Genau das, was ich im Titel des Beitrags gesagt habe: Ich lebe in einer Wüstenstadt und habe diese Kokosnuss für einige Anlässe dekorieren lassen. Nicht dekoriert Ich hatte diese Kokosnuss mit Alufolie bedeckt, die in meinem Küchenschrank herumlag. Eines Tages, als ich es aufräumte, stellte ich fest, dass daraus tatsächlich ein kleiner Schössling einer Kokospalme geworden war, was mich wirklich begeisterte. Ich möchte das wirklich vermehren oder am Leben erhalten und es dann in meine Heimatstadt in Indien bringen, wo es viele Kokospalmen gibt. Hat jemand eine Idee, was die beste Lösung sein könnte, um es entweder in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten anzubauen oder nicht in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten, in der Wüstenstadt, oder es für die nächsten paar Monate am Leben zu erhalten, bevor ich nach Indien reise?
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There are lots of tutorials on growing coconuts on YouTube. That is the most help I can give because I do not have much experience in growing coconuts.
You can eat it. Esponga de coco or coconut sponge is when the interior (not the meat) turns into a firm sponge like mass. It tastes like coconut milk and is firm and kinda crunchy
If you want to grow it,Keep it moist in soil(Not sand)
Edit-Correcting a wrong fact
Put it in a pot with some soil.
ETA but first see if you are allowed to bring plant matter from UAE to India… Some customs don’t allow that.
Hey, you were bang on. I just checked the rules and it seems like I’ll have to put it under quarantine and take explicit import clearance before I can carry a coconut sapling into India. Looks like I’m on a mission to save this sapling for as long as I can and try propagating it in the UAE.
Become the first coconut farmer on Arrakis
I don’t have any advice (sorry) but I had to stop and say how exciting! I hope you succeed either way – please post an update 💚
Eat it. Sprouted coconuts are a delicacy
Alas I am also a north westerner (no coconuts). But I’ll say from my growing stuff experience: put it in dirt, give it water when it wilts, give it the amount of sun that doesn’t make the leaf change any color except that rich green, and like… try to ignore it (bahaha;)
Edit: that leaf looks like it wants sun and dirt and a very little bit of moisture.
Can’t tell you exactly why I think that but I’ll try… the yellow on the stalk and tips to me speaks of dehydration, the orange on the thick part I think means a mineral deficiency (needs dirt), and umm the new born leaves are a deep green ready to bathed in sun.
With no knowledge experience or you tube, I’d probably make sure the sprigs face upright (plants grow against gravity, vines grow toward something that can help them grow against gravity), make sure the butt of the coconut (wherever the white roots pop out) are covered in like …. 1.6 cm of moist soil, and then leave like a third of that fat ass coconut just chillen in the air. Put it in the sun, like don’t abuse it (it’s a baby) but like 8ish hrs of mostly direct sun
Eventually cover the whole nut in dirt
I don’t think you can bring live plants in a consumer airplane. You’d have to declare them, and chances are, you will have to leave it in the airport. Anything live, like plants and animals, need declarations.
Plant it in a big pot. Cover the whole nut in dirt. Add wood ash and sea salt.
Please don’t transport plants from one country to another. That is how plant diseases spread, and it can destroy areas of farming. I am from Florida, and because of greening being brought from abroad, now many kinds of citrus basically can’t be profitably grown in Florida anymore.
Here’s mine 🙂
UAE too. Though I sprouted this on purpose. I gave up on it and put it in a discard planter. Then one day I saw this.
https://preview.redd.it/z94tqfpt35eg1.png?width=1260&format=png&auto=webp&s=bf21f438027b690e10ad03fa242d67b523779255
The quarantine process will likely kill the plant. And coconut palms already grow like weeds here. It would be like adding another grain of sand to the desert. It would hardly be worth the effort. If you have space there, try growing it in a large container. It will eventually get too large, but hopefully the novelty has worn off by then 🙂
Put it in a pot and leave it as a gift to a neighbor when you return home.
Pan de coco! I love them.
Or you can put it in some sand and grow it.
Use a large burlap sack or large fabric pot. Mix up some coconut soil, and use drip irrigation to minimize water waste. Plant it somewhere in a couple years.
Eat the sponge like core. It’s yummy.
Pot it immediately and be careful in watering it with enough light.
Was this a whole coconut (with the green husk) or just the brown shell inside? What was the temperature? I would love to propogate a coconut palm
You will need to build an anachronistic desert oasis now
Plant it in a big pot
Start an oasis?
It’d be a fun experiment to try and nurture it into a tree but it’d be very difficult as coconut palms requires a stable tropical climate and high humidity to thrive.
Eat the fluffy white stuff inside – the water would have turned to this sweet ‘coconut cheese’ that’s actually quite tasty.
Will they allow you to bring it into India once it’s sprouted. I know a lot of countries have rules and regulations about what plants, roots, soil you can bring in.
I wonder if you can eat it… is this now one of those “sprouted” coconuts that’s supposed to be so delicious? 🤔 look on YouTube to see what I mean by that
Check laws, you may not be able to travel with this. They may make you toss it at an airport.