Kentia and King Palms dying
Robert
7 years ago
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Kentia(Parlor) Palm not doing well?
Comments (6)Take it back and see if you can get a refund. It sounds like it is dead (dying actually). Palms have only one growing point. It that tip dies, the plant cannot branch and will die. When older leaves die, the palm is usually not dying but if the younger leaves have all died then that sounds like the palm's apical meristem is dead. The only hope is if the dead leaves were due to being moved in freezing weather, left outside in freezing air for more than a few minutes, or some other condition that just killed the more tender young leaves. This could also happen if the plant were suddenly exposed to full sun, thus burning the leaves. Inspect the tip growth. Give this a gentle tug. If all the emerging growth just pulls out, then its dead. But, don't pull it hard. It could be alive and then you could damage what's left. In any case you will have an unsightly palm for a long time--so see if you can get a refund. Jon...See MoreMy Kentia(?) is dying what to do?!?
Comments (1)It doesnt really sound like a kentia palm and it might bot be a palm. Do you have a pic you can post? You can get a free Photobucket account, download your pic there, click on it to make your pic larger, and then look to the left of the screen until you see 4 codes. Copy the 3rd code and paste it to a message on here. Good luck! From what it sounds it could be a lack of light, or too much/little water. -Alex...See MoreDo you have a kentia palm and is there a fast growing palm?
Comments (10)M Hello anyone. Here are my experiences. I live in San Diego, California and after the wild fires destroyed my entire house, I rebuilt and re-landscaped with palm trees. After knowing nothing about those plants and some failures, I now have a palm tree "forest" in my front yard. So...king palms look magnificant in "singles"; avoid washingtonians because in a few years they will too tall to cut/trim. Avoid queen palms because they must be trimmed when they get tall. Windmill palms are trouble free but must be trimmed after they reach 15' high or so. I went to Target garden center and purchased several kentia palms (3 plants in each pot) for $19 each and took them home and very very carefully seperated them individually and planted them outside as understory palms. The first 20 months they grew slowly but didn't burn and were fine. Now the sun doesn't bother them at all and they are growing faster and faster. Kentia palms and king palms grow wonderfully and somewhat fast indoors as house plants. Have them but never over water them. Use palm fertilizer and occasionally fish fertilizer. Beautiful house plants....then move them outside when too large and acclimate them and put them into the ground in your landscaping. A good outdoor palm is the fox tail palm...it also is self -cleaning. But good house palms for fast beautiful growth are kentia, king, and cat palms....See MoreKentia Palm dying? What am I doing wrong?
Comments (33)I doubt cutting off a truly rotted root will harm a palm, but on the other hand, there rarely is a need, either.. .rot does not tend to travel up roots in palms. I would recommend 'play it safe' and generally leave palm roots alone.. .only time I ever cut palm roots is if I am going to transplant a palm that has been in the ground a while and is healthy and established... then it can tolerated being root pruned (though usually not all around the entire circumference at once). Helps decrease the size of the root ball (though will increase the density of the root ball) for eventual digging up and moving. Also note how crammed-packed the palm is in the root ball.... amazing but palms seem to do very well with cram-packed roots and that is the time to move them up to a new sized pot... does not seem to set them back at all to be so crammed, unless there literally is no soil left in the pot....See MoreRobert
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