Coconut Rescue

[Mooseherder]

I was mowing by the canal this morning and noticed there was a Coconut that had started to sprout as it had been floating around in the canal.
We put the coconuts that fall from the tree out back in the shade and get about a third of them that grow like this one did.  When we got flooded out last year they had floated all over the neighborhood and the canal.  One landed by my neighbors pond and is still there.  This one has been in the water for a few months.  It is the first time I've seen anything like this.  Here's a picture of the one I had in the shade.  I kicked it into the canal after we retrieved the wet one. ;D



Then the one in the water and now in a bucket.
It will make the journey to Maine this summer.
I have a friend who wants one for his sun room.





I will post video of the rescue later.  It is uploading.

[Mooseherder]

Here's my SIL Kevin fishing it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHV-WlG6dqE&feature=youtube

[Paul_H]

I kept expecting the alligator to attack 

[Mooseherder]

The alligators will probably have some of their kin visiting us again in the future.
The last 2 were taken away by the friendly trappers.
They'll be back because our ponds and this canal are at the end of this local water ecosystem.

[Cedarman]

I kept expecting the alligator to attack 

If that gator happened to attack and defensive measures had to be taken, it wouldn't bother me in the least if some of it showed up at the pig roast.  The last I had there tasted real good. ;D ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

Heh, 4 years in the black water rivers and we never had a gator attack.  : ;D

Just walk on in there and gather them seeds.  ;D

[Roxie]

That is very interesting.  I've never seen a just sprouted coconut.  Kevin sure has some patience.   

[SwampDonkey]

Never seen one sprouted neither. I guess that's why they can float for months on the open sea, land on an island beach and take root. I'm not sure if that's how it's done, but how else did tiny islands get palm trees? ;D Now, I've never seen any on PEI. Hmm :D

[Lud]

SD,  you've never seen a coconut sprouting???   Where you live???   Hah,  and you call yourself a forester!! :D :D :D :D ;D ;D 8)

[Jeff]

This somehow reminds me of the movie ice age and the prehistoric squirrel with the acorn. :D

[Warbird]

I kept expecting the alligator to attack 

That's what I was thinking!    Pretty cool, Mooseherder.

[Ianab]

Never seen one sprouted neither. I guess that's why they can float for months on the open sea, land on an island beach and take root. I'm not sure if that's how it's done, but how else did tiny islands get palm trees? ;D Now, I've never seen any on PEI. Hmm :D

Yup, that's pretty much how coconuts work. They sprout like that in the water, and hopefully get washed up around the high tide mark on some beach. If the locals want another coconut tree, they walk along the beach and find one like Mooseherder's sprout, and just plant it.

Hours of careful scientific observation went into this observation...  ;)

[SwampDonkey]

That's the kind of science worth observing. :D :D

[WDH]

"Put The Lime In The Coconut"

Put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up
You put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up
You put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up
You put the lime in the coconut and call the doctor woke him up
I said Doctor! Is there nothing I can take
I said Doctor! To relieve this bellyache
I said Doctor! Is there nothing I can take
I said Doctor! To relieve this bellyache

:D :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I remember this song.