[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by Ozzello

The tree WANTS to make a pod or 2 per year. Cutting them out early ( unopened ) causes the palms to produce another pod. Let the pod open, bloom, and set seeds.
Then cut the pod out once the fruit is about the size of a grape, but still green, and you will have way fewer blooms for the year, and still get the pod out before the messy fruit ripens and drops on the ground.

If the tree is older and well established, you will always have more than one growth of seed pods.