Has anyone skinned a needle palm before?

[mrjc]

I know dumb question and people probably prefer the look but same thing with windmills and they skin them. I probably won’t skin mine unless I get an extra but mostly just curious. Thanks.

[Allen]

Never heard of it being done

[Palmerr]

Would probably hurt haha you would 100% get stuck with one of the needles but would be interesting to see

[Las Palmas Norte]

My money's on, no.

[PAPalmtrees]

I have never heard of anyone doing it, and I would never do it you would probably hurt yourself and hurt the palm.

[Las Palmas Norte]

3 hours ago, PAPalmtrees said:

I have never heard of anyone doing it, and I would never do it you would probably hurt yourself and hurt the palm.

... and considering it's a multi-trunked small-scale palm, hardly worth the effort IMO.

[PAPalmtrees]

1 hour ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

... and considering it's a multi-trunked small-scale palm, hardly worth the effort IMO.

Yes 100%

[MrTropical]

I believe @DTS did this a year or two ago. 

[Palmerr]

36 minutes ago, MrTropical said:

I believe @DTS did this a year or two ago. 

Could you maybe find the post or ask? That would be. Very interesting to see

[Las Palmas Norte]

2 hours ago, MrTropical said:

I believe @DTS did this a year or two ago. 

I lost my bet, dang. Just for s..ts n giggles, I'd like to see it. 😂

[ryjohn]

On 3/19/2026 at 11:56 AM, Las Palmas Norte said:

... and considering it's a multi-trunked small-scale palm, hardly worth the effort IMO.

They get huge and do trunk here down south.  Growth that takes decades in the wild shady forest can be achieved in years in gardens with full sun, irrigation, and no root competition.  And males often tend to put all energy into one trunk.  Still I would not skin their trunk—it’s just not right

[TropicsEnjoyer]

I would imagine it would look like a clean trachy. Also on a related note has anyone skinned a saw palmetto? There are tons of tall ones out there surely someone has thought of it.

[DTS]

Here's an older pic of mine that I tried to skin 😂 It just ended up looking like a trachy at the end. I might just keep doing it just to see what it looks like.

[Harry’s Palms]

Yea , I have one that would put up quite a fight if I tried to clean the trunk! Harry

First year in the ground! It is just starting to harden off after cutting the brown fronds off . Full sun ,  south facing slope. In another year I will be able to tell you if gophers like them or not.🤬

[Palmerr]

On 3/24/2026 at 1:19 AM, DTS said:

Here's an older pic of mine that I tried to skin 😂 It just ended up looking like a trachy at the end. I might just keep doing it just to see what it looks like.

That’s good skinning now if you were going down to the bare ya know past the old leaf brackets that would be bad