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Queen Palm Root Structure

melzod

By melzod
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melzod Rookie

melzod

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Hello...I am new to this group and just trying to find an answer to what I think should be an easy question. Our water district would like to know the mature root depth and width of Queen Palms before we are allowed to plant them in ground. Can anyone help me with this? thanks!

Melanie

Pivi Mentor

Pivi

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man...can't beleive those rules...

i'm lucky not to live there in that case...that is so funny...

i'm sorry

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island Vis, adriatic sea, Croatia. Zone 9b/10a

Temperature low last winter: -0.9°C/30.4 F

Temperature low this winter: -0.3°C/31.5 F

-Creating my own little palm heaven-

PalmGuyWC Grand Master

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Melanie,

Tell whoever made that rediculious request that you have no idea, since your not a mole. I don't think anyone could answer that stupid question. You could mention that palm roots do not grow in girth, such as decidious trees, and they don't break up sidewalks like decidious trees. You should look around in your neighborhood, and if there are other Queen palms growing there, then they should allow you to grow them too.

Dick

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_Keith Grand Master

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Hello...I am new to this group and just trying to find an answer to what I think should be an easy question. Our water district would like to know the mature root depth and width of Queen Palms before we are allowed to plant them in ground. Can anyone help me with this? thanks!

Melanie

Melanie,

Can you tell us more about your locale? State, city, type of soil, and other location details, such as street tree, etc. I guess the real question is whether they will need supplemental water other than natural rainfall.

Thanks,

Keith

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melzod Rookie

melzod

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Keith, thanks for your reply. We live in San Diego so the trees do need some watering. Our soil here is pretty rocky (we are mostly on granite)with some mixture of clay, so what we do plant needs a lot of ammendments.

DoomsDave Grand Master

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Hello...I am new to this group and just trying to find an answer to what I think should be an easy question. Our water district would like to know the mature root depth and width of Queen Palms before we are allowed to plant them in ground. Can anyone help me with this? thanks!

Melanie

Why do they profess to need to know this?

Do you have to get permission from them to plant something?

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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realarch Grand Master

realarch

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Pretty crazy since there are already thousands of queen palms in San Diego. Maybe you can try something a bit more exotic like Brahea, but not sure in what part of the

city you are located.

Tim

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

glbower Collaborator

glbower

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Melanie -- Having dug out by hand (ax and sharp shovel) 6 mature queens broken off at the base by Hurricane Charley, I am intimately familiar with their root systems. Mine were very shallow, less than 6 inches in depth, and no bigger in diameter than your little finger. Although each palm had hundreds of roots, I can guarantee they are not a threat, and you can quote me.

Punta Gorda, Fla.

26 53 N 82 02 W

on a large saltwater canal basin 1/2 mile from beautiful Charlotte Harbor 10A/10B microclimate (I hope)

malcthomas Community Regular

malcthomas

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Melanie..

In my opinion that question is a bit like the "how long is a piece of string"" question.

If a palm is regularly watered and fertilised, then my guess is that it would have a more shallow root system than one that isn't..

regards...Malcom

Bennz Experienced

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Melanie -- Having dug out by hand (ax and sharp shovel) 6 mature queens broken off at the base by Hurricane Charley, I am intimately familiar with their root systems. Mine were very shallow, less than 6 inches in depth, and no bigger in diameter than your little finger. Although each palm had hundreds of roots, I can guarantee they are not a threat, and you can quote me.

Mature Queen palms with roots only to 6 inches!!! How did the things stay upright?? A mature Queen with roots that shallow must have had root diameter that was pretty impressive... Is there some quirk of soil etc that made them root this shallow? I had always thought these palms were examples of naturally deeper rooting palm species...

Waimarama New Zealand (39.5S, 177E)

Oceanic temperate

summer 25C/15C

winter 15C/6C

No frost, no heat

Alicehunter2000 Grand Master

Alicehunter2000

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Make up a number.......since they obviously don't know either. Tell them what they want to hear......they are just coggs in a beaurocratic machine, who need to plug some numbers into their paperwork......so they can be important too.

On a totally different note.......our city inspectors here insist we have thermometers in our beer coolers. Uh....excuse me..... beer doesn't need to be cold to be sold (notice the hot beer for sale right outside the cooler)........Hello....Hello McFly! Most of these code enforcement people don't have a clue. .........Sorry for the rant.

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

gsn Veteran

gsn

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Melzod didn't say so,but my guess is this is a municipal,or county planting rather than residental,hence the NEED for bureaucratic numbers?

I can't imagine a city where queens are a dime a dozen, restricting residental plantings of this palm,but who knows?

Scott

Titusville, FL

1/2 mile from the Indian River

USDA Zone COLD

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