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PALM TREE CARE
PALM TREE FERTILIZER: When fertilizing Florida palm trees, the palm tree fertilizer needs to be applied evenly from the base of the trunk out to the drip line of the palm fronds. Palm Trees require special blends of fertilizer and this fertilizer should be coated slow release. Our palm tree service uses nothing other then 100% coated slow release fertilizer for your palms. This is very important when fertilizing palm trees because they are slow feeders and if the palm tree fertilizer is not 100% coated it will dissolve and leach through the soil leaving the palm deficient of the nutrients required to sustain it.
FERTILIZER APPLICATION: How you apply a fertilizer can also determine whether the application will be effective or not. Concentrating fertilizer in holes, as spikes, or in bands around the trunks of palms is less effective than spreading the same amount of fertilizer uniformly throughout the area under the canopy. This is because nutrient movement is almost exclusively downward in direction and thus only that small proportion of the palm root system directly under concentrated fertilizer will ever be exposed to these nutrients.
Concentrating fertilizers is also much more likely to burn palm roots than fertilizer spread out over a larger area. Injecting water-soluble fertilizers into the “root zone” of palms is never recommended because: 1) water-soluble fertilizers are readily lost to leaching, 2) lateral movement of injected fertilizer is minimal, and 3) injecting any nutrients deeply enough to avoid turf grass roots will also miss the majority of the palms fine feeder roots which tend to intermingle with turf roots near the soil surface.
Although trunk injection micronutrients such as Mn have been shown to be effective, this method is not recommended for palms except in cases where soil applications have been ineffective in alleviating chronic micronutrient deficiency symptoms.
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Nutrient deficiencies are much more easily prevented than corrected once they occur. Correction of nutrient deficiencies can take long periods of time. It is also important that fertilizer be in 100% slow release form because Florida's soils have very low capacities to retain the elements in the root zone during periods of heavy rainfall or irrigation, the only effective way to keep these elements readily available to plants during the 2 to 3 month interval between fertilizer applications is to use slow release sources.
A water-soluble fertilizer applied one day could be completely leached out of the root zone the next day by a heavy rainfall and the palm would receive no benefit from the application at all. Controlled-release fertilizers are not greatly affected by rainfall or irrigation intensity. Since they release more slowly than water-soluble fertilizers, they are also less likely to burn plant roots during periods of drought.