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Any hope for this little one?


cbmnz

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I bought this little Howea Belmoreana back in June, (not the cheapest palm down here) it did fine though winter in a pot, planted  mid spring. Was doing very well but couple weeks back noticed older leaves were browning off at faster rate than  before and was suddenly leaning over. When I look at base of trunk seems something has eaten away half of it. Any ideas if this looks most like insect, funus or a animal damage? Is it survivable? Resigned to fact are going to watch this little one die20210101_124006.thumb.jpg.022f9a424d1cb9fea1e8c9fb94bb5396.jpg slowly, one leaf at a time but hoping to be wrong.

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So, I would treat what appears to be the wound with insecticide. The newer leaves appear to be pretty healthy. Palms can heal from wounds at the base much easier than in the growing point. 

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Soil medium looks rather dry for Howea.  Dust the wounded area with a heavy dose of powdered sulfur.  :)

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15 minutes ago, Darold Petty said:

Soil medium looks rather dry for Howea.  Dust the wounded area with a heavy dose of powdered sulfur.  :)

Thanks, will try that. It's a quirk of where is planted just on edge of roof coverage. Very top soil gets dry but from 2cm down soil moisture is good, hence the green grass. That said instructions said not to water too often if in a pot and it seemed to like that through winter.

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  • 4 weeks later...

Starting to get hopeful this one will pull through as a month later appearance has not gotten too much worse. Did treat with sulphur as Darold suggested. Starting to suspect now the damage was from an animal as a dog that often strays onto my section likes the loose soil around  that palm as a toilet. A ring of plastic mesh has protected and righted it for now.

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On 12/31/2020 at 5:15 PM, cbmnz said:

It's a quirk of where is planted just on edge of roof coverage.

It is a bit late now, but I would have planted it further back from the house.  While I'm guilty of planting some Howea forsteriana too close to the house, I think that the structure of Howea belomoreana is best appreciated when its not crowded up against other palms, whereas forsteriana can look equally good in group plantings with other specimens or against a wall.  If you get another one at some point, I would give it some space to stretch based on personal experience with doing both types of plantings (grouping and solo with space) with this species.  Hope this one survives and does well as they are an attractive palm!

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1 hour ago, Tracy said:

It is a bit late now, but I would have planted it further back from the house.  While I'm guilty of planting some Howea forsteriana too close to the house, I think that the structure of Howea belomoreana is best appreciated when its not crowded up against other palms, whereas forsteriana can look equally good in group plantings with other specimens or against a wall.  If you get another one at some point, I would give it some space to stretch based on personal experience with doing both types of plantings (grouping and solo with space) with this species.  Hope this one survives and does well as they are an attractive palm!

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Would love to, but need the house and roof overhang to protect against radiation frost. Are 70km inland and see 28F or below here every winter. This a zone push/experimental planting. But I do know of a handful of Kentia up to 3m tall in various local private gardens, that took no damage last winter , and this one while still in pot had no problem this past winter, being near house and just under roof overhang. 

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