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Crazy looking date palm seedling

Rickybobby

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Hey everyone this dactylifera has seen both indoor lighting and full sun it is 1 years 8 months old in perfect health. Just thought I’d share. Eating dates and sowing them growing them is what started the madness for me and got me into starting palms from seeds 

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Seems to be trying to stay strap leafed.  Interesting!

Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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15 hours ago, PlantDad said:

It looks so healthy. How easy is it to grow dates from store bought dates?

Buy the dates. Eat them clean the seeds very very good no fruit left. Soak in water for a day.  Put in baggy with some medium. Put on heat mat say around 90-95 degrees and in a week or two you will have life. Very easy 

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I'd add to @Rickybobby's post that store-bought dates are often the first palm seeds budding palm growers germinate due to the easy access to seeds and their easy germination and care. 

Among grocery store dates, the Medjool dates tend to make better plants here and in moist climates as Deglet Noor are a lot less moisture/humidity tolerant.  I haven't seen them in supermarkets, but Zahidi is supposed to be the holy grail of date palms for Florida.

For a quick rundown of popular date cultivars in the American SW: https://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/ho/2002/sp0212.pdf

Also note that it is very rare (or impossible) to get a "true-to-type" palm from seed.  Commercial production is from suckers or air layering to ensure fruit quality.  There is a good chance the resulting palm from seed will be more of the feral and heavily clustering type.

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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On ‎1‎/‎22‎/‎2020 at 8:09 PM, Rickybobby said:

Buy the dates. Eat them clean the seeds very very good no fruit left. Soak in water for a day.  Put in baggy with some medium. Put on heat mat say around 90-95 degrees and in a week or two you will have life. Very easy 

For mine, leaving the bag on top of a cabinet in my room during May (70-75 degrees) was enough to make it sprout within a week.

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