Why does my California 

fan palm or my Mexican fan palm look sad I don’t really care for this palm but it’s been fine for 5 years then becomes like this out Of nowhere I recently put some palm fertilizer should I remove it 

With regular water these should be fine with no fertilizer at all . These are tough palms that normally do well in your arid climate. What fertilizer did you use and how much? If over fertilized , yes you should remove what you can but if it is the problem , it already has reached the root ball. Harry

I just sprinkled some around recently it’s the miracle grow palm food  but it’s been looking like this for two months I’m thinking about replacing the palm with a sabal palmetto but it doesn’t seem like it’s dying just unhappy no fronds are yellow so I wouldn’t waste a perfectly good palm @Harry’s Palms

Be patient. Keep it well watered during the hot season. Inspect the spear and crown in the meantime.

I’m not a big fan of Miracle grow products . Palmgain is much better , but I don’t think a Washingtonia needs any of that in Lancaster . Just water it and try not to get water down in the growth point, where the new spear is ,  in hot weather . You may want to mulch a bit but honestly these grow along the freeways and in open fields with no care at all and look great. Harry

15 minutes ago, SeanK said:

Be patient. Keep it well watered during the hot season. Inspect the spear and crown in the meantime.

Okay do u know if it’s a Mexican fan palm

Most Washies are mutts. There's a famous one in LA that's literally growing out of a storm sewer and it's huge. This thing is literally fertilized with motor oil runoff and hobo pee and look at it. 

 

 

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Most Washies are mutts. There's a famous one in LA that's literally growing out of a storm sewer and it's huge. This thing is literally fertilized with motor oil runoff and hobo pee and look at it. 

 

 

They most definitely are there’s hundreds of seedlings here one down side about keeping Mexican fan palms are that they get burned from the cold outside the city inside the city is more warmer so they don’t get burned there’s like 30+ year old Mexican palms here Californian palms here are indestructible they don’t get damaged at all

Also some rare mature queen palms here a lot of ppl are starting to plant queens 

My money is on a watering issue. It's either too much or not enough. 

 

I had one on my patio in Texas named Dirty Sanchez - my mistake with him was I thought it'd be really cool to take a picture of a palm tree covered in snow. And it got into his grow hole. 0/10 do not recommend he looked like crap for 2 years and it didn't help that I had to keep him under the patio because I lived upstairs and they have teeth. Anyway either cut back on the water if you're watering it a lot or give it more if you're not. It's hard to find that happy medium, I understand. 

did you have a cool wet winter?  It does look very unhappy.  They hate cool wet winters in clay soil.

Yes we do but the thing is in jer there’s thousands that look better

14 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

My money is on a watering issue. It's either too much or not enough. 

 

I had one on my patio in Texas named Dirty Sanchez - my mistake with him was I thought it'd be really cool to take a picture of a palm tree covered in snow. And it got into his grow hole. 0/10 do not recommend he looked like crap for 2 years and it didn't help that I had to keep him under the patio because I lived upstairs and they have teeth. Anyway either cut back on the water if you're watering it a lot or give it more if you're not. It's hard to find that happy medium, I understand. 

You could be right but honestly the palm is growing in Washy heaven so I’m not sure. Harry

15 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

My money is on a watering issue. It's either too much or not enough. 

 

I had one on my patio in Texas named Dirty Sanchez - my mistake with him was I thought it'd be really cool to take a picture of a palm tree covered in snow. And it got into his grow hole. 0/10 do not recommend he looked like crap for 2 years and it didn't help that I had to keep him under the patio because I lived upstairs and they have teeth. Anyway either cut back on the water if you're watering it a lot or give it more if you're not. It's hard to find that happy medium, I understand. 

In the hot CA desert areas, many Washingtonia are literally growing in water for months out of the year. They handle saturated soil well as long as the climate is predominately hot and dry. 
 

I had several growing happily at pond’s edge in mucky wet black clay year round when I had property in San Martin, CA. 

6 hours ago, Jim in Los Altos said:

In the hot CA desert areas, many Washingtonia are literally growing in water for months out of the year. They handle saturated soil well as long as the climate is predominately hot and dry. 
 

I had several growing happily at pond’s edge in mucky wet black clay year round when I had property in San Martin, CA. 

Maybe the palm knows he doesn't like it and is responding accordingly? 😂