Re: Fishtail Palm

I'll give the repotting a shot. I use it mostly as a house plant (and will
have to here soon) so I'm trying to take care of things before I leave.

THANKS!
Good info. Have NO idea which one mine is. I suspect C. mitis

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


> [Original Message]
> From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 8/27/2005 7:48:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fishtail Palm
>
> Don't know, Andrea. Might try repotting it; it could be root bound. 
> Most palms behave differently in pots than they do in open ground 
> because most of them have big tap roots. My seedling Bismarckias put 
> down an 18-inch tap root before they put out anything above ground.
>
> Never paid much attention to fishtail palms--but your question sent me 
> to the books. Apparently, there are three fairly common ones--Caryota 
> mitis, C. rumphiana, and C. urens. C. mitis is a small clustering palm, 
> often used as a house plant; the other two are large [40 to 60 feet] 
> solitary palms. Interesting thing--all three are short lived; once they 
> flower and fruit, they die. The fruits are the handle-with-care type; 
> they contain calcium oxylate crystals and can be extremely irritating.
>
> All three are also "toddy" palms. They have very sugary sap that is 
> used to make alcoholic beverages.
>
> On Aug 26, 2005, at 10:00 PM, hodgesaa@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > Jim, I have a Fishtail palm that's in a pot. The leaves are turning
> > brown and crumbly on the ends. It's been doing that for a while and it
> > was in the house so about a month or so ago I put it outside on the
> > porch, cut off most of the bad stems and fertilized it with Palm
> > fertilizer. It's still doing it.
> >
> >
> > Care to venture a guess on what's wrong? It's getting lots of humidity 
> > now and no AC draft.
> >
> >
> > Andrea H
> > Beaufort, SC
> >
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> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
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