Make Sago Palms Bloom: How to Care for a Flowering Sago Palm

Sago Palms Flower

In the event that your sago palm flower is male, it will yield a long, golden structure that resembles a big pinecone. Males can occasionally produce more than one cone. You can safely remove this structure from the plant without hurting it if there isn’t a female nearby or if you don’t intend to propagate more sago plants.

To release the fragrant pollen within, plants that need to be pollinated must wait for the scales to open, which typically happens in late spring. After that, you have two options: either remove the cone and give the receptive female plant a gentle shake, or wait for natural pollination to occur via wind and bees.