I looked its up and it said they were worth 1000$ at that size is this true? Thank you. They are about 11 feet. I’m using them for the nursery I’m starting.

I personally wouldn't pay more than 300-400 pesos (17-23 dollars) for a coconut palm, unless you were selling me something like a fiji dwarf.

I am also planning to start a nursery with Bactris mexicana (Haven't germinated yet) and I am also planning to get rarer Chamaedorea sp. and Sabal sp. seeds because in my area there's a demand for small and "elegant" like Chamaedorea seifrizii and Washingtonia robusta plants/palms. That's what people like.

Maypans are indeed valuable, but it's not something that I would buy, maybe a coconut variety collector would or a person who plans to make a grove of that specific type.

To start a nursery, I highly recommend buying seeds instead of palms, unless those palms are very cheap, for example; I found some well sized Astrocaryum mexicanum seedlings for 60 pesos (3 dollars) each and I could sell them for more than 200 pesos (11 dollars) because they're very rare in my area, and as they grow, the price keeps increasing.

Also recommend checking what's being demanded where you live (Ex; Small palms, big palms, cocoids, crownshafted, clumping palms, etc)

My Maypan came from Calusa Palms as a strap leaf seedling for $20. 

http://www.calusapalmsnursery.com/ProductList.html

It looks like they are out of Maypans and selling the MayJam for $25 now.  If they're worth $1,000 at 15G size, I could probably buy a new car if I sold mine.  

Unless you sell them to a collector, they won't fetch anymore than a typical coconut in a 15G pot - which judging by Craigslist is currently $75-$125.  

https://treasure.craigslist.org/grd/d/hobe-sound-coconut-palm-trees-15-gallon/7894568013.html

4 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

My Maypan came from Calusa Palms as a strap leaf seedling for $20. 

http://www.calusapalmsnursery.com/ProductList.html

It looks like they are out of Maypans and selling the MayJam for $25 now.  If they're worth $1,000 at 15G size, I could probably buy a new car if I sold mine.  

Unless you sell them to a collector, they won't fetch anymore than a typical coconut in a 15G pot - which judging by Craigslist is currently $75-$125.  

https://treasure.craigslist.org/grd/d/hobe-sound-coconut-palm-trees-15-gallon/7894568013.html

AGREE 

4 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

My Maypan came from Calusa Palms as a strap leaf seedling for $20. 

http://www.calusapalmsnursery.com/ProductList.html

It looks like they are out of Maypans and selling the MayJam for $25 now.  If they're worth $1,000 at 15G size, I could probably buy a new car if I sold mine.  

Unless you sell them to a collector, they won't fetch anymore than a typical coconut in a 15G pot - which judging by Craigslist is currently $75-$125.  

https://treasure.craigslist.org/grd/d/hobe-sound-coconut-palm-trees-15-gallon/7894568013.html

ChatGPT may have just had a bug in it.

2 hours ago, Maddox Gardening-youtube said:

ChatGPT may have just had a bug in it.

It has many bugs  . 

I fed it a map of my landscape and it told me that several Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus were iffy, but I should try a Cyrtostachys renda 🙄

2 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

It has many bugs  . 

I fed it a map of my landscape and it told me that several Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus were iffy, but I should try a Cyrtostachys renda 🙄

While you're at it may as well try Ceroxylon, Parajubaea and Juania!  😂

I bought a 20 foot maypan several months ago for around $600 installed a year ago from a guy named Steve Deagan in Pinellas County.  PM me if you want his phone number.  They started flowering a few months later.

On 12/26/2025 at 8:10 AM, Maddox Gardening-youtube said:

ChatGPT may have just had a bug in it.

I've never used ChatGPT but Grok tells me that people will pay $150 for my giant elephant ears. They're gonna sell for more than I paid for them, but not no damn $150. 

 

Something I learned a long time ago - the value of something is only whatever someone is willing to pay for it. If someone will pay you $1100 or whatever, that's cool. If they won't pay more than $100 then they're worth $100. Something else I've learned is that plants are a very niche hobby, and you might see it as some sort of rare exotic hybrid - most people will see it as a palm tree. We look at our seedlings as future 15 foot trunking behemoths, most people see blades of grass. It's all in the eye of the beholder. 

9 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I've never used ChatGPT but Grok tells me that people will pay $150 for my giant elephant ears. They're gonna sell for more than I paid for them, but not no damn $150. 

 

Something I learned a long time ago - the value of something is only whatever someone is willing to pay for it. If someone will pay you $1100 or whatever, that's cool. If they won't pay more than $100 then they're worth $100. Something else I've learned is that plants are a very niche hobby, and you might see it as some sort of rare exotic hybrid - most people will see it as a palm tree. We look at our seedlings as future 15 foot trunking behemoths, most people see blades of grass. It's all in the eye of the beholder. 

Something else I do is I go on eBay and Etsy to look at price history and sales. I'm gradually trying to transition into stuff that sells for ok money. Most of what I'm growing and will be selling is profit. I think 5 of my bananas were gifted. I've got seeds galore. Those are the long game. The banana pups, the papayas that I don't keep, these philodendrons - I'm still up in the air if I want to sell them as big plants or propogate them and wait - either way I have a very large pink princess and very large white princess (possibly a tri variegated) that I paid $5 apiece for. They're roughly 3 gallon size now, those are $125+ plants all day. The willows and crape myrtles, I literally cut branches and put them in dirt. I've got elephant ears that were gifted bulbs and I have some that I cut up a $25 Lowes plant and got 7 pups and they're exploding. I'll have to see what the market is when it warms up a little, plus I can say that I'm fully 100% organic and inspected and licensed by the state so that's gotta be worth a dollar or 2 in price. But (forgive the long post, I've taken my night night meds and I'm literally 2 credits away from a degree in economics) - the market is what the market is. If you're selling niche palms to (I say this with love) palm dorks on here you can kinda walk the line between premium prices and friend prices. If you're selling to like Joe Schmoe who doesn't know anything about plants or palms he's not gonna care that it's some super exotic variety of coconut that's harvested only by trained monkeys in an organic field and the monkeys are all fed caviar and it's grown in pure gold - they're gonna see a palm tree. Sort of like the same demographic that looks at a Porsche 935 is not gonna be the same demographic that looks at a Toyota Corolla. You've gotta find your audience and market sh.. stuff... That will sell to them. Etsy is another animal. Etsy is where people go for the rare exotic collector stuff. The Pappadeux crowd is not the Burger King crowd. 

I already know what's gonna sell locally and what's gonna sell on Etsy. I might get a couple surprises here and there but I know I don't want to ship anything 4 or 6 feet tall. Even if it sells for $300+, it's a headache and even using Pirateship it's pricey. 

Anyway, 12 pages to basically tell you that you should figure out your demographic before you make any big purchases. I hope you sell every one of those coconuts for $1k, but we've also got to be realistic. Maybe someone wants a yard full of them, there you go. Best of luck, I'm just saying to be smart about it. I'm pretty confident I can clean house in the spring and summer and start all over again with bulbs and pups while I wait on these seedlings to grow.

You also wanna look at what sells in your area. If everybody and their mama has the same thing, the market is saturated and you have to undercut everyone else on your prices. I spent a lot of time doing that in hotels - look at what my competitors rates were and undercut them by $10 a night. You can't compete with big box stores, you just can't. You're gonna lose your.... Backside. There's a lot of chess to it. 

10 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

 

 

Something I learned a long time ago - the value of something is only whatever someone is willing to pay for it. If someone will pay you $1100 or whatever, that's cool. If they won't pay more than $100 then they're worth $100. 

But it's a rochefoucauld!

28 minutes ago, N8ALLRIGHT said:

But it's a rochefoucauld!

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