Help! Under watered or Over watered?

[Skip]

Help, this was planted on June 6. Is it under watered or overwatered? I started watering with 2 gallons of water every 3 days about a week ago. First 2 pics are today, last 2 are from June 22. Should I water the fronds also? It was 106 today going up to 115 this weekend.

 

Edited July 1, 2023 by Skip

[D Palm]

With that much heat, probably a good drenching every night until temps cool off this fall. The heat of summer is really stressful on transplants. What type of palm is it? Pygmy?

[Skip]

Yes it is a robellini or what some call a pygmy palm. Thank you for your response!

 

[Palmfarmer]

As the other writter said try watering at night. You can water every day if you want unless it is in some thick clay that drains poorly.  Avoid watering the fronds/leafs.

Pygmies love water, but are drought tolerant once established as well. 

[Johnny Palmseed]

You already posted this in another thread. You are under watering it. Soak the hell out of it and you might save it although it looks like it is taking a turn for the worse compared to the other pictures. Crisp leaflets is a bad sign. You might want to try some shade cloth. And more water. Then water it some more.

[jwitt]

Shade while acclimating.  Keep moist.

[Skip]

I am going to set a hose by it tonite at a slow trickle for at least a half hour. I will see if i can some fabric to protect it. Thanks for all the input!

[Skip]

Help! I’ve been watering every evening for 25 to 30 minutes for the past 9 days. Am I killing it? I found when I planted  2 white grubs which I pulled out of the existing soil. Are they a problem with palms?

[PalmatierMeg]

Pygmy dates are cheap and common. Perhaps it's time to chuck this sickly one and replace it with a new specimen. This is not a desert palm and shouldn't be treated as such. I'm looking at all that gray gravel baking in the sun and wondering whether the poor thing is being cooked to death. Certainly set up some kind of shade structure but also consider scraping away the rocks and laying some undyed wood mulch to shield it from the relentless sun.

Better yet, do some research or request some suggestions from PTers of palms that can better handle desert conditions. Pgymy dates are so overrated.

[aztropic]

Was WAY underwatered to start,which caused the current condition. Palms also don't grow much in 110F plus desert conditions,and just go into survival mode,so you won't see much in the way of new growth until September. This species is native to Laos and Vietnam,growing along riverbanks. Impossible to overwater facing desert temps over 105...

 

aztropic

Mesa, Arizona 

[Skip]

Thank you aztropic! I will keep up with the watering! Never had this problem with the 6 other robellini I’ve planted. Some are now 18 years old