Storm Surge salt water and young palms

[byuind]

In my back yard / area we had a significant storm surge from Ian. I have two juvenile syagrus back below a retaining wall. The surge came up pretty significantly during the high tide and these guys were sitting in salt water for well over 8 hours.

 

is there anything special in need to do? I though about more fresh water from the hose but with all the moisture in the ground I wasn’t sure if that was a great idea.

 

I attached a photo from my balcony 

[Johnny Palmseed]

There’s little to nothing that you can do. The waters will need to recede. After that, you can give them a flush but they are already soaked and I don’t think queens love wet feet. Also, that doesn’t remove the salt already taken up by the plant. Sometimes we think that we need to do something but many times less is more. You are trying to overcome a Mother Nature event and sometimes that’s not possible.

[byuind]

yeah i kinda figured there wasn't much I could do. Once the water recedes I'll probably hose them down to get any excess salt off them but other than that I'm guessing its  a waiting game. 

 

Water has started to recede but there is obviously another high tide tonight and I don't know how the hurricane will effect the water level then either.