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These wont need trimming for awhile


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I usually feel as though, if a palm belongs to someone then they are free to trim it as they would like regardless of what people may say is "proper".  But,  this might be a bit extreme :D

I am all for the clean look and dont like dead fronds hanging down as much as the next guy, but this is a bit ridiculous!

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Larry 

Palm Harbor, FL 10a / Ft Myers, FL 10b

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That's one for http://www.plantamnesty.org/

Installing expensive landscaping only to destroy it by overpruning is a bit like the old Soviet practice of turning valuable natural resources into worthless manufactured goods.

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Isn't that called a 'hurricane cut' in FL? It certainly is not healthy for the tree.

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

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It looks like whoever was trimming them may have dropped a couple of their seeds while they were up there. Might also explain the trim job :(

Zone 5? East Lansing MI

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That's nasty and, unfortunately, it happens too often. I can't imagine anyone liking this sort of butchered look. There are a lot of tree trimmers out there, usually the really cheap ones, that think this sort of prune job is perfectly fine.

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it's not seeds guys it's fern. quite often in florida the palms get ferns growing in them from all the lush tropical conditions..humidity etc!!

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Even i love trimming of the phoenix SP.but these still show

that the guys have over done their job.

and no doubt the trunks are not as massive to my

expectations..if they trim in this fashion it will look like

a washy robusta's trunk in years to come  :D

Kris.

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Tad is right. More than half of mature P. canariensis will have some sort of growth on the crown area. These are usually tree ferns, but can be strangler figs, Carrotwoods, anything that likes to germinate where it well pleases.

Christian Faulkner

Venice, Florida - South Sarasota County.

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Reminds me of some of the hatchet jobs around here. Don't you all know anything? This makes them grow faster :)

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

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(Alicehunter2000 @ Feb. 26 2007,01:33)

QUOTE
Don't you all know anything? This makes them grow faster :)

Yes,accepted they grow faster,but at the cost of their

trunk size_  :D

Kris.

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Just goes to show, any moron with a chainsaw can have a job...    :angry:

Broward County has even gone so far as to legislate against "Hurricane Pruning"...  

http://www.co.broward.fl.us/environment/pub_trees_2.pdf

Good luck enforcing that one...  Just goes to show any moron with a diploma can make rules...  :angry:

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Done repeatedly, that will seriously damage those palms.

The same thing is done to many other species, too, including:  P. robellinii, queens, and washies.

I suspect that the people asked that the cut be made that way so as "not to have to do it again so soon."

Sigh.

dave

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That trimmer should be shot dead. The caliper of that palm will greatly reduce as the tree grows due to the "nut" being trimmed too tight. Very unprofessional trimming practices there. I bet the health of those trees will slowly decline from here on out.

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Hideous.

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

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That IS horrible. Although, I DO like the look of some of the P. Canariensis in VEGAS, I think that you really have to be careful not to over-prune.. I kinda like the  Pineapple look if it's not overdone and the tree is healthy. I mean it's pretty obvious why they're doing it in Vegas - they're taking a tree than they know will grow well and turning it into something that looks tropical instead of Mediterranean.

Bobby

Long Island, New York  Zone 7a (where most of the southern Floridians are originally from)

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There was a topic on the 'old' forum, about a year ago, very similar to this one. Robert Lee Riffle himself had to give his opinion, too. Of course, he agreed the tree was overtrimmed. He added (I'm paraphrasing): "You can tell that a tree is being overtrimmed because the trunk becomes much narrower. The diameter gets pinched and it never grows back." After I read that, I started to look around and I notice it all the time -- a palm's trunk will suddenly begin to shrink near the top.

In fact, I (believe) I've seen this with Washingtonia's, too. People too eager to get that same look you see on the canariensis. Will post a photo if I see one soon.

Germinating and growing palms since December 2005

Zone 11 on the leeward side of Kauai, Hawaii

sunny, hot, dry summers with mild winters

340+ sunny days a year

always between 66-92F (19-33C)

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Disgusting.

I'm glad I've never seen any of that butchery in my country, although most of the women here do it with their hair - with similar results.

(I wonder if it affects their trunks...)

Reuven                                                                          

Karmiel, Israel

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A Publix plaza in my area has six CIDP in the main entrance, three on either side. In one side the CIDPs are overpruned because they built a "Big Boy" restaurant and they want the front sign not to be blocked. One of the palms was replaced and the replacement palm already died. The other two are severely stunted with fronds that are smaller than my roeb.

Frank

 

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humid/hot summers; dry/cool winters

with yearly freezes

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