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Old 26-09-2013, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Kunama View Post
Check the root ball for termites, I bought a house in Mooloolaba with 23 of those bloody palms in the yard, after 2 weeks I had them all down and to the tip, 5 had termite nests in the root ball.
Can't see any termites but there's a lot ants everywhere and it looks like half of the trunk is just porous and dry and full of them. Might have weakened the base. It was hanging by only 1/4 of wood out of the whole trunk section. It's surprising it held straight at all.
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