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Macrozamia Macdonnellii


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Good luck finding this one - none to be had even in Australia .

Old Beach ,Hobart
Tasmania ,Australia. 42 " south
Cool Maritime climate

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Im surprised RPS still has seed. I thought they would have sold out faster. They must have got a lot of them. They should be easy to grow, so hopefully there is a lot around in the next few years.

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I looked for a while to try and find plants and no one had anything to offer. After a while I found one plant at $1000 inch for a 4" plant. So when seed comes up for $65 a seed I jumped on what I could afford to get. I have a feeling most of the seed bought wont be offered as seedlings. I know im holding on to what I grow until I retire in 20years.

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On xrays you can see the embryo let me try and post some of the xrays of 10 mac seeds from Toby 8 look good, one either bad or very immature and one has a strange are I have no idea what it is

With revoluta seeds that I can xray and cut the xray maybe a good tool to check viability and when it is time to plant.......

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On xrays you can see the embryo let me try and post some of the xrays of 10 mac seeds from Toby 8 look good, one either bad or very immature and one has a strange are I have no idea what it is

With revoluta seeds that I can xray and cut the xray maybe a good tool to check viability and when it is time to plant.......

Hi Mike

Could you show us pics of xrays ?

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Sorry for the delay computer issues and place the pics under discussion board,, seeds are changing I am not sure if the changes are good a or bad

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Sorry for the delay computer issues and place the pics under discussion board,, seeds are changing I am not sure if the changes are good a or bad

Hi Mike

What do you mean by 'changing' ?

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On the X-rays you could see a dark tube earlier in the

November film the tubes have filled

The first seed has sprouted this week

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Update started to warm these seeds up and push germination so far #1 and #5 have sprouted (top row first and last)

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Hello,

I do have 5 macdonnellii of 10 seeds germinated.

First is making leave. 4 do have root but no leaves until now.

Greetings from Germany

Oliver

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Old Macdonnellii had a palm.

In my post I sometimes express "my" opinion. Warning, it may differ from "your" opinion. If so, please do not feel insulted, just state your own if you wish. Any data in this post is provided 'as is' and in no event shall I be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, damages resulting from accuracy or lack thereof, insult, or any other damages

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If you want to go broke and end up divorced then start collecting cycads!

Imagine spending $650 on 10 seeds and your wife finds out. :floor:

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Final results on the X-rays I have had some macrozamia a get stuck in seeds so I capped the last three that had not sproutedpost-4156-0-53710900-1391975216_thumb.jppost-4156-0-13589700-1391975253_thumb.jppost-4156-0-13589700-1391975253_thumb.jp

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Which were the original seeds x rayd that did not seem to have a developed embryo?! Pretty cool! Maybe they need to go in for another scan to see if they are just slower developing or if its a no go

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These were soaked about once every 3-4 weeks in water dried for a day at about 50 % humidity and the kept in plastic bags with nothing the first 5 germinated . Then thet were moved to potting mix pretty dry in baggies and kept at about 80 degrees

The last seeds are bagk in the bag but the shoot appears not to be viablepost-4156-0-95803300-1391984302_thumb.jp

Here is the next group (don't tell my wife). Most of these need some time before planting and seemed pretty dried out

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