How should I germinate these Canary Island Date seeds?

[PindoPalm]

I took 45 seeds from a Canary Island Date Palm, and i took the seeds out. This isn’t my first time growing from seed but I’ve never grown a Canary Island Date from seed. Some time back i grew about 12 Mexican fan palms from seed, only about 8 actually sprouted and 5 survived longer than a month (after sprouting). 4 seemed to be doing great until stupidly i left them outside and it got cold and they got frost damage and they all died. I want to know how to grow these from seed so they can last longer than a couple months and hopefully live longer. I have used the plastic bag method successfully but i want to know more methods to germinate the seeds.

[Arecaceus]

P. canariensis are easy. Remove as much of the remaining fruit pieces as possible and then sow them in potting soil in a community pot. Later you can seperate them and plant them into pots when they have 2-3 strap leaves. Keep them moist but not wet as with any other seed and that's it. Now that it's winter I would germinate them indoors (Maybe at a window) and most should come up after 3-6 weeks.

[PindoPalm]

39 minutes ago, Arecaceus said:

P. canariensis are easy. Remove as much of the remaining fruit pieces as possible and then sow them in potting soil in a community pot. Later you can seperate them and plant them into pots when they have 2-3 strap leaves. Keep them moist but not wet as with any other seed and that's it. Now that it's winter I would germinate them indoors (Maybe at a window) and most should come up after 3-6 weeks.

Thank you. I also did talk to my local nursery and they did also suggest putting them into warm water for 24-48hrs and then into a community pot. I did put ~20 into a community pot without the warm water and the other ones i split into 3 smaller pots each with 5-8 in them.

[Scott W]

Community pot, damp paper towel inside a ziploc or just after soaking leave them in a covered plastic container.  Once they germinate pot them in a sterile mixture.

 

[Arecaceus]

1 hour ago, PindoPalm said:

Thank you. I also did talk to my local nursery and they did also suggest putting them into warm water for 24-48hrs and then into a community pot. I did put ~20 into a community pot without the warm water and the other ones i split into 3 smaller pots each with 5-8 in them.

I think that's a good way of doing it. The soaking I only do when I order seeds and don't know how fresh they are. If you collected them freshly I wouldn't bother doing that. The nice thing about community pots is (if deep enough) you can handle the moisture level more easily and keep them growing for a while even after they have germinated.