AN INSIGHT INTO DWARF Vs TALL HYBRID COCONUT PLANTATION AND WAYS FOR MORE YIELD

Thank you Pal…

There are lot of Tall coconut varieties .To tell few …East coast tall, West coast tall, Andaman Tall, laccadive tall , Tiptur tall, Indonesian Tall , carribean tall etc

There are also many Dwarf coconut varieties like Malasian orange dwarf, Malaysian green dwarf , malaysian yellow dwarf , srilankan dwarf , and Indian dwarf called Chowghat orange dwarf …

All the varieties in Tall and Dwarf are called coconut and all these types invariably carry same chromosome number ( 2n=32 )

see how many variations withing this same chromosome number 2n=32

The cross breeding done between all these tall and dwarf coconut varieties on the choice of permutation and combinations will give rise hundreds of hybrid coconut plants , the yield of all these hybrid coconuts will not be same …do you agree with me ?

So the right selection of Mother palm and male parent determine the yielding character of particular hybrid coconut …

Of course many people might not have exposure to all these types of coconut varieties and hybrids …so doubts and suspicions arise in their mind quite naturally and they may simply wonder and ask how this much yield could be possible …

To say truth I personally have seen a coconut hybrid D*T tree that was carrying 1203 fruits ,both mature and young ones …Also have seen many coconut tree remaining infertile for a decade or two after planting …

I can not recommend any particular company like Deejay as prolific bearer …Because the quality and character of a hybrid coconut is the result of kind and merit of the mother palms involved in crossing and the methods followed in doing crossing - Manual or Natural like wind 7 insect pollination …

If you want to test my proposition / Statement

You can select a high yielding dwarf coconut palm of the age not less than 12 years as female parent
And select good quality tall coconut with desirable character ( age being around 25-30 years ) as male parent

Fix a spadix ( inflorescence) in a mother palm ( dwarf ) and split it open a day before it is being opened on its natural course , remove all the male flowers and cover it with paper/polythene bag so as to avoid cross pollination…

Collect pollen grains from select male coconut ( tall parent ) the previous day evening and dust it over the emasculated female flowers the following morning between 4.0 A.M to 7.00 AM and again cover this flowers with poly/paper bag to avoid contamination …

After 12 months or when the mature nuts falls down from the mother palm , sow it in a separate nursery …It gives you D*T hybrid coconut seedlings…If you transplant this hybrid coconut seedlings in the field , you will see how this new hybrid is performing really well …

Because making people to believe in something that are new to them is like trying to push a mountain an inch away …