Dypsis Pembana Doink advice

[James B]

This has been by far the Uber rocket if all Dypsis species in my yard. I was hoping for more stems to grow as it was planted spring 2021 as a double. 
 

Well it produced a third stem but it’s a doink about 6” up the trunk. Will it ever look good? Or at least an oddity that worth keeping? Thanks!

[Billeb]

Although not a side growth, I just noticed yesterday mine has two tiny offspring forming. They are so small I thought they were weeds and I almost ripped them out. The tree has really picked up steam in the last couple months. It’s beginnings were rough. Planted as a 3G last summer. 
 

Regarding your doinker, I say leave it. I personally don’t mind how they look and they are always a topic of conversation. 
 

-dale

[The Gerg]

Not a pembana, but lanceolata’s are of course quite similar. I have this D. lanceolata that I have since lost the two larger trunks (I don’t want to talk about it), but you can see on the two trunks on front left side of picture each has about a 1” nub up the trunk a ways. I think yours will most likely have the same fate. I think these little doinkers are common with these palms and most often end up like this.

[sonoranfans]

pembanas can be solitary or they can be multi trunked, I have both.  My multitrunked one has a 18' overall trunk, one 12'' overall and a 2-3' overall one.  It covers 3 layers of jungle canopy.  Pembana is not a prolific clumper, but that is what I want.  As a decorative palm, they can be quite attractive in trunk color.  Lutecens clump far too much for me, lots of maintenance thinning the clump, pembanas are easy to maintain.  Dont expect 6 trunks from your pembana any time soon, maybe some day.  They also are a more vibrant green and retain blue green trunk colors much longer in part shade.  They do love water and are happiest being moist like archies.

[Palm Tree Jim]

Not that uncommon but I have always left them alone to see what happens.

Some continued to grow and other just died.  Most importantly, I never lost the trunk from which the donkier started.

 

[Merlyn]

I have a superdoinker (woohoo a new word!) Pembana that is doing weird stuff like that continuously.  This is what it looked like in November 2020:

[Merlyn]

And here is what it looks like about 1.5 or so years later from sorta-the-same-angle.  You have to look close to tell that several trunks were doinkers:

[Tracy]

15 hours ago, James B said:

 

Well it produced a third stem but it’s a doink about 6” up the trunk. Will it ever look good? Or at least an oddity that worth keeping? Thanks!

 

4 hours ago, Palm Tree Jim said:

Not that uncommon but I have always left them alone to see what happens.

Some continued to grow and other just died.  Most importantly, I never lost the trunk from which the donkier started.

 

As Jim said, doinkers on these clumping Dypsis don't seem to be unusual.  I would be a little worried about what it would do if you attempted to remove one.  Here are a couple of successful doinkers on a D pembana and a D lanceolata.  Unsuccessful doinkers on a very prolific Dypsis heteromorpha. 

[Merlyn]

55 minutes ago, Tracy said:

As Jim said, doinkers on these clumping Dypsis don't seem to be unusual.  I would be a little worried about what it would do if you attempted to remove one.  Here are a couple of successful doinkers on a D pembana and a D lanceolata.

 

That one looks really cool, I'd grow it that way for sure!  It looks like it is branching or growing a little arm off the side...