Coconut bonzai ! Reducing the vertical growth of Tall-type coconut palms - new video demonstrating the Vietnamese technique

[Dr Roland Bourdeix]

Reducing the vertical growth of Tall-type coconut palms - new video demonstrating the Vietnamese technique

[Dr Roland Bourdeix]

Dear all,
Together with IOOP researchers we made a short video to demonstrate this traditional technique.
Please visit:
 
http://diversiflora-international.blogspot.com/2016/03/new-coconut-bonzai-reducing-vertical.html  
Or: 
http://coconutvietnam.blogspot.com/2016/01/coconut-bonzai-reducing-vertical-growth.html
 
The video can be seen in HD (High Definion) or any lower definition, please choose the option on Youtube according to the quality of your internet.
Kind regards
Dr Roland Bourdeix - http://rbourdeix.blogspot.fr

[PalmatierMeg]

Nothing to click on

[JT in Japan]

That was an interesting video. Thanks for sharing, Since it is apparently a scientific examination, I would like to see some discourse on the benefits of the technique. Or even some more images of "before" and "after" to see the effect of the uprooting and cloaking. Does it just make them shorter? If so, why? To make it easier to harvest?

Thanks again.

JT

[Al in Kona]

Interesting

[Dr Roland Bourdeix]

Dear Friend, there is an image from farmer's fields in the movie, showing the stems "before and after". Together with IOOP, we submitted in last february (2016) a small project to assess the technique scientifically, but unfortunately the project was not selected... So at this time, we have only observations of a few palms in Mekong Delta, planted in farmer's fields in very heterogeneous conditions... It will be really interesting to test it scientifically, but at this time we do not have yet the resources needed. Kind regards, Roland