Palm splints

[D. Morrowii]

This might be dumb or overkill but just thought I’d throw this out there. A couple of small palms that were shipped to me were either damaged in packing, shipping or unpacking. I wanted to keep the palms as healthy and intact as possible to minimize stress and or shock. Out of the large batch of palms a V. splendida, a B. condopanna and a C. macrospermum each had a bent or lightly damaged leaf sten. So when I potted them up the leaves just hung straight down the petiole creased and a little bruised .I tried a couple things to try and support the leaf but this worked the best and has lasted a couple of months now. Basically its a small piece of balsa wood with a bread tie loosely wrapped around it and the petiole. It works pretty well and I’m fairly certain it saved the leaves.  

[Merlyn]

I did the same thing with Licuala Peltata v. Sumawongii that I had purchased from eBay.  The seller had just put two pots in there facing each other, without anything to hold them in place or hold them apart.  So about 1/2 of the stems were bent or broken.  For those I just stuck a piece of bamboo through the bottom of the pot and loosely tied the stems to the bamboo in a couple of places with spare speaker wire.  It seemed to work on most fronds, because they stayed green and good looking until their "normal" die off time a few months later.

[D. Morrowii]

It has to be better than just cutting them  off. All 3 of these still have the leaves but they are reaching the end soon and seem to be in their normal life cycle

[Gonzer]

With the nursing shortage going on I see good things in your future.