Coconut tree at home

Thanks to commercials, the coconut palm has long been a symbol of heavenly delight. If you do not have the opportunity to see it personally, you can grow this tree at home. How to do it - read on.

Coconut palm

Coconut palm tree belongs to the Palm family. This is a very high (up to 30 m) plant with a round crown formed by long (up to 6 m) leaves. The barrel in diameter reaches almost half a meter.

It blooms with almost two-meter light yellow panicles, on which the drupes are subsequently tied - fruits about 30 cm in length and up to 2.5 kg in weight, which are commonly called coconuts. The area of ​​growth is the oceanic coasts of the tropics.

Did you know? In the Maldives, coconut palm is the official state symbol and is also depicted on the coat of arms.

Malaysia is considered the birthplace of this plant, and it is most common in Indonesia, which is the largest producer of coconuts.

Familiarize yourself with the beneficial properties of coconut, coconut milk and coconut chips.

Subspecies of coconut nut-bearing

There are several subspecies of coconut. Most often, as indoor plants can be found:

1. Coco Veddel - a small palm tree, which has leaves of saturated green color, from the inside of silver, the ends are lowered down.
2. Coconut (Cocos nucifera) - unlike the previous species, it is tall; it can reach 3 m indoors. The leaves are large, forked at the ends.
3. Another option - Cocos nucifera viridis. Characterized by the green color of the fruit.

In height, the subspecies differ: typica (tall) and dwarf - nana.

Learn more about how to clean and clean coconut.

Training

If you decide to grow a coconut from a nut, you will need to perform the following actions:

1. Choose a suitable fruit: only ripe, in no case peeled. Shake it - a splash of liquid should be heard.
2. Soak the coconut for three days in water.
3. Provide conditions close to greenhouses: high humidity and temperature (about +30 ° C).

Sprouted coconut

Planting coconut

When your nut has sprouted, it is time to plant it in the pot.

The sequence is as follows:

1. Prepare the tank. It should be a wide pot in volume twice the size of a nut. Be sure to make a hole in the bottom - through it will surplus water (respectively, you need a tray).
2. Lay a drainage layer on the bottom (fine clay or shards will do).
3. Fill with soil mixture. The substrate must be well drained, loose. The optimal mixture - a special land for indoor plants interspersed with sand.
4. Walnut half dug into the ground.
5. Maintain the right temperature, humidity and light levels.
6. Apply organic fertilizers and fungicides (1 time in 4 weeks).
7. As the palm grows and forms, transplant it into a larger pot. At the same time, the ground around the roots must be preserved, the shells should not be removed.

Coconut palm care

Coconut palm - not the most difficult to care for the plant, but not the easiest. Beginners who previously had nothing more complicated than chlorophytum or did not grow geraniums, it most likely will not work. Although in itself the plant is quite unpretentious.

Important! Coconut palm is very sensitive to dry air and drafts. In the apartment it can not be put in the aisles and is not recommended to overdry.

Lighting

Coconut photophilous. Shadow is contraindicated, although partial shade is permissible. Best suited ambient lighting. Direct sunlight can burn a young plant, but with age it becomes resistant to their effects.

Avoid direct sunlight in the middle of the day. In order to preserve the symmetry of the crown in case of light entering from only one angle, the plant should be rotated 2 times a month.

Required temperature

Palma loves warmth. It feels best in the temperature range from +26 to +28 ° С. Below +16 ° C ceases to grow. Short-term reductions to zero will survive, but lower - it is waiting for a guaranteed death.

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Watering palm

Plant can not be poured. The frequency of irrigation is determined by the condition of the soil and the season:

• the middle of spring and the end of summer - to prevent the soil from drying out;
• winter - water when the ground dries out.

Fertilizers

Excessive plant nutrition is not required. You can choose from two options:

1. Once a year place granulated feed in the soil. He slowly gives away useful substances. Do it better in the spring.
2. Use specialized solutions for palm trees. Frequency - 1 time in 3 weeks. Submission period - April-August.

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Pruning foliage

It is necessary to cut the leaves from the palm tree, but only in two cases:

1. If the leaf is completely withered.
2. If the sheet is broken.

Leaves that have changed color, yellowing, do not touch to dry, coconut takes nutrients from them. Wait for complete drying, then cut. You can also trim the very tips of the leaves if they turn brown, but you don't need to touch the leaf itself.

Transfer

Transplanted palm for several reasons. In addition, each of them has its own characteristics that are reflected in the process.

1. As growth - when the plant becomes closely in a pot.

Determined by the following features:

• stunting;
• stagnant water on the surface;
• sticking roots.

Young palm trees are transplanted once a year in April, large - once in 2-3 years. The procedure is standard: the plant, together with a lump of earth on the root system, is transferred into a larger pot (15-20% more than the previous one).

Important! During transshipment, it is absolutely impossible to bury the plant and damage the trunk, otherwise the palm tree may die.

Video: Coconut Transplant

2. To replace the soil - if the substrate is old and / or deteriorated. Determined by the following features:

• white plaque on the ground;
• bad smell;
• the water got worse absorbed.

In this case, you need to transplant in a pot of similar size (you can in the same, after washing it).

3. If the palm tree rots. It looks like this:

• the trunk is easily loosened;
• the soil is constantly wet, emits an unpleasant smell.

In this case, in the process of transplanting should also cut rotten roots.

Propagation of coconut palm

Coconut breeds in two ways:

1. From the drupe (walnut). Only one plant germinates. This is the main breeding method.
2. Scions. It is rare, only in the case of the appearance in the adult tree of the child process.

Coconut palm pests and diseases

In indoor plants, the risk of disease or pest damage is lower than in outdoor plants, but it does. Below are the most common problems that the owner of a palm tree may encounter.

Pests

The list of pests that can infect a coconut is fairly standard. It is they who most often get turned on indoor plants.

These include:

• mealybug;
• scale insects and false shields;

  Did you know? Coconut palms are great travelers, they perfectly survive in terrible conditions for other plants. Their fruits overcome many thousands of kilometers of ocean water, and after they are nailed to the shore, they take root and grow practically on the sand, under the scorching rays of the sun, absorbing salt water.

  
• spider mite;

  It will be useful for you to get acquainted with the types of spider mites.

• bubbly (thrips).

All of them are exterminated by special preparations (insecticides). Before buying a product, be sure to check whether it is suitable for use in a residential area.

Diseases

There are few illnesses in coconut palms, but they are very serious:

1. Phytoplasma infection. External manifestations - crown turns yellow upwards. Unfortunately, to cure the plant will not succeed, you have to throw it away.
2. Black and pink rot (defeat by spores). The plant is weakened, rotting shoots, leaves, sometimes the trunk. There are observed (depending on the type of infection) putrefactive mass of dark brown, black or pink flowers. The plant is treated with fungicides: treatment 1 time in 7 days, until complete recovery.

As you can see, growing your own coconut palm is a rather laborious task, although very interesting. If you succeed in this, you can enjoy your own paradise in your own home.

Reviews from the network

CARE TIPS You cannot use leaf polishing agents. Temperature: All types of coconut palm are thermophilic, both in the street and in the room, coconut is kept at a temperature of 20-23 ° C. It is desirable in the summer to rearrange the tub with a coconut on the balcony or in the garden, in such a place that the hottest midday sun rays do not fall on it. If coconut is kept indoors all year round, then in the summer he needs to be provided with good ventilation. Lighting: A bright diffused light, priteyuyut only from the hottest sun. The room is given the brightest place. Watering: In the summer (from May to September), watering is plentiful, then moderate. From May to August every two weeks fertilizing fertilizer. Humidity: Coconut likes very humid air, so regular spraying is necessary, especially in summer and in winter during the heating season. The leaves are periodically wiped with a damp sponge. Transplant: He does not like transplanting very much, so they are transplanted only when the roots fill the entire pot or tub and begin to crawl out of the container. Soil - 2 parts of light clay-sod, 2 parts of humus-leaf, 1 part of peat, 1 part of rotted manure, 1 part of sand and some charcoal. Reproduction: Seeds (walnut) can only be heated by temperature and high humidity.

Shadow

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Very difficult to care for, God forbid, if you don’t get into it. In short: coconut needs soil enriched with loose, not rocky humus - fertile soil mixed with coarse sand. In the spring, carefully plant the plant in a large pot or simply replace the surface layer with all of the earth. From May to the end of August (in the hottest time), the plant should be in a well-ventilated, semi-shaded room; leaves should be sprayed frequently, but not with hard water. Spring and summer water moderately and once a month add a balanced liquid fertilizer, in the winter you need to water much less often. Temperature is not lower than 15-17 degrees. Wipe the dust from the leaves with a cloth. In room conditions, the plant can not properly develop, so long and does not live. Well, good luck.

Enat

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Instruction 1 If you want to plant a coconut, the first difficulty you will encounter will be the acquisition of seed material. Ordinary coconut, bought in a supermarket, is unlikely to germinate. The fact is that for eating coconuts are removed from the tree at the stage of milk maturity. A ripe coconut has a hard inedible pulp, and the liquid inside it acquires a not very pleasant smell. For full ripening, a nut needs about 430 days. And to be sent to the market and consumed, they are removed much earlier. After all, at the age of about 150 days, coconuts contain the maximum amount of tasty liquid, which, moreover, remains cool inside the nut even in the hottest weather. Somewhat later, fat appears in this fluid, and it turns into the famous coconut milk, nutritionally comparable to cow's. And only after this begins the development of solid endosperm, in a mature walnut occupying more than half of the internal volume. But this, of course, is not a matter of one day. At what stage of ripeness are the fruits lying on the counter is very difficult to determine. 2 The way out of the situation can be a coconut brought from southern latitudes, which managed to ripen and fell independently on the ground. But in this case, do not be too flattery. Coconut palm tree in natural conditions grows up to 30 meters, it is difficult to imagine a room in which she could fit. In addition, in a couple of years most of the coconut palm sprouts do not stand up to domestic conditions and die. 3 If the arguments listed above do not scare you anyway, you came across a sprouted coconut in a flower shop and you want to try to tame it, or you brought a ripe coconut from the south, then why not. 4 Dip the coconut half in wet peat with a soft eye upwards, cover it with a film, create a temperature of about 25 ° C and start to wait. Periodically ventilate the fruit to prevent mold. Should accelerate the germination of the nut bottom heated pot. Put the “greenhouse” in the warmest, lightest place so that the sun can get as much sun on the nut as it begins to burn very strongly since spring. If possible, arrange additional lighting for the nut when there is no natural light. Coconut will sprout for a long time, up to six months. But after that he will quickly grow. Now the main thing is that if during the next five to six months the state of sowing does not change, it can be stated with absolute certainty that the nut has not ripened. And throw it away. By the way, this should be done very carefully. In the case of the destruction of the nut in the house, the persistent smell of spilled liquid will remind you of the incident for another five months. 5 Pot for coconut plants should be large, not less than 12-15 liters. The soil should contain about 40% sand and you will have to constantly maintain high humidity and temperature. Due to the dry air of a coconut, the tips of the leaves may turn brown. Too hard water can also cause leaf damage. On the other hand, the overflow for coconut is also dangerous, the roots of the plant begin to rot. 6 As you can see, the cultivation of coconut is not easy, and the chances of success are not that great. But if you still manage to grow a palm tree from a coconut, you can surely be counted among the professionals among the plant growers.

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