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Looking for Fiji dwarf coconut seedling/ or small palm

Azer1989

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Azer1989 Newbie

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Looking for a Fiji dwarf coconut seedling/smaller size coconut pam tree. Im in Fort Lauderdale FL area.

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kinzyjr Grand Master

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@Azer1989

Might want to check out USDA Chapman Field or Premier Growers Inc in St. James City.

Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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Agree with @kinzyjr on Premier Growers, Corey and Shelby. Shelby’s contact on PT is @PalmMom007

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Thank you. I will reach out to them.

 

do you happen to know contact info for Ron Croci JR? He is a south florida local based on what I researched on the forum.

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9 minutes ago, Azer1989 said:

do you happen to know contact info for Ron Croci JR? He is a south florida local based on what I researched on the forum.

I don't have any contact info for him.  If @PalmatierMeg or anyone else has direct contact info, they'll have to let you know.  He should be one of the vendors at the SFPS Sale this weekend:

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/83777-south-florida-spring-palm-sale-at-university-of-miami-coral-gables-april-27-28-2024/

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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Kinzy Jr. is correct in that Chapman Field has a whole grove of these in their collection, Keith Zimmerman @Zeeth has posted on this collection and may have a contact there, I don't know what the process is for procuring from USDA...but perhaps he could help you contact them; also you might try Montgomery in case they sell this in their seed auctions.

When I lived in the Keys, I got mine directly from Dave Romney, at the time, just about THE authority on coconuts. He had a group of Fijis that were segregated from the other types...important because they apparently outcross very easily. His daughter, Carol, ran the nursery after his death and I believe I saw that someone said she had closed the business, so maybe a longshot, but you might try to contact her and see if she has any that she would let go of. Dave and Carol warned me that Fijis were very susceptible to being sold as this while actually being outcrosses, if the parent was not segregated in such a careful way.

Beware that this is a very slow-growing coconut! And it is not for cooler/more marginal areas. If you get regular frost/cold damage you might look to other varieties, since this will be very slow to replace a crown. To me it has the basic squat-shuttlecock form of Ravenea rivularis, more or less, and at least during its first decade or two has well-nigh zero of the romantic aura of the coconut. And if you get one, it must have full sun...otherwise it will sit...and sit...and sit...mine took 11 years to yield ONE fruit, and it really only started growing after Irma destroyed everything around it, allowing it to enjoy that full sun.

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Michael Norell

Rancho Mirage, California | 33°44' N 116°25' W | 287 ft | z10a | avg Jan 43/70F | Jul 78/108F avg | Weather Station KCARANCH310

previously Big Pine Key, Florida | 24°40' N 81°21' W | 4.5 ft. | z12a | Calcareous substrate | avg annual min. approx 52F | avg Jan 65/75F | Jul 83/90 | extreme min approx 41F

previously Natchez, Mississippi | 31°33' N 91°24' W | 220 ft.| z9a | Downtown/river-adjacent | Loess substrate | avg annual min. 23F | Jan 43/61F | Jul 73/93F | extreme min 2.5F (1899); previously Los Angeles, California (multiple locations)

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2 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

I don't have any contact info for him.  If @PalmatierMeg or anyone else has direct contact info, they'll have to let you know.  He should be one of the vendors at the SFPS Sale this weekend:

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/83777-south-florida-spring-palm-sale-at-university-of-miami-coral-gables-april-27-28-2024/

Yes, I saw his name as one of the vendors, but Im not sure if i will be able to make it this weekend. I figured someone might have his info. Or maybe he is on this forum.. thank you!

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