Palm Nutrition & Deficiency Effects

[lucky1]

Excellent document from floridaplants worth reviewing every year, especially for tropical palms that are finicky:

http://www.floridaplants.com/horticulture/palm.htm

Barb

[tropicman]

Thanks Barb
Very good read!

[lucky1]

It ticks me off though that some deficiencies masquerade as something else.
And of course you can throw that list away if the pH is off too.
AAAARGH!

Barb

[lucky1]

This is the best I've seen...recommend Bookmarking this for reference:

http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/palms/sy ... index.html

Now we'll have no excuse at all...

[lucky1]

I suppose we should now list WATER as a nutrient!

This Triangle Palm spear simply wouldn't open after lengthening for nearly SIX months

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After leaching all the palms in the bathtub to dilute toxic fertilizer levels (thanks Steve07), it pushed out really fast.

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I've since discovered that one of the first symptoms of fertilizer toxicity is a slight "dimpling" or "bubbling" of petiole segments, usually at the tips.
This year old Wodyetia bifurcata shows it mid-leaf.
Needs increased watering to flush out the fertilizer.

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Does this learning process ever end?

Barb