Butia leaf problem

[NC_Palms]

Anybody know what's up with my butia? leaf seems to be yellowing a bit.

[Laaz]

Just looks like an old leaf, cut it off.

[Steve Mac]

Laas might be right, I would wait until it was completely dead so that all of the mobile nutrients could be reabsorbed by the rest of the plant, then cut it off.

I then cut up the dead crunchy leaf finely and add that back to the soil to recycle the less mobile nutrients that need breaking down further in the soil, to be reused. 

Also the old potting mix has probably compacted down a bit, low in the pot, loosening that up with some fresh stuff may also help. It is tempting to treat an outside potted plant as if it was in the ground, and for a few years that is usually ok. But often they will suddenly 'hit the wall', for no apparent reason. Old leaves will yellow die prematurely and plants will slowly lose vigour. We found that repotting more regularly in fresh potting mix solved 90% of potted plants problems. Using bigger pots did not help either.   

Your Butia's problem is probably among the three most common problems for potted palms which are, over watering, soil compaction and loss of nutrients.    

Steve

[NC_Palms]

On 10/28/2018, 6:33:57, gtsteve said:

Laas might be right, I would wait until it was completely dead so that all of the mobilenutrients could be reabsorbed by the rest of the plant, then cut it off.

I then cut up the dead crunchy leaf finely and add that back to the soil to recycle the less mobile nutrients that need breaking down further in the soil, to be reused. 

Also the old potting mix has probably compacted down a bit, low in the pot, loosening that up with some fresh stuff may also help. It is tempting to treat an outside potted plant as if it was in the ground, and for a few years that is usually ok. But often they will suddenly 'hit the wall', for no apparent reason. Old leaves will yellow die prematurely and plants will slowly lose vigour. We found that repotting more regularly in fresh potting mix solved 90% of potted plants problems. Using bigger pots did not help either.   

Your Butia's problem is probably among the three most common problems for potted palms which are, over watering, soil compaction and loss of nutrients.    

Steve

We've had a lot of rain, so that may be a problem. I am planning on planting this butia in the ground soon anyways.