Palm Info(For those curious)

[SpikedSupra]

Hey guys,
Found this site on palm pruning, safety, and other very interesting facts on palms. If your anything like me and like to read just for the reason of expanding knowledge wether useful or not you may want to check this out on a rainy day. Even you northern guys might be interested in reading it just for to learn something you didnt know about palms.

http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/horticulture/vpe_horticulture1.htm

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

The article mentions not harming the trunk, but not spiking directly. I know i have read several times not to spike palms, but never too much on why.
I notice they stress sanitizing tools. You southern guys do that?

 

[treeclimber165]

Yup, some basic info there. Good stuff for you to be reading, Spikey.

 

[Acer]

Anyone who keeps their old Arborist News ought to look atvol9 no 6 December 2000. p.45. A good article on how they care for palms in Spain. I'd imagine it is more important not to damage the trunks of palms as there is no secondary growth after the first few years. At least a spiked broadleaf/conifer can, given time, occlude the wounds

 

[Jumper]

Great info Forrest which I will always cherish as I go about pruning palms here in The Great White North. Take off eh?

I AM CANADIAN! (or so the Molson's ad says!)


(No offence intended, and you are free to respond in kind!)

 

[SpikedSupra]

Jumper

Dont worry....No one needs to walk on eggshells around me. I know a good wholehearted joke when I see one. Hey man, you never know when you might move to Florida! Or if you are ever here you can impress your northern friends with a Sportscenteresque "Did You Know" about palm trees.

 

[Jumper]

Maybe I will inject a category of "Palm Tree Trivia" into the Trivia Night I host Mondays at the local pub!

 

[Jumper]

On eggshells...not

As they used to say in the Army, "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined up." Perhaps this applies to this site as too! Well maybe not in all respects.