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When should I bring my Coconut and Trachy inside?


Mr.SamuraiSword

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The longer they stay outside the better. That said, Cocos "metabolism" begins to shutdown below around 60°f.  When I had one I always tried to bring it indoors at night whenever the temps went into the 50s.  Fwiw.

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If your climate is at all like Ohio's, where I lived before fleeing to California, take the Cocos in NOW. They don't like cold and they don't like cool. As Adam pointed out, when the temps get much below 60 F, it's bad news. Freezing, followed by cool, means coitans, Mugsy.

Trachies are much much hardier to cold, and will stand it much better. I'd think about taking the Trachy in on or about Halloween, unless you're forecast for an unseasonable snow storm.

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Take the lesson I learned, and carefully watch the soil temperature. Once it gets close to 60, stop watering the cocos. Use a spray bottle to spritz the leaves if you need to, but keep the soil pretty dry. It only took me a few weeks to kill two of them by over watering with 55 degree soil.

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If you "plant" the palm in the pot at an even grade with the soil , the roots will remain much warmer , until

the inevitable time when they need to come in .  

    This trick works for plants in general , and at least allows you to yank them( intact ), out , during a very hard

freeze, even here in Florida .      Eventually they'll get too big to do that , but  it could buy you a bit more time each

year up where you live .

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13 hours ago, jreich85 said:

Take the lesson I learned, and carefully watch the soil temperature. Once it gets close to 60, stop watering the cocos. Use a spray bottle to spritz the leaves if you need to, but keep the soil pretty dry. It only took me a few weeks to kill two of them by over watering with 55 degree soil.

I would be very very cautious about spritzing the leaves too.  Moisture in the crown will induce crown rot.  Been there done that, killed 'em.  Best bet for leaf care would be to wipe them off with a damp rag.  

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13 hours ago, jreich85 said:

Take the lesson I learned, and carefully watch the soil temperature. Once it gets close to 60, stop watering the cocos. Use a spray bottle to spritz the leaves if you need to, but keep the soil pretty dry. It only took me a few weeks to kill two of them by over watering with 55 degree soil.

I would be very very cautious about spritzing the leaves too.  Moisture in the crown will induce crown rot.  Been there done that, killed 'em.  Best bet for leaf care would be to wipe them off with a damp rag

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