Category: cycad

Your Cycas revoluta has been sitting there — same fronds, same size, no sign of a new flush — for months. Maybe a full year. Maybe longer. The internet tells you it is “slow-growing,” and it is. But there is a difference between slow and stalled. This guide walks you through every reason a sago palm stops… Continue reading My Sago Palm Is Not Growing New Leaves: 12 Causes, a Diagnostic Decision Tree, and How to Fix Each One

The oldest ring of fronds on your Cycas revoluta is turning yellow between the veins while the newest flush looks perfectly green. This pattern — chlorosis starting on old leaves, not new ones — points to a mobile-nutrient deficiency. In cycads, the most common culprit is magnesium. It is less dramatic than manganese deficiency (frizzle top) and less discussed than… Continue reading Magnesium Deficiency in Cycads: Why Old Fronds Turn Yellow and How to Fix It

Your Cycas revoluta pushes a new flush of fronds — but instead of the long, straight, deep-green leaflets you expect, the emerging leaves are stunted, crinkled at the tips, streaked with yellow, and visibly deformed. This condition has a name in the horticultural world: frizzle top. Its cause is almost always the same: manganese deficiency. It is the single… Continue reading Manganese Deficiency in Cycads: How to Diagnose, Treat and Prevent Frizzle Top

Cycads are slow growers — but slow does not mean undemanding. A Cycas revoluta that produces a single flush of fronds per year is channeling all its nutritional resources into one concentrated growth event. If the right elements are not available at the right time, the results are immediate and visible: chlorotic fronds, stunted flushes, frizzled leaf… Continue reading Best Fertilizer for Cycads: What to Feed Your Sago Palm, When, and How

You notice a cluster of new growth emerging from the centre of your Cycas revoluta — and you’re not quite sure whether to celebrate or worry. That sudden flush of tightly coiled fronds, or a strange compact structure rising from the crown, can look alarming if you’ve never seen it before. In reality, it is… Continue reading My Cycas Is Producing New Shoots

There is a group of cycads that every collector covets but almost no one in Europe or temperate North America can grow well. The Australian blue cycads — Cycas couttsiana, Cycas ophiolitica, Cycas cairnsiana — along with tropical Asian species like Cycas siamensis “Silver”, are among the most beautiful plants in the genus Cycas. On their own roots, in a European… Continue reading The Simon Lavaud Method: Grafting Cycads onto Cycas revoluta to Grow Difficult Species