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FAO's published rates for date palms by age, with the full context that makes them usable — and the limits of applying them here.

The one stage where FAO gives explicit post-transplant figures — for date palms — plus what the planting hole actually needs.

What palms need, how date palms and ornamental palms differ in the evidence available, and the one thing fertilisation categorically does not do.

A checklist of the situations in which the correct action is to wait — and what to investigate instead.

A tree managing extreme heat is not in a growth phase. Feeding it adds a salt load at the moment it can least tolerate one.

Where the mulch sits matters more than what it is made of. The single most common and most damaging error is packing it against the trunk.

Compost around a tree is a soil treatment, not a feed. What it contributes, where it goes, and the nitrogen effect to expect from coarse material.

Where you put it decides whether it works. The canopy-edge rule, its important limit under drip irrigation, and why the trunk is the worst place of...

A tree in a pot depends entirely on you for water, nutrients and salt management. Both leaching and salt accumulation happen faster than in the ground.

A tree in a narrow bed or paved cut-out is limited by soil volume, not soil fertility. Feeding cannot buy back rooting space.

Grass and tree roots occupy the same soil and are watered and fed on completely different schedules. That conflict, not soil fertility, is usually the problem.

Poor flowering is usually not a fertiliser problem — and the reflex response often makes it worse.