Palms and Cycads: Roystonea regia roots, 1 by lroot

lroot wrote:
I have a Roystonea regia that I planted in the ground from a pot about 2 years ago. It has about 2+ feet of trunk from the ground to the crown and about 8 feet tall to the top of the leaves. It doesn't seem to want to put down roots. I have it staked up and occasionally I test it and if I were to remove the stakes it would flop over. It seems the roots have basically stayed in the shape of the pot, which was a 5 gallon. The tree looks healthy otherwise and has put out several new leaves each year, one just opened a few weeks ago. The soil is well drained but kept moist and is in an area where it gets part day sun and part day filtered sun. Any suggestions on how to get it to set down roots?
Here is a pic of it, the brown on the tips is from the freeze we had in Jan.
Thanks,

Lonny