[Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page

[Dick]

Some palm varieties can produce suckers from the base but these should 
always cut off as I recall but can they be rooted?

A queen palm has, of course, only one growing tip. When that becomes 
compromised, the plant has, for all practical purposes, bit the dust and the 
sooner you start over the better. I would, however, plant the new speciman 
at least 8 feet from the original. Personally, I would not, as hard as it 
may be to admit defeat, waste any more time on the dying or dead palm.

Contrary, or second opinions are welcome, of course.

Dick Gross, MGV
UofA Maricopa County Cooperative Extension

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <roy_horton5 at yahoo.com>
To: <arid_gardener at Ag.arizona.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:41 PM
Subject: [Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page


> Roy
> 85205
> roy_horton5 at yahoo.com
>
> My queen palm got what I thought was crown rot, but a web site that links 
> to you calls it "frizzle top."  Either way, the crown rot medicine I put 
> on it did not help.  Maybe it needed the frizzle top treatment that the 
> web site suggested.  There is now only one dead frond on top of the palm, 
> but the trunk has some green on the bottom half of it.  Is the palm 
> completely gone, or can it grow again?  There has been no new growth for 
> quite some time, but as I said, the trunk still has some green on it. 
> Thanks.
>
>
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