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The Date Farmer is the grower side of Desert Sun Dates. Same farm, same palms: our orchard in Sky Valley, California, in the Coachella Valley, planted since 2016. If you want to grow dates rather than eat them, this is where to start: true-to-variety female offshoots, hands-on help from a working grower, and every guide we’ve written.
Female date palm offshoots
Zahidi offshoots each season, plus a small yearly allotment of Medjool by waitlist. Cut from our own fruiting females, so you know exactly what it will grow.
Date palm consulting
A palm that won’t fruit, a male or female question, an orchard you’re planning. Help by phone or video, or a visit to your property.
Free grower guides
Offshoots, planting, pollination, pruning, feeding, pests: everything we’ve learned, tested on our own ground.
Why buy a palm from a working date farm
- True to variety, every time. An offshoot is a genetic copy of its mother. Ours come from females we’ve hand-pollinated and harvested for years, so a Zahidi offshoot grows Zahidi and a Medjool offshoot grows Medjool.
- Female, guaranteed. A date palm grown from a seed has roughly even odds of being male and never fruiting, and if it’s female it won’t match the fruit it came from. Be careful with any “Medjool palm” grown from a Medjool seed: it isn’t one. More in Male vs. Female Date Palm.
- Clean ground. Our grove sits on its own with no neighboring farms, is fed with compost and never sprayed. You’re getting a palm from an orchard we watch every week.
- Advice from someone who does the work. We pollinate, thin, bag, pick and pack every bunch ourselves. The guides on this site are written from that.
Start with the guides
- How to remove a date palm offshoot
- How to plant a date palm offshoot
- Date palm care calendar, month by month
- How dates are pollinated by hand
- Why isn’t my date palm fruiting?
- Fertilizing date palms with compost
- Pruning and dethorning
- South American palm weevil
- The tools we use in the grove
Quick Answers
Do you sell date palm offshoots? Yes: female Zahidi offshoots each season and a limited number of Medjool by waitlist. Details here.
Do you ship palms? No. Offshoots are heavy and fresh-cut ones dry out fast, so they’re picked up at the farm by appointment, dug the same day.
Can you help with a palm I already have? Yes. See date palm consulting.
Send the farmer a message
Tell us what you need and we’ll get back to you within a day or two.
Talk to the farmer. Call or text (760) 501-1845. And if you’d like to taste what these palms grow first: Shop Medjool → · Golden Zahidi