Sylvester date palm worries

[Mlvm2019]

Hi, so I’m having an issue with two Sylvester dates palms I recently planted last October.  I live in southwest Fl and our rainy season has begun about 1-2 months ago.  These palms came from a local palm tree farm and are about 16-18’ overall height, about 5’ of clear trunk with diamond pattern cut.  Recently I noticed the new Growth in the center of the palm canopy is dead or brown.  It has me worried.  The palms look healthy overall to me. I’ve only fertilized twice with milorganite up to last week when I had a professional company come look at the issue and give me their liquid fertilizer with various nutrients (magnesium...etc).  Again, we been have heavy rains which is typical of SW Florida this time of year.  I can’t see how the trees could be getting overwatered/root rot?  They are not in a low lying area and again they are coming from a local palm tree farm.  Any ideas??? I will follow with pictures.  Thanks. 

[Mlvm2019]

[Mlvm2019]

[kinzyjr]

I would keep an eye on it.  With all of the diseases affecting the various types of date palms in Florida at this point, you never know.  If it is diseased, watch for one of these two sets of symptoms:

• If one side of the fronds start dying before the other, it could be fusarium. 
• If the lower fronds start browning and it works its way progressively up the canopy it could be lethal bronzing. 

Please post requests like this in the Discussion forums where most of the folks who can help you will see this.

[Mlvm2019]

It’s odd to me that they are both doing the same thing at the same time... the trees are about 30’ away from each other.  Trunk is very moist, again with all this rain we’ve had lately.  

[kinzyjr]

I'm not entirely sure that they have either of these diseases, but I do know that the I-4 corridor is ground zero for the outbreak of these diseases.  In particular, Tampa and Lakeland have been especially hard hit.  There used to be a P. sylvestris near the interchange between the Polk Parkway (FL-570) and South Florida Avenue here in Lakeland, but it perished a few years ago under similar circumstances.