Fruiting Coconut Palm in Coastal Corpus Christi, Texas

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

On 12/12/2020 at 6:11 PM, pj_orlando_z9b said:

Great job! Let's hope for a warm winter.

Thanks, PJ.  Let's hope.  So far, so good.

John

[GottmitAlex]

Based on current forecasts, due to "la niña" conditions, it is expected to be dry and cold. No rain.   

 

 

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

On 12/14/2020 at 2:30 AM, GottmitAlex said:

Based on current forecasts, due to "la niña" conditions, it is expected to be dry and cold. No rain.   

 

 

Alex, I hope that is wrong.  A dry winter would be okay for my Coconut Palms, but not the the cold, especially for overnight lows.  I recall forecasts a couple of months ago for this winter were saying a mild winter for this area, but that was on the tv news.

John

[GottmitAlex]

2 hours ago, Mr. Coconut Palm said:

Alex, I hope that is wrong.  A dry winter would be okay for my Coconut Palms, but not the the cold, especially for overnight lows.  I recall forecasts a couple of months ago for this winter were saying a mild winter for this area, but that was on the tv news.

John

I hope so. It has been dead dry around these here parts. But quite cool. 9C lows.

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

23 hours ago, GottmitAlex said:

I hope so. It has been dead dry around these here parts. But quite cool. 9C lows.

Yeah, really dry here too.  We are about 6.5" behind normal for our annual rainfall, and only average about 31" per year here, so we are way below normal, and our lows have been unusually chilly, like yours and some even chillier.

[OrionN]

how did everybody Coconut palm survive this last winter?  Any good news?

[Victor likes palms]

Do yo think i could growcoconut in beeville texas?

[Victor likes palms]

Like 55miles south

[Xenon]

7 minutes ago, Victor valadez said:

Do yo think i could growcoconut in beeville texas?

no, not a chance 

[Victor likes palms]

Miles north*

[Victor likes palms]

Damn that sucks,where do you think i could grow it

[Victor likes palms]

I was just wondering because we can grow avacados and papayas here,really hope we have a warm winter

[Teegurr]

19 hours ago, Victor valadez said:

Damn that sucks,where do you think i could grow it

RGV

[Victor likes palms]

Ok thanks

 

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

On 9/13/2021 at 1:25 PM, OrionN said:

how did everybody Coconut palm survive this last winter?  Any good news?

Sorry, I just saw your question.  I haven't been on Palmtalk for a while.  Both of my in ground Coconut Palm replacements for the ones I lost in last year's Big Freeze, survived this past winter, along with my in ground Christmas Palms, but were cold injured and took about 6 or 7 months to start recovering well and looking decent again.  I have an in ground Panama Tall about 11 ft. tall in overall height.  Ironically, they are supposed to be a little more cold hardy than Malayan Dwarfs, but mine has taken longer to recover than my Green Malayan Dwarf, which actually looks good now, for a Coconut Palm in Corpus Christi after a bad winter with 4 freezes in my yard and about 18 to 20 nights total in the 30"sF this past winter!  But to be fair to my Panama Tall, it is about 5 months younger than my Green Malayan, and planted in a more exposed part of the yard, so that may account for some of the slower rate of recovery.  My in ground Green Malayaan is also about 11 ft. tall in overall height and very robust.  The tallest one of my 3 in ground Christmas Palms is about 6.5 ft. tall in overall height, but the cluster of 3 of them looks great now, considering what they went through last winter.  I wrapped the two in ground Coconut Palms and the Christmas Palms on 2 of the cold nights this past winter, the night it got down to 28F, and again at the end of the season in early March when it was predicted to get down to the 30'sF (very rare for this far south in early March), but other than that, they were all exposed the rest of the winter, and did really well considering how cold it was.  I think they did so well, because I grow everything ALL ORGANIC, which from my research, and own observations, seems to increase cold hardiness of tropical trees and plants by 2F to 3F, which makes a work of difference for those of us growing tropicals in marginal climates for them at the northernmost limits of where they can be grown.

John

P.S.  I wish it was easier for me to post pics here.

 

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

On 9/10/2022 at 3:29 PM, Victor valadez said:

Damn that sucks,where do you think i could grow it

Coconut Palms can be grown on the far east side of Corpus Christi near the water, areas like the east end of Ocean Dr., Flour Bluff, and North Padre Island.  Before last year's Big Freeze, there were at least 8 of them here in Flour Bluff, and at least 12 on North Padre Island.  My biggest one here in Flour Bluff was about 17 ft. tall in overall height, with about 30 inches of woody trunk height at the base, and 5 small to medium sized coconuts on it right before the Big Freeze hit.  It had been in the ground for 5 years.  They do however, grow even better in the Rio Grande Valley, where they can get quite big and full of nuts on the east side of the Valley in Cameron County near the water, if they are adequately watered during the warmer months.  Some of the slightly more cold hardy varieties can be grown to maturity farther inland too around McAllen and Edinburg.

John

[Little Tex]

On 12/1/2022 at 6:22 PM, Mr. Coconut Palm said:

Coconut Palms can be grown on the far east side of Corpus Christi near the water, areas like the east end of Ocean Dr., Flour Bluff, and North Padre Island.  Before last year's Big Freeze, there were at least 8 of them here in Flour Bluff, and at least 12 on North Padre Island.  My biggest one here in Flour Bluff was about 17 ft. tall in overall height, with about 30 inches of woody trunk height at the base, and 5 small to medium sized coconuts on it right before the Big Freeze hit.  It had been in the ground for 5 years.  They do however, grow even better in the Rio Grande Valley, where they can get quite big and full of nuts on the east side of the Valley in Cameron County near the water, if they are adequately watered during the warmer months.  Some of the slightly more cold hardy varieties can be grown to maturity farther inland too around McAllen and Edinburg.

John

Theres one guy growing them east of Rio Grande City

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

On 2/17/2023 at 8:55 AM, Little Tex said:

Theres one guy growing them east of Rio Grande City

I wonder if that is the guy who has a little palm and tropical plant nursery right off the freeway up here at the intersection of SPID and Weber?  He supposedly grows his plants somewhere down in the Valley, but his plants look like ones shipped in from Florida.

John

[Little Tex]

36 minutes ago, Mr. Coconut Palm said:

I wonder if that is the guy who has a little palm and tropical plant nursery right off the freeway up here at the intersection of SPID and Weber?  He supposedly grows his plants somewhere down in the Valley, but his plants look like ones shipped in from Florida.

John

Doubt it, Its just my great uncles neighbor.

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

2 hours ago, Little Tex said:

Doubt it, Its just my great uncles neighbor.

Oh, okay.  Do you know what varieties he is growing, and what sizes he has?

John

[Little Tex]

23 minutes ago, Mr. Coconut Palm said:

Oh, okay.  Do you know what varieties he is growing, and what sizes he has?

John

Not for sale I don't think, they look like Malayan dwarfs, there in the ground