I think I was out of sunshine mix when I repotted that last September.
Probably a serious error if I used the hanging basket mix.

You remember that CIDP repotting? 😆 😆
That poor CIDP has had TWO brutal repotting episodes in 4 or 5 years, but it still keeps on ticking.

adding gravel/rocks in the bottom to falicitate drainage?

I've always added a two inch layer of rocks in the bottom of all pots just to keep tall pots upright in our strong winds.

There was a discussion here years ago about using gravel/rocks beneath a plant in the garden.
Differing opinions, if I recall, on the effectiveness especially if soil is clayish in garden.
But for pots, I think it's a good idea.

I could send you a truckload of rocks, Jesse? :bootyshake:

Barb

sorry for your loss Barb........she was a beauty!

I don't know Barb.........hope it pulls through. Plants are funny. Cameron sent me some Protea seed and it grow fine last year and started growing again this year.........I repotted it 2 weeks ago and both plants appear to by dying? This _ucks. I babied those and not they'll be dead soon.

PS, they look worst today than this photo.
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This may help.

I would do it before you do a new transplant.

http://www.using-hydrogen-peroxide.com/peroxide-garden.html

No return for that bottle unless the person/person's upstairs intervene....

Thats sad Barb-such a healthy vigorous palm in the earlier pics too... 🙁

Yup, it's a goner for sure.
Attracted flies like a rotting "something" so I dragged it behind the building.
Stank to high heaven.

The entire "bottle" part went mushy like cardboard.
Now not even the flies go near it.

Thanks for the good wishes folks...onward, though the herd keeps thinning.

😥

Barb the exact same rot happened to my bottle palm you got for me. By the time you realize there is a problem it`s to late. I regularly spray hydrogen peroxide into the crown of my tropical palms after losing the big Bottle palm. Good that you had yours two years longer than mine.

John

Thanks John.

...and we both used such great soil that drains immediately...

It'll always be a mystery. 😐

Barb

That a drag Barb,she was a beauty......

I will leave the Washy in the ground,if it doesn't grow by fall
its a candidate fro experimentation.

if it doesn't grow by fall
its a candidate for experimentation.

We've all learned so much from your experiments, Jim.
But maybe give him until next year...
I hope he bounces back by then.

Barb

I think if it hasn't moved by Oct it ain't going too...
maybe at that point I have a look see whats what with the roots.

If a heat loving palm can't recover in these temps......

the thing is,they can look like they are alive for a year or two
when they are really dead-I had a Waggie that did this-it looked
like it had a chance for 2 years but when I dug it up there were no roots,

dug it up there were no roots

Yeah, good point.
Just wishing about it won't create roots.
Know the feeling!