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Getting Pritchardia seeds to sprout?

DoomsDave

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A Palm friend gave me a bunch of seeds from his Pritchardia and I’d like some guidance on how to sprout them. 

They look like good seeds. All the ones I’ve tried before didn’t sprout.

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32 minutes ago, DoomsDave said:

A Palm friend gave me a bunch of seeds from his Pritchardia and I’d like some guidance on how to sprout them. 

They look like good seeds. All the ones I’ve tried before didn’t sprout.

I've only successfully germinated P. pacifica and I'm 100% confident that is not what you have!  I used baggie method with damp sphagnum moss and 90-95° bottom heat.IMG_20240926_102724650.thumb.jpg.ac4d295702b4acfe4e8243e49e7c0e3d.jpg

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Thanks @Fusca!

Mine are hildebrandii.

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I had some fresh Pritchardia arecina seeds a few years ago.  Stuckthem in a pot w/some good potting soil, put them in my shade house and after about a year they sprouted.  Were g rowing nice until a feral cat knocked the pot over and they dried out and died.

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Dave, during the summertime, I have had good luck simply putting them in a 1 gallon pot with semi loose soil. Too dense and they can sometimes develop fungus, too loose, and it dries out too easily. Hillibrandii seem to usually take 6 to 7 weeks once things warm up. So you have a good spot of time between now and say late October. An initial bath of about 25% hydrogen peroxide can also get them off to a good start.

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I had some luck with a few of these. I'd recommend community pots, half buried, covered with plastic (baggies?) I used a coarse mix with coir and perlite, damp, in a warm spot or heat-mat. Had success with maideniana, forbesiana, thurstonii, martii (these were harder) and pacifica. Highest rate was with pacifica.

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23 hours ago, quaman58 said:

Dave, during the summertime, I have had good luck simply putting them in a 1 gallon pot with semi loose soil. Too dense and they can sometimes develop fungus, too loose, and it dries out too easily. Hillibrandii seem to usually take 6 to 7 weeks once things warm up. So you have a good spot of time between now and say late October. An initial bath of about 25% hydrogen peroxide can also get them off to a good start.

How long to peroxide them?

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The guys at jungle music told me a 30 minute soak is adequate. It’s the fruit that always wants to start developing fungus…

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2 minutes ago, quaman58 said:

The guys at jungle music told me a 30 minute soak is adequate. It’s the fruit that always wants to start developing fungus…

Okay, I’ll try to clean them too.

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ya clean them real good.   I soak overnight.  damp medium in one gallon zip lock bag, the thick ones that dont

let medium dry out, and bam they germinate like flys. In my super warm garage

aloha

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I’ve found fresh Pritchardia seed will always germinate well and fairly quickly in a perlite coconut coir mix between 24-30C temps. Not too hot, not too cool. 

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