It goes to show never give up on sick palm ptychosperma burretianum

[happypalms]

This burretianum was repotted after it was raging along as the best from the batch, then for the life of me it just said see you later iam out of here for no apparent reason, I couldn’t work out what I had done wrong even after it was putting on new growth after repotting. And with being a special palm I couldn’t just put it in the compost living in hope it would make, a few times I was going to throw it out but the stem showed no signs of rotting so I left it alone and to my amazement it starting to come good again, wonders never cease to amaze especially in the plant kingdom. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Palms can spring back to life after seemingly “goners” . I was given a Rhapis palm that was “dead” , left by the dumpster in back of a nursery. It is very happy now and over 6’ tall and spreading out! The woman who ran the nursery told me it was once this beautiful , large palm that was used in a design home. The owners of the home thought it was an artificial plant so they never watered it . “ Did you not see it turning brown and crispy?” Harry

[JohnAndSancho]

Not a palm, but my mom has a ficus tree - not sure the exact species, but it's commonly called a rubber plant. When I was a kid, it was on our glassed in patio and there was plenty of Florida sun and humidity from the Jacuzzi in there. Somewhere along the way, she thought it died and had my brother toss it in the woods. 

One day, my brother was cutting the grass and saw it growing leaves again. It's nowhere near the size of what it was 30 years ago, but it's alive. I took a cutting of it, rooted it in water for a couple months, and now it's in my Palm Condo™, and just like most of my other plants it's super leggy and curvy. 

 

Plants are resilient. 

[Harry’s Palms]

This is my “dead” Rhapis Palm . Hard to see in this poor photo . It is in the background in the near center of the pic. Harry

The tallest stems are touching the eves or the roof line!

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21 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Palms can spring back to life after seemingly “goners” . I was given a Rhapis palm that was “dead” , left by the dumpster in back of a nursery. It is very happy now and over 6’ tall and spreading out! The woman who ran the nursery told me it was once this beautiful , large palm that was used in a design home. The owners of the home thought it was an artificial plant so they never watered it . “ Did you not see it turning brown and crispy?” Harry

In a dumpster that’s cruel, we all love the success story of palm that come back from the dead, rising from the ashes like a phoenix (not the robellenii type).

Richard 

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21 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Not a palm, but my mom has a ficus tree - not sure the exact species, but it's commonly called a rubber plant. When I was a kid, it was on our glassed in patio and there was plenty of Florida sun and humidity from the Jacuzzi in there. Somewhere along the way, she thought it died and had my brother toss it in the woods. 

One day, my brother was cutting the grass and saw it growing leaves again. It's nowhere near the size of what it was 30 years ago, but it's alive. I took a cutting of it, rooted it in water for a couple months, and now it's in my Palm Condo™, and just like most of my other plants it's super leggy and curvy. 

 

Plants are resilient. 

That’s classical what a fate for that tree, you should take a heap off cuttings and rename it on the grass var after your brother, then sell they would sell like hot cakes!

[JohnAndSancho]

3 hours ago, happypalms said:

That’s classical what a fate for that tree, you should take a heap off cuttings and rename it on the grass var after your brother, then sell they would sell like hot cakes!

i can do that. It was a tall, beautiful tree. Now it's a bush. I think it was about 3 months of sitting in water before the cutting had enough roots to pot up. 

[Harry’s Palms]

That is so cool! @JohnAndSancho    Harry

[happypalms]

18 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

i can do that. It was a tall, beautiful tree. Now it's a bush. I think it was about 3 months of sitting in water before the cutting had enough roots to pot up. 

That’s the go get that entrepreneur going in you!