Beginner Gardening: Ponytail Palm (Beaucarnea recurvata) with Issues, 0 by tapla

tapla wrote:
If you left the leaves whole, please reduce their size asap to about only 10% of their current size. IOW, cut the leaves off so only about an inch of green is showing. You have no roots to support the top (with water), so all you can do is reduce the amount of foliage & hope the stem will be able to support the top. It's a good bet that the fungal infection has progressed into the plumbing of the shoots and is blocking water transport. ;-(

I'll leave you a before and after picture of a Mexican petunia I prepared as a cutting so you can see how I reduce the leaf surface to ease the demand on the cutting to supply more water than it's capable of.

Al

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