How to Grow Coconuts
Coconuts are beautiful trees that love growing in hot and tropical climates. The coconut fruits are also an exotic fruit that can be enjoyed in a variety of ways. If you’re living in a place where it’s feasible to grow a coconut tree, here’s how to do it.
Materials
Bucket of water
Shovel
Watering can
A string of ********* lights
Watering spray with atomizer
Procedure
Choose a coconut. You cannot use brown ones in the grocery that have already been de-husked. Look for the whole coconut with its tan-brown husk intact. Get one with a bright green skin that is not marred by rotting or mold. Shake the coconut to ensure that there is juice inside it. Those that fell from trees are the best to plant.
growing coconuts
Soak the coconut in a bucket of water for two to three days.
Plant the coconut where it will receive full sunlight. The soil should be a mixture of soil and sand (50-50), and should be well drained.
If you’re planting in a pot, make sure that it is big and deep enough so that it can accommodate 2/3 of the coconut, with 1/3 sticking out on top.
If you’re planting in the ground, repeat this division: 2/3 of the coconut inside the ground, 1/3 sticking out.
Plant the coconut with the pointy side sticking inside the ground. The pointy side is where it used to connect the coconut with the tree.
Regularly water the coconut to keep the soil most. Good drainage is important because with the regular watering, you don’t want the coconut to be drowned.
More important than the water is the soil temperature. The temperature must not drop below 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and must be maintained around 72 degrees Fahrenheit. One cheap way to maintain the temperature is by wrapping ********* lights around the pot. You wouldn’t plant a coconut outdoors unless you were in a tropical country, so you don’t have to do any extra step like this.
Once the coconut starts shooting up from the ground, start misting the sapling regularly. Coconuts love and need to be misted, to maintain the humidity that they love.
Once the coconut enters the cooler seasons, make the watering a little rarer, and pick up again once it becomes warmer again.
* If you want to make an appetizer made from coconut, read how to make coconut shrimp.