Chamaedorea nationsiana sprouts

[happypalms]

A batch of imported nationsiana seeds has given a near 90 percent strike rate, super healthy seeds. If you import seeds and get a strike rate like that one can’t complain about that. A few will go into private gardens and some botanical gardens in the state of NSW. And the rest will be planted in my garden! 

[gyuseppe]

10 seeds out of 10 germinated, percentage 100%, an excellent result

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51 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

10 seeds out of 10 germinated, percentage 100%, an excellent result

That’s great news gysuppe. So pretty well much 100 percent good stuff! 

[gyuseppe]

yes Richard, but there is also bad news, out of 60 seeds bought at the end of February, they have all rotted, I sent an email to complain, they didn't even answer me, luckily I have many friends here who send me seeds, including you

[JohnAndSancho]

I've never even heard of these, and wow they're nice! 

[peachy]

C nationsiana are a great little palm. Very sturdy, give no problems and are very quick growing. When they fruit it looks like tiny ears of corn sprouting from them. It's best to give them a little bit of space so you can view them to their best advantage, they lose something if group planted.

Peachy

[tim_brissy_13]

2 hours ago, peachy said:

C nationsiana are a great little palm. Very sturdy, give no problems and are very quick growing. When they fruit it looks like tiny ears of corn sprouting from them. It's best to give them a little bit of space so you can view them to their best advantage, they lose something if group planted.

Peachy

The infructescences on these are so cool. Here’s my C arenbergiana x nationsiana F1 (some say the two species should be merged so I guess it’s basically C nationsiana). Two planted side by side in the hope I’ll get F2 seed but I think the overall look can be appreciated in this formation. 

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19 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

yes Richard, but there is also bad news, out of 60 seeds bought at the end of February, they have all rotted, I sent an email to complain, they didn't even answer me, luckily I have many friends here who send me seeds, including you

When it comes to seeds that don’t germinate, iam sort of oh well they didn’t germinate I missed out on that batch of seed. Some sellers will continue to sell out of date seeds, even if they know they don’t germinate. Still you have gotta try it’s difficult with a living seed. The debate could go on forever about the subject, it is what it is unfortunately. But those that sell seeds that continually dont germinate dont get my business! The good with the bad. 

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3 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

The infructescences on these are so cool. Here’s my C arenbergiana x nationsiana F1 (some say the two species should be merged so I guess it’s basically C nationsiana). Two planted side by side in the hope I’ll get F2 seed but I think the overall look can be appreciated in this formation. 

Nice one Tim! I can see a few pure nationsiana in there just to mix the genes up a bit more! 

[happypalms]

6 hours ago, peachy said:

C nationsiana are a great little palm. Very sturdy, give no problems and are very quick growing. When they fruit it looks like tiny ears of corn sprouting from them. It's best to give them a little bit of space so you can view them to their best advantage, they lose something if group planted.

Peachy

When I first saw nationsiana I thought arenbergiana. My arenbergiana flowerd and produced seeds, and straight away I thought nationsiana but they came from Rich trapnell, so iam confident they are the real deal. And I shall take note in planting as singles or in a nice big row. 
Richard 

[happypalms]

18 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I've never even heard of these, and wow they're nice! 

We keep the rare palms in secret locations,  but I will build you and sancho a nice little hippie hut and plant two either side of the front door you. 

[tim_brissy_13]

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

Nice one Tim! I can see a few pure nationsiana in there just to mix the genes up a bit more! 

Definitely would like more. It’s a 50/50 shot whether I’ll get a male female pair out of these two. C nationsiana is exactly the type of palm that should be planted at the botanic gardens down here too. 

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2 minutes ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Definitely would like more. It’s a 50/50 shot whether I’ll get a male female pair out of these two. C nationsiana is exactly the type of palm that should be planted at the botanic gardens down here too. 

I actually know where you can get some! Iam going to Coffs botanicals gardens next Friday for some planting palm fun. Iam not to worried about winter in Coffs for planting they will be fine.