Quote History Originally Posted By tier1bro:
one of the reasons for buying my current house was a big "double palm tree" queen palm (one root two trunks and heads). it was a beautiful tree, i loved it. about a year after moving in the fronds started turning brown. i had a guy come out and look at it. he said it was "butt rot" (some sort of fungus) and that it needed to come out, and here's the kicker, i could never plant another palm in this location because of the infection in the soil. i have sagos and other palms that are not effected in the yard but this one spot is "off limits".
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I've lost one to this so far and a second is dying from it now. I planted a new Queen Palm maybe 6 feet away from the first one to die and so far it is doing well. After the second dies completely I will do the same. Of course it throws off the symmetry of the yard but what can I do?
Funny side story. One of the local landscape prowlers (drive around in their trucks asking if I want my trees trimmed etc) Made me an offer to cut it down and haul it off. It was a bit pricey so I ask how much if I cut it down and he hauls it off. He gave me a good price so I said I will give him a call soon.
So I looked at the tree a bit. Back in my Missouri days it the first attempt to down a tree was simply wrap a chain around it and pull with what ever you felt could do the job. So I hooked up my truck (3/4t 4x4 F250), tied off about 8ft above ground and within a minute had it down laying across the front yard. Unhooked and drove over a street where he was working on another yard and told him to come get it.
It worked out pretty good.