Posted by Tom Broome on 2/18/2007, 12:15 pm, in reply to "Re: pruning" --Previous Message--
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: can you prune back all leaves of a
: sago palm?
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: Yes. What is the reason you want to
: do that?
: I have one large one in my yard here
: in TN that I let brown out in the
: winter before I cover it. I cut off
: all of the leaves once it
: does...usually around December.
: Last year it came back with a
: vengance in late March and put out a
: heavy flush. Then it flushed again
: later in the summer.
: From what I understand, over in
: China there are places that
: regularly cut of the leaves for the
: winter.
: The only thing I don't know is if
: this hurts it to do year after year.
: I guess I'll find out!
:
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Cutting all the leaves off at one time, or having all your leaves burnt off will make your plant slightly weakened because it is not taking in sun to produce energy, until the new leaves are produced. Usually, the plant can live off the starch in the stem until new leaves are produced, and many times, new leaves will be produced faster if you did cut off old leaves. I tell people to wait until new leaves are produced before you cut off old leaves that look bad, but it is up to each person to decide what they want to do.
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