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'Albino' Caryota Mitis seedlings

CayMan

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Has anyone had experience with Caryota Mitis seeds pushing out a white shoot? It seems like half of my seeds are doing this from this batch.  The same thing has happened before with a perfect white set of leaves growing but dying after a month or so.

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PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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I've had albino seedlings with other species of palm - 50% seems excessive but I've never germinated Caryota spp before. With no chlorophyll they are all doomed as soon as they exhaust their seeds.

Meg

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Hillizard Grand Master

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I wish at least some of the Caryota mitis seedlings I grew turned out variegated, let alone albino, which was what I expected when I got the seeds in 2014 from RPS. So far, they look normal (pix below)! I ended up getting a variegated plant from a Hawaiian grower.

Good luck with yours.  Perhaps some of them will produce leaves with enough chlorophyll to sustain them. 

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Is there any chance that they will develop chlorophyll in time, or is this just a recessive trait will doom the seedlings?   The white leaves are quite pretty, but I would rather not waste my time with them if the only outcome is certain death.  

 

 

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I've never had pure albino seedlings develop chlorophyll but I can't it is impossible. Hillizard, don't waste your money on seeds from variegated palms - maximum success rate is 2-4 per 1,000 seeds. Better to bite the bullet and spring for an actual variegated palm.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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On 5/1/2017, 3:22:31, PalmatierMeg said:

I've never had pure albino seedlings develop chlorophyll but I can't it is impossible. Hillizard, don't waste your money on seeds from variegated palms - maximum success rate is 2-4 per 1,000 seeds. Better to bite the bullet and spring for an actual variegated palm.

Those rates are almost as bad as Lottery odds! A couple of years ago I just sprang for a nicely variegated Caryota and a Rhapis. Now very happy with both. 

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Too bad plant biology doesn't allow you to feed the roots enough magic potion to give these a chance to grow.  A large albino palm would be creepy-cool.  

Are there any suckering palms that could sustain an albino twin like some bananas can?

"Ph'nglui mglw'napalma Funkthulhu R'Lincolnea wgah'palm fhtagn"
"In his house at Lincoln, dread Funkthulhu plants palm trees."

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