Carolina Gardening: xxxxx, 0 by donnacreation

donnacreation wrote:
Since I pulled the spear from my tallest palmettto 10 days ago, and accidentally posted a pic of it's gnarly trunk, it has sent up a new spear! And the soft spots on the trunk seem a little firmer. The other 2 palmettos I was also concerned about are growing new fronds and seem healthy. Guess I'll never know for sure, but I think dousing them w/fungicide, malathion, and hydrogen peroxide saved the tallest, and revived it's 2 smaller neighbors. Also grateful I didn't fall off the top rung of the ladder I had to dangle from while dousing my voodoo concoction over the tops of them.

I've also pulled spears from pindos and european fan palms, and saved them using the same technique. It's good to know that some palms can recover from spear pull.