Dypsis Pembana

[Patrick Palms]

I have currently , one year old Dypsis Pembana seedlings , planted in the ground. What Fertilizer do you recommend? 

[Steve Mac]

It depends on how fertile your soil is to start with. I usually start from the premise that palms don't get supplementary fert in habitat anyway, and we use very little here.

 A soil high in organics will usually supply everything that they need.

But if it is not, I would use 'blood and bone' or bone meal every 3 or 4 months in spring and summer only and any general purpose fert at the same time.

[Steve Mac]

Our pembana was planted about 10 years ago in what I would consider poor soil, being rubble and concrete from the house being built.

More dirt than soil, and maybe a handful of cheap general purpose fert thrown around it once or twice when it was raining.

It is going past the eaves of the 2 story house now. It was kept watered though for the first half of its life.

This is why I think that usually people don't need fert, because we don't.

It will depend on how poor your soil mix is to start with.

[steve99]

I've got eight Dypsis Pembana in ground and fertilize with 6 months  (ferns& indoors) Osmocote.  I just spread a few handfuls under the mulch around the dropline twice a year.