Doinker Suicide

[Looking Glass]

I’ve got a Chrysalidocarpus pembanus/Dypsis pembana that is the neglected stepchild of the yard.  In a testament to its suitability to this area, It continues to grow, despite me not really watering or fertilizing it, or paying much attention to it.   It puts up suckers that usually crump out over a year, but has had a side low trunk, doinker that has persisted quite a while.   Sometime today the doinker jumped ship.   It appears that it made some roots of its own, and the main trunk made some roots in the same spot, and they popped free of each other.  It was a calm, sunny day.  

I don’t expect the doinker to survive, and perhaps the wound will take out the main trunk in time.  I don’t know.   I’m not too worried as my plan was not to keep this guy there much longer.  They are fine palms.  It was just a bit of a misplant for that spot.  
 

[flplantguy]

I almost overwatered mine and killed its doinker, but i saved the main plant.  Can these take full sun here in the afternoon?  They are just small enough i think i may have a spot for it if its tough enough. Summer sun and winter shade on the front corner of the house as an anchor plant for the bed behind a hibiscus.  Frost may be an issue though.  That looks great for a neglected plant, do you fertilize it at all?

[Looking Glass]

23 minutes ago, flplantguy said:

I almost overwatered mine and killed its doinker, but i saved the main plant.  Can these take full sun here in the afternoon?  They are just small enough i think i may have a spot for it if its tough enough. Summer sun and winter shade on the front corner of the house as an anchor plant for the bed behind a hibiscus.  Frost may be an issue though.  That looks great for a neglected plant, do you fertilize it at all?

This one has no problems with heavy sun and heat here, since being planted as a 3 gallon smally.   Pretty sun tolerant overall.  I was planning on planting a small Lantania or Coccothrinax or Copernicia in front of it, then eventually lopping it off at ground level.   So I haven’t given it any TLC.   Still stays pretty happy.  These do get quite tall and for some people they grow fast.  Look cool with the frosty blue-green.  A neighbor has a clump of 25 foot stalks in front of the house.  Also can be a bit of an upper trunk snapper during hurricanes FYI. 

[flplantguy]

Very glad i asked! I will probably put it in another spot then, i do have plenty of room lol.