Germinating store bought coconuts

[JohnAndSancho]

I'm using a modified version of the Ricky Bobby method. Just wondering how long y'all give these things before you throw it in the compost heap. I understand things take time and supermarket processing and packaging impacts the likelihood of germination because I'm not illiterate, but how long do I keep it on this heat mat in this baggie in the bucket full of water before I yeet it out into the compost heap? Worst comes to worst I'm out like $4 so no tears will be shed. 

[happypalms]

This I gotta see you keep alive and grow indoors! Honourable grasshopper you are the skill master in indoors cultivation, Kong Qiu say man who propagate palm indoor must grow palm indoor! Good luck from all at the happypalms team! 

[JohnAndSancho]

11 minutes ago, happypalms said:

This I gotta see you keep alive and grow indoors! Honourable grasshopper you are the skill master in indoors cultivation, Kong Qiu say man who propagate palm indoor must grow palm indoor! Good luck from all at the happypalms team! 

I am not optimistic. But my bananas are going wild and the store bought papayas are going insane for just over a week since sprouting. Did I mention the bananas are going insane? I've had 2 I've reported twice already. I'm giving up and buying a ton of coir and perlite and putting them all in 5 gallon buckets. Time to buy more grow lights now that it's cooling off. And my willow are rooting. 

[happypalms]

2 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I am not optimistic. But my bananas are going wild and the store bought papayas are going insane for just over a week since sprouting. Did I mention the bananas are going insane? I've had 2 I've reported twice already. I'm giving up and buying a ton of coir and perlite and putting them all in 5 gallon buckets. Time to buy more grow lights now that it's cooling off. And my willow are rooting. 

And I thought I was busy. But iam looking forward to seeing you in a deckchair with your banana smoothie made from home grown bananas, lying under your coconut palm basking in the sun!

[PalmsandLiszt]

Try to find ones where one of the eyes is slightly convex. Make sure water is warm enough; I'm not sure exactly what you're doing, but just standing a bucket of water on a heat pad is not going to be enough (water is hard to heat/high specific heat capacity). A small aquarium heater/stat (e.g. 50w) or waterproof soil-heating cable in the bucket would do the job. I'd give it a couple of months at least, unless there are obvious signs of decay/bad smells.
I tried this a long time ago and it took several coconuts before I got one to strike.

[JohnAndSancho]

10 minutes ago, PalmsandLiszt said:

Try to find ones where one of the eyes is slightly convex. Make sure water is warm enough; I'm not sure exactly what you're doing, but just standing a bucket of water on a heat pad is not going to be enough (water is hard to heat/high specific heat capacity). A small aquarium heater/stat (e.g. 50w) or waterproof soil-heating cable in the bucket would do the job. I'd give it a couple of months at least, unless there are obvious signs of decay/bad smells.
I tried this a long time ago and it took several coconuts before I got one to strike.

Eh it was a gimmick idea. I know it'll never live here. Best case scenario I end up like @ZPalms and growing it in a trashcan before it dies. 

23 minutes ago, happypalms said:

And I thought I was busy. But iam looking forward to seeing you in a deckchair with your banana smoothie made from home grown bananas, lying under your coconut palm basking in the sun!

Check my YouTube. I have been pretty busy lately, between that and cleaning out the house via eBay. Unfortunately the latter has gone slower than I'd like, but the economy is crap and most of it is niche products. I started cleaning out my mom's bathroom cabinets and I sold 5 bottles of old shampoo for $150. Some of this stuff goes for like $300 a bottle averaging 3 or 4 sales a month. We're splitting the money from her stuff. Nobody wants my stuff 😂

[SeanK]

Big Orange yesterday; Mexican guy with full-husk cocos. He was making drinks. These were smallish and green so I don't know if one would germinate.