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I have heard that if you cut off the head of the tree it will form a new branching head below the cut. Has anyone tried that? The reason I ask is both of mine are about 30 feet and have produced a large lopsided branch that looks very heavy and prone to breaking. I was thinking of cutting it off...

Dean, are those in Kona or Socal? I have never seen one that big in southern calif. Mike

They were both about head high when I planted them. The one on the left 5 years the one on the right 4 years. I like the green trunk and how little room it takes up but wonder like Deans says if it will hold the weight as it gets bigger. Both are starting to branch now which will increase the...

Here are mine. I like them for their summer overhead protection but don't like the mess when they drop their leaves into all my bromeliads. Love hate relationship. Mike

Stan, I got these two kentias from a grower who said they had been in very tall pots for over 10 years. They each had about 2 to3 feet of clear trunk but extremely root bound really no soil just root. They have been the ground for about 8 years now. The trunks above ground increased in size to...

Thanks guys for all your help. The entire plant is above the normal soil level in a elevated planter to keep it from rotting. Im going to set up watering so the leaves and aerial roots get a spray each day. Hopefully it will help with the tip burn.

Thanks for all the advise. I chickened out on trying to make two plants and decided to wait until it reaches the top of my new fake tree. Do you think I should cover the existing roots with soil? I was thinking of covering them in the 2 parts bark and 1 part peat moss mix I use for all my...

Thanks for the pictures very helpful. I ended up removing the whole plant for relocation. I don't have a palm with enough protection to mount it on. It has a large secondary root comming off the new growth. Do you think it is possible to seperate the new growth from the old and the old will...

Found some large grape wood at Prehistoric Pets that is hollow in the center so I can stuff it full of moss. I will post pictures after I move it. Thanks

Mike

Thanks Stan, third from the last is my Brownii, this one has a very black base. The Cooperi Revolvulum is the weeping form of the standard Cooperi a very fast grower has tripled in size since last year. I dont know the name of the other Staghorn fern I think is is just a common form that gets a...

Here are a few of the Staghorn Superbum and other ferns in my garden. A small Cibotium Glaucum a Cyathea Brownii a small Cyathea Cooperi Revolvulum and a large Cyathea Cooperi and offsets that I did not plant. It came from spore from the neighbors yard so I had to keep it.

I want to pull the plant back from the wall to put some wood behind it. Do you think it will hurt the existing aerial roots if I peal them off the stucco to pull the plant back to put wood behind? I remember when I transplanted the plant the aerial roots it had seemed to wither. It took me so...

Stan, that confirms the idea of giving it some rough wood to climb on that I can secure some moisture holding material to. Thanks

Thanks Dean, I saw one of these on the Big Island in a nursery in Hilo about 6 years ago, not for sale, and it took me 5 to find one here in California. It was not for sale also. The only way I was able to acquire it was to trade work for a job no one else could provide. I didn't know that...

Thank's Stan, I never noticed that. It is on some of the green on the oldest leaf but it is mostly on the yellow. I have it slightly elevated in a very fast draining soil mix above the clay soil we have here. I did not want it to rot from to much moisture. I don't know if that is also causing...

I have this Yellow Monstera that has been in the ground since last year. All 3 of the new leaves it has produced since I put it in the ground come out perfect then start brown tipping as the leaf matures. Anyone have any ideas why? Thanks Mike