[Arid_gardener] Re: Queen Palms Lost

[Dick]

Cathy, from this excerpt, "Newly emerging fronds may be small and bunchy." I would guess Root knot Nematodes was the culprit because the phrase fits perfectly. Thanks for the education. That website is a marvelous tool. Thanks for the reference. I feel a little dumb learning about it after all these years in the dark.

Dick
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dick 
  To: Cathy.Rymer at chandleraz.gov 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:21 AM
  Subject: Re: Queen Palms Lost


  Hi, Cathy. I did not send samples to Dr. Olson. The thought never ocurred to me if I even knew of her existence then.

  The first inkling that something was wrong was severe dwarfing of new growth and fully developed older fronds still green, began to fall to the sides of the trunk. I went to Baker's and described the condition to a clerk who said, "Aha! Crown rot!" I believe it was Bruce but that was too long ago.  I purchased a copper compound  in powder form with instructions to disolve it in water and pour it in the crown that was an easy reach from my roof. It apparently had no effect or it was too late. When I removed the tree, there was a colony of huge cockaroaches enhoused in the top and the tip was mushy and smelly.  Shortly after the second Queen three feet away suffered the same fate. The two were both well over ten feet to the crown. These were beautiful trees that I truley hated to lose.

  I regret that I did not document the event. I was taking ag classes at Glendale CC at the time and could have had the instructor, geez--I have forgotten that beautiful woman's name, look at them.

  Dick
    

  From: Cathy.Rymer at chandleraz.gov 
    To: rkgross3 at cox.net 
    Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:25 AM
    Subject: Re: Queen Palms Lost



    Hi Dick, 

    I had a question about the Queen Palms you lost a few years ago.  Did you send samples to Dr. Mary Olsen?  The last time I spoke to her, she had never documented a case of bud rot in Queen Palms.  There is no mention of it on the plant pathology web site under diseases palms are susceptible to either.  http://ag.arizona.edu/PLP/plpext/diseases/trees/palm/palm.html 

    I've attached a letter she circulated on the subject in case you hadn't seen it. 

    Kind regards, 

    Cathy 

    Cathy Rymer
    Water Conservation Coordinator
    City of Chandler
    (480) 782-3589
    www.chandleraz.gov/water


    >>>>> 
    It sounds exactly like the symptoms suffered by two mature Queens that went down in my yard several years ago from crown rot, a malady to which the 
    species appears to be susceptable. ..........
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