Canary Island Date Palm, new frond edges brown?!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:07 pm

This is in sun most of the day.
I mist it once a day, several new fronds coming up, but why are their edges brown?
It was inside until the last frost.
Barb

Laaz · Post by **Laaz** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:22 pm

That is normal with Date palms. It is not the leaf itself & will peel away in a week or two.

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:44 am

Yep, Laaz is 100% correct.
My PDP (from the same genre) does the exact same thing. As the leaf grows out ward, it will drop those brown strings and you will have a beautiful new leaf.

dilbert · Post by **dilbert** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:43 am

Yes, ours has it, too. Can be somewhat confusing.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:58 am

Thanks folks (I was starting to sweat buckets that I had done something wrong!)

Now that you mention it, one brown "string" shown in the first pic is already falling off.
Whew!
Strange phenomenon nevertheless.
Barb