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10 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

You may ask :huh: why I am posting this monthly update (of a kind of snail race :asleep:). It is meant for all (?) those PalmTalkers (e.g. @Kai, @Bananengeknl) who too have seedlings of this most rare (and in its habitat extinct :bemused:) species and would like to know :indifferent: if their very valuable seedlings are growing »normal« compared to my four (or 5) seedlings. :mellow:

If this continuing posting should not be necessary any more or of too limited interest I’ll quit this »germination« thread, because all my seeds have already germinated (or are rotten). :interesting:

I don't write to often but I appreciate your posts and updates, you're providing insteresting information about this genus like a research project with tons of valuable images (visual information always helps). So I would like to engourage you keeping with this ^_^

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On 1 November 2016 at 10:23:47 PM, Pal Meir said:

You may ask :huh: why I am posting this monthly update (of a kind of snail race :asleep:). It is meant for all (?) those PalmTalkers (e.g. @Kai, @Bananengeknl) who too have seedlings of this most rare (and in its habitat extinct :bemused:) species and would like to know :indifferent: if their very valuable seedlings are growing »normal« compared to my four (or 5) seedlings. :mellow:

If this continuing posting should not be necessary any more or of too limited interest I’ll quit this »germination« thread, because all my seeds have already germinated (or are rotten). :interesting:

Pal, please don't even think about not posting ...although I don't have this one ( not just yet) I am very interested to read and learn from your posts ...

please keep up the good work.:rolleyes:

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My seeds are still sleeping too, I understand they can take a long time to germinate so I still have hopes since I tested my seeds to see if they still sink when placed in water and they do.

Hawaii Island (Big Island), leeward coast, 19 degrees N. latitude, south Kona mauka at approx. 380m (1,250 ft.) and about 1.6 km (1-mile) upslope from ocean.

 

No record of a hurricane passing over this island (yet!).  

Summer maximum rainfall - variable averaging 900-1150mm (35-45") - Perfect drainage on black volcanic rocky soil.  

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40 minutes ago, Pal Meir said:

Close-up of the undead (or definitely living?) N°1608: :indifferent:

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And no breaking news, no happy events elsewhere in the L itapebiense world? :mellow:

No breaking news yet Pal. 2nd leaf on my seedling is very very slow and maybe 2 mm growth since my last update.

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24 minutes ago, Kai said:

No breaking news yet Pal. 2nd leaf on my seedling is very very slow and maybe 2 mm growth since my last update.

Yes, Kai, since November the growth (of all my palms) is sloooowing down. For comparison, the 2nd leaf of N°1604 is now growing only 2 mm in 3 days (22 mm since 2016-10-29). It’s really a snail race … :asleep:

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UIPI URRA !!!!!!:yay::yay::drool:.I 'm very happy today . After long 200 days , 8 cute babies.   The Caixeta turtle surpassed the Pal hare.  Happy to contribute to the preservation of such rare palm.58431c18deb98_Lytocaryumitapebiensis002.58431c5cc77f5_Lytocaryumitapebiensis004.58431c972b25e_Lytocaryumitapebiensis005.

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7 minutes ago, caixeta said:

UIPI URRA !!!!!!:yay::yay::drool:.I 'm very happy today . After long 200 days , 8 cute babies.   The Caixeta turtle surpassed the Pal hare.  Happy to contribute to the preservation of such rare palm.

Congratulations! That’s fantastic, realmente fantástico! :greenthumb::o

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Following a short history of my seedlings (or: A report from the snail race): :interesting:

When I gained a germination rate of 50% from 2016-04-20 to 2016-05-08 I decided one month after the first germination to experiment a little bit with my 4 (+1 from @Bananengeknl ) remaining seeds and exposed them to to direct sun, what resulted in the 6th germination on 2016-05-31, but the seedling died six days later. :(

In July I made a similar experiment on 2016-07-20. The result was that the seed from Bananengeknl (N°1607) and the 7th seed of the batch (N°1608) germinated the next day on 2016-07-21 :greenthumb:; a couple of days later the remaining two seeds showed rotten pores of the endocarp. :sick: (I guess that the direct sun might have been too hot. :indifferent:) The seedling N°1607 stopped growing ca 10 days after germination :crying:, the seedling N°1608 did not develop a deep radicle, so that I put it in a small nano-greenhouse. ^_^

The output of my 10 seed batch from 2016-03-29 is at present six healthy seedlings, i.e. 6/10. :)

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15 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

But I guess that the 2nd leaf of your N°1605 is much longer than this 3rd leaf of N°1601:

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Well... here is my sad excuse of a Lyto ita... At least there is some growth and no further browning of the first leaf...

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On 7.12.2016, 10:38:13, Kai said:

Well... here is my sad excuse of a Lyto ita... At least there is some growth and no further browning of the first leaf...

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Oh, that growth rate is even for a snail a bit too sloooow … :huh: The 3rd leaf of snail N°1601 has grown 1mm/day; cf. pic below. There is (or only: was?) something wrong with the roots. Do you water the seedling regularly? Don’t let the soil dry out. The mix dries very quickly.

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8 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

Oh, that growth rate is even for a snail a bit too sloooow … :huh: The 3rd leaf of snail N°1601 has grown 1mm/day; cf. pic below. There is (or only: was?) something wrong with the roots. Do you water the seedling regularly? Don’t let the soil dry out. The mix dries very quickly.

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Yes Pal, I am now watering it more frequently and it looks like it's picking up some pace. But I'm still holding my breath on this one...

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19 hours ago, caixeta said:

My only older baby is dying , I think it was too much water in the rainy summer.:(.

Oh, that is a really sad news! :crying:

Is that baby definitely dead? Or is there still any life in the meristem? If so, I would repot it in a much smaller pot and use a very fast draining soil mix.

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10 minutes ago, caixeta said:

The bad news. Give your opinion .5891ebbb32c0b_UNESP-P-ITAPEBIENSIS048.th

That looks pretty bad indeed...

In a final effort to save it maybe water it with a kelp based root comforting solution and put it somewhere around room temperature with low light conditions and who knows... 

I personally woud not repot it at this stage that woud probably take away its final spark (if it's still in there that is...)

Good luck!

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1 hour ago, caixeta said:

The bad news. Give your opinion .5891ebbb32c0b_UNESP-P-ITAPEBIENSIS048.th

Oh no! :sick: The roots are rotten and the meristem is dead! :violin::crying:

It is a typical Lytocaryum disease after soggy soil; happened to me many times in the past during winter with unsuited soil mixes.

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