It’s been a year and my queen palm even from a repot hasn’t done anything the spear has stayed the same since September and doesn’t show signs of opening but it’s firm and green I’m thinking of planting it directly to the ground very soon is this behaviour normal ?

Did you spear mark it to see if there is any movement at all? Sometimes it grows so slowly we can’t see it. I use a marker to put a small marker on the spear and one on the adjacent petiole to see if there is movement . You should see slight growth between the two marks within a week or so. . Harry

1 minute ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Did you spear mark it to see if there is any movement at all? Sometimes it grows so slowly we can’t see it. I use a marker to put a small marker on the spear and one on the adjacent petiole to see if there is movement . You should see slight growth between the two marks within a week or so. . Harry

No I’m pretty sure the spear has stayed at the same height since September even if it did grow a little I would have expected it to open up at least 

Possibly a result of too little water? If it's in a pot, sometimes if the growing medium dries out, it is almost impossible to get it rewet without slow dripping from a hose or submersing the plant in a bucket of water. You may think you're watering the plant when in reality, the water is just running down the sides of the bucket and the plant is receiving very little.

 

aztropic 

Mesa, Arizona 

1 minute ago, aztropic said:

Possibly a result of too little water? If it's in a pot, sometimes if the growing medium dries out, it is almost impossible to get it rewet without slow dripping from a hose or submersing the plant in a bucket of water. You may think you're watering the plant when in reality, the water is just running down the sides of the bucket and the plant is receiving very little.

 

aztropic 

Mesa, Arizona 

Hmm that’s possible I’m going to plant it to the ground soon I’m expecting rapid growth since it’s growing season 

Agree , water is key for these palms , also fast draining soil. The other fronds have not dried out so there is hope . They are very resilient palms , weeds at my house , with volunteers popping up here and there. If it got super cold over winter , it may have been set back. Harry

8 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Agree , water is key for these palms , also fast draining soil. The other fronds have not dried out so there is hope . They are very resilient palms , weeds at my house , with volunteers popping up here and there. If it got super cold over winter , it may have been set back. Harry

The minimum temperature was -2 this winter and there barely is cold damage most of The damage happened in October where temperatures didn’t drop below 5c and for some reason two fronds started getting stressed and since then it has stayed stable 

I'll guess underpotted and water stress, based on it being mostly green but with brown tips on the older fronds.  These grew so fast here in 9a/9b that I eventually cut all of mine down.  But that's in the ground with 60-80 inches of rain and daily watering all year.  At that size it's probably heavily rootbound and might just be in "stasis" looking for new dirt and fertilizer.  I would mark the spear horiztonally with a sharpie anyway, just so you can tell when it starts moving.  Plant it!