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Originally Posted by onstorat
[Sorry for the excessive quoting. Can't find a way to delete previous post.]
Thanks for everyone's useful advice. I have a question about what is meant by "trunk" though. We have a 10 foot tall Cordyline australis which, like everyone else's, has lost all its leaves over the cold winter. The trunk goes straight-up for 4 feet before branching into 3 branches, which each branch once or twice before ending in the (now leafless) heads 10 feet up (photo attached). Oh, and the damage at the base of the trunk is due to cat's sharpening their claws on it, which doesn't seem to have done it any harm over the past 2.5 year. Should I:
1) Cut the ends off just below the heads (going down as far as necessary to remove any rotten plant); or
2) Cut just below the first branching, so we're left with a 4 foot high stump.
I've read here and elsewhere new shoots will come from the "trunk", although I don't know if this includes the very substantial first branches.
Cheers,
Alastair
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Sorry, new to this so I don't know how to 'snip' quotes.
I too thought I'd lost my two palms this winter. I planted these as £6 pot plants 15 years ago and as they were 15 and 18ft high, so it was pretty upsetting.
However, I cut all the sub branches back to below the rot where the severe frost softened the insides. Now on the smaller palm, I have tons of shoots coming out from along the lengths of every sub branch! I have no idea how this is going to turn out or what shape it may form but it'll be interesting to see the outcome. I'm not giving up on the larger one just yet. I'll post some photos later in the year.