Cocos Mail Order

[ahosey01]

Looking for a coconut that I can mail order.  Surprisingly difficult to find around here.  PM me.

[mnorell]

If you google "sprouted coconut" "shipping" you'll find a ton available...Etsy, eBay, Kanoa Hawai'i, Let's Grow Florida, Plantogram, Eureka Farms, even Walmart and Amazon have plenty on offer...there's is and always has been a large demand for coconuts just for the novelty/houseplant market...probably no palm is easier to find for sale from every corner of the warm-belt.

[Plantking165]

I would recommend the Panama tall off lets grow florida I've germinated 2 from them you can get it already germinated but I saved money and did it myself they sell good viable coconuts. I would get the tall type as it's got the best chance against any cold, here's the one I germinated from them just sprouted 2 weeks ago.

[mnorell]

2 hours ago, Plantking165 said:

I would recommend the Panama tall off lets grow florida I've germinated 2 from them you can get it already germinated but I saved money and did it myself they sell good viable coconuts. I would get the tall type as it's got the best chance against any cold, here's the one I germinated from them just sprouted 2 weeks ago.

A heads-up that all three of the "Panama Talls" I've bought from Let's Grow Florida appear to be Jamaican Talls. Take a look at the fruit...if it's somewhat elongated and has a three-cornered tip, it's a Jamaican most likely. The Panama fruits are almost round (just slightly longer than spherical and "chubby" in character) and don't have the "three-cornered hat" feature. And Jamaicans are apparently fairly cold-hardy, by a number of reports there are a number of them along the west coast of Central Florida in good condition. This has been documented in quite a few threads on the forum. Mine have so far done quite well out here in Palm Springs, with only a little in the way of winter setback after their first winter and now heading into their second in rather good shape.

In my own opinion it's best to get the just-sprouting coconut similar to the one you've pictured, with an eophyll (since some seeds will be duds) and hopefully with no roots or just the start of them poking out to avoid breakage...and straight into the ground, buried about 1/3, in a substrate heavily amended with very gritty/sandy material. That's how I've done mine here and they get right off to the races...although always in spring, never at this time of year. I wouldn't trust the roots to establish easily in winter temps, whether attempted in most of Florida (really a reliable idea only in the Keys); in south Texas; or anywhere in SoCal...and would suggest a greenhouse treatment until March/April.

[Fusca]

I had an experience with 4 sprouted Jamaican tall coconuts that my neighbor had brought back from Miami.  3 of the 4 had already started rooting while the fourth one only had the eophyll emerging.  The 3 rooting nuts all died within a few weeks but the only survivor was the one that had no roots at arrival.  Seems that this variety does not like being uprooted.

[Plantking165]

1 hour ago, Fusca said:

I had an experience with 4 sprouted Jamaican tall coconuts that my neighbor had brought back from Miami.  3 of the 4 had already started rooting while the fourth one only had the eophyll emerging.  The 3 rooting nuts all died within a few weeks but the only survivor was the one that had no roots at arrival.  Seems that this variety does not like being uprooted.

That sounds about right Jamaican talls are very root sensitive they often die from root disturbance.

[Plantking165]

1 hour ago, mnorell said:

A heads-up that all three of the "Panama Talls" I've bought from Let's Grow Florida appear to be Jamaican Talls. Take a look at the fruit...if it's somewhat elongated and has a three-cornered tip, it's a Jamaican most likely. The Panama fruits are almost round (just slightly longer than spherical and "chubby" in character) and don't have the "three-cornered hat" feature. And Jamaicans are apparently fairly cold-hardy, by a number of reports there are a number of them along the west coast of Central Florida in good condition. This has been documented in quite a few threads on the forum. Mine have so far done quite well out here in Palm Springs, with only a little in the way of winter setback after their first winter and now heading into their second in rather good shape.

In my own opinion it's best to get the just-sprouting coconut similar to the one you've pictured, with an eophyll (since some seeds will be duds) and hopefully with no roots or just the start of them poking out to avoid breakage...and straight into the ground, buried about 1/3, in a substrate heavily amended with very gritty/sandy material. That's how I've done mine here and they get right off to the races...although always in spring, never at this time of year. I wouldn't trust the roots to establish easily in winter temps, whether attempted in most of Florida (really a reliable idea only in the Keys); in south Texas; or anywhere in SoCal...and would suggest a greenhouse treatment until March/April.

I agree I was thinking that a few weeks back it looks like a Jamaican tall coconut, I now have 3 I've 1 from a private grower his back collection and another from his front double that one the nut was huge took up the whole pot of a 3 gal. And now this newly germinated one