Is it normal or something wrong?
 

Hi all,

The leaves of Cal. Gold and Dwf. Orinoco come up very slowly in such a
pace of one leaf 3~3 weeks and stop growing at the basement of the
petioles, and become like "Travellers' Tree".

It seems for me that it definitely is something wrong. But I don't think it
fertilizer problem as the leave keep beautiful green.

Any advice or comments please.


This shows how Cal.Gold looks like. I cut back the sheath of the P-stem
if it helped the leaves to develope smoothly. So it don't look so funny.
But it actually was very funny.


The far left is Dwf. Orinoco. I did quite same as Cal. Gold.
Seems something wrong?

Re: Is it normal or something wrong?
 

Might be root-bound. Can't see if it's in a pot, but it looks like your others are. I would repot it into a larger pot.

Re: Is it normal or something wrong?
 

Talk about growing like a Travelers Palm. Thousand finger in the grownd

Re: Is it normal or something wrong?
 

That's redonkulous!

I've had some do something similar to that. I think they were all water suckers that had gotten big.

But never anything like that.

I tried to look at this on FB and it was deemed "abusive".

Re: Is it normal or something wrong?
 

Asacomm and Sunfish - it certainly looks as if something is slowing the growth down - either too small a pot, or not enough water if they are in the ground. Although we rarely get temperatures above 90f, the rainfall is high with often 3 inches overnight and 22 inches in a month. It doesn't look like a nutrition problem as they look beautiful.

Re: Is it normal or something wrong?
 

My Zan Moreno grows similar to that.

Re: Is it normal or something wrong?
 

Judging by the pots around it, I assume it's also in that size. For a plant that large, it could definitely be in something larger, perhaps a 25 gallon pot. IMO that is what is causing the issue.

Re: Is it normal or something wrong?
 

My 'Raja Puri' is doing something similar right now. The last leaf did not completely emerge and the leaf is having trouble completely unfurling as a result. I'd say it seems to be a thing with dwarf plants but my 'Hua Moa' used to have issues with it's leaves unfurling properly too.

Re: Is it normal or something wrong?
 

Both my SDC did the same thing. Cleaning up the p-stem helped,but they do need larger pots.

Re: Is it normal or something wrong?
 

Perhaps I should have mentioned that my Raja Puri is in the ground rather than in a pot.