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@Skenny Get the light saber out.

Near normal? Which one? The one before 2023 or the one since then?

Yeah, Than. I’d do that for your plant and change the potting mix—meaning I’d adjust the mixture to get it just right. I think your plant will appreciate it. And yeah, it always takes some effort, but you’re good at it, and besides, your partner can help out. If I were closer, I’d be happy to do it for you 🤗

Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons!

Skenny, yes, cut off all the completely brown parts right away. It needs air for oxygen and the sun’s warmth and light. Be sure to leave the other green and yellow fronds; their energy flows back to the heart. As Merlyn, PalmasNorte, and Harry already mentioned. Yes, fertilizing is good—just as Merlyn explained. I’m not familiar with that brand of fertilizer, but he is and has had good results with it. Keep your chin up—plants thought to be dead often survive; she’ll come back! Good luck! Warm regards from the far north on Lake Constance, Switzerland Mazat

Hello, yes I do. Arenarius X horridus hybrids, horridus X arenarius, and arenarius X trispinosus are all very blue and spiny plants. I also have pure horridus, but the hybrids are bigger and just as blue and spiny. The first picture in the post is a typical example of what those plants look like.

There are some similarities between them but there's a couple of distinguishable differences. Sabal mauritiiformis has massive fronds about 5-6' wide and the inflorescence extends well beyond the crown. The old leaf bases it maintains stay green for a long time. And if course no petiole thorns. Livistona decora is much more common in cultivation - I've never seen one outside of a botanical garden although supposedly there's one at a college in Brownsville.

I would drag those palms outside when temps are warm enough. Here's Newark:

To be honest, I think checking the top 1" of soil is not enough. Very often I've seen the top 1" dry, but there was still a lot of water below and the plant didn't need watering.

Being indoors it’s not going to need a lot of water. If it was outdoors in summer for sure a bit of water, it’s the biggest mistake growing indoors and overwatering, very common. Just stop watering for now and try to warm the soil up to get the palms metabolic rate up so it drinks a bit more, cut of the dead leaves. The top one of soil should be dry that’s a good indicator, the old way to check was to place your finger in the soil and if the top one inch of soil is wet then no water for indoor plants. Drainage is another key to success as well indoors. Good luck and keep that watering can in the cupboard for a while.

It's in THE MOST perfect spot for one of my Colocasia Redemptions. Maybe one day I'll feel good enough to go out there with a crowbar and the sledge. Or go rent a truck and sign up for all the extra insurance a la Planes Trains and Automobiles.

About 20 years back I pounded a piece of rebar into the ground to support a plant. I can't get it out. I've dug down about 8 inches and will go out again with a cutoff wheel.

Too wet they love good drainage!

Did they obstruct the sidewalk at all?

Straight up biophobia. Very common in countries like the US.

That sound kind of like stuff an old lady would do, enforcing the right of way. Who else would take the time or care that much. HOA types.

Oh it's concreted in, I've dug around the concrete. I miss my younger days when I could break it loose and pick it up. Anyway as far as the projectile goes I can't tell if you're trying to talk me into or out of trying that 😂

Sometimes it's hard to tell what it is. Looks alot like a Mauritiiformis, the slender trunk, upright boots and hanging leaflets. I guess the difference is more visible in the growing point area as well as some other areas that I can't identify.

Is it Livistona decora aka ribbon palm.

These look much better than the specimens at Four Arts in PB, which do not have that dark red! Beautiful palms!

Spines do deter. I'm on a busy sidewalk and have had fronds messed with before the palms got taller. Some were cut off with a machete, others were bent at the petiole. I put up a surveillance sign once when I thought it would happen again with newly planted stuff. I figured it was pedestrians angry at being touched by a palm. When working in the yard, I have been yelled at by people travelling down the sidewalk... 'Cut these leaves!' ... answered promptly with "No." Ryan

There are never enough palms

Saw this specimen today on my way to pick up grandchildren from school: