How To Grow Coconut Palms Outside the Tropics
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Are you sad because you want to grow a tropical food forest but your climate won't let you? Provided your freezes aren't too harsh, why not create a mini food forest inside a greenhouse? Here's a crazy trick to increase your greenhouse's head room and thermal mass! You can even grow coconut palms outside the tropics - I'll tell you how. With a little frost protection and some ingenuity, the chances of growing coconut palms successfully are quite good. Here more in episode 2 of Crazy Gardening Questions!
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Hey just got a malayan green coconut and literally this was one of the first videos that came up on “ how to grow coconut “ Thanks again for all the great info
Thanks for sharing this great idea! This is why I love TH-cam. I'm in zone 9b and hoping the Anclote River in the backyard will create a warmer microclimate for coconut palms to grow.
Good luck! And you bet. Thanks for watching.
Thats a good and creative idea on the coconut palm 💡 🌴 🥥 ,,because they really do take crazy angles,if you see them on the beach. 🏝
Thanks for the video! I'm planning to build a tropical bio-dome on a farm I am looking to purchase this year. The submerged idea was really good to hear. I wasn't sure it was feasable, but I think I will add it to my concept design!
+Tavonna Nira Sivertsen You can totally pull it off. I think the trick is to not spend too much experimenting since it's hard to say exactly what will work under your climatic conditions. Good luck and thanks for the kind words.
Those are some interesting ideas.
Mind Blown,Man.
Fanciful idea....
Genius. Gives me hope, here in zone 5b. That maybe I can rig soemthing if I monitor the temps in the green house and experiment with supplementing heat. Maybe with compost ? I also thought of a green house in a green house for tropical... would that work or am I crazy? I always wonder what about air flow?
More air layers helps with insulation. Try and see.
Thanks for the vids. What is the greenhouse model you mentioned in the beginning?
+Greg Schlabach This one: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0037QGR7O/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0037QGR7O&linkCode=as2&tag=florisurvigar-20&linkId=4PQ4MWOY3NN2325V
I'm very happy with it.
yess great Idea! I thought about the tipping before to decrease the height but the pit idea I think it would do better. I have (3, in fabric pots) 4 year old Malayan yellows and I live in Orlando zone 9b seminole county. This years winter (2017) for one day was really cold and I had bad damage to 7 mango trees (one died, Duncan Mango) and a some bit of prong damage to my coconut trees. Thanks for putting that out there BC when Im ready im going to do that.
I would love to see how it turns out. Thank you.
do you have an update?
Good tips,
Thank you, Colin.
hey there mate. how long does take for the leaves to split? mine is over a year old and the leaves havent split yet but they have gotten huge
After the tree has grown sideways for a while.. couldn't you break the pot and let it grow in the ground? just wondering...
Can coconuts be pruned back at all? How big of a pot and what kind of nutrients would they end up needing? I'm on the hunt for growing one indoor/outdoor in zone 6. Am I cuckoo for coconuts?
Halvar Andersen let me know if you figure it out
You evil genius!
you don't need a pot just plant the coconut palm side ways in the ground that's how they do it on farms where the coconut grow close to the ground
that's some extreme ... i am sure u can buy acres of land for that kinda money to put in a green house ... why not buy a piece of land close to shore in the tropics. and grow coconut and possibly import .. will be a good business model too..
Best tasting Coco's come from the shortest tree. Pipas in Costa Rica are very short and sweet.
Very interesting. I know the shorter ones are much more commonly used for the water and fresh eating. Locals have told me that the tall trees are better for oil and nutmeats.
I live in Malta zone 11a. Can I grow a fruiting coconut tree in this type of climate outside? In winter it can get a low of 4C (39F) and summer can get to 38C, yearly average temperature is 23C. Lowest ever was 1.4 C (34.5F). Relative humidity is high averaging about 75%. Really would like to grow coconuts but I don't know if it's possable in my climate
That should work fine for coconuts. Are there no coconuts anywhere in the country?
@@davidthegood wow nice to hear that. And no not a coconut tree in sight here. Probably because no one every got the idea of planting them. But I'm sure going to give it a try. Same with moringa. No one here even knows it exists yet we have the perfect climate for it.
@@CharlesCarabott did you try it
If you plant a dwarf coconut you can grow it in the greenhouse forever in a pit
+Willo Perez Great point. I haven't found any dwarf varieties here - just Malaysian palms.
We have a lot of dwarf varieties in Australia
Watering pots on their sides is kind of difficult to do efficiently - maybe resetting the rootball in a bigger pot with a u shaped piece to accommodate the trunk, cut out of the side of the new pot. Not to mention that a coconut crown is massive - not much more room for other stuff in there!
True.
If you are going to lie it down why not dig a hole in the side of the pit and plant it directly into the soil at that stage? That way you can have a piece of garden pipe lead to it for watering if need be [though it should get all it needs directly from the soil], and the roots aren't inhibited.
That's a great idea - why not? I love it.
I like how you think! 🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴
+Beecozz7 Thanks.
did you try this? @davidthegood
We have some in the greenhouse now. Years to go, though.