Misting it twice a day seemed to get it going...a month later, Cocos pushed new leaf:

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Barb

Beautiful!
I've been into misting the past year. I had the misting system outside last summer, and use a spray bottle this winter.
Maybe I'll even try Cocos again....

Barb it looks like it loves that light.

Grats so far 😀

The LED is on 24/7, casts an eerie glow at night.

The Cocos will get a shock when it sees REAL sunshine 8) and will need a lot of acclimatizing.
If it's still alive when summer arrives 😉

Good job! Cocos nucifera are rarely available here

Barb I think you are on the right track with that Cocos nucifera. The extra lighting, humidity,fert. is key. They need more than eight hours of light to thrive indoors. The roots must be warm to get a new frond? Look forward to seeing it outside.

John

Thanks folks.
Basement floor is concrete, nice and warm from woodstove, and I can mist plants to run-off, with no damage to the floor. Yippeeee!
It's like a rainforest down there 😛

Pretty palm I'd say 🙂 I brought one germinated nut from Tobago and it is already pushing second leaf under lamp. I'm giving it constant heat and it is moving.

But how is your bottle palm?

Hi Corrosion
How nice you were able to bring the Cocos nut home with you.
What is your heat source for the palm?
Can you post a pic of your Cocos?

During cool spring weather, I'll put the Cocos pot on my germinating mat to keep the roots warm.

Thanks for asking about my Bottle Palm.
It's doing better after flushing/leaching out toxic fertilizer levels.
But old fronds will never recover from the frizzled ugly look, they'll be cut off when totally brown.
New spear is over a foot long. 😀

Barb

Corrosion,
here's the Bottle today.

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Barb

Hi again. It was quite a trouble, the customs asked a lot about it in the airport. I lied I bought it from the market 🙂 Actually I dug it out myself from the beach. Theres a million coconuts there so no worrys about dangered species thing 🙂 I brought some seedlings of christmas palm adonidia aswell, they have grown slow so far. So here I am back in the cold place ( at the moment). Good thing is that my trachy survived this years winter due to my 60 w lamp and proper cover-even no leaf damage. I have lots of spindles growing so a bottle palm would be a nice addition. But hard to get in here.
I'll add picture of my coconut after just picking it and placing it in the empty coke bottle.

🙂

customs asked a lot about it in the airport

They believed you when you said it came from a nursery in that coke bottle????
Hilarious...they probably wanted one too 😆

Congratulations on your Trachy winter protection!
Glad you folks had a better winter in Europe than last year.

Will look forward to seeing your additional pictures of Adonidia.
Barb

Corrosion,
great story. I was tempted to do the same thing in January when I saw that Cocos were downright weedy on islands off the coast of Belize, but worried about US customs. I'll remember your "market" story!
Now, just don't ask me too much about the Adonidia/Veithcia I have germinating....
--Erik

They believed you when you said it came from a nursery in that coke bottle????
Hilarious...they probably wanted one too 😆

Congratulations on your Trachy winter protection!
Glad you folks had a better winter in Europe than last year.

Will look forward to seeing your additional pictures of Adonidia.
Barb

I carried it without the soil-it had only one taproot. I doubt they wanted one because eventually the coconut palm seemed to be the most boring palm in the world while staying there. The place was a jungle, it had no proper airport and the plane ( Boeing- 767) was certainly too large for that landing field. So the main problem with the coconut was in Tobago airport but nothing serious. In Barbados and Frankfurt nobody cared. I should have packed it into my large bag so the communication would have been easier in the customs without the coconut 🙂 They check only handluggage. The adonidias are too small for the camera-since I don't have macro lenses 😀 I think this years winter was somehow worse considering it was colder but the duration of cold was way shorter. So I can't count on mild winters-only proper protection will be the key to success. Erik so you brought lots of seeds of adonidias? I brought too but after cheking them at home they seemed old and useless-I threw them away. Luckily I collected 4 seedligs in the forest under the tree. 2 seeds of some kind of Pritchardia have also germinated, let's see have they manage to survive.