Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Feb 09, 2013 4:34 pm Hoping someone can give me good news, especially after all the back breaking work I have done. Transplanted 4 palms from my lawn to around my spa. My wife said they are bungalow palms. All 4 are loosing their branches. Each has 4 branches, loosing 2 each Are they just compensation for having a smaller root system or have I killed them in the transplant? Re: Have I killed my Palms 2Feb 09, 2013 5:05 pm It will depend on what you have done and are doing with them. Prep the new soil. This isn't a hole with some poo in the bottom. That will do stuff all. Blend some sand (in clay soils) or add clay in sandy soils at 5kg/m2 along with zeolite (in any soil type) at 5kg/m2 and organic compost (soil conditioner) at one bag/m2 through the top 20-30cm of existing soil. Right, reasonable soil created. Now dig a hole in that ready for the plant. Mark one side of the plant that is facing a certain way. Doesn't matter which way, as long as when it goes in its new home it is facing the same way. Use a bit of string on a branch, a mark with chalk or a spot of marker paint. Something like that. Get as much of the root system as possible. Tidy the roots up with a suitable secateur or loppers. A good soak in a tub of seasol doesn't go astray. Plant the palm (facing the same way as before (North or what ever)) Put in some soil around its roots and have a good flow of water going in as well. This will help to get the air out from around the roots. You don't want air pockets. Have the soil go as far up the plant as where it went to in the old location. Any deeper and some things can go pear shaped with many plants. Cut off any unnecessary fronds, branches. On shrubs, take 1/3rd off the plant. On a palms and grasses take most of the foliage off. Leave the top part though! It is probably a better idea to do this step about two weeks before planning the job. However who the hell will really do that? Larger palms and shrubs will need some support (like really big) Water everyday in sandy soils and in heavier soils, a bit less often. The point is, keep the water up them Seasol/EcoSeaweed. Use it like it's going to grant you a wish or something (it might) Use molasses. A bit in with the seaweed is going to be super dooper. No fertilisers. No manures. No water crystals, No dead cats, mother inlaws or other random animals in the hole. Just keep the water up, seaweed and molasses. Oh mulch with a rough course mulch that won't soak up water. Pine bark is cheap, easy and the best option seeing it is full of more future nutrient than me. Exposed soil is dead soil. Re: Have I killed my Palms 3Feb 10, 2013 9:21 pm Thanks for the detailed reply. I haven't been as pedantic but have done some of what you said. I prepped the hole by digging it out. Wetting it and then placing some organic soil in before planting. Once I planted, then topped up with the same soil followed by some topsoil. I have been watering every day and seasol every second. Fingers crossed this s good enough. 6 11528 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39468 Hi All, I just wanted to close this topic out with an update. So we ended up agreeing to a number with the insurance company, and after an extensive amount of hand… 8 23388 |