Moving small palms
 

I have two palms in the wrong place that need to be moved. One is a
Phoenix canariensis, grown from seed brought home from Tenerife by my
SIL about five years ago, and the other is a bought Chamaerops
humilis. They are 2-3ft high. Do they tolerate the root disturbance of
being moved, and if so, when is the best time to do it?


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Chris

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Chris Hogg wrote:
I have two palms in the wrong place that need to be moved. One is a
Phoenix canariensis, grown from seed brought home from Tenerife by my
SIL about five years ago, and the other is a bought Chamaerops
humilis. They are 2-3ft high. Do they tolerate the root disturbance of
being moved, and if so, when is the best time to do it?


My local council recently moved four hulking great 30 foot palms from
one of the small plazas into the centre of a new roundabout. They took
very little rootball. When I queried this with a bystander, he told me
that as long as they were moved when it was hot, and were then given
ample water, they would settle quickly. I don't know if this is any
help to you though!
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Jo
Alicante

g'day chris,

with palms that small you shouldn't have any problems take a fair
amount of root ball because you can. would suggest a good watering
before removal and a good water at replant and keep them a little
wetter than normal until growth rate looks evedent then water as
normal. trim off all mature fronds and developing frond leave only the
new spike and the next frond or 2 after that. to give them a good
water before removal you may have to dig a bit of a trench around the
drip line area and fill it with water do this app' 24 hours before
removal.



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I have several Trachycarpus palms that I have grown from seed, they are now
all around 6-10 feet tall. Last year I had to move one because it had out
growm where I had (unwisely) planted it. There was no possibility of not
disturbing the roots, nevertheless, I moved a rootball + plant as large as I
could do do without getting a hernia.

Said plant was liberally watered for a few days to bed it in (this was July
and quite hot weather) and is allive and well and has not suffered any check
in its growth.

T

Thank you both. Useful observation and helpful advice.


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Chris

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