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Re: moving a palm

Oliver Shembri wrote:


	"I think that having the fronds together will keep a volume of relatively

still air in between the fronds which traps humidity from leaf

transpiration. This would help the plant from reducing its water loss.

Since it would have been just transplanted its root system must surely be

reduced, and its ability to take up water would have been reduced too, thus

any help it can get to reduce its water loss would help it from drying up,

and gives it a better chance to re-establish its root system.

I'm not entirely sure of this but in Bonsai when a tree is transplant

reducing the leaf mass for this reason is common."


Bundling the leaves in this manner also protects the growing point from
damage due to temperature extremes during the establishment phase.

Deborah Lindsay
Oakland, Ca.
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