Ponytail Palm Blooming

As i said ponytail palms are succulents.

Ponytail palm blooming. The spike looks like a feather plume and it will produce myriad small branches holding hundreds of tiny flowers. There are reports that it can take as much as thirty years before indoor specimens bloom. You will know that ponytail palm flowering is near when the ponytail palm flower spike appears. The ponytail palm will be perfectly happy being watered every couple of weeks and left alone to soak up the sunlight.

The plant stores water in its onion shaped bulbous base caudex as well as the trunk stem. Quite a few folks have reported on the various facebook succulent groups that their ponytail palm is blooming for the first time this year. This plant is ideal for people with very little time or who travel regularly. The flower stalk emerges from the crown of leaves 6 ft.

The ponytail palm is drought tolerant slow growing and requires very little care. Where are the plant conspiracy theorists. As best as we can tell this is the first time we have observed flower spikes on our specimen. The ponytail palm is actually considered a succulent as it stores water around the base of its swollen trunk.

Moving the plant to a larger pot will give it room to grow in both height and girth. Above ground and is 4 ft. They can go for many years before needing to be repotted. This means that it produces male flowers on some plants and female flowers on others.

Repotting a ponytail palm ponytail palms will remain small if kept in a small pot. The ponytail palm is dioecious. Like most succulents the ponytail palm prefers dry soil conditions and therefore does not need to be watered very often. When selecting a new pot pick one.

How to care for your ponytail palm. The biggest caudex is 16 in diameter. In fact overwatering is the primary reason why these plants fail to thrive. However older plants may become.

If you water it too often then the bulb will rot out as well as the trunk.