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Cocos ID at Home Depot

NickJames

By NickJames
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My good friend @shminbabe obtained a cocos from Home Depot in Jacksonville today as an experiment in her Atlantic Beach microclimate.

She has a dense maritime canopy that includes what must be 100 year old sabal palmettos. It’s a natural, untouched canopy in her neighborhood. Live oak, laurel oak, water oak, magnolia, sweet gum, etc  

Anyways, she stayed warmer than me this winter and a $21 cocos doesn’t set one back too far. 

Any possibility of IDing the type of cocos yet or is it still too early? 

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JohnAndSancho Grand Master

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Now I'm mad lol 

 

All my local HD has is Majesties. Trying to bribe a friend of mine in SD to ship me cheap Kentias. 

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PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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Green Malayan

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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2 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Now I'm mad lol 

 

All my local HD has is Majesties. Trying to bribe a friend of mine in SD to ship me cheap Kentias. 

Oh, what a shame. 
 

Home Depot in Florida is willing to sell you a variety of non-hardy palms. Even as far north as Jacksonville, feel free to load up on cocos, adonidia, wodyetia, etc. LOL. 

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2 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Green Malayan

Thanks, cool!

Johnny Palmseed Mentor

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Wow those are $22 now?!?! I thought it was ridiculous when I saw them for $20 last season. It seems like not so long ago they were $12.98. The crazy thing is that they will sell you that totally unsuitable for the local environment plant and guarantee it for a year. It’s like they are treating it as an annual.

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Fusca Grand Master

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1 hour ago, Johnny Palmseed said:

It’s like they are treating it as an annual.

Yes, it's amazing to me that only a small fraction of people who buy zone-inappropriate plants from the big box stores keep their receipt and the big boxes still make money.  But then again I've never been accused of being normal anyway.  :P

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4 hours ago, Johnny Palmseed said:

Wow those are $22 now?!?! I thought it was ridiculous when I saw them for $20 last season. It seems like not so long ago they were $12.98. The crazy thing is that they will sell you that totally unsuitable for the local environment plant and guarantee it for a year. It’s like they are treating it as an annual.

The way plants are sold at big box stores,all the risk is on the grower.Any returns come back out of the growers account.They make profit on volume...

 

aztropic 

Mesa,Arizona

Mesa, Arizona

 

Temps between 29F and 115F each year

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