Tiny seed advice, please

[Darold Petty]

Palm seeds are quite large and easily handled.  I would like advice about sowing and germination of really tiny seed.  The species is Luculia gratissima, and the seeds are about the size of a grain of table salt or the period at the end of this sentence .  How are these seeds handled and what sort of medium and container should I use?  I'm not sure even how to remove these seeds from the shipping envelope.   They seem to cling to the plastic film by static electricity or something.    Thanks 

[mangorunner]

For sowing, some people put tiny seeds in water in a hair color or traditional catsup/mustard bottle (plastic with a pointy tip).  Shake it up and squeeze/dribble out a small amount at a time across your medium.  Helps to keep the seeds from being deposited in a clump on the surface of your sowing medium.

[Darold Petty]

Thanks, Welcome to Palmtalk !  

[Really full garden]

I think mixing  tiny seeds with sand also helps to distribute the seeds  in a more predictable manner.

[Silas_Sancona]

Darold,

Agree w/ @mangorunner's advise ( < Welcome to the forum/ Palm Talk as well ) though you can use an eye dropper also, after mixing the seed in a small container w/ water. 

More than likely, these will be stimulated to germinate by light ( Believe many species in the Rubacieae = Gardenia/Coffee family are ) so you don't want to cover with much ( if any ) soil when you sow, much the same way cacti seed/ other seed that is the same size require. What i do for soil medium ( and what sized container i start stuff like this out in ) is prepare something light.. ie, leaning more mineral-based vs. heavy on organics and sift out a 1/2" layer of something like course sand -on top of the soil below it- for the seed to rest on. Wet it through/ allow excess moisture to run off before sowing ( and adding the top layer of gritter stuff ). I myself use something like black 3 x 3" square pots ( placed in 1 gal. zip lock baggies ) which makes it easy to monitor the seed. Also keeps me from accidentally over-soaking/ dislodging the seed/ other critters from getting to it.

Rest of the process should be straight forward: Keep warm/ in indirect light, etc..

Hope this helps. Update w/ results.