Veitchia arecina seeding

[JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA]

Here is a picture of some seed I got from a friends Veitchia arecina in Fountain Valley, CA. This is the third time it flowered before it got these nice seeds. I will keep you guys posted if I get any to work.

[JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA]

[bgl]

Jeff,

You should see good (and quick) results. Veitchia seeds self-germinate easily, so given a bit of attention it would not be unusual to see close to 100% germination.

Bo-Göran

[migacebo]

Two words, very easy

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[epicure3]

Wow, very cool. I have a Veitchia about to flower right now. Not sure it will produce anything viable on the first go around, but we'll see. Nice looking fruit. Kind of has that Adonidia look about it.

[JD in the OC]

Jeff,

Hit it with some Wodyetia pollen... who knows..

[JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA]

Justen send me some out. I will try it.

[MikeL]

Jeff,

You should see good (and quick) results. Veitchia seeds self-germinate easily, so given a bit of attention it would not be unusual to see close to 100% germination.

Bo-Göran

Here's what happened when I decided to let Veitchia arecina fruit just drop into the mulch in my garden. I guess they do germinate easily, at least in Hawaii. Anyone need a few hundred Veitchia seedlings? Just drop by with a shovel.

Mike

[bgl]

Now if they would only stay that size that'd be a great ground cover!

[JD in the OC]

I could if you want Jeff. Let me know when next inflor is at anthesis...

[epicure3]

Here's a show of one of mine that is just beginning to flower. the first time, so I'm pretty excitied about the whole deal.

[JD in the OC]

On 8/31/2009 at 12:46 AM, JD in the OC said:

Jeff,

 

Hit it with some Wodyetia pollen... who knows..

16 years later i have successfully made this cross through manual cross pollination here in South Florida. (Veitchia being the seed parent)

Veitchia arecina x Wodyetia bifurcata 

 

Apparently these already exist in Miami, Florida where nearly all seeding palms Are open pollinated. I found this one at a nursery a couple months ago that i suspect is the same hybrid made accidentally by nature.

 

[Rubberboots]

@JD in the OC please feel free to donate me some up north in Bakersfield,CA for further research 🤔🥴🤪

[Butch]

12 hours ago, JD in the OC said:

16 years later i have successfully made this cross through manual cross pollination here in South Florida. (Veitchia being the seed parent)

Veitchia arecina x Wodyetia bifurcata 

 

Apparently these already exist in Miami, Florida where nearly all seeding palms Are open pollinated. I found this one at a nursery a couple months ago that i suspect is the same hybrid made accidentally by nature.

 

I have posted this before, but I too, got an "accidentally by nature" one of these beauties... Unfortunately it didn't survive the transplant... The mother plant was the Wodyetia on the left in the 3rd pic... The pollinating  Veitchia was around the back of the house..

Butch

 

[JD in the OC]

2 hours ago, Butch said:

I have posted this before, but I too, got an "accidentally by nature" one of these beauties... Unfortunately it didn't survive the transplant... The mother plant was the Wodyetia on the left in the 3rd pic... The pollinating  Veitchia was around the back of the house..

Butch

 

Dude!  That thing is legit!  Very cool fronds as a youngster.  Too bad it didn't transplant..

Mine are extremely fast growing so far. Yours looks like it shot past it's other pure blood siblings!  

It basically looks like a veitchia with extremely wide, blunt leaflets.  Love it!

JD

[Butch]

2 hours ago, JD in the OC said:

Dude!  That thing is legit!  Very cool fronds as a youngster.  Too bad it didn't transplant..

Mine are extremely fast growing so far. Yours looks like it shot past it's other pure blood siblings!  

It basically looks like a veitchia with extremely wide, blunt leaflets.  Love it!

JD

Thanks.. It was a beautiful palm… It is in a 24” pot in the pic… I should have transplanted it sooner, because all of it’s roots were tangled with the mother palms roots… You are right about them being rockets…. Those are its siblings… After it died, a hummingbird built a nest in it, and I had to look at it’s poor dead body until the baby birds hatched and flew away.. I have pics of the baby hummingbirds though.😉….

Butch

[JohnAndSancho]

18 hours ago, JD in the OC said:

16 years later i have successfully made this cross through manual cross pollination here in South Florida. (Veitchia being the seed parent)

Veitchia arecina x Wodyetia bifurcata 

 

Apparently these already exist in Miami, Florida where nearly all seeding palms Are open pollinated. I found this one at a nursery a couple months ago that i suspect is the same hybrid made accidentally by nature.

 

Dope! 

[JD in the OC]

3 hours ago, Butch said:

Thanks.. It was a beautiful palm… It is in a 24” pot in the pic… I should have transplanted it sooner, because all of it’s roots were tangled with the mother palms roots… You are right about them being rockets…. Those are its siblings… After it died, a hummingbird built a nest in it, and I had to look at it’s poor dead body until the baby birds hatched and flew away.. I have pics of the baby hummingbirds though.😉….

Butch

No way!  Those are its siblings? 😳 When i first saw your Pic that thought crossed my mind but then i thought..."There's no way!"

That's prob the fastest hybrid palm I've ever seen!  

The small one in my first picture went from sewn seed to 1 gallon in 4 months! 🔥

I think the seed germinated in like 2 weeks.

JD

 

[JohnAndSancho]

24 minutes ago, JD in the OC said:

No way!  Those are its siblings? 😳 When i first saw your Pic that thought crossed my mind but then i thought..."There's no way!"

That's prob the fastest hybrid palm I've ever seen!  

The small one in my first picture went from sewn seed to 1 gallon in 4 months! 🔥

I think the seed germinated in like 2 weeks.

JD

 

👀👀👀👀 Holy poop on a stick! 

We'll just add this to the list of things I'd love to have that are wildly impractical here. Can't handle the winters and would be too tall to bring indoors in 2-3 summers. 

[JD in the OC]

4 hours ago, Butch said:

Thanks.. It was a beautiful palm… It is in a 24” pot in the pic… I should have transplanted it sooner, because all of it’s roots were tangled with the mother palms roots… You are right about them being rockets…. Those are its siblings… After it died, a hummingbird built a nest in it, and I had to look at it’s poor dead body until the baby birds hatched and flew away.. I have pics of the baby hummingbirds though.😉….

Butch

Butch

I just realized your first post above says the hybrid seedling popped up under your Wodyetia., with Veitchia as the pollen donor. Is that correct? So it that would make it the more well-known Foxy Lady?  

Whereas, my palm has a Veitchia mother and Wodyetia is the pollen donor. So a reverse Foxy Lady.  
 

JD

[Butch]

1 hour ago, JD in the OC said:

Butch

I just realized your first post above says the hybrid seedling popped up under your Wodyetia., with Veitchia as the pollen donor. Is that correct? So it that would make it the more well-known Foxy Lady?  

Whereas, my palm has a Veitchia mother and Wodyetia is the pollen donor. So a reverse Foxy Lady.  
 

JD

Yep, my bad… I thought you guys were talking the other way…

Butch

[JD in the OC]

No worries Butch.  I just assumed you were talking the same cross. . till i re-read your reply.  Foxy Lady hybrids are always exciting to see pop up in the garden! 😊

I compared mine with a regular Veitchia.. 

Veitchia (mom) x Wodyetia (dad) on the LEFT, pure Veitchia arecina on the RIGHT. 

[JD in the OC]

Just discovered these in my batch of Lady Fox Hybrids! After talking with @Josh-O this reverse cross seems to be less attractive as an adult than the famous Foxy Lady... but maybe some stripes will help  😇

[Hu Palmeras]

On 30/8/2009 at 20:19, migacebo said:

Dos palabras, muy fácil.

 

Catorce meses en imágenes:

 

 

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Buena suerte

Very cool my Friend

[Hu Palmeras]

El 31/8/2009 a las 17:53, MikeL dijo:

 

 

Esto es lo que pasó cuando decidí dejar que los frutos de Veitchia arecina se cayeran en el mantillo de mi jardín. Supongo que germinan fácilmente, al menos en Hawái. ¿Alguien necesita cientos de plántulas de Veitchia? Simplemente vengan con una pala.

 

Micro

Tienes unas palmeras preciosas, amigo. ¡Felicidades!