Chambeyronia Macrocarpa Problem?

[Briank]

Hello Everyone!

 

 Had a question.  A while ago I bought 4 Chambey's, this was after I visited Dave's Garden in La Habra coincidently, as his are just amazing! lol.

 

I found a grower that had a bunch of 5ga's that were Sun Acclimated. Was important to me as I don't have a ton of shade and didn't want to watch them get all burned up coming from greenhouse.

 

Well I put 2 in ground last month no problem doing great.  Waited on the other 2 as I was thinking were I wanted to put them.

I had one that I got that was a little loose, as it had a small stake in the pot as it was bit top heavy, guess the roots had not set into pot or whatever causes that. Didn't think much of it I bought it anyways thinking I would just stake it when I put into ground.

 

Well I dug whole yesterday, and went to remove from the pot today but was having trouble. Noticed I couldn't even slightly pull from the base out of pot. So I started to remove some of the soil from the pot to losen it up.  I finally got it out of Pot and noticed this.  Looks like this is what happens when a Plant is grown in Pot to long?? The roots were not going through the holes at bottom, creating a Root ball around the bottom. I could not really loosen up all the roots or remove the soil they were firmly stuck together.  I did my best, and still put it in the ground, staking it and firmly packing amended Soil into the ground.

I am not sure if it will make it, or whats going to happen, but I will give it a chance in the ground, and let the Palm Angels decide I guess. Take a look and let me know what you think. Have never run across this before in any of the Palms I have bought before.

 

Cannot figure out how to rotate pics. They are upright on my phone.

[Ben in Norcal]

Hard to tell what the issue is - if any - from the pics.

[Matt in OC]

I have one that did this. It's my oldest, but I bought it pretty small and planted it out last year. The mass of the rootball is separated from the bottom of the trunk by a few strong roots out of the root initiation zone so it appears on its tiptoes. I'm not sure why this happened. I received it bare root and might have potted it too high. 

What I ended up doing was staking it and mounding soil and mulch around it to help encourage new roots from the RIZ. The Palm hasn't missed a beat and seems to be stabilizing.

[Briank]

Thanks. We will see.  I'm going to put another stake in tomorrow. The root ball was only the bottom few inches as the roots extending from base were fine but seems the roots never grew out of pot but her wrapped around the soil at the very bottom as you can see in pics. I hope with enough water this winter and some spring sun, they will free up and take to soil.  The fronds seem to be growing with new frond.  Will cross my fingers see what happens