (zone 7 here) but I have never seen this happen with mine.--Their color always looks good from the get go. I wonder if it's related to soil pH or lack of micro-nutrients. Good luck!

HELP please! I bought a beautiful Majesty palm at Lowes 2 days ago and even though I've watered it the leaf tips are starting to turn yellow. It's over 5 feet all and I haven't repotted it yet although I suspect I will have to since I believe the roots are growing over the top. Nevertheless, I've watered it well and even stuck watering spikes and still I see the yellowing tips increasing. I need some help (PLEASE!); advice and/ or lessons as I'm really a novice - this IS MY 3rd palm and I'm getting really discouraged. I realize I don't have high lighting but where I found this palm was among a bunch of other palms, shades and In the indoor plant area. I believe i lost the other 2 because of my inexperience, I repotted them in a pot more than twice larger and they died....(I found out only later that too big a pot is only a death trap!) So, questions : should I leave this palm in its own pot and leave it where it is right now so as to give it time to acclimate itself to that area of my house or should I repot it tomorrow to a pot just a size larger? I am misting it every morning since I bought it 2 days ago (I just learned here I have to put a 50/50 alcohol water which I will start to do) but still the leaf tips are turning yellow FAST!! I really hate to lose another one....please help! Lastly, I Iive in Oyster Creek, Texas and I've always thought that Lowes or Home Depot carry plants that are for these neighborhoods, am I wrong? i really can't lug this plant to and from the shower simply because it's too tall, can't I just leave it where it is? although I could roll it out my back porch to spray it with a water hose but is all this moving around doing it any good? THANK YOU SO MUCH!