# Do palm trees grow from seeds? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 17, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-palm-trees-grow-from-seeds/823105 "2018-10-17T20:11:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-palm-trees-grow-from-seeds/823105/41 "2018-10-18T20:50:16Z")
I’m not the one to ask. My knowledge on the subject comes from a single hour-long colloquium I attended, a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-palm-trees-grow-from-seeds/823105/42 "2018-10-18T21:48:54Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Chestnuts are true nuts. You’re right. I stand corrected on that one. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-palm-trees-grow-from-seeds/823105/43 "2018-10-18T22:17:35Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What type of filter used the teaspoon of activated charcoal? A [Vortex](https://www.amazon.com/Vortex-XL-Diatom-Filter/dp/B0002602T6/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8). The filter medium is Diatomaceous Earth, but the charcoal acts as a chemical and super-fines filter. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-palm-trees-grow-from-seeds/823105/44 "2018-10-18T22:59:39Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > A [Vortex](https://www.amazon.com/Vortex-XL-Diatom-Filter/dp/B0002602T6/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8). > > The filter medium is Diatomaceous Earth, but the charcoal acts as a chemical and super-fines filter. I wanted one of those so badly about 1970, but couldn’t afford it with a paper route. A few years ago, one was in an aquarium that I bought at a thrift shop. The motor packed it in, I replaced it, it packed in, and I run it with an external pump. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-palm-trees-grow-from-seeds/823105/45 "2018-10-19T01:55:49Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I wanted one of those so badly about 1970, but couldn’t afford it with a paper route. A few years ago, one was in an aquarium that I bought at a thrift shop. The motor packed it in, I replaced it, it packed in, and I run it with an external pump. I used mine as a manual cleaner, with a wand (my under gravel filters were the main filter). I would prime the filter (always a task), suck up a bunch of DE, and then suck up the charcoal. The filter would make the water like crystal. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-palm-trees-grow-from-seeds/823105/47 "2018-10-22T23:36:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > We have five baby palm trees that just popped up in our side yard. > > [snip] > > Is that where palm trees come from? Well, you see Ricky, when a boy palm tree _really_ likes a girl palm tree… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-palm-trees-grow-from-seeds/823105/48 "2018-10-23T07:58:24Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Is there any use at all for that part? [Whole Foods sells that food whole](https://www.instacart.com/whole-foods/products/16346088-green-coconut-in-husk-each) (probably at a high premium over the dehusked ones.) Coir fibre’s made from that bit (I think we’re talking about the same bit anyway), used for making doormats, brushes and suchlike, and the shorter fibres and the rest can be compressed for easy transport then used as a low nutrient compost base. Ets: not that you’d make that at home from your whole foods coconut, but on a larger scale that’s the major use. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-palm-trees-grow-from-seeds/823105.md?page=2)