How to Prune a Cabbage Palm
2013 ж. 16 Мау.
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Stephen Brown, from Lee County Extension, shows how to correctly prune a cabbage palm otherwise known as Sabal palmetto.
Stephen Brown, from Lee County Extension, shows how to correctly prune a cabbage palm otherwise known as Sabal palmetto.
This is one of the best how to videos I've ever seen. Answered all my question about how to prune my scraggly Cabbage Palm. Steven Brown is a shinning STAR!
The natural look or the 9 to 3 look, is what I like.
I’ve always hated the hurricane cut
9 to 3 is perfect!
You are a smart man. Great video
9 to 3 or 10 to 2 Both look great.. awesome video .. learned alot.. thank you
after a couple of Strokes with that saw he was like let me get the professionals because my arthritis is acting up lol
Thanks. We have these in New Zealand, but fortunately, no hurricanes (yet)!
I always trim 10 to 2. Looks the best to me
Good work of this
Outstanding information, agree the natural look works for us. But what are the pros and cons of skinning the trunk?
we need a lot MORE of videos that actually tell you how to do it......the hurricane cut actually achieves the opposite of everyone's stated goal, it makes the tree MORE LIKELY TO BREAK.....trimming it that far exposes the apical meristimactic part of the tree, it gets dehydrated, and cutting off the green fronds starves it...... AND IT LOOKS FREAKING STUPID!!!
Great video....
Quick question, what is recommended for pruning the tree trunk? In the video they have pruned all the leftover dead leaf stems til the top, is that ok? Mine have them all the way down and I'd like to trim up and a bunch of ants are nesting up in there and it looks messy.
Fantastic
I have a VERY deep Florida ancestry dates back to just after the civil war. My 4xgreat grandpa who lived in Georgia and fought for the confederates was killed in the battle of Vicksburg. After his death the family migrated to southeast Hillsborough county that eventually became known as Ft lonesome. I still live in Hillsborough county. Personally I have never seen or heard of a palm tree being blown over and uprooted. The only downed palm trees that I've seen are ones that has been dead and finally rotted off at the dirt and fell over. Sooo hurricane pruning is doing nothing. Dead palm leafs can become missiles but the green ones very rarely get knocked off
I personally prefer the burn out method my grandpa taught me as a kid when I was an apprentice piro. You find a dead frond-leaf or break one off the tree. Tie it to your extension saw and light it up. Once the fire catches good start walking around the tree setting the dead leafs on fire. Very satisfying and takes the work out of pruning tall palm trees... The burn marks will wear off in time
Hi, how long does it take to prune such a palm? best regards
Sable palmetto
Florida landscape
10-2 perfect
There are plenty of examples of mutilated palms. It was so unneccessary to put one more palm at risk merely as an example of how not to prune. The Sabal palmetto makes great nature habitat left un pruned. Advise new palms be planted out and away from structures and lines so they do not creat a hazard and encurage the 10-2 prunning as most prunners will end up taking more off than ask. A good slogan for prunning is Less is More and you could explain that by the health and strength of the Palm and use the same slogan when pruning trees also.
Over pruning in my opinion. They do the same thing on our island cutting off way to many fronds. I prefer a nice full crown. That's ruining not pruning
Only cut off the brown fronds. Yellow fronds contain nutrients and cutting off green fronds just for symmetry is just horrible. The 93 look is the best
Who in the world wastes time cutting native palms? Who has room in their yard for a huge bucket truck? I agree with the host, leave it natural. The younger ones have a mane or leaves that hand down and eventually they break off leaving the "jacks" on the trunk. Only after the trunk gets taller they fall off and leave it clear. With all those fronds cut off you can build yourself a chickee hut! Buy yourself a reciprocating pole saw or an pneumatic pole saw like I use if you need to trim.
The best thing is not to prune your cabbage palms at all. That skirt of dead fronds provides wonderful habitat for all kinds of critters. The 9-to-3 cut recommended by UF/IFAS is a compromise solution, but really, you can just leave them be.
The Palm looks more majestic not pruned.
Hurricane cut cabbage palms
9-3 is my fave.... why is last one called hurricane ?
Theres nothing for the harricane to blow off making it easier to clean after the storm or thats the way it will look after a storm gets ahold of it .was this helpful?
I can tell you if you leave a cabbage palm unprinted for an entire year it will have maybe 4-5 dead fronds total. I don't agree with leaving any palm unpruned. It becomes a source of housing for large ants, snakes, and other critters. I like the look of a cleaned up palm, just done correctly. Plus the fruits are messy so if your up there taking them out might as well remove the dead leaves. The palm uses energy to get rid of dead leaves and produce fruit so really it is best to clean them up.
palm fronds that are dying use the remaining nutrients and so on for the new leaves
Congratulations, you proved you don't know shit about palm pruning. The cabbage palm is a "self maintenance" palm. Leaving the skirt or petticoat on is the proper thing to do.
Unpruned cabbage palms
I want 10 to 2
I like 10 to 2
These palm should not be pruned at all. All the leaves are important to the ecosystem. Dead palm fronds do provide food and habitat for our wildlife and in fact protect the palm during an hurricane by providing additional wind break to the heart of the sabal palm.
Twist their arm and force them to do it
4 to 5
How not to Prune a cabbage palm
Same size
9 to 3
10 to 2
Plant food
Hurricane cut
No more than 9 to 3 should be cut off. Why is it called a cabagge palm? Because it looks like a cabagge unpruned . Leave it alone .
Hurricane cuts are terrible for the trees. Driven by greedy landscapers and ignorant transplants.
Palms aren't trees, people.