Toni, The past two years I have bought some fertilizer spikes from treehelp.com. They have them formulated specifically for the needs of a Palm. So far they have worked great and my trees are very healthy. The link below will take you to their site.

Here is a link that might be useful: treehelp.com

I use Nurserymen's Sure Gro. Its on the expensive side but I have had incredible results with it. I also use Lesco's Palm fertilizer on my large palms and have them deep rooted. I use the Sure Gro on my bamaboo and exotic palms.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sure Gro

12-6-8 with minors. I use one 40 pound bag for the entire garden, once or twice a year depending on rain. The Lesco is a similar configuration, and I don't recall the differences off hand, but the stuff I get a Bushel Stop (a local retailer) seems to work better in our "soil."

I use Carl Pool Palm Fertilizer. About half of the nitrogen is slow release and it has a good amount of micronutrients.

Its sold on Ebay and a couple online stores.

Here is a couple of helpful links I know of for palm fertilizer.The first one is associated with Fairchild Tropical Gardens.

http://www.plantapalm.com/flkeys/fkps3.htm

http://www.acaifarms.com/Acai-Special-Food.shtml

Sometimes its not food but rather soil ph or fungus that yellows a palm.

http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/pdfs/TropicLine/TropicLine_10-1.pdf

Here is a link that might be useful: University of Florida Palm Information

Nw, I don't have luck with stakes..I've used them on Citrus (one citrus died) which was probably my fault..maybe used too much for the size of my tree. But thanks anyway.

Kitchen, I contacted SureGro.. A Michael McAneny wrote back with sizes and prices..He sells 50 lb bags for 33.75 from 1-9 bags...Whew..lol, too much fert and way past my budget..I need about 3-5 lbs..I'd have to count, but may have10 palms, all between 1-5' tall.

Fawnridge, I understand why you need 40lbs, lol..Do you know if Busher Stop is sold online? In smaller quatities?

Qp, don't know if it's my computer but when I clicked on the links, there was info about palms, but I didn't see any palm ferts on sale. Not a sale literally, but any being sold.

Thanks everyone. I'll keep looking and bound to find something. If push comes to shove, I've got Citrus fertlizer that says can be used on Palms, so I'll try that and add Epsom Salt. I want to thank everyone here for your help. Toni