Tropical Zone Gardening: Lowes has coconut trees, 0 by Braveheartsmom

Braveheartsmom wrote:
Are you going to buy one? I have recently bought a couple of minature coconuts - think they were called Samoan. You can pick the nuts from the ground although I haven't had a crop yet.

We have some friends from Micronesia who come over to harvest our coconuts while they are still young by climbing barefoot up the trees and throwing a rope around the branch (is that what it's called?) and lowering it to the ground. They then husk them right on the spot with machettes and we stick a straw in them to drink the milk. Its a great hit at a party! Plenty for everyone to take home.

Your Dad was quite right to keep the area Kapu...people have been killed by being hit on the head by a coconut. Most of our trees round here are kept cocnut-less because of the danger, but in some of the wilder parks there are signs posted to beware of falling coconuts....

I am sure Carol probably has them sprouting all over the place in her paradise....I have even seen them sprouting on the beach in sand....

This is one of my trees.