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Is this seed viable?( Seeds from Ebay)


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Hello 

Today I received my order from ebay!

I ordered

5 Bismarckia seeds,

3 Dwarf Areca catechu

1 Cocos nucifera

The cocos was small but healthy:)

However the problem is (beside they came with their fruits and pests :(  )

My Areca catechu 'dwarf' seeds don't look  good. They look much smaller than I remember. The seeds were rattling when I shook the fruit.

The good point is that the seed goes directly to bottom like a rock when I put it in water. 

How do you think about this seed?

Do they look viable?

 

 

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Plant them. Unless a seed husk is empty, you never know. Mother Nature gets to make the call. I have had excellent, fresh, professionally cleaned seed do zip, and had some of the nastiest looking things you ever saw sprout like radishes. Those don't look bad. 

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My guess is that your chances are better than 50/50.

But you never know until you plant them and wait ... forever.

 

Cheers Steve

It is not dead, it is just senescence.

   

 

 

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Plant them and wait, and don't give up, they take such a long time. The longer you wait before planting the less viable they get.

PalmTreeDude

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On 2017. 6. 21. 오후, kurt decker said:

Plant them. Unless a seed husk is empty, you never know. Mother Nature gets to make the call. I have had excellent, fresh, professionally cleaned seed do zip, and had some of the nastiest looking things you ever saw sprout like radishes. Those don't look bad. 

Thank you for kind reply,

You made me feel much better :)

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13 hours ago, PalmTreeDude said:

Plant them and wait, and don't give up, they take such a long time. The longer you wait before planting the less viable they get.

The order one looks quite good,

I moved on to soaking stage and tomorrow I will dip them in fungicide and put in baggie!

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22 hours ago, gtsteve said:

My guess is that your chances are better than 50/50.

But you never know until you plant them and wait ... forever.

 

Thank you, I will try my best

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