Tropical Zone Gardening: Australian Tree Ferns, 0 by rjuddharrison

rjuddharrison wrote:
In this photo, there are 4 fronds emerging, 3 are visible, two upper and 1 lower. There is one opposite the lower frond also trying to emerge. This is when I observed the importance of keeping this section very moist. Notice the upper right frond has a visible hole in the circle? This was because I hadn't watered the section for several days, and the frond got stuck trying to emerge because the whole trunk had tightened up like a dry sponge, shrinking the aperature that the frond emerge from..It was malformed and only half a frond because of it.
I think that this many fronds emerging was a little unusual when comparing it to the behavior or growth pattern the rest of the year.

When the temperatures and daylight start slipping to shorter and cooler, I'm very careful in the amount of water I put on it, and starting in October I will water the trunk area with a gallon container instead of the hose, which provides a measurable amount of water for me..and the fern.