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Canary Island Date Palm, new frond edges brown?!
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:07 pm
by lucky1
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
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:22 pm
by Laaz
That is normal with Date palms. It is not the leaf itself & will peel away in a week or two.
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:44 am
by Kansas
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:43 am
by dilbert
Yes, ours has it, too. Can be somewhat confusing.
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:58 am
by lucky1
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