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Marge Simpson Palm


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I sometimes pass a set of palm trees at a shopping center where one palm has had the fronds tied up for probably 6 months or more. It kind of looks like Marge Simpson. Does anyone know if this can eventually kill the palm? I called and left a message for the shopping center management company, but they never did anything.

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The drains are also kind of high:

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It looks like whoever planted it never finished the job and just left.

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Thats a date palm. I leave the fronds tied up like that for up to a year while regenerating dug palms at the nursery.  50-70 days straight at 100 degrees in the summer along with dessicating winds take a toll on palms with a small root system.

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:floor::lol::greenthumb:

 

B)

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Oakley, California

55 Miles E-NE of San Francisco, CA

Solid zone 9, I can expect at least one night in the mid to low twenties every year.

Hot, dry summers. Cold, wet winters.

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Extensive studies have shown that this sort of tied up fronds at the time of transplanting and left in place for any amount of time has no advantages over the fronds being open in a natural state particularly on palms from dry climates. In fact dry climate palms transplanted to more humid areas can actually be damaged by fungus when tied up this way.

Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

zone 10a/9b

sunset zone 16

300+ palms, 90+ species in the ground

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