Im in Australia! The coconuts washed up on our shores and grew. Not actually native to AU, but so lucky to have gotten them! I found a coconut with a little plant growing out of the top on the beach. Thank you for your info!
Thank you for posting and sharing valuable info. I bought two coconuts already in pots. With the unusual rain in Southern California, 3 foot leaves are drying. When is best time to transfer them or not yet.
God bless you . Excellent presentation and narrative . Enjoyed the video . Your tropical paradise is going to look awesome ! We love everything about the Coconut palm .
Thank you for uploading very informative because I just bought 4 coconuts 🥥 and thought they needed water since they look dry and lifeless. Tomorrow I’ll put them in the sand! Glad I watched your vdo.
TQ for a fun &yet 2 the point description! I live Space Coast FL & edge decorated my landscape w coconuts...lol about 7 grew! Giving a few away, but sounds like SC beachside may be too 🥶. cold... keep up the great videos🌴🥥🩴
Thanks so much this was really helpful I currently am in 9A but hope to move further south to 9B so I’ll keep it in a pot for now bring it inside when it gets cold I have small avocados and small lemon tree in pots that I have to bring in at the same temps as coconut so I got a small coconut palm today it’s so pretty and I’m so excited
Omg I planted a coconut 5 day ago and I completely surmised it into the soil and I have sand but I didn’t thought about adding it. Tomorrow I would probably take it out and re-plant it. Thanks for all your tips about not watering daily bc I was doing every other day and now I’ll do it unce a week. Good that I live in South Florida Miami
I just moved to Florida and picked up some coconuts that someone was just going to have hauled away. I have 5 and they are kinda moldy at this point, sitting on my lanai. So I think I’ll just did 5 holes at the corner of my fence and see what happens. My soil is almost all sand from what I can tell (underneath the grass) and hope that they sprout. Wish me luck and thank you for the kewl and easy video to follow😃
Thank you sooo much for your video!!! My question that I couldn’t find an answer to was… Do I leave the coconut (the seed) above the soil or does it go under? I was able to grow the tree from the coconut (the seed) and when I was ready to plant it in my yard I was so confused and also wondered how much water to give and you answered that as well!! ( once a week!! Thanks! ) I live in Florida so all should be well with your directive! Thank you soooo very much! 😊
Hey hey just wanted to say... I live in Colorado Durango to be exact and kept it in my house. It grew looks like yours... my house is hot always so I do know that’s why it grew but... if you have high ceilings lol it works. K bye
I know this video is 5 years old but just subscribed because of it! Going to check out your channel after I plant this bad boy! Thanks again! There is not much info online about these coconut palm plants! Super interested in how they look now after 5 years! A new video would be dope! 👀 Kudos!!!
I'm from the UK so i couldn't possibly grow coconut palms here because our winters get very cold but i am a regular visitor to the carribean and canary islands and in my recent trip to the dominican republic i noticed that the coconut palms there grow extra tall and i wondered why that is? And on the canary islands they have different species of palm called the canary date palms that grow in hot dry desert climates like the canaries have because they are so close to north africas sahara desert. And i noticed places like egypt and dubai also have the desert palm instead of the coconut palm aswell. I love palm trees because we dont have any in the UK and they are such beautiful plants.
that is a great observation about the date palms. Pheonix palms are very common to find in dry areas with low humidity and a lot of heat like deserts. I do see them in Florida and the tropics a lot still but its not their best places to grow. As for the different heights of coconuts it all depends on the species as you said. There are dwarf coconuts and mother coconuts, and "normal" coconuts. There are actually a lot and i mean a lot of species of coconut. Even more these days since so many people cross germinate them and breed hybrids. The ones in the Caribbean often tend to grow very tall because they 1 grow naturally there and most are just old, and 2 are a species that grow super tall.
Hey I am in Port Saint Lucie I planted coconut palms yesterday from A nut 🌰 just like you did in the video but I buried the entire coconut is that a problem should I bring it back up and do it as you ddid or it will be fine
Thanks mate , you said to only water them once a week , so if I’ve just planted them & it’s started raining here in Northern Australia .. should I try and cover them around the base until the rainy weather has pissed off ?
Yea cheers mate for the coconut gee up , should be good mail , North Queensland is about the same distance from the equator that Florida is , be it on the Southern Hemisphere.
Got my coconut sapling which is Malaysian hybrid which grows up to just 1 /2 meters from a seed company and left it on my kitchen shelf for a week before I transplanted it in my backyard garden.Its been a exactly a week now but I haven't seen any sign of growth even though the leaves still look green and 1/3 of the seed is out of the soil like you advised.I water it everyday although the soil here is red soil and it drains quiet well.What signs should I be looking out for if I want to make sure it's growing?Henceforth I will be watering it once a week as you suggested.I live in the tropics and we've got good weather .
you are doing a great job with it form what it sounds like so far. While it is still a seedling in its germination process it will do well with a lot of moisture and heat. It doesn't need direct sunlight all day though. Partial shade will do it some good. If you want to make sure it is growing well, you can mark part of the new growth with a marker and look back at it in half a week to a week to see if it has moved at all.
Any update on how the Coconuts turned out? I'm in jacksonville and was thinking about growing some Coconuts preferably over any other palm. That is if I can keep them alive
is it taking root in the soil? If it is taking root and it is beginning to grow out of the shell then just let it be as it is growing naturally that way.
so full sun is actually encouraged for coconuts. while they are juveniles strong wind can somewhat damage them but not badly. However when they are mature they will be native to handling hurricane force winds just like they do in the Caribbean.
My 2 metre coconut was planted..we had strong winds and one week later the leafs turned brown.. someone said it might be sun burn? I have tried to protect it from wind. Will leafs re grow ok ? Here in Canary islands its in winter , coldest night time is 15 C...20c during the day. Rest of year 19c at night and mid 20c s plus in day time..but can be very windy...can i send a pic of my coconut for you to see ?
if you can please send me a picture of the palm via youttube messaging. In the Canary Islands you should be fine with coconuts, there are actually quite a few species of coconuts that are indigenous to that region. I very highly doubt that the damage is from over exposure to the sun. How old is the palm do you know? As for the wind it is hard to tell what kind of damage it might have done without seeing the palm. The fronds will not recover that are damaged but not to worry at all, as long as the palm itself is not damaged then the heart will just continue to grow new fronds as normal.
Ok I live in Pensacola FL and I was down in Port St Lucie a couple months ago and found a coconut palm and it already had it's tree growing out of it .well I brought it back to Pensacola and I had it in a pot inside in front of a window and i think I killed it cause there are little warms coming out of the coconut now what do I do now if you can help me on how to save it that will be awesome man I always wanted a coconut palm I love those trees
that is really cool that you were able to transport one to your home. So if there are worms coming from the nut that doesn't necessarily mean its dead. the nut itself will begin to decompose as the tree grows and worms are natural decomposers in fact they can help make the soil healthy. the main thing is to identify what kind of worms they are. as long as they are not parasitic to the plant itself and are not feeding on or inside of the palms heart, then they will be fine. you can check the health of the palm by observing the new spears that are growing from the center of the palm. if they are browning or wilting or smell rotten or very wet then the heart of the palm is decaying.
@@davidanderson9175 if there are worms inside the heart then what you can attempt to do is spray hydrogen peroxide down the palm shaft where the new growth is and into the nut and it can kill the worms
as long as it disperses evenly into the soil throughout the roots you should be alright. hard thing there is monitoring how much moisture there is below the soil
TheLifeofWill Hey Will. i have had to take some time off against my will for the past few months due to personal complications. I will be back at it soon though! I really appreciate the support though!!! You're doing great on your channel too!
here's my latest update video, Unfortunately a lot of my palms died last east due to ambrosia beetle infestation. but I have since replaced them and am still always adding more. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W6SwtTwEZqg.html
Nice video. I'm curious. How long have you been planting coconut palms in St. Augustine? And, in what other locations between St. Augustine and Cape Canaveral/Coca Beach area have you seen healthy coconut palms growing?
Well I actually just moved back to St Aug last summer after spending 2 years down in Palm Beach. South FL has coconut palms all over and when I got back I knew I had to bring some with me. So I have only had the 3 coconuts I have now planted for about a year. We didn't have a winter at all this year so they all did very well but I have seen coconut palms grown in places like Palm Coast, Daytona and Ormond Beach. My neighbor has 3 15foot foxtail palms that she grew here from saplings. And I have seen a few fully mature Royal Palms here in St Aug too, so its definitely possible in zone 9B.
Very interesting. Was just out at New Smyrna Beach today and saw three mature coconut palms in people's yards and on the main street a block from the beach in front of a restaurant. There were at least a half dozen or so other coconut palms (saplings or very young) I saw in residential areas. This is all new. None of this was there 20-25 years ago. Good luck with your cocos up there in St. Augustine. I'm sure you know, but unless you protect them when even a light freeze comes, you're going to have some problems. I'm from just north of Orlando (SW Volusia county) and they're selling coconut palms in Home Depot here. I think it's a bit insane to sell them here. But on the other hand if we continue to have winters like we've had the past ten years or so, maybe they'll grow large enough (and be robust enough) to withstand temperatures a degree or so below freezing when they come. It's a gamble, but one worth taking for those trees if you really love them.
Gregory Ealy that id really interesting to hear that they have so many of them planted in New Symerna. I know with that being right on the coast that they will be prone to warmer temps even in the winter so they will hopefully last. Its funny cause when i go to Orlando(which is often) i see a LOT of south FL zone 10B to even 11A kind of palms there. They seems to last though and are all mature! I will have my work cut out for me if we get some freezes for sure with the ever expanding south FL plants im putting in here. I need to make a new video to show the new ones. Hopefully I'll post it soon. Thanks for the comments, i find them really interesting!
A few more comments since you mentioned going to Orlando. The next time you do, when you cross over the St. Johns River on I-4, look to your left. There's about a dozen or so royal palms planted and thriving in an RV store parking lot (you have to look for them while you're still on the bridge coming on to the south side of the river - other wise you'll miss them). Also, just this morning I was walking in a residential area along Lake Monroe in Sanford and saw three mature coconut palms in someone's front yard. They must have been planted 10-15 years ago - and they've survived that long! It's really interesting seeing these changes. Wouldn't have been this way 20 years ago.
Gregory Ealy wow that is so cool! i will have to be sure to look out for those royals next time i drive down there. Everytime i drive over that bridge is shocks me looking out at the st johns and thinking how funny it is that its the same river i live on and see everyday in st aug. its just such a long river and so beautiful! Royals are some of my favorites so i will have to look hard for them when i go thought. Im surprised those coconuts survived the winters of 2009-10 cause those ones were cold!!!
I'm in zone 9B and I have 8 coconut palms growing here. One is already about 15 feet tall. Going to add 10 more soon. This is made possible by global warming. 9B hasn't gotten any frost in about 10 years.
Do you know much about Royal Palms? And where to find good information regarding them? I have some of their seeds, but not sure how to grow them or how long it will take. I did a little research, but I thought you might have better knowledge. Thanks! Also, great video. 🙂👌
great question, so roystonea regia is a great fast growing and rather beefy palm(when proper fertilized). it grows best in zones 10A and above but when mature can handle temps down to 25°F. the seed is rather large and easy to germinate, just give it a lot of moisture and heat over a few weeks and it should begin to sprout. while it is still a sappling into a juveniel it will grow slowly but will fill out quick at maturity. be sure not ro overwater it while its a sapling
HEY BROTHER, GREAT VIDEO. I LIVE IN A PLACE CALLED WAIMEA, BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII. WE ARE 3,000 FT. UP. NOT A WHOLE LOT OF PALM TREES UP HERE, BUT THERE ARE SOME PACIFIC PALMS. IS IT STILL POSSIBLE TO GROM A COCONUT PALM HERE?
Oh yes that is a very interesting climate you are in. I have been wanting to do more research into climates such as yours for a while now with it being tropical yet high elevation. As to my knowledge you can grow one but it will not be able to produce its own seed when it matures.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YJSiwndhyVg.html this s a great video a friend of mine made about coconuts specifically. It might be helpful for you as I believe he mentions your climate in it
What is your opinion on planting coconut palms in the Carrabelle/St George Island area (near apalachicola), my house here is about 150 yards from the beach and I believe it is zone 9b like st Augustine, I’ve seen queen palms growing here that have been thriving for a while but look like they had trouble this past winter, though I believe they are still alive, but I have never seen anyone attempting to grow cocos
this is a great question. i appreciate you reaching out to ask. So you are in a very interesting part of our state because you are in the panhandle but not all the way west like Pensacola. The fact that you are on the tip of the bend there gives you some extra warmth from the surrounding ocean but at the same time that area of the state is still a solid 9A climate zone. Now its definitely better that being farther N or NW or even just West but its gana be cooler there than the eastern and even central part of FL. See the west coast does not have the extra warmth from the gulf stream current in the ocean that flows around the southern tip of FL and then up the eastern coast. This is why places on the same latitude such as St George and St Augustine (N29*) are technically different climate zones. Honestly I myself am pushing coconuts here, most common place to start finding cocos growing is anywhere south of Tampa on the west coast and Titusville/Cocoa on the east coast. Can it be done where you and I life, the answer is yes, but it will take tender caring to in the 1-2 months of January and Feb.
Well I am certainly aware that I’m pushing my luck with an experiment like this, but I would definitely argue that at least the area I am around is at least a 9b microclimate (walking distance from the ocean and in close proximity to a large river) as I have seen syagrus romanzofiana (queens) which are supposed to be hardy for 9b and up growing here and surviving even after a particularly harsh winter this year as I have seen you are well aware of in your other videos, though the did have some burn, they are definitely still alive. I’ll try my best to protect the palm I am planting over the winter and let you know if it survives
thank you for your informative video! I have 2 coconuts I wish to plant. Can I start them directly in the spot I wish to grow them? There appears to be no top or bottom. Can I place them any direction in a hole about a 1/3 deep? Thank you kindly. :)
Fate Drives You im glad this video was helpful for you. you can plant them anywhere youd like and yep you can leave them there and let them grow. if you arent sure which side is the top and which is the bottom try this trick. Throw them into water and when the surface and float naturally that will show you which side is the top and which is the bottom. the side on top of the water is what will need to go underground where the roots will come out and the side under the water will be above ground. jusy plant them 1/4-1/3 under soil and dont pack them in too tight. be sure not to overwater but naturally as they are still germinating they will need more heat and water than normal
Give a man a coconut and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to plant a coconut and you feed him for a lifetime!!! hahahaha ;) thank you so much for the quick help on my issue. Appreciate the generous spirit you have in wanting to spread knowledge :)
I'm looking for something that is a challenge not what's perfect for my area but what I'm going to have to maintain for the first 2-6 years until it is a strong enough try to begin acclimating to a new climate.
FrotoMadness a cabage palm would work good for you, or a dwarf palmeto McCurtain. of course if you want something that will grow even in snow without having to be coverd you can always go with the windmill palm. The problem woth growing palms out of the tropics is that they of course dont survive freezes but also many will be stunted a lot by constant cold temps under like 40°F. So even if it doesnt freeze but the temp even in the daytime stays below 40 the palm will go into a "coma" state and refuse to grow.
as most juvenal palms, they do best in partial sun during the heat of the day and full sun in the morning/ late afternoon. Once mature these palms thrive in direct sunlight just as they do in habitat on white sandy beaches.
An 8-2-12 is a good mix for most palms. Specifically due to its high manganese nutrients that it adds to the plant. No matter what kind of fertilizer you get be sure it is a slow release and you will need to fertilize roughly 3 times a year; May, July, and October.
yque lodigas thwts the great thing about palms is that their roots are not invasive. Even for a mature palm they still remain clumped in a ball unlike a tree where they spread deep and wide. This also makes them easy to transplant.
Did you keep it in the husk? I see a lot of videos where people are planting it and letting the Roots come out of the 3 eyes. I'm also in St Augustine and just picked up 15 coconuts from my sister's Tree in West Palm and plan on planting them. I already took one out of the husk but am wondering should I keep them in the husk to plant them? Also, did you put them in a bag or something before you put it in the Home Depot bucket?
it is so good to see another person in St Aug planting coconuts! I myself was just visiting my friend in West palm 2 weeks ago and picked up 8 more sapling coconuts! I always plant them with the husk but i wait to transplant them from West Palm until they have already sprouted naturally in the ground. After they are sprouting there, I carefully dig them up with the roots already grown into the soil and bring them home to St Aug in either a bucket with soil as you see here or with them just sitting in a box. Key thing is to replant them as soon as possible so that those roots are quickly put back into the ground. Heads up there are 2 very well growing coconut palms(probably 5years old) off US1 in st Aug. Seeing those coconuts gives me hope for mine!
I heard it might be hard here because we get a bit colder than down south. I'm going to 50/50 them...meaning I am going to remove the husk on half of them and put them in a ziplock bag with water and let them sprout, and the others I'm going to plant hush on (taking your advice and planting them close to each other. If they take (either way) I'll post a vid and let you know.
oh i didnt realize that the coconuts you have haven't germinated yet at all. Yeah if they have yet to even sprout then the best way to plant them is either put them in a moist bag with light on it and turn up the heat; or you can place them in a bucket of water and let them float. When they are floating they will stabilize themselves and the heavier side of the coconut will face downward. This will show you which side is the "top" and the "bottom" of the nut. The side facing upwards will need to be planted so that it is above ground and the bottom side will be below the soil where the roots will sprout. I hope this helps and I certainly enjoy reading about your coconuts here in St Aug!
I planted three coconut 🌴 trees in front of my home. My sprinkler system goes off around 2am every day. Am I over watering them by having my sprinkler system going off every morning?
This is a great question. Typically that is a lot of water I would say, you might not need to water that often(not just your coconuts but all your plants for that matter). However, there are a lot of factors that go into how much you water. 1 where are you located, is it a dry climate typically or is it humid and hot all the time? 2 For you coconuts how old are they? If they are still juveniles then that is a lot of water for them but if they are mature then they can handle it. 3 how well draining is the soil they are in? Remember that they main things needed for a coconut to grow healthy are humid hot climates, and well draining soil.
WildTropics I live near Fort Lauderdale Florida. The trees are about year old. My soil drains very well. I noticed when I water my plants the soil seems to dry quite quickly. I would say after 30 minutes or so it’s like I never watered them at all.
oh wow all of this sounds great then. Yeah I would say that your coconuts will do very well. Since it is the dry season now you should be fine watering but even then maybe not every single day. When we get back into the rainy season then you shouldn't need to worry about watering at all. Let nature take its course then and your trees will be fine.
I am always glad to help out, no problem at all! I would highly suggest you check out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pNPbXOalVTQ.html This guy is a friend of mine and he is a botanist and knows everything about palms! His videos are amazing and so helpful!
ᕦò_óˇᕤ I mostly used the bonemeal because I had it and it wont hurt the palm. As far as a more water tollerent coconut goes, you can do beccariophoenix fenestralis which is a cusin to the coconut and even is cold tollerent down to abiut 25°F
well that depends on a lot of factors. 1 how old is the palm, 2 what species of palm is it, 3 how much sun is it getting and how much water, 4 what zone is the palm in climate wise?
I think you're planting your coconut pretty close out of your growing zone, If you suddenly get a good winter frost for several hours it might not survive. I live in Jupiter Florida, one year I saw a ton of young coconut trees die from a frost, mostly young trees under 10 ft 🌴 🡇 -32°🌡🥶 𝙗𝙧𝙧𝙧𝙧𝙧𝙧 ⚰️💀 I love them and have several on my property but I also started planting other cold hardy palms. still they don't have the same appeal as a coconut tree.
yeah you are definitly right about that, i used to live in West Palm Beach for a few years and when i moved back home to st augustine i brought all the south fl palms with me. they are out if zone for sure but each year i wrap them with 4oz commercial frost cloth and warm each with a 500w halogen lamp anytime it drops below 40°. The juviniels are harder to take care of thats for sure but when they get tall it will also be hars to wrap them, so i plan on just getting more halogens in years to come
KidsSpaceExploration Animation thanks for asking. I would not reccomend 8B for coconuts. They are very sub trlpical palms and will not last in a freeze or two. Even in 9B they are out of their natural climate. Now a great palm for 8b is the queen or the magesty palm if you want. They are both pinate palms and beautiful like the coconut.
probably not, the only place I can think of that would even be slightly possible would be Spain and even there they are not native. You can always order online and have a sapling shipped to you.
Don’t allow air to contact roots. They will rot. Might be what happened to your little guy. Soil needs to be tight. Not super packed, but def tight to avoid any air.
oh that would really really be pushing it. i lost 9 coconuts here last winter and only 2 survived. really anything north of cocoa beach FL is out of zone for them. Could you do it there where you are, yes, but it will be a lot of work.
