Are these seeds still good for anything?

[qwertz]

At the end of October last year, I bought and sowed 3 Christmas palm seeds and one bottle palm seed. So far nothing has sprouted.  Today I took the seeds out of the pots and took a closer look at them.  

The first three photos are photos of bottle palm seed.  Is it my imagination or did something try to grow near the top end but it withered and became woody? In the third photo you can see that a hole at the bottom of the seed is partially unsealed and a gap has formed.

In the fourth photo is a Christmas palm seed. At the top I noticed a characteristic formation.

The Christmas palm seed in the fifth photo looks at the top different than the seed in the fourth photo.

The remaining photos show the third Christmas Palm seed. This seed, compared to the two previously shown Christmas palm seeds, does not have a conical tip. When I touched it, the hairy shell broke and I partially chipped it off.

 

[Fusca]

  On 4/6/2024 at 7:58 PM, qwertz said:

At the end of October last year, I bought and sowed 3 Christmas palm seeds and one bottle palm seed. So far nothing has sprouted.  Today I took the seeds out of the pots and took a closer look at them. 

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Many palm seeds have a long shelf life but I'm pretty sure these species do not.  If the seeds were fresh when you got them chances that they are still good are fair.  But since you probably didn't collect the seeds yourself and had them shipped to you by someone who might have had them for awhile chances are not good.  I personally sowed several bottle palm seeds about the same time as you and only got one to germinate.  I think it took about 2-3 months but not a good success rate.  It certainly won't hurt to keep trying but I wouldn't be too optimistic.  Did you get them from RPS?

[qwertz]

In photos I found online, I noticed that in the Christmas palm seed, the shoot and root grow from the end of the seed opposite to the end which I considered the top end.

 

  On 4/6/2024 at 10:08 PM, Fusca said:

Did you get them from RPS?

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I bought them in Polish online stores. Perhaps these stores had purchased them from RPS many months earlier.

[qwertz]

In the photo from Palmpedia, it seems that in the case of bottle palm seeds, the shoot and roots also grow from one hole.

In the case of my bottle palm seed, if you can see through the gap that there is an empty space inside, does this mean that nothing will grow from it?

Edited April 8, 2024 by qwertz

[qwertz]

The Adonidia merrillii seeds I photographed are much smaller than those in the photo below found on the web.

[PalmsandLiszt]

Why buy one or three seeds of common and very inexpensive species? You will greatly increase your chances of success by buying 10 or 20 or 100 of each from a reputable supplier like RPS, which I don't suppose will charge much to ship to Poland. Resellers on places like eBay will very often send out old, dud seeds, and rip you off into the bargain.

The seeds you have look very old and dry, so I'd not hold out much hope for them.

[SeanK]

  On 9/17/2024 at 10:00 AM, PalmsandLiszt said:

Why buy one or three seeds of common and very inexpensive species? You will greatly increase your chances of success by buying 10 or 20 or 100 of each from a reputable supplier like RPS, which I don't suppose will charge much to ship to Poland. Resellers on places like eBay will very often send out old, dud seeds, and rip you off into the bargain.

The seeds you have look very old and dry, so I'd not hold out much hope for them.

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I was in Miami a couple summers back and saw a litter of Christmas palms next to the mama. I should have just kidnapped a couple and potted them up for free.