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Sylvester Palm not doing well, please help

CapG

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I have 5 Sylvester palms, all planted a few years ago. They were 8' tall and healthy when planted in hard, clayish soil. I'm in south Louisiana, but last 2 winters have had temps in the mid teens.

Since then, 4 are doing very well, but one doesn't look very good and I am concerned!

The 2 palms in attached pics are about 20' apart, get same sun (all day), water (every other day), and fertilizer (jobes palm spikes twice/yr).

1 seems to be doing great, other has yellowed fronds and most recent attempt to sprout new ones have turned brown.

The only other issue I have is one some of the healthy ones, the sprouting fronds have collapsed while still green, but they sprout news ones when this happens that seem to do OK.

ANY ideas on what could be wrong would be sincerely appreciated!

cheers

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Welcome to the forum!

It looks to me like you have some fungus in the growth point. The best way in my opinion to treat that is poring some peroxide down the growth point. Repeat once a week and it should recover nicely.

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