Yes, you can cut every single frond but make sure it is the right time of year. Generally not during the growing season. In Florida I normally do first week of January. Three months later it looks beautiful. If you want you can leave the top couple of rows on the plant as this will look good as well. You can also trim Palmetto's like this as well. They come back wonderfully in a few months.
You're very good, mate. However, with all respect, please ask your cameraperson to focus on what you are doing - your hands and tools - as opposed to filming you face and missing the action.
Hi richard, thank you for the great video. My husband and I have been growing sago palms for nearly 30 years now. We have eight of them in our yard and we love them. Weird thing is all of a sudden we have some of our segos producing extra cones. One of them grew four cones from its Center and the other one grew about 8:00 with a few of them fused together. Strangest thing I've ever seen. Not sure what to think and wondering if you can help out on that. 2 years ago we had another one do a weird morph thing and it is growing kind of Haywire in every which way direction.
Yikes, I didn't realize you could trim it back so much; I've been trimming mine from the bottom only. Your camera person could back up a bit to show more of the plant :)
We leave the cone alone and then break it off later when it is ready and just snaps off. By then the plant has grown so many new fronds that the cone isn't at the top.
I've been trimming mine like this yearly but this time it has not recovered (no new beaches have grown in). Now the center flower thing seems to have died as well. Is it game over?
Why can’t the seller tell us at purchase?? Or even better, just give us an instruction sheet? 🙏🙏🙏 THANK YOU for helping me. Now I know how to cut it back. Does a female SAGO require a different method of care? Does this plant need special attention in cold weather? YOU ARE A SPECIAL HELP. 👍👏🏻👏🏻⭐️🤗
Please keep the camera on the plant while you work instead of always on the person that's doing the trimming. I could not see too well what you were doing. Didn't get to see the plant before you started working on it.
I have three sago palms and there growing very well in a Irish climate 😍 one of them has a bit of discolouration in the prong leaves what will have to be done to help it?
Robert, I have the same issue with mine. They are in full sun 5 of them .. I guess they dont like to be in full sun. I fertilize mine and water them often ,cuss mine are in a sandy environment too and they haven't turn yellowish any more. I did noticed that when sago palms are in shady area they do have that nice dark green look on them....Good Luck.
Loved the vid. Thanks, I think I need to be more aggressive with trimming my fronds. Excellent communications. Thanks. I'm near Memphis, TN, have outdoor Sagos, that come inside for January. Peace to ya'll.
How might one distinguish a male Sago from Female ?? and is there different treatment ? why does some seem to sprout fromms quickly and others do not ???
I did this and trimmed it all a couple months ago, both my male and female. Female came back great, but male not producing any fronds on top. Any advice
I trim all the leaves off a few months ago and I don't see any growing back the only thing that came out was the pineapple looking thing but no leaves what do I do, I wonder if it needs any type of fertilizer what do you recommend
"I dont want to have you just run in, cut everything and go". Is it just me? Should I trim my crepemyrtle like this while I'm out there? Is it preserved just like you "trimmed" it four years ago?
I have several sago palms with the large yellow "thing" in the middle but never have seen one trimmed with just that left.......what is the thought behind that...it looks a little weird
They’re new fronds, mine sends up new fronds every two years. There is absolutely no reason to cut all the fronds off like this guy did, cutting the dead ones from the bottom is all that’s needed to keep it looking nice. In nature the dead ones would fall off anyway.