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Some high quality looking seeds from rps. Given the float test about 90 percent sinkers a good sign not necessarily meaning a 90 percent strike rate but a good sign nonetheless. And with the added bonus of coming to my little cultivation fingers in about 3 weeks straight past the customs department with no hold up for once by customs I won’t say to much I must have gotten lucky or they felt sorry for me after the debacle that they usually cause me. Some good varieties in there well worth growing only available at rps time will tell. 

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I have had hit and miss results with RPS, but going to give them another go in the new year with 3 or 4 different species. I might give your foam box method a go for some as I dont seem to be doing well with baggies. 

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6 minutes ago, RichardHemsley said:

I have had hit and miss results with RPS, but going to give them another go in the new year with 3 or 4 different species. I might give your foam box method a go for some as I dont seem to be doing well with baggies. 

I guess when you’re dealing with a living product, seed viability is difficult to gauge, customs have become the main problem holding up orders (even causing problems) for importers of seed. Fresh is best straight from the plant into germinating box’s the baggie method I don’t really like some have good luck with that technique. I only use it if I need high heat for certain varieties allogoptrea, butia sp. The box technique is an old fashioned favourite with a lot of old school growers, also having the benefit of the etoliation process. If iam given fresh seeds I will germinate it for sure, but old seed stands a better chance with the styrofoam box technique iam currently getting around 50 to 70 percent strike rate with some dud batches here and there, (with local seed batches) but that’s fine some seeds are difficult to germinate no matter what technique is used. Even fresh seed can be difficult some times just look at the animal kingdom not all survive plants are no different. Survival of the fittest they say.

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I don’t understand all the bashing against RPS. They are the only one (at least for me) who make available some species. 
I’m curious about D. Nodifera, I received some about 1 month ago from them, but still no sign of germination. Keep updated please 🙏 

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11 minutes ago, Nico971 said:

I don’t understand all the bashing against RPS. They are the only one (at least for me) who make available some species. 
I’m curious about D. Nodifera, I received some about 1 month ago from them, but still no sign of germination. Keep updated please 🙏 

Iam with you on that one they have some fantastic varieties as wholesale buyer I can credit a lot of my stock to rps and some rare stuff at that. It’s customs in Australia that are the problem. 

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3 minutes ago, happypalms said:

 

Iam with you on that one they have some fantastic varieties as wholesale buyer I can credit a lot of my stock to rps and some rare stuff at that. It’s customs in Australia that are the problem. 

Will do from my experience with dypsis they take around  1 to 3 months 

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1 hour ago, Nico971 said:

I don’t understand all the bashing against RPS. They are the only one (at least for me) who make available some species. 
I’m curious about D. Nodifera, I received some about 1 month ago from them, but still no sign of germination. Keep updated please 🙏 

Agree. I think you just need to make an order with the attitude that you’ll be happy if 20-50% on average germinate. There’s a significant time delay between where RPS picks or received the seeds to when the customer receives so there will be a percentage of non viable seed. It can be costly to purchase a bunch of seeds and have most not sprout but there’s just so much work that must go on behind the scenes to provide the seeds to market. I definitely appreciate RPS. 

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I received an order here in Florida about 5 weeks after it was placed and so far 2 Chrysalidocarpus and 1 Dypsis species have begun sprouting in a matter of a few weeks.  I have purchased seed batches in the past and got very little germination, so it is not always fool-proof and it heavily depends on the freshness of the seed, but all collectors around the world are fortunate that there is a seed dealer that at least offers the many rare species that RPS does.  

P.S. I have been ordering from them off-and-on for 20 years and have also collected seed from habitat and sold it to them and I can tell you they do put a focus on pure, unhybridized seed and do the best they can on quality/freshness given the fact they trade on a world-wide scale.

Just my two cents.

JD

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4 hours ago, JD in the OC said:

I received an order here in Florida about 5 weeks after it was placed and so far 2 Chrysalidocarpus and 1 Dypsis species have begun sprouting in a matter of a few weeks.  I have purchased seed batches in the past and got very little germination, so it is not always fool-proof and it heavily depends on the freshness of the seed, but all collectors around the world are fortunate that there is a seed dealer that at least offers the many rare species that RPS does.  

P.S. I have been ordering from them off-and-on for 20 years and have also collected seed from habitat and sold it to them and I can tell you they do put a focus on pure, unhybridized seed and do the best they can on quality/freshness given the fact they trade on a world-wide scale.

Just my two cents.

JD

I have sold them seeds  as well. I have even had the seeds germinate in the packets in transit. I have been given seeds from local sources and none germinate that’s the way it is. It doesn’t matter at least you have the chance to germinate such seeds and as a collector if I get one seed to germinate out of a hundred iam more then happy, I have a new palm to the collection. RPS have some amazing seeds of rare Palms nowhere else available they do a wonderful job in providing such a great service. One at least you know you’re getting true varieties two you get a chance to get some amazing palms and three there honest, try buying from an unknown source and you get nothing but an empty bank account. RPS provide seeds of good quality I know I have thousands of there palms in my nursery.

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16 hours ago, CascadiaPalms said:

Wow, that is quite the collection, good luck and I hope you have updates!

I currently have around 25 different varieties of seeds germinating at the moment. That way you always have something new germinating, and it seems that way palms are not slow to germinate with a new variety popping up monthly. I love it palms palms and more palms.

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