My PDP that has 5 in a pot and range from 2 1/2' trunk to 1 1/2' trunk has began to droop again. I watered in very well but still is drooping. I noticed some of the leafs are drooping over the other side of the trunk (trunk is leaning so much that fronds on the other side of the lean are leaning across the trunk).
I am wondering if I shouild do some haircutting on them???? They are all green and I know you shouldn't cut green fronds off, but they are drooping BAD.

That seems to be doing close to the same thing as yours ?
Just tied together a little frame of bamboo pieces to hold the fronds up out of the way. I generally don't like to trim anything until it has browned out completely. If it is still green it is still providing energy to the plant. If you do need to trim, try to wait until Spring / Summer.

Well I tried something else and had kinda half-N-half luck.
That last snow storm we had a couple weeks ago, well I went out and scooped up a huge water jug (10 gallon) of snow and let it melt. I took that water and watered the #@$& out of it. This morning I woke up to look at it and it did spring back to life with no fronds touching the floor again. However, the fronds do still look like they are wilted and dry. Since I watered it last night and no sun got to it, maybe today when the Sun comes out and hits it, they will perck up.
But I think I might go ahead and do the "tie up" thing you posted thou Steve. Just to keep them up.

Kansas I`ve had similar problems with Pygmy dates. They seem to decline when they are root bound,lack of light, not proper nutrients. I would transplant your Pygmy into a larger pot soon ,as by the time spring rolls around the roots will be expanding. Just something that has worked for me.
John

I generally don't like to trim anything until it has browned out completely

I have heard many people say this. I ALWAYS trim the lower fronds 2-3 times a year. It seems to force the tree to grow faster to replace the fronds. I have always done this & have never seen any ill effects...

Tropicman - I have thought about those and I have one we use for camping etc. I have thought about how I can enclose it for winter and have determined that a clear solar pool cover might be the ticket.

Steve - the HFGH is still an option. I think I can make that work but I am not sure the 6X8 is big enough and I think the 10X12 is too big to hide. I got time to think about it and I'll figure something out before next fall. It will give me something to think about for the next 6 months.

There is another option,being we live in the wheat state,and there is lots of bales of straw,if they wouldn't mind a few bales of straw on your property,in fact it could look like your just keeping the moisture off your stored straw bales,that you use for mulch.
Anyway,build a straw greenhouse and throw a couple fiberglass panels over the top,and then throw a plastic covering over it all,just make it look like your storing bales of straw. Use a oil filled raditior for heat,no chance of catching on fire!

Thats almost exactly what I was going to do.
My G-Pa is a Dairy Farmer (90 years old and been a Dairy Farmer for 70 years) and will give me bales.
I was going to do the "Straw Bale Greenhouse" thing next year on one of my palms. Don't know which one.
I plan on the Robusta making it this winter with the wrap. So this Spring, I hope to put a Butia and a Fortunei in the ground. And the "Straw Bale Greenhouse" will go on one of those two.

the bales of hay is a great idea, but I am going with some portable pre-made greenhouse structure. I have actually seen a greenhouse made of hay bales on some website. They had a whole pictorial on construction and such, it was pretty cool.