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Roystonea (Royal palm) and pritchardia transplant advice

dwimss
dwimss
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Hi, 

I would like to get some advice for transplation of royal palm and prichardia. 

They are not looking good due to lack of water, the guy who's selling me the palms have some issue to get water in his farm so they were not watered since 2 or 3 year, they get only  rain water, in my country the rain fall is very very low and winters little cold.

Im intending to get only the small one (trunk just starting, pictures below), since it will be easier to keep the root ball.
But I would like to have advices from you and to know if I have any chances that they will grow and look good after translation. 

Here are the pictures of the unwatered royals in mediterranean climate after 2 or 3 years :

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    Wow, Morocco? 

    Root prune the palm. Wait 5 weeks. See if you can add some water over that time.

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    I used to live in south Florida where royals were farmed for transplanting to people's gardens, so maybe not too difficult. I now live in Hawaii, where most professional field growers of palms for landscaping won't touch Pritchardias because they are so difficult to transplant. They are in the Bismarckia class. With experience and much preparation, it might be possible. Maybe it would be better to grow large specimens in big pots for transplanting to the ground without root disturbance.

     

    Mike Merritt

    Big Island of Hawaii, windward, rainy side, 740 feet (225 meters) elevation

    165 inches (4,200 mm) of rain per year, 66 to 83 deg F (20 to 28 deg C) in summer, 62 to 80 deg F (16.7 to 26.7 Deg C) in winter.

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    Northern Morocco is warm enough year round for Royal Palms? Any coconuts?

    PalmTreeDude

    Ken is the Man

    his advise is near Scripture

    He's moved palms the way most of move our well you know :o (frequently and regularly ;))

    I Agree that more water is better

    be prepared for mucho kilos

    but worth the trouble!

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    Thanks for your advice, I'll see if its possible to water  them at least for few days after root pruning. If not I'll try anyway some of them with the largest root ball possible and will give some updates.

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    22 hours ago, PalmTreeDude said:

    Northern Morocco is warm enough year round for Royal Palms? Any coconuts?

    I saw some large Royal doing well in Rabat and Casablanca (some with seeds), but I have never seen any coconuts over here.  I saw some in canary island close to the Moroccan coast, but they have a microclimate there and the temperature does not drop there below 15 C (59 F) during the winter.

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