Hi everyone,

Last December I bought a 15 gal A. Alexandrae tripple and potted it up to a 25 gal pot. Been growing steadily despite these cold months we’ve seen and I love the thing! 

When I potted it up, I’d cut off the smallest of the triplets since it was severely stunted and ugly. I know archies are sensitive to root disturbances and there was no way I’d have been able to remove it by the roots without tearing them up pretty bad, and I’d read in a thread about archies that the best thing to do is just cut the one you don’t want as close to the soil as possible. 

I’ve been waiting for the inevitable rot of the nub left behind, but I think the cold weather had been staving it off. Well, after our first wet and warm week of early spring, it’s definitely rotten... I pulled on what was there and half of it came right off leaving this behind: (gross) 

I’ve done my best to remove what I could with a razor being careful not to knick the other two, but I’m left with this: 

What now? I’ve got some systemic fungicide (propicanazole) that I’ll soil drench + foliar spray with, and I plan to soak the rotten nub with some hydrogen peroxide being delivered today, but are there any other tips? How often can I safely soak that area with peroxide? Anything I’m not thinking of? Is this something I should even worry about? 

Thanks in advance! 
 

 

 

10 hours ago, chad2468emr said:

Hi everyone,

Last December I bought a 15 gal A. Alexandrae tripple and potted it up to a 25 gal pot. Been growing steadily despite these cold months we’ve seen and I love the thing! 

When I potted it up, I’d cut off the smallest of the triplets since it was severely stunted and ugly. I know archies are sensitive to root disturbances and there was no way I’d have been able to remove it by the roots without tearing them up pretty bad, and I’d read in a thread about archies that the best thing to do is just cut the one you don’t want as close to the soil as possible. 

I’ve been waiting for the inevitable rot of the nub left behind, but I think the cold weather had been staving it off. Well, after our first wet and warm week of early spring, it’s definitely rotten... I pulled on what was there and half of it came right off leaving this behind: (gross) 

I’ve done my best to remove what I could with a razor being careful not to knick the other two, but I’m left with this: 

What now? I’ve got some systemic fungicide (propicanazole) that I’ll soil drench + foliar spray with, and I plan to soak the rotten nub with some hydrogen peroxide being delivered today, but are there any other tips? How often can I safely soak that area with peroxide? Anything I’m not thinking of? Is this something I should even worry about? 

Thanks in advance! 
 

 

 

I would just leave it be and let dry out and deteriorate on it’s own. 

15 hours ago, -2 brian said:

I would just leave it be and let dry out and deteriorate on it’s own. 

Okay so good to know that I’m probably being over dramatic haha. I’ve read too many threads about rotting material touching a trunk initiating rot that this one rotting stump touching and integrated with the other two was stressing me out, but good to know that most of the time leaving it to do it’s thing is no problem. 

1 hour ago, chad2468emr said:

Okay so good to know that I’m probably being over dramatic haha. I’ve read too many threads about rotting material touching a trunk initiating rot that this one rotting stump touching and integrated with the other two was stressing me out, but good to know that most of the time leaving it to do it’s thing is no problem. 

You’re probably not being over dramatic but it’s rotting due to being cut. That was going to happen regardless. I’m not sure it’s the same as developing a fungus due to unclean tools. I cut 1 of a double Veitchia back a few years ago and did nothing with the stump. It was about 10” tall since that was as close as I could get to the roots. The remaining palm is fine and the stump is basically gone but the roots are still there.