New Zealand Cabbage Palm

aardvaak

I have some shoots that have fallen off my New Zealand Cabbage Palm - can someone please tell me if I can put rooting powder on them and plant or how can I grow them?


http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww88/AardvaakPhotobucket/PalmShoots.jpg

cheeswright

yes you can
although if they fell off frozen then ...perhapse not...as frost damage takes a while to show on these
stick them in some very sandy potting compost and give them a go
keep them quite dry and warmish too.....a windowsill indoors ??? -
if it was frost / then consider ripping off just the outer leaves 1st - might just take away enough damage
good luck -

Joly_Roger

Only just saw this post whilst browsing..



What you have there are spear-pulls, the new growth has pulled right out due to rot setting in, usually as a result of very cold weather. You can see that they are soft and mushy at their bases, there's no reason I can think of why a healthy spear would just fall out. But, it happens to a lot of palms, especially after the Winter we just had.


So, I really don't think you would have any success in trying to propagate these 'cuttings' due them falling off through the rot and therefore being damaged already, but I hope I'm wrong and you got some new plants. Cheeswright is correct that pulling away the damaged growth will help, but you probably need to treat them for rot too (sulphur powder, fungus killer or H202).


I would be more concerned about your original Cordyline (Cabbage Palm) that the spears fell off from, there is a danger that it might just die due to the rot spreading, although it will be more likely sprout again from lower down the trunk. I presume that 2 months on, that is what has happened.


I had a palm spear-pull on me a week ago & my plan of action was to saw off the rotted growth and then pour H202 into the stump to disinfect the area. It's probably much too late to do that to your Cordyline now & I hope it recovered by itself.

Here are some pics of the Washingtonia Robusta which spear-pulled, it's now recovering after I sawed off the rot:

New growth pulled out, leaving a stump:



Pulled out spears (shoots) with rot at base:
[img][/img]http://www.palmsociety.org.uk/_forumimages/849/IMG_2401.JPG


4 days after sawing clean through, new growth is emerging from the center:
[img][/img]http://www.palmsociety.org.uk/_forumimages/849/17thMay.JPG

Another 3 days later, begining of leaves are starting to emerge:
[img][/img]http://www.palmsociety.org.uk/_forumimages/849/24thMay.JPG

Seems drastic, but I've learnt that if you don't do that the palm often dies. I've noticed the Washy Robusta has grown some more today - hooray! Though, I think I might stick to UK hardy palms from now on if we get any more winters like the last 2.