Coconut palm trunk question for Dwarf

[ACE91]

So these coconuts were planted in October 25 gallon
 

And I noticed something interesting today we’ve been doing a liquid fertilizer by a company and Lesco 13-3-13 Palm and tropical 

 

And we just got into this warm spurt with the rain last week

 

Weeks ago they started doing the March trimming and I noticed that the trunks on these are now growing so quickly that they’re cracking the old boots and they’re on pace to be a 16 to 18 diamater trunks

Nothing like the Maypan, which looks fantastic

 

I was just curious if anyone same progress after the period of cold that we had in west Palm beach 

[Johnny Palmseed]

Your palms look very happy. What you are doing is obviously working well. However, it looks like you are cutting the oldest fronds off while still green. I would recommend not doing that until they are brown. I see that you have a walkway and that is a valid reason for cutting. Maybe just cut that side? The less you cut, the more the palm will appreciate it. As for the width of the base, I planted 3 of the same germination batch and each one was a different size. One was huge compared to the other two so that’s just the variety of nature.

[ACE91]

3 hours ago, Johnny Palmseed said:

Your palms look very happy. What you are doing is obviously working well. However, it looks like you are cutting the oldest fronds off while still green. I would recommend not doing that until they are brown. I see that you have a walkway and that is a valid reason for cutting. Maybe just cut that side? The less you cut, the more the palm will appreciate it. As for the width of the base, I planted 3 of the same germination batch and each one was a different size. One was huge compared to the other two so that’s just the variety of nature.

We only did the cutting like that because there was severe cold damage to the outer fonds in a perfect world I wouldn’t have had landscaper remove 

 

Definitely ended up better than my brother in the hobe sound who had pretty much most of his  Green Malayans slaughtered in fact, one one of them just had the crown fall off, so he’s gotta remove that

 

 

[MrCoconutPalm2]

15 hours ago, ACE91 said:

We only did the cutting like that because there was severe cold damage to the outer fonds in a perfect world I wouldn’t have had landscaper remove 

 

Definitely ended up better than my brother in the hobe sound who had pretty much most of his  Green Malayans slaughtered in fact, one one of them just had the crown fall off, so he’s gotta remove that

 

 

Sad, that you guys had such a bad winter over there.  Some of our Coastal South Texas Coconut Palms look better.  We got down to 28 at my place in Flour Bluff (east side of Corpus Christi), and mine are Fried, but alive and growing again (I protected them with incandescent Christmas lights and towels wrapped around the trunks).  The ones on Padre Island here, hardly even look freeze injured at all, and the biggest one on the island my actually flower and fruit late this year.

[ACE91]

5 hours ago, MrCoconutPalm2 said:

Sad, that you guys had such a bad winter over there.  Some of our Coastal South Texas Coconut Palms look better.  We got down to 28 at my place in Flour Bluff (east side of Corpus Christi), and mine are Fried, but alive and growing again (I protected them with incandescent Christmas lights and towels wrapped around the trunks).  The ones on Padre Island here, hardly even look freeze injured at all, and the biggest one on the island my actually flower and fruit late this year.

Ours should be fine first thing I did after the cold is have TPC our property management for grass spraying do a palm fertilizer treatment in liquid form and then they put the Lesco down that helped but we had to do right after and then we gave the trees a few weeks before removing the damage burned fonds

 

i always keep a bag or two of Lesco Palm tropical 13-3-13 and put down monthly and now quarterly they’re gonna do the liquid fertilizer as well