Water every day in hot weather.

I have a tree fern more than 5 mtrs tall. Too tall for an old person to maintain when dead fronds need removing and garage roof needs scrubbing from the brown dust (?) that sticks. I asked my son to take the top half to make it easier for me. I know the top part will regrow for him. Will the bottom 2 &½ mtrs left in the ground grow more fronds? Sep 21, Make pruning cuts 2 to 4 inches above the base connection to the growing crown at the top of the tree fern stem.

Step back and re-examine the tree fern. Look to see if the fronds are evenly and attractively distributed around the entire growing tip. Avoid lop-sided, over-pruning of.

Apr 23, i've cut off about 5inches altogether on that 2ft trunker. 1 inch slices at a time over about 2 weeks. Still oozing but tree felling game less and less to almost a dribble.

Can't see it coming back now tho, almost resigned myself to hollowing it out and putting a native or epiphytic fern on top. NEVER cut the top off a tree fern as this will usually kill the plant. With one species of tree fern (Dicksonia) the top can be cut off and planted and it will usually grow, but in almost all cases the lower parts of the plant will die.

However, tree ferns are easy to dig up and move to a better position. Jun 18, These CAN be cut in half and the top replanted. Soft tree ferns (like the ones in Bunnings) all come from old growth forest and may be hundreds of years old.

They also grow about twice as slow as Rough tree ferns. So remember: For cutting and replanting, Soft tree fern YES, Rough tree fern NO. All this is further explained here. A cut Cyathea cooperi is a dead Australian Tree Fern, they don't reroot or resprout. Some of the Dicksonia species can be rerooted from dug up trunks, but. Sep 01, If you remove the topmost foliage, the plant will die down to the roots. It's better to cut the tree down completely to ground level and allow new sprouts to develop at the crown of the plant.

Alternately, you can dig the tree fern out and replace it with a new one. Tree Ferns like humid, shady areas and hate their crowns (at the top of the trunk) to dry out. This ailing Tree Fern was in far too sunny a position and to create a more moist environment, Colin’s advice was to cut the trunk in half a so that the crown was nearer the soil and to replant the top part of the fern in a shadier part of the garden.