A Box of Coconuts :-)

It was chilly this morning at 5F ......................... 😆
midweek at -5, will probably end up lower than that.

Steve

Good work!
About three months from soak to sprout...you're a patient man, Steve!

I would've drop-kicked 'em over the fence by then.

Barb

Barb,I thought you Canadians were know for strong will and Patience!!!!!LOL
I'd almost buy and send you one if you promised a video of you trying to drop kick one one over the fence!!!LOL
Sargent Preston of the Royal Mounties with his side kick dog King!!!
That guy had nerves of steel along with great patience!!!

Steve,whopping 16* here really feels cold,if it gets -5 I think I will have to light the propane heater for the garage!

send you one if you promised a video of you trying to drop kick one one over the fence

What TRYING?

My dear old mother said birth was 3 hours; about my max patience.

It's a low fence, you'd lose the bet! 8)
Barb

PS--We Canadians are known for being boring, ha ha.

This one made it through the winter 8)
(The ripples in the leaves are from the cold spells, had a few nights in the low 30's in the GH)

Steve

Looking good! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

It's so cool to see how coconuts form all over the place in S. Florida. They are all over the shores of the intracoastal, the raccoons
find them a very tasty treat otherwise there would be more of them then palmettos if that's possible.

Bill

Nice to see someone succeed with these things.

Mine croaked after I'd spent a bucket of money bringing it back from Hawaii with requisite phytosanitary certificate...

Attaboy, Steve.
Barb

Thanks! I just have to keep trying with these........................... 😆

Steve

Nice!

Waiting for my to sprout. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Mark

Mark, Good luck with yours, anything happening yet?

This one's still moving along.
Still the only one to germinate, tried everything possible with the others, thinking maybe this batch went through a frost before I received them.
Happy enough to get one at least one 8)

Here's one a friend gave me a couple weeks ago.
(just had to post a photo 😀

Starting to trunk!

Steve

Steve,
that's great.
I bought one at a local nursery last year and couldn't keep it through the Summer. Do they need a ton of water or humidity or something? The only one I know of growing locally is at the Zoo, indoors. I'd like to be able to grow Cocos in a pot, outdoors in the summer and by a window in the winter. Just don't know if that is possible with our climate. --Erik

Steve,
Those are some nice coco you got there. There such an amazing palm, hope you have good luck with them.

Bill

Erik, They love heat, humidity, and lots of water when it's warm.
I would think one in a container would enjoy your summers, getting it through winter might be the touchy part.
Damp roots will cause problems during the cooler months, best to use a well draining mix.
(most of these seedlings from the nurseries are potted in a heavy sand mix, it's okay during the summer, but will do them in during the winter)

Bill, Thanks, I'm hoping they do well!

Steve

Tendrel, There was a couple I seen ( ill try to look for the link), they were in northern cali, so just too cold for them to be outside. THey grew it in a pot indoors and had it out in spring. IT took 10 years for it to get ceiling hight. She said it was a slow grower ( i find that hard to belive myself).

I think it has something to do with the little light we get in the winter. Im at the same latitide as you (ish), I get less then 7 or 8 hours of sunlight during the darkest parts of the winter. I cant find anywhere where these grow, where they get such low amounts of winter light. We get lucky with trachys and some bamboo, and others, becasue they are usualy from our general latitude ( of course give or take 10 degrees)

Ive been thinkin of trying to grow one myslef........ but to get it to grow during the winter, I think up here, we would have to give it some grow lights......, and put it in a pot filled with rocks so it can get some humidity.