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Mar 28, 2015 9:20 AM CST
Dallas, TX (Zone 8a)
Hi Everyone,

I had a few more questions about my poor cardboard palm. It was doing well at the beginning of the month and then dropped almost all of it's leaves the past two weeks. Kind of a poor picture but it looks a lot better afterwards:

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It was in the high 70s and low 80s a few days last week so I went ahead a trimmed of the dead the branches or what I presumed were dead branches because they had that dried out husky feel to them and fell right off with the slightest of pulls. The center (bulb?) looks pretty raw now though, was I wrong to remove them?

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In addition, I have been noticing yellow crusty junk coming out of the bottom drainage holes.

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I was going to plant it inside a shorter terracotta pot this afternoon. Do you guys think this is good plan? Oh and I also noticed there is yellow/orange film in the plants fuzz as well I hoping this is normal.


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Thank you for all your help! I'm a obviously quite the novice when it comes to plants because the sales assistant assured me when I purchased it they were impossible to kill Crying

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