 Re: Double Stacked Cocos Palm
It's weird, very weird.
I read somewhere that in some places with certain palms what they do to transplant is just cut the bloody thing off and shove it in a hole and it grows new roots.
Another method was the artificially induce (like our pics) a new root system above ground by wiring peat moss etc to the trunk and wetting it continually. This brings a new roots system and then they cut the palm off just below and bury it in a hole ... wella, transplanted palm.
Now don't hold it to me what palms and where and the survival rate. Just saying what I've read however there's no real hard core facts on it.
One of my neighbors once built a 2m high retaining wall and buried the trunk of a cocos that deep. Bloody thing flourished and love it.
When we cut it down and ground it it had a new root system to grind. But that's all I can say, for the real evidence we would have to excavate the whole trunk out and see what happened.
There was no decay up the main stem either. |