Popular Post Petervn Posted August 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2020 how do we grow disease-free coconuts and produce more fruit. 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NotYourBusiness Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 If I was going to do coconuts, I would study, and do, this variety. Prices are much higher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macapuno 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brayka Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Coconuts growing is easy, without disease...more difficult. I have had a coconut as small as 30cm, put it in a big hole with good soil, and now 4 years later, he is massive, almost 8 meter high. Try to get in contact with someone working in the government. Because every 2 years guys from them do inject coconut trees with some special product against the bugs and other infestations. Everyone here around let them do their job. A lot depends on the height of the tree and the age. I really see improvement after the treatment. Good luck???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyf Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 8 minutes ago, Brayka said: Coconuts growing is easy, without disease...more difficult. Quite, even the locals have problems. The land next door to us, about 6 acres, is just coconuts and in the last couple of years has lost over 50 percent to the insects. We have quite a few, my sister in law looks after them, and she loses a some every year, continually replanting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickudon Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Yes, easy to plant a coconut (just wait until one shoots), but after that ...... we have planted about 20 in the last 2 years - about 12 left, and growth has been poor. Do have about 20 older trees. Biggest problem with the mature trees is squirrels - eat about half the nuts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrogaz Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 I would suggest you to try growing some coconut trees. We have six and they produce more fruit than we know what to do with. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunPer Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 I just put a budding coconut in the ground – in my place sand – and wait seven years...???? I've been told it's important that the palm gets salt at some point to produce coconuts, but as I live by the sea, salt is not a problem, and the fully grown palms produce numerous new coconuts three to four times a year...???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickstart Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 7 hours ago, khunPer said: I just put a budding coconut in the ground – in my place sand – and wait seven years...???? I've been told it's important that the palm gets salt at some point to produce coconuts, but as I live by the sea, salt is not a problem, and the fully grown palms produce numerous new coconuts three to four times a year...???? I have a Thai friend he say put some sea salt around the base of the palm . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petervn Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 I want to learn how to grow coconuts in many places because each place they use it differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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scoupeo Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Coconut ? Big ones ? On this forum ? I don't think that you will find... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracker Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 17 hours ago, khunPer said: I just put a budding coconut in the ground – in my place sand – and wait seven years...???? I've been told it's important that the palm gets salt at some point to produce coconuts, but as I live by the sea, salt is not a problem, and the fully grown palms produce numerous new coconuts three to four times a year...???? THAT is very close to the home, it seems... prepare for the big booms on the roof someday 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunPer Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, tracker said: THAT is very close to the home, it seems... prepare for the big booms on the roof someday 555, thanks for your comment, but no big booms will come. I'm normally very organized, so I have of course carefully calculated ballistic curves for falling coconuts, taking wind direction and speed into consideration, combined with years experience, before I put my new "baby" into the sand in the selected point. The coconuts will land in the sand – so will the more heavy, and more scary, palm leafs mainly also do – and when coconuts fall down on their own, they are actually quite light in weight. If you look just behind my latest baby palm, you'll see the log of a huge palm that is standing on my beach terrasse. It's probably more than 12 meters high now, more like 15 meters as it's taller than the house, and it was originally set as a deed marker between two land plots, but after later satellite measure it stands on my side. On the other beachfront side the marker palm is exactly in the middle, so I own only half of it, but I kindly let my neighbor harvest all the coconuts. The palms are gently bending to the beach side, so falling nuts end there, even when it's windy; however a palm leaf can still boom down on the terrasse. The nuts will normally be be cut before the falling-by-itself stage, either by one of Samui's coconut picking monkeys – to keep them having jobs in the future, I'm not in export business – or by an experienced professional human monkey... The photo-collage of coconut cutting is from 2016, just before the latest baby was set...???? Edited August 15, 2020 by khunPer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGW Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 We have 5 "mini" (dwarf) coconut trees, produce lots of fruit and easy to pick and take care off, can recommend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotYourBusiness Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 On 8/14/2020 at 8:51 AM, NotYourBusiness said: If I was going to do coconuts, I would study, and do, this variety. Prices are much higher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macapuno Perhaps the message needs repeating, The price of these coconuts and seedlings is TEN TIMES HIGHER than normal coconuts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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