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Cycas revoluta questions

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I've had a sago for about 15 years. It seemed okay, with a new flush about once per year. Although the fronds often seemed to dry, turning brown at the tips of the pinnules, and the vibrant green turned more of a yellow-green. I was told it needed more shade (which it finally now has from an adjacent mule palm). A few years ago, my wife hired someone to prune our trees, and they only left two layers of fronds, which I thought was too little. It stopped flushing for a few years, along with the pups. No new growth at all. Someone told me he thought it was dying. Last year, I tried to nurse it back to health with more water and high-nitrogen water-soluble fertilizer, not that I know what I'm doing, but it worked. The pups started to flush first, and after years of no new growth, it started to flush two months ago. Questions:

1) For the fronds drying and turning brown at the tips, could that be due to under watering, as opposed to not enough shade?

2) Someone told me that sagos need very little water, and he turns off irrigation to his sagos for 6 months of the year. How do I know if I am over or under watering my sago?

3) The pups have been thriving, and now even my pups have pups. Do people usually let the pups grow, or do they "de-pup" their sagos?