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Care of Queen Palms

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Looking for info on pruning my Queen Palms, what time of year, how often.  Do I prune green fronds at all or only brown ones?  Watering info as well, I live in SoCal.  Thank you.

As for pruning it's best to remove brown or yellow fronds. Do not cut off green fronds unless they are in the way of something or a slap hazard. The palm reabsorbs nutrients from dying fronds. Also, hacking off lots of green fronds or hurricane cutting palms is detrimental to their health and survival. Don't correlate pruning palms with pruning dicot trees - they are very different plants. Palms are monocots related to grasses.

Queens are water and fertilizer hogs. Someone in Cali can give you advice on proper care.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

Queens are pretty resilient.  I just took one brown frond off my largest today, and 3 green ones while I had the pole saw out and so I could get to an infructescence I wanted to cut off before it turned into a rodent magnet.  You can't over-water Queens in CA.  They are pretty drought tolerant, but the more water they get, the better they will look.

Ben Rogers

On the border of Concord & Clayton in the East Bay hills - Elev 387 ft 37.95 °N, 121.94 °W

My back yard weather station: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=37.954%2C-121.945&sp=KCACONCO37

Water say once or twice a week maybe more, but if you do more per week then you dont need to do as many deep waterings. I havent deep watered mine for a while since we get frequent storms here. Make sure to fertilize every 3 months or so, do not fertilize during winter. Only cut off brown or yellow fronds as said above. Never participate in the practice of hurricane cutting, any palm with a hurricane cut looks terrible. First pic is hurricane cut, second is not. 

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Palms - 1 Bismarckia nobilis, 2 Butia odorataBxJ, 3 BxSChamaerops humilis, 1 Chamaedorea cataractarum, 1 Chamaedorea elegans, 1 Chamaedorea microspadix1 Chamaedorea radicalis1 Hyophorbe verschaffeltiiLivistona chinensis1 Livistona nitida, 1 Phoenix canariensis2 Phoenix roebelenii, Ravenea rivularis1 Rhapis excelsa1 Sabal bermudana, Sabal palmetto, 1 Sabal minor, 3 Syagrus romanzoffiana, Trachycarpus fortunei4 Washingtonia robusta
Total: 36

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