TonyLoco
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This weekend a bought a 3 gallon Montgomery triple. It looked in pretty bad shape, it was all yellowy and most of the leaves had browning holes on them. The guy at the nursery assured me that it was just the stress from the pot and once I get it in the ground it would be fine. I accepted that because it was the second nursery that I had been where the small potted triple montgomeries looked like that.
Yesterday evening I planted it in the ground next to one of my Bucaneer Palms. Then this morning I went out to look and it seems that the part of the Bucaneer Palm leaves that were touching the leaves of the Montgomery have gone brown!
It is possible that that leaf was already brown but I definitely did not notice it before. Is it possible that the Montgomery palm had a bad pest on it that has now jumped to the Bucaneer Palm? It had only been 12 hours for it to go brown (7 pm - 7am) and during those 12 hours it was raining non stop! Could a pest really have done that much damage in just 12 hours?
Here are some pics, I had already cut off the leaf of the Montgomery palm that was touching the Bucaneer palm by the time I took the pictures:
Yesterday evening I planted it in the ground next to one of my Bucaneer Palms. Then this morning I went out to look and it seems that the part of the Bucaneer Palm leaves that were touching the leaves of the Montgomery have gone brown!
It is possible that that leaf was already brown but I definitely did not notice it before. Is it possible that the Montgomery palm had a bad pest on it that has now jumped to the Bucaneer Palm? It had only been 12 hours for it to go brown (7 pm - 7am) and during those 12 hours it was raining non stop! Could a pest really have done that much damage in just 12 hours?
Here are some pics, I had already cut off the leaf of the Montgomery palm that was touching the Bucaneer palm by the time I took the pictures: