How do I take care of an indoor palm tree?
There are specially formulated fertilizers designed just for palm trees. This is because the nutritional needs of palms are different from other plants in your yard. By not fertilizing your established palm, you risk several nutritional deficiencies that can kill your tree. Look carefully at the bag of fertilizer to ensure that is not only has the right balance of nitrogen and potassium like other fertilizers, but that it also has a balance of other nutrients such as manganese, iron, magnesium and boron. An ideal mix should have an N:P:K:Mg ratio of 2:1:3:1. Application of fertilizer for proper palm tree care should be at a rate of about one and a half pound of fertilizer per 100 feet of tree canopy, applied four times a year. Use a dry, granular fertilizer and do not apply it against the trunk of your palm tree.
Make sure it gets plenty of sun. A sunny window is ideal, a sunny room second-best. Pot it in sandy soil. Add regular sand to potting soil if you can't get sandy soil designed for palms and cacti. Don't overwater. These are desert plants. Make sure there's plenty of drainage so if you do give too much water, you don't start root rot.
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Hi: Sand is a great soil for a palm tree as well as a light weight soil mixture with Humas and Vermiculite. These ingredients work real well with a Palm. Don't over water and it loves the sun. You can give the palm plant food every other month. Take a moist paper towel and with a little soap and wash the leaves off once or twice a month. The leaves will stay nice and shiney. Hope this helped some and good luck with your indoor palm. Take a look at my website as I have some articles on indoor ideas as well as many topic on landscape solutions. Kimberly www.landscape-solutions-for-you.c.
