Palm Surgery - Need Photos

[cheshirepalms]

One of my Canary Island date palms spear pulled in May 2013. By the end of the summer it had made a decent recovery. This was aided by a spell of dry weather after the pull and a warm summer by English standards. I used no chemicals at all on the palm and it shows that they can still recover in cooler climates and that a pull doesn't mean death. The first picture is May 2013, the second mid July, the third mid August and the last is January this year.

[Brad Mondel]

Are you ready to cry.

Trachycarpus Wagnerianus:

Butia:

Washingdeadia:

more Butia:

[Phoenikakias]

Keith, I am really sorry I had not taken any shots of my Coccothrinax miraguama that spear pulled. I did not have though to make palm surgery to save it, I had instead poured in the gap fosetyl in powder form. Just the way I had at same time worked on my Bismarckia (you can find plenty pics of it in this forum). Both plants finally recovered. My method does not work (and I doubt if any method woks anyway), when it comes to bud rot through poisoning by herbicides, but in latter case I fear that meristem is first to be affected and killed...

Here's a today close-up of my miraguama. You can still see remains of petioles from the first deformed leaves (part of petioles) after recovery without surgery. First leaf after recovery is very deformed and dies fast.

[LilikoiLee]

All across the Northern Gulf Coast people are coming to grips with palm damage. At least one article said, "A sign that a palm is dead is when the spear leaf in the center of a palm canopy can be pulled out of the bud or heart." We all know for sure that is not true.

I would like to write and submit an article about saving palms, talking first about fungicide treatment after spear pull, and then about palm surgery in extreme cases. Pretty sure I can cover the subject matter, but I welcome input. What I don't have is some good photos.

Does anyone have, or know of some really good before and after photos on the subjects above, particularly on palm surgery?

This could help a lot of folks to not to kill palms that may actually survive.

Can't wait! Mike and I really need this type of information all in one place!

Lee

[Brad Mondel]

T.Wagnerianus pre-treatment:

Post treatment of hydrogen peroxide (3 weeks):

[Alicehunter2000]

As of now, I still have hope for all my queens, the two smaller copernicia's, small washies, small unprotected bizzies, small reclinata, small sylvestris and big ponytail. Weather has finally been warming up enough for growth, can actually go outside at night with shorts and not be cold. Will post photo's if anything starts pushing growth.

I have very little hope for the one tall copernicia, small triangles, and the tall stems on the big A.wrightii and all my clumps of Rhaphis excelsa. Also the neighbors P. roeb's look to be toast as well. May cut down on them some more tomorrow to see if there is any life at all.

Yard still looks pretty much like crap with a lot of brown fronds. Will be a long slow slog back to normalcy.

Got all kinds of new stuff being planted.

[_Keith]

I feel your pain, but this week with some good heat I am seeing new life. I gave up on my mid-sized queen and pulled it replacing with a mule. My big queen still looks alive, but I'll breath easier when I see a big spear pushing out.

P reclinata, after surgery is pushing hard, 3 inches a week now.

All else looking good, but that one W filibusta whose issue I think were in advance of the winter, due to incessant rains. I plan to operated on it a bit deeper next week.