Posted by Tom Broome on 3/6/2008, 10:21 pm, in reply to "Is it possible to stop seed and pup production?"
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: I inherited 3 7' sagos when I
: purchased my home. The seeds are
: highly toxic to dogs (just spent
: $600 at the vet for 2). I've fenced
: off the female sago which has what
: looks to be hundreds of seeds
: between the layers of leaves and a
: new crop on top. One of the male
: trees has 2 dead pollen cones
: between it's fronds and a jungle of
: pups growing underneath. The lawn
: service guys won't go near the
: trees, i.e., it's up to this single
: female to deal with them & I'm
: new to yardwork. Is there any way
: to stop the seeds from producing?
: What about inhibiting the pups? I
: dug up a couple to give to friends
: and while digging saw a whole layer
: of them about 6-10 inches down. The
: one tree with the 'jungle'
: underneath looks very daunting with
: its mass of prickly fronds on top
: and jungle of pups underneath. If I
: can dig them out, how can I stop
: them from growing back? I want to
: plant something else underneath.
:
What I would do is when the cluster first comes out and before it gets pollinated, I would cut it out of the top, and then you won't have top worry about seeds. The problem with offsets is that when you remove one, you create a wound on the stem and more offsets will be produced. The only thing you can do is mainly just cut off the leaves on the offsets to keep the plant looking clean. If at some point you have about 50 offsets at the base, you could remove them, but not as many will grow back and will take a while to get back to that number.
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