Carrot topping palms???

[TheJollyLogger]

So down here in Corpus we had that freeze a month ago, got below freezing for 40 hours plus, and all the palms are suffering, or just dead. I know next to nothing about palms, but we have a bunch of hacks... and I call them hacks mostly due to their safety practices... carrot topping everything in sight. This practice just flies in the face of everything I know about arboriculture, but maybe I am wrong?

 

[mikewhite85]

So down here in Corpus we had that freeze a month ago, got below freezing for 40 hours plus, and all the palms are suffering, or just dead. I know next to nothing about palms, but we have a bunch of hacks... and I call them hacks mostly due to their safety practices... carrot topping everything in sight. This practice just flies in the face of everything I know about arboriculture, but maybe I am wrong?

Yeah, ANSI300 standards I think say you should not raise the fronds above the horizontal. Carrot topping looks plain ugly too!

 

[laddo]

Correct. Carrot topping, or “hurricane trimming”, is not considered a proper pruning practice by the ISA. BUT post freeze damage, all of the dead fronds need to be removed - whether they are above 90 degrees or not.


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