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All 5 potted palms (3 trachy's) have been over wintering in garage just fine all winter....even visibly growing! I've given them water just once a month and it was again time to give them a splash and one of my bigger ones that had been in the ground(pot and all) last year had lower fronds visibly hanging and drying out. I had noticed just one a couple weeks ago but didn't think anything of it till I went to check on them and saw a few of them hanging and drying up.
Soil moisture probe said DRY, so gave them all a larger amount of water this time around. I plan on dragging them all outside for the season at the end of the month.
Question, from the picture does the fronds hanging down and being dry usually indicate it needing water? or just normal shedding of lower fronds. I also noticed fronds that were still nice and green looking and feeling a little "limp" and not as rigid as they once were.
Cold plant in cold soil should be dry, I wouldn't water it once a month.
Maybe once in three months, or once in winter and only on a mild day.
Some people don't water at all during winter when plants are held at/near/below freezing.
Your garage doesn't freeze but soil is still too cold to water, IMO.
Could it be that this species doesn't like car exhaust (more than the others)?
Hold off on pruning lower branches until they're totally crispy brown.
Again, cars never run in garage other than to just start and back out. and the plants are all semi protected by the hanging tarps...mostly to keep really cold air blasts when main door open, but we never had any severe cold at all this winter, Plus it's only one Trachy. It's sister is looking great right next to it.
The only difference between the two is the one with the hanging fronds is in tad smaller pot and is visibly root bound(sides of pot are bulging) as I think it liked being in the ground last year. This is the one I'm going to de pot and plant totally in the ground next month. The challenge will be to get the pot off! as it's not just a simple thin walled cheap grow pot, but thick plastic one.
I think this one liked the warmth of having the pot in the ground, and top of pot hidden by pea gravel. It was probably funny to watch my wife and I trying to pull it out of the hole.
Nope it and it's fellow palm garage mates have been overwintering all the same in the garage and have looked great till just this past week or two. Other than it being really dry soil.
How much light was it getting in the garage? I had a robusta under too little light that got all limp and just died. I think it was also coupled with too moist of soil. Best bet is to replace the soil immediately with a lightweight mix that's barely moist. Get it all the light it can take and hope for the best.
All of the plants in the garage were next to garage door with windows in it (facing west) but had a stand up floor lamp between them all with 100W daylight spectrum CFL bulb that was on from 5am-8pm.
I didn't know how often the lower fronds dried up and would need cut off. Plant has 3 great looking spears it's pushing so didn't know if that meant oldest lower fronds would dry and and need cut off. Roots trying to come out drain holes some are 6 inches long, so will be a challenge to get pot cut off.
All plants got same water and light, but only this plant looks this way.
Again, any watering over the winter was at the beginning of the month and was just more of a splash around the top of the dirt. Only this last time did I give it more water because soil probe showed it was bone dry. I've tried to pull on the fronds to see if they pull from the trunk and they do not. It's almost like they were too heavy from the weight of the fan an droop down, other than the fan itself is drying up.
Nicer days coming, so will put outside during the days and see what happens. Just to be on safe side I did sprinkle some anti fungus powder in crown.
Yea I did water it and the other plants in the garage as well it shares the space with. Since it's environment has gotten warmer and the soil meter needle read DRY I gave it more water. The soil in the pot drains really well, so a lot of what I poured in came out drain holes at the bottom.
How often do they shed lower fronds? I pulled on the fronds and stuck my finger in at the joint to see if it felt mushy and it didn't, and fronds won't pull out. The 3 new spears all look great and they don't pull either.
I would get them outside for a while. Anything above 40 leave them out. All my palms grew great inside this year till mid feb then the majesty and foxtail went south fast. My trachy got spider mites so they all went outside. They have all done well since
All of them are outside now, and the Trachy that was looking limp "seems" to have started looking better with more water and being outside. Maybe they get tired of winter too just like us. I'll know in the next week or two if it will recover completely.
