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Gigas leaking Amber Goo

mwardlow

By mwardlow
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mwardlow Community Regular

mwardlow

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My 7year old Gigas has 3 or more spots of amber goo leaking out of it.

It is not sticky and has no smell.

Any Ideas of what it could be?

Thanks

Mike

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Kumar Veteran

Kumar

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That sap makes for some fine gur (jaggery). Your tree must be in good health then!

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Kumar

Bombay, India

Sea Level | Average Temperature Range 23 - 32 deg. celsius | Annual rainfall 3400.0 mm

Calcutta, India

Sea Level | Average Temperature Range 19 - 33 deg. celsius | Annual rainfall 1600.0 mm

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MattyB Grand Master

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Where are you located? It looks like some sort of weevil maybe.

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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mwardlow Community Regular

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Matt, I live in Huntington beach. One spot looks like it's coming out of a crack. I haven't seen any signs of insect activity.

It's been doing this for about a year.

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osideterry Grand Master

osideterry

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Someone from Florida posted a Spindle Palm leaking similar goo a while back. Anyone remember the prognosis or outcome?

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Zone 9b/10a, Sunset Zone 22

7 miles inland. Elevation 120ft (37m)

Average annual low temp: 30F (-1C)

Average annual rainfall: 8" (20cm)

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I had some type of boring insect in my Clinostigma savoryanum. I used merit 75 (soil drench) 4 times in 6 months, but after each old leaf sheath was removed the gooey holes were becoming larger with lots more goo. So i started using transect 70wsp; 3 applications over the following 2 months. I've now removed about 4 sheaths where there is no new evidence of these nasty bugs. The goo in the existing holes seems to have dried up as well. I don"t know which insecticide did the job; it could have been the combination of both. ??

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fan palm

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I have had this problem with a couple of foxtails and some golden canes. In my instance it was sugar cane weevil borer (Rhabdoscelus obscurus). They seem to target the unseen area on the trunk behind each sheath (which was causing the frond to turn yellow). Im not sure if this borer exists in your area?

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Matt in SD Veteran

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My C gigas did this a few years ago, and no harm ever came of it. I never did figure out why, but there was no boring insect that I ever found, and the tree is doing great.

Matt

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San Diego

0.6 Acres of a south facing, gently sloped dirt pile, soon to be impenetrable jungle

East of Mount Soledad, in the biggest cold sink in San Diego County.

Zone 10a (I hope), Sunset 24

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LJG Grand Master

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I think it is related to rapid and deep splitting of the trunk. It is a 'sap circulation wound' (not sure that is even a real term), meaning the split went far enough into the trunk where circulation is happening. I have had many palms do this. It will dry and can be peeled off once healed. I would bet it loved all that rain we have had and really expanded and split. Many of my palms have gotten fat off all the water.

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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My Gigas is doing it it too. I had chalked it up to the rain...

I had other plants doing similar back in 2006 when we had a lot of rain...

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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Steve Mac Grand Master

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Our C. mitis is doing it too, from behind the stalks and from old stalk scars. We have just had heaps of rain. And our Howia is splitting again too.

Cheers Steve

It is not dead, it is just senescence.

   

 

 

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mwardlow Community Regular

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Thanks for all the reply's. I have been having trouble keeping it green, so I have been using liquid fish fertilizer once a week throughout the summer. It has had rapid growth and is a bit stretched compared to most others in the area. I was wondering if that had anything to do with it.

Mike

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