Mass shipment of Jubaeas Chilensis

[Hu Palmeras]

Mass shipment of Jubaeas chilensis to Europe. Container shipping by ship. Courtesy of my Belgian friend Michel Lancel.

 

[gyuseppe]

They're destroying the planet!
Years ago, large macrozamias arrived here from Australia and large trithrinax campestris from Argentina.😥

[Hu Palmeras]

Guiusepe, my friend, there are quite a few Jubaeas chilensis here in Chile. Now they sell seeds and palm trees of all sizes everywhere. Massively. Unlike the other Chilean palm, Juania australis, its sale and commercialization are prohibited. It's a very private palm tree, so access to it is not possible.

[kinzyjr]

Jubaea chilensis - a gorgeous palm that few are able to grow in Florida.  @Scott W has one coming along pretty well, but they are a difficult grow here to say the least.

[Tyrone]

They are dead easy to grow here at a similar latitude to habitat. 
 

Im surprised they go ok with almost no root mass. 

[Hu Palmeras]

This is one of the most expensive palm trees in the world. RPS sells seedlings for very high prices. And it's also one of their number one and favorite palm trees. RPS sells them as if they were selling them from Chile. In Europe, they pay an enormous amount for a specimen. It's crazy.

[JohnAndSancho]

Man, that is some serious money right there. That's 6 figures all day. 

[Hu Palmeras]

Hace 5 minutos, JohnAndSancho dijo:

Vaya, eso sí que es dinero. Son seis cifras en total. 

That's right, my friend. It's a majestic palm tree. The wisest eyes will know how to value it and elevate it as something unique and elevated.

[JohnAndSancho]

5 minutes ago, Hu Palmeras said:

That's right, my friend. It's a majestic palm tree. The wisest eyes will know how to value it and elevate it as something unique and elevated.

If I buy plants and they show up via UPS it's fancy. I can't imagine how much it costs to put anything that big - let alone several of them - in shipping containers and send them halfway around the world. The prep work alone is worth more than every plant I own and probably every car I've ever owned and maybe even one of the houses I've lived in combined. 

[Hu Palmeras]

Very cool my friend🌴🌴🌴🦜🦜🦜💪💪💪

[Hu Palmeras]

My Belgian friend Michel Lancel tells me that the Chinese buy the seeds (coquitos) of Jubaea chilensis. They eat them in soup and sell them in China. They're highly coveted. My friend tells me that the Chinese buy up to 70 tons of coquitos. They ship them in shipping containers. Each container carries 20 tons of coquitos. And he tells me that one meter of Jubaea chilensis costs 2,000 euros. Imagine, Mr. John and Mr. Sancho, how the world of palm trees works. And exclusively for Jubaea chilensis. Below I'm sharing photos my friend sent me.

[happypalms]

Holy Jubea seeds  Batman! Way to go looking good, germinating all those seeds makes my setup look like a kindergarten school bean project! 

[JohnAndSancho]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

Holy Jubea seeds  Batman! Way to go looking good, germinating all those seeds makes my setup look like a kindergarten school bean project! 

They're not germinating them, they're eating them! Well I guess technically they're germinating them into something, just not trees. 

 

@Hu Palmeras that's insane. Aren't Jubea endangered? 

[gyuseppe]

I paid dearly for this one, 20 years ago

[JohnAndSancho]

1 hour ago, gyuseppe said:

I paid dearly for this one, 20 years ago

😍

 

And they're eating it's babies. Shame. 

[Hu Palmeras]

I was about to buy a large Jubaea palm tree five years ago. I wanted to show off and look like the rich. The problem was I had to invest my money in another project. I think I'll buy the largest Jubaea palm tree later. It's a logistics and transportation task to bring it to southern Chile using high-tonnage equipment. Trucks, cranes, and more cranes. Your Jubaea palm trees are waiting for you, even if it's just a few coconuts in your soup.

[Hu Palmeras]

47 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

😍

 

Y se están comiendo a sus bebés. Qué pena. 

Very cool my friend

[Hu Palmeras]

Hace 1 hora, gyuseppe dijo:

Pagué caro por esto hace 20 años.

I imagine you're paying a lot. Or is it the most expensive palm tree you've paid for so far?

[Hu Palmeras]

2 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

¡No los están germinando, se los están comiendo! Bueno, supongo que técnicamente los están germinando en algo, pero no en árboles. 

 

@Hu Palmeras Eso es una locura. ¿No está Jubea en peligro de extinción? 

If the Chinese eat their soups with coconuts sent from Chile

[Hu Palmeras]

Hace 4 horas, happypalms dijo:

¡Santo cielo, Batman! ¡Qué bien te ves! Germinar todas esas semillas hace que mi proyecto parezca un proyecto de judías de preescolar. 

I think I'll have to buy some cocoids, Richard. They're cocoids.

 

Hugo

[happypalms]

37 minutes ago, Hu Palmeras said:

I think I'll have to buy some cocoids, Richard. They're cocoids.

 

Hugo

That many seeds you could flood the market and be the Jubea king around the world. 
Richard 

[Mazat]

9 hours ago, Tyrone said:

They are dead easy to grow here at a similar latitude to habitat. 
 

Im surprised they go ok with almost no root mass. 

Indeed, I am also very surprised that they can still thrive so well.

[Mazat]

39 minutes ago, happypalms said:

That many seeds you could flood the market and be the Jubea king around the world. 
Richard 

🤗

[Mazat]

3 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

I paid dearly for this one, 20 years ago

Wonderful, Gyuseppe 

[Mazat]

8 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

My Belgian friend Michel Lancel tells me that the Chinese buy the seeds (coquitos) of Jubaea chilensis. They eat them in soup and sell them in China. They're highly coveted. My friend tells me that the Chinese buy up to 70 tons of coquitos. They ship them in shipping containers. Each container carries 20 tons of coquitos. And he tells me that one meter of Jubaea chilensis costs 2,000 euros. Imagine, Mr. John and Mr. Sancho, how the world of palm trees works. And exclusively for Jubaea chilensis. Below I'm sharing photos my friend sent me.

Great photos, my friend Hugo.
Somehow, they make me want to eat and then grow seeds...
Both are wonderful things, so let's get started 🤗

One advantage for me is that I can eat a lot without gaining weight... except that I naturally feel sick if I overdo it 🤔😁

[Frond-friend42]

Great post! Im surprised how small the root-ball is-very compact. So many years to get them that size. Incredible. Definitely one of my favs

[gyuseppe]

2 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

I imagine you're paying a lot. Or is it the most expensive palm tree you've paid for so far?

yes ugo, was small when I bought it from England, and I spent a lot of money

[Hu Palmeras]

My friend Michel Lancel tells me that the price of a Jubaea chilensis is 2,000 euros per meter of trunk. Imagine how much a Jubaea palm tree with a 10 or 12-meter trunk can cost. Even I'm amazed by this world of Jubaea.

[PalmsandLiszt]

12 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

 

Many years ago I was given a packet of edible, shelled seeds that were labelled 'mini coconuts', and I've long wondered what they were. They did indeed taste like coconut and were very nice. They looked very much like these, so perhaps they were actually Jubaeas.

[Hu Palmeras]

2 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Sí, Ugo, era pequeño cuando lo compré en Inglaterra y gasté mucho dinero.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_-6kDxuwGyusplBuBNGUWdUzSaGvkekgXpwBg0/?igsh=MTR5Y3AyYWh2N3FhZw==

[Hu Palmeras]

11 minutes ago, PalmsandLiszt said:

Hace muchos años me regalaron un paquete de semillas comestibles sin cáscara etiquetadas como "mini cocos", y me pregunté qué serían. Efectivamente, sabían a coco y estaban muy ricas. Se parecían mucho a estas, así que quizá fueran Jubaeas.

Of course, if they are siblings, they belong to the cocosea family. They are siblings with the coconut tree, Siagrus, butia, parajubaea, etc. From the drupe (yellow fruit) they extract jams and sweet jams. And from the palm tree's sap they used to extract palm honey, which is now strictly prohibited in Chile.