When is best time to trim Arizona queen palms with green and brown fronds?

Question

I have fed all four queens magnesium and palm food but the brutal summer has taken it's toll again on these sub-tropical trees. How far up the tree can I go to trim off the fronds that are nearly all brown and some that are about 60% brown. Will I do any damage to the tree by trimming it now or should I wait for winter

Answer 1

I'm not sure where you live that so much of a palm tree has turned brown. I suspect they may not be getting enough water... Out here in California, even when the temperature was 115, our queen palms survived just fine.

Once a palm frond has turned entirely brown, it is dead, and serves the tree no further purpose... other than providing shade to the trunk, which may allow some amount of cooling and less water loss.

I trim off any dead frond that gets in my way which I can reach, any season, any time of year. The benefits of the dead palm fronds to the tree are so minimal that I wouldn't expect it to matter.

In your situation, the heat is apparently so bad that your tree may need the extra shade... but if it's really the heat, and not a lack of water, you might be living in the bowels of hades, or the bottom of a volcano, and I would reccomend cutting the dead fronds off before they burst instantly into fire from the noontime heat.

Answer 2

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