Note that most of the canopy was still green.

after grinding a stump Unfortunately, there often are no visible indications that a palm has Thielaviopsis trunk rot until either the trunk collapses on itself (Figs. ) or the canopy suddenly falls off the trunk. The canopy may appear relatively normal and healthy, as does the trunk externally. Within a year or so, virtually all of the old dead leaves and leaf bases will have been shed, leaving a clean trunk with a canopy of living leaves at the top.

Once this stage of maturity is reached, the palm becomes largely self-cleaning, that is, old leaves will fall off naturally as they die rather than having to be cut off manually. Mar 09, If you try to strip the leaf base from the trunk before it is ready to fall off, you can scar the trunk. In some species like Date palms, you create an interesting pattern on the trunk by cutting the leaf stems at a uniform distance from the trunk.

Palms with crown shafts like Royal Palm, or Foxtail Palm.

Great presentation with actual video to back it up!

May 09, Ganoderma butt rot causes the lower 4 to 5 feet of the trunk to rot. In addition, the palm can suffer from mild to severe wilting. A definitive diagnosis can be made with the appearance of a hard, shelf-like structure called a conk that attaches to the lower 4 to 5 feet of the trunk, but not all infected palms produce bushfalling.bar: Lani Thompson.

It spreads from spores released by the conks -- flat, mushroomlike growths -- that sprout from a dying palm's trunk.

Let tools soak for 5 minutes.

By the time the conks emerge, the lowest 4 or 5 feet of the trunk have already. Jun 17, A tree with peeling bark doesn’t always indicate a problem.

As a tree grows, the layer of bark thickens and the old, dead bark falls off. It may crumble away slowly so that you hardly notice it, but some types of trees have a more dramatic shedding process that may be alarming until you realize that it is perfectly normal.