Queen Palm
Fertilizer for Queen Palms
Queen Palm trees need to be properly fertilized at least 3-4 times per year to fight Manganese deficiency and Bacterial and fungal infections, such as Crown Rot or Bud Rot.
TOP 5 Things affecting Palm Tree Care:
- Type of Soil (Is it Alkaline or Acidic?)
-
Watering Schedule (Does your Queen Palm drink like a fish, or is it parched?)
- Local Climate (Not climate change, we mean hot vs. cold, humid vs. dry, you know, that old chestnut).
- Transplant History (Before the Nursery, how was it dug out of the ground & potted?)
- Fertilizer for Queen Palms (Are you using a 2-part Manganese Sulphate & Copper Fungicide feeding & treatment plan? No? That's what we thought!)
As an International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist, I’m always amazed when I hear non-experts talk about Queen Palm trees not needing tree feeding, fertilizing or caring about fertilizer for Queen Palms; they must want their trees to die! 
These people tend to cite an obscure passage in the International Society of Arboriculture textbook (for students studying to become an ISA Certified Arborist).
They usually mention that the I.S.A. claims that Tree Feeding is not necessary in most instances.
The problem is, Arizona has highly alkaline soil, with hardly enough nutrients to feed your Queen palm trees. Even worse, the highly alkaline soil makes it nearly impossible for your Queen Palm tree to uptake the minerals and nutrients in the soil that are vital to your Queen Palm trees health.
Arizona Soils Have No Nutrition for Your Tree!
In Arizona, our nutrient-lacking soils are so poor in quality that the Arizona soil can actually steal nutrients from the root systems of newly planted trees (keep your hands off my roots!)
This big problem with natural tree nutrition shows itself when normally healthy trees begin to decline. For example, Scottsdale & Gilbert Arizona residents are especially at risk of having poor soil quality, since much of Scottsdale & Gilbert Arizona was built upon sandy soils, nutrient devoid soils. A lot of neighborhoods were built at the base of hills or mountains, near washes, or in rocky soils from nearby mountain ranges (with no nutrition for your tree!)
Because Scottsdale and Gilbert Az soils are so badly lacking in organic matter and vital nutrients, fertilizer for Queen Palms can be crucial to the health and success of your very valuable Queen Palm trees.
What is Deep Root Feeding?
Deep Root Feeding (Deep Root Fertilization) is the process of injecting liquid fertilizer into the soil under pressure, to drive these powerful nutrients into the tree’s root ball. Our professional soil treatment is the best option for tree feeding. This soil injection process gets the tree nutrients to the root ball, where most of the fine absorbing roots are located. Our Deep Root Feeding (Deep Root Fertilization) service injects the tree food exactly where this tree nutrition is needed most; beneath the soil!
Sick tree? Dying tree? Deep Root Fertilization can help
Much like making sure that your kids have their vital vaccinations to protect from contracting deadly diseases or ailments, Deep Root Fertilization (Tree Feeding) was invented to administer these vital highly-concentrated nutrients to exactly where your tree needs them most: below the soil!
By administering these essential nutrients 8”-10” below the soil’s surface, your trees roots can get the vital food that it needs, through a grid-pattern application (at least twice per year!)
Top 3 Problems with Queen Palm trees:
- Manganese deficiency
- Crown fungal infection (Crown Rot, Bud Rot)
- Lack of water
One problem with DIY tree feeding comes about if a homeowner fertilizes their trees by pounding tree fertilizer spikes into the ground. Fertilizer spikes rarely fully dissolve, leaving your tree starving and hungry, while the fertilizer spike sits in the ground, undissolved and useless.
Problems with Fertilizer Spikes
- Tree Fertilizer Spikes can break your pipes beneath the soil (a sledgehammer is used to pound them in!)
- Fertilizer Spikes often do not dissolve in the soil, making their nutrients impossible to be absorbed by a tree’s root system.
- Tree Fertilizer Spikes aren’t worth the cost. They are not expensive, however spending $15-20 per tree is still a waste of money if the tree food didn’t work!
- Tree Fertilizer Spikes can actually block new root growth! When Tree Fertilizer Spikes don’t dissolve in the soil, they can prevent new roots from passing through the soil, harming the health of your tree.
- Tree Fertilizer Spikes can give the tree owner a false sense of security, allowing their sick or fragile tree to pass the point of no return! (Don’t leave me, Sally!)
Because DIY Tree Fertilization is so risky, your valuable trees should only be trusted to tree service professionals who administer Deep Root Fertilization.
Our Queen Palm Fertilization is GUARANTEED
Our Queen Palm tree Fertilization is guaranteed to improve the health and appearance of your trees, or we will treat them again for FREE (No kidding!)
If you hire Valley Tree Masters™ Tree Service to provide your Tree Feeding, we guarantee your tree’s appearance and health will visibly improve within 45 days after treatment, or we will have our Arborist technicians come back a 2nd time, for Free!
Valley Tree Masters™ is the only tree service in Scottsdale & Gilbert Az that guarantees our Tree Feeding service (we really care about your trees!)
Have more questions about Deep Root Feeding Soil-Treatments?
Contact our Certified Arborists and tree experts today at (480) 646-0588 for your free Deep Root Feeding Estimate for Tree Nutrition Soil Injections, your trees will thank you!