You gotta sow them seeds you buy

[happypalms]

If you buy them you gotta do them justice too get the best from them. The usual treatment coco coir perlite just slightly damp (squeeze a handful and no drops of water come out with a squishy sound) not too wet, bottom heating 30 degrees Celsius. The pots have a bag placed over them to retain moisture and heat. Then just sit back and wait. The only problem with getting seeds to germinate during winter is you cannot pot up the tropical ones so I just remove them from the heat mats, take the lid or bag of them and dont overwater them. Time will tell how I go from this batch. 

[peachy]

I gave up on seeds years ago unless I knew the person sending them. The commercial seed company (no names mentioned) sold me so many duds that I gave up in disgust. However last year I was given a big handful of Cyrtostachyus renda and couldn't find a home for them so I sowed them and got 99% germination.  Just a few weeks ago I scored some Chatham Island Rhopie seeds so now I am giving them a try too.

Peachy

[happypalms]

16 minutes ago, peachy said:

I gave up on seeds years ago unless I knew the person sending them. The commercial seed company (no names mentioned) sold me so many duds that I gave up in disgust. However last year I was given a big handful of Cyrtostachyus renda and couldn't find a home for them so I sowed them and got 99% germination.  Just a few weeks ago I scored some Chatham Island Rhopie seeds so now I am giving them a try too.

Peachy

Yes the good old seed market buyer beware. Many a dud seed sown @happypalms that’s for sure. You just don’t know what you are getting. And in some cases it could be the propagater that stuffs them up. If iam given fresh quality seeds iam confident I will germinate them. I bet your renda seedlings are not liking the cold.

Richard

[peachy]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

Yes the good old seed market buyer beware. Many a dud seed sown @happypalms that’s for sure. You just don’t know what you are getting. And in some cases it could be the propagater that stuffs them up. If iam given fresh quality seeds iam confident I will germinate them. I bet your renda seedlings are not liking the cold.

Richard

Surprisingly, Lipsticks will live here. Sometimes they dont look too hot but they recover.

 

[Harry’s Palms]

I get seeds and soak them in, stick them in the ground and forget them . If they sprout , I keep an eye on them and if they make it , move them to a new permanent home. I use a trash bin for my potting bench and I have no heat mat so my seed germinating is limited. Harry

[Tyrone]

Good to see some Calamus in there Richard. The forgotten genus. 

[JohnAndSancho]

The Seed Lab department at the John and Sancho East Mississippi Palm Conservatorium. I started putting my baggies inside the containers because my heat mats have no temperature control, and I'm worried about over watering the sprouts in the cups and pots but they get a heavy misting every night when we go to bed. 

[happypalms]

19 hours ago, peachy said:

Surprisingly, Lipsticks will live here. Sometimes they dont look too hot but they recover.

 

They live up there yet stuff I have won’t live there and vice versa. Crazy climate change!

Richard

[peachy]

18 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

The Seed Lab department at the John and Sancho East Mississippi Palm Conservatorium. I started putting my baggies inside the containers because my heat mats have no temperature control, and I'm worried about over watering the sprouts in the cups and pots but they get a heavy misting every night when we go to bed. 

Just put the seeds in sealed containers behind your fridge and you get perfect warmth for germination on many species. For the ultra tropicals, they went into my backyard shed in the warm months. It gets like a blast furnace in there.

Peachy