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After reading all the horror stories about trying to keep one alive during the winter months, I stuck this seedling in the front window (with a nice view of the snow on the ground) and pretty much ignored it after that.
As it turns out ,it has performed the best out of all I have had in the house this winter!
-Steve
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Shoshone Idaho weather
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
I grew Coconut palms indoors And they did great until they got old at some point.I grew Coconut palms In florida when I lived there before and got great Coconuts.My indoor Coconut Palm did not make the best Coconuts But they were fine.
I had to wait 16 years for it to get fruit. Its been in a house for so long and It got very bad fruit. My dogs got into my coconuts
and started eating it. I had bad tasting coconuts knnn I hope your coconut palm stays healthy and lives long. I hope yours has good tasting fruit.
That is a nice sized Coconut palm knnn. Did you get it as a seedling or did you germinate it yourself? I have always wanted to try growing one. We don`t get any seedling Cocos nucifera here. So I`m wondering after I was at the supermarket yesterday and seen some whole coconuts .Bright idea I`m thinking I could just germinate my own? Have you or anyone else out there tried this?
John
That one came from e@bay with the husk still on for $1.00 + shipping, It rolled around all summer in the back of my pick-up till I noticed it had sprouted.
I never Have had any supermarket ones sprout ,( they are usually de-husked & dried), I've read it may be possible if you bag them up with some damp sawdust and leave them somewhere warm.
I think that indoor palms may be actually a good idea for a new sub-forum on here. Many of us enjoy growing palms/tropicals/subtropicals indoors as houseplants.
BTW, I am curious, how would one grow a coconut from seed?
desertdave- As far as germinating a coconut, just need heat & moisture, about 80-90f constant and positioning it on it's side is recommended, ( actually, any position would probably work)
If it has a viable embryo it should show life in 1-4 months.
Now it's official,
I can say this one has made it through the winter,
Debating the idea to put it outside this year, It has done so well inside it may stay put...until it touches the ceiling.
(Edit: 4/22 Have moved it to the greenhouse & re-linked photo)
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I would say it's up to you. That said, coconut palms are not cold hardy at all; I have heard of them dying at 35 F. (Anyone that knows biology, how can a plant freeze to death at above freezing temperatures?) On the good side, they love heat and humidity. From what I understand Kansas can be quite hot and humid in the summer. Here in Idaho I would not put them outside in the summer but I might consider it in Kansas or other more humid climate. Then again if you leave it inside it will get used to that light and you won't have to keep re-acclimatizing it to the outside in the summer and to the inside in the fall. Then again, I do put my desert palms outside during the summer...
knnn I hope your coconut palm stays healthy and lives long. I hope yours has good tasting fruit. 
That's a nice coconut palm. 
