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- How to care for your sago palm - tips and tricks
- The ideal location for the sago palm
- Pour the sago palm properly and fertilize
- The sago palm in winter
- The Sago palm (Cycas revoluta) in short:
- Tips
The sago palm spends the summer outdoors
How to care for your sago palm - tips and tricks
The real sago palm (Latin Metroxylon sagu) serves in their Southeast Asian homeland as a crop for the construction and extraction of Palmsago. As an ornamental plant is under the name "sago palm" usually held here the cycad fern (lat. Cycas revoluta).
The ideal location for the sago palm
The sago palm or the palm fern needs a lot of light. Give the plant as bright a place as possible, but not in the blazing sun. Lights shadow is ideal. In summer, the cycads can like to stand outside in the garden, in winter, this is only possible with a good winter protection, because the cycads tolerate temperatures only up to - 7 ° C.
Pour the sago palm properly and fertilize
On wet conditions, the sago palm reacts very sensitively, as well as calcareous water. Therefore, the pot needs a good drainage of pottery shards, granules or coarse gravel for your palm fern. Pour only with soft, ie lime-poor water. Tap water will let you stand for some time, but rainwater is the best solution. The manure for the sago palm should be nitrogenous.
The sago palm in winter
If your palm fern is out in the garden all year round, then it absolutely needs a good protection against frost. This can consist of old bags or bubble wrap. Alternatively, bring the cycad to a frost-free wintering area. Ideally, the temperatures here are around 5 ° C to 10 ° C.
During the winter, completely stop the casting and fertilizing of your sago palm. Too much heat, water or fertilizer damage the plant. The result could be yellow leaves. In addition, the plant needs a lot of light even in winter.
The Sago palm (Cycas revoluta) in short:
Tips
Your sago palm alias palm fern grows best in a light and warm place without wind or drafts. The irrigation water should be as low in lime as possible and the fertilizer should be more nitrogenous.