minimum temperature that Coconut seedling can survive?

[Mohsen]

Hi all

I have this coconut seedling from the coconut I brought from New Caledonia...

so far so good and it is growing nicely...

It lives in our guest bedroom which my in laws temperately live... it has a oil electrical heater and the temp never goes below 18 c...

As my in laws are leaving and also myself might go overseas for few weeks...my question is " what is the minimum temperate that this seedling can stay alive?"

any input or your own experience and I will be grateful  

[Monòver]

If the coconut is inside the house, the problem will be maximum temperature.

I think a coconut could take for example 5°C, but if the max. Temperature is always low, may be 15°C, it will be very bad.

Is only two weeks, if you have a warm and sunny weeks, may be the room will be warm in the day hours and your coconut will be happy.

But if you have two cold and cloudy weeks...

You can make a small greenhouse. One plastic and one 40W light bulb working a few hours per day, will be enough for give it a warm day.

Edited July 6, 2016 by Monòver

[Mohsen]

Thanks Antonio

I thought Coconut would die if below 10C...It is very rare that we have cloudy days for more than 4 continuous days ...

it would be great if we could have @Pal Meir idea from his own experience ...

 

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

I never got the hang of the metric system of measuring including with temps, but I have some young coconut palms in the ground about the same size as yours that survived a frosty night with temps in the mid 30'sF in Jan.  I think the temp got down to about 35F with a fairly light frost, and it didn't seem to hurt mine, but we usually warm up again pretty quickly here after such weather.  The normal high/low at my place in Jan. is 65F/50F, but we have some days in the 70'sF and even a few days with highs in the low 80'sF in winter, so we usually don't stay cold for very long here, which is why we can grow them here to a certain extent, but they are still considered marginal here.

[Pal Meir]

My Cocos was always indoors, so the minimum didn’t fall below 18°C. As your palm is potted and still a seedling I would keep the temps between 15 and 25°C.