bencelest

Thanks Lorax.
I might do that someday when my greenhouse is ready for constant 84 degrees Fahrenheit tempt. I am still building my greenhouse at the moment.
Once my greenhouse is complete coconut is only one to grow that I have in mind. I have many others like papaya, star apple, mango, cherimoya.....etc.....

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bencelest

Ah, I just came back for 3 weeks vacation in the Philippines and I just took pictures of my coconuts planted in my vacant yard. One of them is a yellow/orange coconut fruits and I just bought 7 coconut pups about 2 feet high for roughly $2.00 for all. The unique thing about these coconuts that I just bought is that there is no liquid inside the fruit but all meat. The locals called it "makapuno" meaning it is filled in full.
I will post pictures of them as soon as possible.
It said that it will start to fruit in 5 to 7 years at about 5 -foot -high.

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damaclese

i Have a friend that is an arborist in Hawaii and he told me that the reason they do not have vary many coconuts in and around the tourist sites is that the failing fruit is quite dangerous he told me and i don't know if this is true that the #one cause of head trauma in the tropics is death by coconut dropping on your head hes a bit prone to exaggeration so I'm not sure i believe that but i thought id pass it on just encase!

sorta make me think if the game clue! "Miss Peabody in the arboretum with a coconut" LOL

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bencelest

Pauly:
That is a myth if I heard one. I still have to know someone died because of a falling coconut fruit. Coconuts can stay on the tree until the husk dried up. The only time that I know that a coconut fell off the tree was when the rats chew on the stem or the giant crabs from Hawaii chew on the coconuts (this I heard from a Hawaiian friend of mine who as a kid hunt this giant crabs and they were very delicious so I heard). And he knows where to hunt them.

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Chironex

Pauly, I think he was yanking your chain. I can't imagine coconut bonking outdistancing surfboard injuries, motorcycle/moped/bicycle accidents, sailing incidents/boating, slips and falls and public intoxication for head trauma.

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bencelest

Here's the orange yellow coconut fruit planted in my vacant lot in the Philippines

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island cassie

Hey guys - death by coconut is a serious statistic here in the Dominican Republic after rta and bullet holes! haha! At the beaches they have men to warn the unwary which trees not to park their cars under. I've seen many vehicles with broken windscreens caused by falling coconuts, so I know that tourist venues worldwide cut the fruit down while they are small!

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This is how a regular coconut looks like and in the background is a yellow orange coconut fruit

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bencelest

Here is a place where coconuts are stored and some are being prepared to sell along the highway fruitstand

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bencelest

and here is a coconut fruitstand alongside the highway

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bencelest

Another view of a orange yellow coconut fruit. Aren't they pretty?

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Bob

Great pics Benny! These look a lot like the Malayan Dwarf coconuts sold on ebay. If they can actually start fruiting at 5 ft this may be a good choice for us northerners. Can't hurt to try right? Thanks for posting.

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frog7994

I've never heard of a dwarf variety. From all the coconuts i've grown up around and seen I've heard of it being tryied I would love to have one too. So if any one have such a plant for sale please contact me .

Bob

Just go on ebay and type in "dwarf coconut " as a search. You'll see a few different ones. They can only be considered "dwarf " in comparison but if you could get fruit at less than 6 or 8 feet tall it might be interesting to give it a try.

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frog7994

I've seen them produce a 4 feet but that does not make them dwarf coconut. Every time the fruit is cut off it grows taller. My neibor next door has them all over his yard he loves coconuts. I'll see if he will let me take some pics and post them.

bencelest

I have a few pictures that started bearing fruit at around 5 feet. I'll look for it.

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bencelest

Tried but could not find it.
Here's the closest one I could find. Pic taken while on vacation in Hawaii



Notice the coconut trunk that is almost parallel with the coconut pic? That trunk just so happened to extend growing almost across the pond in that position. So it is kinda unique having to grow that way almost parallel to the ground.

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bencelest

and there is this banana that I could not pass taking a picture. If I can have one half as that pretty in my backyard..............

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Gabe15

A friend of mine almost died from a falling coconut. She was in the hospital for awhile in serious condition. They can be rather heavy and not much different as if large stones were falling from trees. Here, almost all coconuts in public areas (and in and around hotels and resorts) are routinely pruned of flowers to stop large fruit from ever forming. All coconuts have to fall off the tree sometime, and even when they look brown and dry they are full of water and oil inside the seed still.

On another note, there are no coconut crabs here in Hawai'i, thats a south pacific thing. So perhaps your friend grew up somewhere else or was telling you the myth!

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frog7994

well I've seen them in the west indies just not sure which island.