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Butia archeri (Diamantina) flowering for the 1st time

Gallop
Gallop
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My Butia archeri (Diamantina) is flowering for the the 1st time. I know 1st time flowering can be hit or miss. The 1st bract held on to 5 seed. I have a bract that just opened and two more bracts that aren’t ready. It will be interesting to see how many seed end up developing. I’m not anticipating many but just a few would be nice.

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Paul Gallop

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    Beautiful well grown B. archeri . Have you tried using the pollen which should be way more abundant than the seed to make a cross?

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    8 minutes ago, Jeff zone 8 N.C. said:

    Beautiful well grown B. archeri . Have you tried using the pollen which should be way more abundant than the seed to make a cross?

    Not yet, I collected some pollen but it wasn’t alot. I think I’ll pollinate the last bract to open with Syagrus rom pollen.  

    Paul Gallop

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    3 hours ago, Gallop said:

    My Butia archeri (Diamantina) is flowering for the the 1st time. I know 1st time flowering can be hit or miss. The 1st bract held on to 5 seed. I have a bract that just opened and two more bracts that aren’t ready. It will be interesting to see how many seed end up developing. I’m not anticipating many but just a few would be nice.

    How long have you had it?  Looks great!

    Jon Sunder

    Mine has flowered 5 times this season with no seed produced.  Going to try bagging it like I did with Butia paraguayensis and see what happens. 

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    15 hours ago, Fusca said:

    How long have you had it?  Looks great!

    I put these in the ground March 2021, they were small seedlings. Picture below is summer 2022, one year of growth in ground. 

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    Paul Gallop

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    12 hours ago, Gallop said:

    I put these in the ground March 2021, they were small seedlings. Picture below is summer 2022, one year of growth in ground. 

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    You have a green thumb Gallop! :greenthumb:

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    This is number 6 on the year for this Archeri...hoping for some seed to set this time.  These were grown from seed purchased from RPS in February 2016.

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    10 hours ago, Scott W said:

    This is number 6 on the year for this Archeri...hoping for some seed to set this time.  These were grown from seed purchased from RPS in February 2016.

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    Scott, are you going to bag this one? My male flowers were long gone by the time females were receptive. I had to collect pollen then pollinate the females when they were ready. There was very little pollen to work with. 

    Paul Gallop

    very cool, hoping someone brings seedlings of this guy to market!

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    12 hours ago, Gallop said:

    Scott, are you going to bag this one? My male flowers were long gone by the time females were receptive. I had to collect pollen then pollinate the females when they were ready. There was very little pollen to work with. 

    Yep, that's exactly what I'm doing, similar to what I did with my paraguayensis. 

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