The golden fruit palm or areca palm grows rather slowly. Repotting therefore does not have to be on the agenda so often. When is repotting necessary and what should you consider when transplanting golden fruit palms?
When and how should a golden fruit palm be repotted?
Repotting a golden fruit palm should be done every two to three years in spring. Choose a deeper pot and create gravel drainage. Plant the palm carefully without damaging the taproots and water the substrate.
How often does a golden fruit palm need to be repotted?
Since the golden fruit palm is not that fast-growing even with good care, it is usually sufficient if you only repot the palm every two to three years - not only to give the roots more space, but also to remove the old substrate exchange for fresh soil.
You can tell that the previous pot has become too small because the roots are growing out of the drainage hole or the root ball is starting to push out of the top of the pot.
The Best Time to Repot Golden Fruit Palms
Repotting takes place in spring in March or April, shortly before the growth phase begins.
Choose the new planter
Like all palm trees, the golden fruit palm also develops very long taproots that should not be bent if possible. The new pot should therefore be deeper than the old one. The diameter, however, only needs to be slightly wider.
Make sure that the container has a sufficiently large drain hole so that no waterlogging can form when watering. It's a good idea to create drainage made of gravel (€7.00 on Amazon) or small stones at the bottom of the pot.
Repotting the golden fruit palm properly
- Carefully remove the palm tree from the old pot
- rinse old substrate
- prepare new vessel
- Insert palm tree
- Don't press the soil too hard
- Pour the substrate
- bright and warm but not sunny places
When planting, make sure that you do not press the taproots of the golden fruit palm too hard so that they do not become kinked or broken.
Do not fertilize the golden fruit palm after repotting
The fresh plant substrate contains many nutrients. You must therefore not fertilize the Areca palm in the first few months after repotting. Otherwise there is a risk that the palm tree will be over-fertilized.
Tip
The golden fruit palm is one of the slow-growing palm species. In our latitudes it often only increases in height by up to 25 centimeters every year. On some specimens, ground shoots form, which you can use to propagate golden fruit palms.
