This has worked like a treat so far, Cut it back as described and within a day had 3mm of growth , 3 days later 10mm of growth. Hopefully this trend will continue. Thanks for the advice.

I have a washie here in Ontario. It looked healthy when i unwrapped this spring. Green and no spear pull. About a mont later it started to die so I did the cut bavk. I took it to about three inches off the ground and a couple of days later, boom! It started to push a new frond. Amazing who this works.

wow, thanks for this helpful tip I've tried this on a Sabal palmetto and a pygmy date palm Both have came back 😁

Thank you. I was so sad about my palm dying, after I covered it with frost proof covers for winter (I'm in London, UK), which I now regret. I will try this and never use those covers again; as I suspect it would've survived winter fine!

I really am glade I come up on this video I am in a deep seed panic now I feel better since there is something I can do.

LOL! I did the same thing today to about a dozen of my palms. Then I spray the cut area of my Trachys with copper fungicide. For my Butias, I spray them with colloidal silver (they hate copper fungicide!) Hopefully we'll both have some luck with this :)

Is it possible to go too low? My windmill palm was dead with no spear coming out. I cut once, still dead in the middle. Two, three times. Now the middle is white but almost the entire diameter of the trunk.

OMG thank you! I have to rescue my palm! Thank you soooo much for your video! Xo

I have a home on the Big Island of Hawaii. We had a major Volcanic Eruption a year ago. Our home was about a block away from the big fissure, all our trees in the jungle had no leaves left from the gas emitted. All our coconut palms survived at first, then one of them stopped growing any new fronds, she's about 6yrs old and 12-15 ft high. She has one green frond left is all. Think I should do this? I'd hate to lose her. Lack of rain is not the problem we get approx. 130 inches per year. Thanks in advance, that's amazing. Hey, you wouldn't happen to know Mike Dennison on Quadra Isle would you?

Hi Banana JSSI , I am in Ireland 🇮🇪, where chusan palms do quite good, mine became dormant, so I’m trying your tip . I sawed down to hard material, but see no sign of life. It was in that dormant state for about 3 years, so I probably ought to have done this way sooner

I have a 12 foot Fox tail that Ian broke the top unbranched stem on and no fronds left on the palm. Do you think taking a saw to the broken unbranched stem might work?

Just did this on my prized 7 ft Wagneriansis after spears pulled due to an insane drought, I’ve done this before on a med fan and it worked wonderfully, crossing my fingers but it doesn’t look hopeful, your palms can be saved!

Would this work on a sabal minor I had crown rot and all leafs are gone and it’s looking bad i poured some hydrogen peroxide down the crown should I try this method?

Great video. Will the same principle apply to a Pindo Palm? We had several hard freezes this past winter and I removed all the brown fronds. I pulled on the top a little & it seemed to be tight. I then poured a gal. of Copper Fungicide 2 wks. ago & now I pulled the top & it seems to be loose. I'm in zip 36526 and hoping you can help me save my once beautiful palm. Thank you,

Everything i have read says not to do that, my 16 ft palm is very poorly . Was given to me by a friend before she died , took a long time to dig up and was replanted in winter , with snow on the ground . Grew well to start with , a good 6 inches . then it went downhill , think it was a lack of water , i want it to live so much, what can i do ??? thanks im in the Midlands UK X

I have a Palmetto tree newly planted close to the end of summer. Coming out of a mild South Carolina winter the fonds are starting to turn brown. The whole time up until about a month age the tree had nice dark green fonds. The tree did start to push some new fond growth then suddenly seemed to stop. It’s warming up here now in South Carolina so what do you think? Will the warmer weather save this Palmetto tree? Do I need to add fertilizer around it right now? Should I drill a 2 inch hole near the root ball and water it once or twice a week? Oh by the way it’s growing in clay soil as well. I have another Palmetto tree about 6 feet away from this one and it’s not having any issues at all and growing well. Both trees were planted at the same time. Everything I did to one tree I did to the other. So I don’t understand why it looks like it’s starting to die.

Just wanted to say everyone it's work for me early days Joe knows his stuff

Done it Joe found good growth about 5 inches down thanks

Hi just wondering if this palm made it alive? Thinking of trying this. Thank you

So I just cut my 10’ windmill palm, back 6”, to see that the center area was mushy. From there, cut another 2’ off the top of the palm, and now the center appears to be solid wood. I hope a fronds push out soon! I’ll try and attach a picture.

Have you posted an update on this? I would like to see how this palm is doing!

great informative video was wondering if this would work on a christmas palm tree thanks.

Hi there ... i just saw this video today and i have a question Does this method work for all kind of palm and should i wrap it with plastic or leave it just like that ? * Mine was Phoenix roebelenii* and its dying right now .. how i know is bcs the head was bending slowly each day but when i touch it already broken then... right now i cut the head , wrapping with black plastic Sorry for the spelling .. hope you understand and reply soon thank you from malaysia

Thanks, I have my doubts that my two baby palm survived canadian winter but I will try nonetheless!

Hello I have a windmill palm that has browning spears here in dallas tx.. I planted my 6 ft palm April 10 2018 and Now I just did a spear pull.. any reason why it would brown and it was green when I planted it? I’ve watered every other day for the first week and every other day for week 2 and 3. I water twice a week now with temperatures at 90F

Hey, Thank you for sharing this video. I did this to my palm tree a month ago. Now I see slow growth in the center. Does that mean it is alive? Its a mexican fan palm tree.

Thanks that's exactly what I needed to know!

HELP!!! Hello I have a sago palm tree, and it got root rot from a lot of rain last fall, my husband and I replanted it, took off the rotting roots, gave it fresh soil, and put in miracle gro. What else can I do, it’s very sentimental to me, my mother in law gave it to me before she passed. My palm tree is almost 14 years old.

Where is the follow up to this video, I can't find it.

Savage. I hope it works out.

Old post but maybe you'll see it. I had a 7 year-old cane palm I had to move and transplant shock set in pretty quick. Would this method work for a cane palm as well?

Joe my i moved my chilean wine palm and it has spear pulled, do you think i should work or just treat with anit fungi treatment

Can I do the same with my cordyline ?

Hello, I have a palm tree that stopped growing...I replanted it and add fresh soil but not much success.. It's summer time in Europe, can I do your method during the summer as well ? Because I fear if I wait too long (end of summer) the tree will be dead by then..

would this work for a fox tail palm? thanks

I am in Arizona and I can’t grow windmills because to heat

hi from victoria our palms got savaged and i hope it lives

Keep planning to save trees planting trees

Do you water the area that you just cut

GIAANT PALLM TREE SOOO BIIIG

is there a result ? has it worked ?

I did that with my coconut palm with cold damage which started growing again but ended up rotting.

Where is the other video?

Has it started pushing any growth yet?

Well, did it work?

Great video. Will this work on a Pygmy date Palm?

Did this regrow?

Joe I got one like this should I do it

Great

Did it work?

This works guys i swear.

My date palm dead by over watering

That Eucalyptus trees surrounding the palms are the problem, it will kill everything, and it use a lot of water. That palm doesn't stand a chance.

When you remove the meristem, of course it wont grow lol

Has it grown?

Oh, it works! See my pics on Twitter (Deplorable L Arroyo)

You had new ones coming up, all you did was kill your tree

Hey I cant see anything but a picture & you talking🤔🤔🤔

Why don’t you water them

can i do this to a pygmy date palm? ive seen a lot that says cutting it this way will kill it.. but the palm i received was absolutely 100% dried out. it only had the smallest bit of green in just a couple of spots so i decided to try to save it. i cut the date palm this way but again everywhere else i have looked has said that cutting the palm from the top will kill it entirely.