Young queen spear pulled, advice needed

[TropicsEnjoyer]

I had recently made a thread regarding my seed grown backyard queen palm that had been struggling in the aftermath of the last major cold spell I had. 

It was clearly unhappy, but I marked the spear because I didn’t know what else to think. I thought I had hope as within a week the spear seemed to have moved. The week after that, no further progress was made and I decided to do the spear test once more since I was running out of ideas. The following pictures speak for themselves…

Major and minor spear both pulled. It has been a week more or less since this. I apply H2O2 daily and have not cut anything. Weather is warm and it gets watered still. 

My question is what else could I possibly do to save this? I’m not really looking to buy any new chemicals besides the peroxide and copper fungicide I already have because at that point I might as well replace the palm. Also I noticed a hard woody thing in the center of the crown. I tried pulling it out with tweezers but it was solid and stinky. Sorry for the long read, this is just my first time dealing with this issue on a young palm.

[MarkC]

I would try to cut it down to live tissue. The only thing that has ever worked for me was cutting down the palms to healthy tissue. But I’ve only done this on Trachycarpus’.

[TropicsEnjoyer]

2 hours ago, MarkC said:

I would try to cut it down to live tissue. The only thing that has ever worked for me was cutting down the palms to healthy tissue. But I’ve only done this on Trachycarpus’.

Thanks for the reply, I’d assume if trachys grow slow and queens are relatively faster it might be reasonable. 

Hoping to hear from others experience as well 🙏🏽

[Harry’s Palms]

I had a Washingtonia pop up in a part of my garden where it wasn’t welcome . Just as it started getting its palmate leaves I tried pulling it out of the ground , it wouldn’t budge. Strong little guy , so I cut the poor devil of a the ground , thinking that would be the end of it . Nope , it grew again! I had to dig it out to get rid of it . I didn’t want to dig in that area because of other plants close by but it had to be removed , there just wasn’t room for it there. I guess cutting a palm to the growth point works to remove a troubled portion of the plant . Around here Syagrus are almost as tough as Washingtonia. Harry

[SeanK]

I don't know the recovery timeline for these. I can tell you though, that with Trachycarpus, new growth is seen sometime in June.

[TropicsEnjoyer]

I went ahead and did a bit of cutting. I only had to sacrifice one whole leaf in order to get a cut in the center. I didn’t go too crazy, just cut until I found white tissue. I’m assuming the more leaves it retains the better? 

Center there is a white cut stem. 

[Patrick]

Dont forget to dump peroxide in the hole to kill whatever nasties are in there...

[TropicsEnjoyer]

28 minutes ago, Patrick said:

Dont forget to dump peroxide in the hole to kill whatever nasties are in there...

I did right away. How often do I need to do this though? Is once a day enough?

[Fusca]

@TropicsEnjoyer, if you've already applied hydrogen peroxide and followed up with copper fungicide you should be fine.  The only other thing is if you get some rain cover the palm with a plastic container to keep it dry.  You should see some movement with higher temperatures.

[TropicsEnjoyer]

Actual good news: I can see an ugly spear pushing through the center. Pretty quick to make progress which is definitely easing my worries.

[Harry’s Palms]

Yay , good work on giving it life . Fingers crossed and if the river doesn’t rise your little trooper will be fine. Harry

[Fusca]

I'm seeing the same with my Brahea super silver.