Trying my luck with a coconut palm

John, in your set of pics there are three photos of the Kelowna City Hall palm you sold them.
Are they going to leave it like that for winter?

Or will they add Christmas lights and wrap the concrete container?

Barb

Barb They bring them into the parks dept. storage building for the winter. I`ll have to check next spring if they are still there.

John

They bring them into the parks dept. storage building for the winter.

Thank goodness, would hate to see your beauties croak.

BTW, when are we going to see your protection pics?
Or are you still wearing shorts and flip-flops? 🙄
I'm just envious you're at least ONE FULL ZONE better than me.

Barb

Barb I was out in shorts and a t-shirt yesterday 14c here at my place and not a cloud in the sky. I was bringing in the potted palms and yuccas into the "garage" greenhouse. I`ll start on my protection for my W.filifera this weekend with pics.

John

You hit 14C? 😐 We made it to 10C for about an hour.
Hard to believe such a difference in 35 miles.

Looking forward to seeing your pics...take care of that back with all that hauling.
Flag down a backhoe 😆 😆

Barb

Moved Cocoanut palm in room with Banana's I'm over wintering inside where I've added a radiant heater, and bucket of water to help with humidity. I can keep that room at 76deg, while rest of house is at 68. All plants get misted at least 3 times a day.

Pic attached.

76 will be great for the Cocos...but banana experts here will tell you if that's too warm to put a banana to sleep 😆
The grey bucket with the lid...is that your humidity bucket?
If so, take the lid off.
Otherwise no humidity gain.
3 x a day misting...that's busy schedule, I manage only two.
Watch those floors...any drops dripping onto it may have a bit of sap, bug droppings etc.
I used to put an old bedsheet under my palms when they were in livingroom...and the sheet was removed when company came, LOL.

Another good humidity increaser is to use a really big plastic saucer for your Cocos...place rocks in the saucer, add water to almost the top of rocks, place Cocos on top of the rocks (don't let palm's base sit in the water).

Barb

Have 5 dogs that might try and get into bucket of water...and knock over.

May change placement of it though, and surround the bucket with plants....

Not worried if Banana's go to sleep or not, They are all in pots, and if they want to grow a little that is fine with me. I have a moisture probe that I use to check on all the tropicals so I don't under/over water during the winter.

surround the bucket with plants

That'll work.

Barb

What kind of Coconut is this?

Mine??

Bought it off Ebay. Shopped from Puerto Rico. I looked up my order information, and it doesn't specify a specific kind of coconut, just "Coconut Palm"

It was $12.95 plus shipping for the size I bought. They had some smaller...and larger than the one I bought.

Scott

O.k.

Mike sent me one to try-still a Coconut and edible at this point.

$4.00 burning a hole in my pocket so after reading MANY ways to get a store bought coconut to germinate I thought I would give it a try with 2.

Soaking for 3 days in room temp water with a few drops of Superthrive and a dash of 20-20-20 Miracle grow in the water these two coconuts sealed in a ziploc bag on 12-6-11 and in the Banana room at 72 deg.

We'll see how they do!

One thing I've learned on this site and in having Palm trees in the house is patience!

Bought this coconut palm on Ebay and it arrived a very nice, bigger plant than I was expecting. I knew they were a challenge to grow, but wanted to try.

Right away it went down hill fast loosing all it's fronds down to the very last main one, even 1/2 of it turning brown. 🙁 Put pot in Banana room for the winter where it's always 72deg and low and behold it started to come back on it's own. Anxious to see how it recovers this spring so I can put it outside for the summer.

Oh yeah, there's nothing like a Cocos to drive you crazy.

Mine was a beauty UNTIL I put it outside last May.
This was day one or two...

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Birds used it for target practice, figured free fertilizer, yippeeeee...
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Either bird poop or desert sun/wind/low humidity did this (likely a combination of all)
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Today, the old sunburnt leaves are gone, replaced by one and a half new leaves.
South window, misted 3 x / day.
Still going downhill, now battling mealybug.

Oughta be dead in a year.
Probably from me cussing at it. :angryfire:

Barb