whats wrong with my foxtail?

[dp92651]

Can someone please provide some advice re: my foxtail palm? Much of fronds have turned yellow-ish and it has developed odd brown spotting. Not on the tips as usual but at more of the bast of the leaflets (see picture). I moved it a couple weeks ago (it is potted), the spot that it was in gets very little light in the winter, it is now getting sun from about 11 p.m. onward. I live close to the coast.

Thanks!

[MattyB]

Does this palm see full sun in the summer? How long have you had it? If it's being moved from a shadey spot to full sun then I'd say it's sunburn.

[dp92651]

It gets peak sun in the summer (between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. then sunset) I have had it in the same pot for over two years.

Thanks.

[paulgila]

give it some ironite. the new leaf doesnt look too bad so i wouldnt worry too much.

they like alot of water in spring & summer & even fall in socal.

[edric]

Too much sun, little trees like to be under bigger trees! Ed

[QUINNPALMS]

plant it!, my experience with wodyetia is they do not like pots once mature.

[Mats]

Can someone please provide some advice re: my foxtail palm? Much of fronds have turned yellow-ish and it has developed odd brown spotting. Not on the tips as usual but at more of the bast of the leaflets (see picture). I moved it a couple weeks ago (it is potted), the spot that it was in gets very little light in the winter, it is now getting sun from about 11 p.m. onward. I live close to the coast.

Thanks!

This looks just like the coconut you asked about last August.

Pop it out of the container and look at the roots. If you have this on your drip system, I'm betting that it wasn't getting enough water. Oftentimes, drip emitters aren't wetting the entire root ball.

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

I notice a smaller palm to the rear of the pic that looks about the same as the foxtail.....

that would indicate that something applied or not applied to both is the causal agent...it's called pattern language.....look for similarities in other plants and seek to narrow down the cause from there...start at the most global conditions and work backwards...

Rusty

[amazon exotics]

Lack of water.

[Davidl]

I have had problem with foxtails having iron deficiency in a pot. They look like that when I grow them in a pot but not in the ground.

Edited December 12, 2010 by Davidl

[dp92651]

Can someone please provide some advice re: my foxtail palm? Much of fronds have turned yellow-ish and it has developed odd brown spotting. Not on the tips as usual but at more of the bast of the leaflets (see picture). I moved it a couple weeks ago (it is potted), the spot that it was in gets very little light in the winter, it is now getting sun from about 11 p.m. onward. I live close to the coast.

Thanks!

This looks just like the coconut you asked about last August.

Pop it out of the container and look at the roots. If you have this on your drip system, I'm betting that it wasn't getting enough water. Oftentimes, drip emitters aren't wetting the entire root ball.

Thank you very much, it probably is sunburn. I am surprised given the amount of sun it receives in the summertime.

I moved it to where it gets a bit more shade.