tkz, the alfalfa pellets (rabbit chow size) will work as an organic fertilizer for your lawn and garden. Whether it clears up the yellow tips - who know until you try it. You can get alfalfa pellets in 50-pound bags at your local feed store. For a palm I would apply about a cup for every inch in diameter. Scatter it around the base of the tree about the diameter of the tree out. Moisten the pellets after applying. The day after you moisten them you will notice they have turned into little worms. Just step on them to mash the flakes onto the soil for good contact. It takes a full three weeks for the alfalfa pellets to convert into plant food, so be a little patient.

If you posted in the "Tool Shed" section you would have found enthusiastic response! I'm one of those guys that loves to do it all myself. I have the chainsaws and even a chipper to turn it all into compost. For a chainsaw I think you are on the right track. Consider the Echo CS-370 with the 16" bar. You could get by with a 14" bar with this little cabbage palm but you will be glad to have the extra length on other projects that will come along. I also have a gas pole saw with extensions and a 12" bar. It isn't telescopic. I just add or remove a section as needed. Wonderful tool. I keep my neighbors properties and my own pruned and tend to do it at the onset of Hurricane season. I never charge them but I seem to get a lot of cold beer from them. For this tree, I would drop it whole to the ground since you mentioned that you have plenty of room. Buck it after you drop it. Be sure to keep your chain out of the sand as it will dull it instantly on contact. Palm wood is hard on chains to begin with. It is stringy stuff and actually has sand in it. It would be advisable to purchase an extra chain and a sharpening file so you can touch up the chain between tanks of fuel. One thing to add here is that there is more to buy then just the saws. You should be wearing chainsaw chaps, steel toe boots, and eye and ear protection. I have a forestry hat that takes care of the eye and ear protection and use it for lots of other chores like running the chipper and even weed wacking. The great thing about the forestry helmet is that the eye screen and ear muffs can be pivoted up between cuts. Have fun with the job and be safe.

Is that the Louisiana Palmetto? I'm not too familiar with the palms. That sounds like a great idea though. How nice it would be to have palms in the forests and wooded areas instead of escaped colonies of Bradford Pears and other undesirable non-natives. I've been looking closely at the seeds of different palms and other more tropical but yet hardier types of tropical plant seeds for sale. I doubt that I'd have much luck here, but I have family in more southerly states where I think the hardier tropical plants would have a chance at survival (such as Windmill Palm, Louisiana Palmetto, Joshua Tree, Silver Mazari Palm and more zone 7 and 8 or so selections). But back on spreading seeds around the area, I've thought about going around like the man in the story and dropping acorns in a hole made by a cane or other stick, of different trees (maybe Bur and White Oak for example) to bring back real forests of yester-year. I have taken plastic bags of seeds with me on walks and sprinkled them around before. I've even wrapped American Sycamore seeds in toilet paper and a rock and threw it into a muddy creek-bed in my friend's backyard. One of these days I'll look back there and see if any grew, that was several years ago, so they've had time to grow. Will

OD, you should keep tabs on me! You might see somtething you want to trade! Take a look LOL Vince, on the advice of another person here on the forum (I forget who) I started using Peter's Excel 15-5-15 Cal/Mag. Its a water soluble fertilizer you can use like Miracle Grow, but better. Has all the trace/minors, and has Mag/Mang/Fe to supplement our wonderful Florida State Soil, the virtually nutrient-free Myaaka Fine Sand. Since I have started using it (I started using it just for the palms, then started using it on other stuff) I have had remarkable results with everything, even some things that were chronically chlorotic