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What's wrong with this Ponytail Palm?

Pee Dee Palms

By Pee Dee Palms
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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So I just picked up this Ponytail Palm up from Lowe's for half off because it seems to have some rotting issue with the trunk. Half of the trunk is very spongy. I scraped all the spongy stuff off and now I got to some hard trunk in the middle. The crown looks very healthy. 20230305_161238.thumb.jpg.18cfe812b957d7b391f04e1ad9e6aa7b.jpg20230305_161244.thumb.jpg.764e1c7888bb0f842090f98aa235c456.jpg20230305_161252.thumb.jpg.3f061c9f2704d1124d82f4d63255c679.jpgY'all think it'll survive?

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It looks like they "topped" it to force it to grow side branches, but didn't seal the top correctly with tar.  The trunk rot is "possibly fatal" but it might survive.  I have a 5' diameter 10' tall ponytail that got a chunk of tree dropped on it.  The damage took a big chunk out of the base, and exposed the spongy inside.  I treated it with a spray fungicide and routinely dusted it with sulfur powder.  A year later it had grown a hard trunk shell inside the spongy bit, which eventually turned to powder and fell away.  I'd hit it with hydrogen peroxide and sulfur powder and hope!

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