Hi Jamilashaw,

How long has it been droopy like this? Maybe it needs a few days?

Would the "humidity tent" trick with a plastic bag for several days give it a little boost, ya think?

I have had the droop happen when repotting a peace lily, an English ivy, and a lucky bamboo that I transitioned from water to soil. The tent trick seemed to work well on those varieties.

One think I've learned about these is to keep the soil moist: neither wet nor dry, but allow it to dry a bit in winter. Hope yours perks up. The humidity tent might help, but I am not sure I would seal it. Direct sunlight might not be a good Idea, they like bright indirect light with some dappled light.

I have lost my share of them, so I can empathize. What kind of soil did you put them in?

Lovely! You don't have "a" palm, or 2 palms, you have 2 pots with what looks like at least 20 young palm sprouts per pot, growing against each other with no space between at all. Each trunk is a new baby tree, sprouted from throwing a bunch of seeds in a single hole. As each trunk expands, things are going to get even more tight. If you separate them by at least an inch, they should have enough space to grow as super-thick clumps for the next few decades. You could separate one or more if you would also like a/some single-trunk specimen(s).

IDK if the plants are unhappy about it now, but knowing how big the trunks can get, this close proximity doesn't seem healthy to me.

I think I'll let them recover a bit and worry about that in a couple months. They are slow growers right?

Relatively, I think so.

not sure 5:1:1 mix is the best soil for these guys- they do not like to get too dry. These are usually found in the stores in clumps; so I would not be concerned about that at the moment.

Your divided parlor palm is probably battered and torn apart literally which is a natural response to your plants current appearance. just give it time.

Your palm/s are probably going to regrow beautifully and fill out like the original pot overtime, but the roots need time to spread out again after being damaged slightly,

some of your palm sprouts may even die due to lack of roots remaining. but the strongest and most established sprouts will flourish. don't be scared to trim off old brown fronds, or drooping fronds, and also make sure your plant is upright and remove the large quartz rocks which gives your plant excessive lime, it should be able to anchor itself if re-potted properly, for aesthetic proposes.

Make sure the pot size is a suitable size for the current amount of roots, because water logged excessive amounts of soil is slower to dry and less airy to the plants roots, which is important for your palms to establish themselves with a free draining mix and indirect lighting sources without hot or cold air drafts and heating registers nearby.

Thanks, tropic, I thought maybe I'd forgotten that year and a half of mineralogy I had in college about a hundred years ago. She must have been thinking about gypsum or another clear mineral.

Once you've had rocks knocked into your head you've usually got them in there for life LOL. I guess in a photo white marble could look like quartz.

LOL

Yeah, apparently it gets worse, because since Saturday I've had horrible vertigo from--get ready--actual rocks in my head! They're little crystals called otoliths (literally "ear rocks") that are supposed to stay in a little sac in the inner ear, but sometimes they wander into one if the canals and cause total havoc. I learned a set maneuvers that seems to have moved at least some of them back where they belong, so now I'm just a little dizzy, though that could be an aftereffect.

I guess it's payback for....something!

That sounds painful, Litterbuggy. Hope you are feeling better now!

And good luck to Jamila's palms!