wait until the seeds are orange and feel soft, not hard. Pull and scrape off all the orange stuff until you get to the hard seed inside. It's hard to do, so your fingernails will hate you for a day or so. Soak the seeds in warm water for 3 days, changing the water daily. After that dry the seeds outside for a few hours and sterilize them with alcohol. Put them into a baggie full of moist (not wet) and sterilized sphagnum moss and perlite and put the baggie somewhere like your water heater where it'll get warm but not hot. It may take up to 6 month, but you should get a good germination rate. Pot these up when you see roots forming.

I spray mine every week with Neptune's Harvest.Plus I gave them Miracle Gro palm fertilizer,one cup every other month.It comes in a Shake-N- Feed.Mine were light green when I bought them,now there dark green and very healthy.I've never seen anything green plants up so like Neptune's Harvest,I use it on all my plants (: Here are mine.

Sun will not hurt these if they have plenty of water.Its probably a nutritional problem or maybe the soil.Please show pic's

We've got three Queens behind our pool... No problems w/invasive roots, so far, after three years (that was one of the more MAJOR items on the "Wish List"/Criteria when selecting trees for the pool). The only problem we ran into - when building the pool, re-establishing the lawn, etc. was drainage... Unfortunately, there's a slope on the lawn - that runs towards the pool. We have drains built into the concrete, but we did have an area of "pooling" where one of the palms was s'posed to go. I'd bought three 8' Queens, and was all set to plant them (spring before last), but when I dug one of the holes, I found a MAJOR puddle! Ended up having to put in a french drain... Two years later... We've got the three Queens along the backside of our pool, and they're doing very well. But they're all living in somewhat "different" conditions. The one on the far left (over the french drain) is now the fullest. The one to the right of the pool is in a pretty "wet" zone, and is planted directly above some of the pool pipes. She's surviving, but not going nuts or anything. The one on the far right is probably doing the best (in terms of the 'grade' in the yard, this one's the highest-up - and also planted directly above pool pipes) - she has no "drainage issues" and is definitely thriving. Unfortunately, I don't have any recent pics posted - but I will add them to my website - possibly tomorrow (weather-permitting!) And if I do, I'll post the URL :-) Anyway, they're all within 3-4' of the pool and haven't caused any problems so far... HTH -Nancy