Seed soakin'!

[JohnAndSancho]

Chamaedorea Benezeii, Chamaedorea Adescendens, and a buuuuunch of Kentias. I normally just use a splash of hydrogen peroxide in with the water, but since these Kentia seeds were obviously super fresh, and they sat in an envelope in transit for 3 weeks, they're a little funky so they got a little extra. All the way from the land of Kylie Minogue and Yahoo Serious @happypalms

 

I typically soak for a day, stir to get most of the fruit off, change the water, repeat for 3 days then into germinating medium and onto the heat mat. I've never sprouted Kentia, but I've been told no bottom heat for them, and they're slow to sprout - so I'm thinking I just put them in some Tupperware someplace and set a reminder on my phone to check them next year. 

 

[happypalms]

Good stuff, you got lucky on the benzei they came from @palmtreesforpleasure a man who knows his palm stuff well and quite a character too! The Howea you don’t need to soak or remove the husk, just whack em in, the adscendens are standard chamaedorea seed treatment. And good luck it brings me great joy knowing seeds from my garden will be in good hands ( of course there will be a follow just to see you don’t kill them from the happypalms bio security inspector 🤣) But I hope they bring you joy and happiness like they have done for me enjoy John and sancho. 
Richard 

[JohnAndSancho]

Welp thank you to both you and Colin, I get to replace the Benezeii I cooked, I get a chance to prove to the world that I can keep a Howea alive, and my Adescendens gets company. After the Adscendens sprout, do you recommend a community pot with all of them or let them stay solo? I think it could look interesting with my existing one in the center surrounded by smaller ones. 

[happypalms]

3 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Welp thank you to both you and Colin, I get to replace the Benezeii I cooked, I get a chance to prove to the world that I can keep a Howea alive, and my Adescendens gets company. After the Adscendens sprout, do you recommend a community pot with all of them or let them stay solo? I think it could look interesting with my existing one in the center surrounded by smaller ones. 

You gotta keep em seperated! 

[JohnAndSancho]

29 minutes ago, happypalms said:

You gotta keep em seperated! 

Now I have to go listen to The Offspring...

[Harry’s Palms]

Howea take a while . About a year in the garden and they sprout . Easy growing house plant . Harry

[JohnAndSancho]

5 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Howea take a while . About a year in the garden and they sprout . Easy growing house plant . Harry

I have killed every single one I've bought. Probably due to the separation process even though I've always been super gentle. I killed a pot of pygmy dates and a pot of chamaedorea elegans doing this too. So I absolutely will not be community potting these at all 😂 

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Now I have to go listen to The Offspring...

Give it to me baby ahah!

[gyuseppe]

Some Howea belmoreana seeds germinated for me even after three years.
They were given to me by Charles Wychgel, an extraordinary person. Every year he gave me seeds, even rare species. Unfortunately, he passed away. My only regret is that I lost everything he gave me

 

 

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Charles visited me at home and i stayed with him in Portugal some years ago. He grew the most silver chamaerops  volcano i have ever seen before or since seeing his. He was a great host

Regards

Colin

[awkonradi]

Me too.  Parajubaea torallyi seeds collected in the Presidio in San Francisco.  Old, naturally defleshed seeds on the left, and seeds cut out of just fallen fruit on the right.

[JohnAndSancho]

27 minutes ago, awkonradi said:

Me too.  Parajubaea torallyi seeds collected in the Presidio in San Francisco.  Old, naturally defleshed seeds on the left, and seeds cut out of just fallen fruit on the right.

Those are some big honkin' seeds. 

I was cleaning and found a little baggie of date palm seeds, so those are soaking now too. I don't remember if these are the hybrids from @kinzyjr or @Reyes Vargas, one of them sent me a big baggie of seeds that's in no rush to live here and this was a little baggie of maybe 10. Time to fill the heat mats up again!

[kinzyjr]

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Those are some big honkin' seeds. 

I was cleaning and found a little baggie of date palm seeds, so those are soaking now too. I don't remember if these are the hybrids from @kinzyjr or @Reyes Vargas, one of them sent me a big baggie of seeds that's in no rush to live here and this was a little baggie of maybe 10. Time to fill the heat mats up again!

I remember sending a bag of hybrid Phoenix reclinata seeds.  Who knows what type of pollen they might have taken in when they flowered.  Their choices for mates were Phoenix dactylifera, Phoenix roebelenii, another Phoenix reclinata hybrid, and/or Phoenix canariensis.

[JohnAndSancho]

6 minutes ago, kinzyjr said:

I remember sending a bag of hybrid Phoenix reclinata seeds.  Who knows what type of pollen they might have taken in when they flowered.  Their choices for mates were Phoenix dactylifera, Phoenix roebelenii, another Phoenix reclinata hybrid, and/or Phoenix canariensis.

I know the ones Reyes sent me had Roebellini male pollen with Reclinata baby mama, I just don't remember which was which. And again I'm a jerk for letting everything sit forever and now I'm all manic and impatient with everything 😂They all looked the same to me so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe we'll know in about 2 or 3 years which was which and what's what..

[Hu Palmeras]

On 22/8/2025 at 17:34, JohnAndSancho said:

Chamaedorea Benezeii, Chamaedorea Adescendens y un montón de Kentias. Normalmente solo uso un chorrito de agua oxigenada con el agua, pero como estas semillas de Kentia estaban súper frescas y estuvieron en un sobre durante tres semanas, están un poco raras, así que les añadieron un poco más. Desde la tierra de Kylie Minogue y Yahoo Serious.@happypalms

 

Normalmente las remojo un día, las revuelvo para quitar la mayor parte de la fruta, cambio el agua, repito durante 3 días, luego las introduzco en el sustrato y las coloco en la esterilla térmica. Nunca he germinado kentia, pero me han dicho que no les doy calor de fondo, y tardan en germinar, así que estoy pensando en guardarlas en un táper y ponerme un recordatorio en el móvil para revisarlas el año que viene. 

 

I soak the seeds in warm water for two to three days. Then I plant them in a substrate composed of 50% perlite and 50% blond peat. I place them on the heating mat and that's it. I'll wait, as I said, for them to germinate.

[JohnAndSancho]

Welp they're drying now. I went ahead and sprayed the Kentia seeds with some copper fungicide cuz they still have a little fermentation smell to them. I've got a small styrofoam box with a lid, will that work? Which way do I orient them in the box @happypalms?

[Hu Palmeras]

Hace 3 minutos, JohnAndSancho dijo:

Bueno, ya se están secando. Rocié las semillas de kentia con fungicida de cobre porque todavía huelen un poco a fermentación. Tengo una cajita de poliestireno con tapa, ¿servirá? ¿Cómo las coloco en la cajita?@happypalms?

El 22/8/2025 a las 17:34, JohnAndSancho dijo:

Chamaedorea Benezeii, Chamaedorea Adescendens y un montón de Kentias. Normalmente solo uso un chorrito de agua oxigenada con el agua, pero como estas semillas de Kentia estaban súper frescas y estuvieron en un sobre durante tres semanas, son un poco raras, así que les añadieron un poco más. Desde la tierra de Kylie Minogue y Yahoo Serious.@happypalms

 

Normalmente las remojo un día, las revuelvo para quitar la mayor parte de la fruta, cambie el agua, repito durante 3 días, luego las introduzco en el sustrato y las coloco en la esterilla térmica. Nunca he germinado kentia, pero me han dicho que no les doy calor de fondo, y tardan en germinar, así que estoy pensando en guardarlas en un táper y ponerme un recordatorio en el móvil para revisarlas el año que viene. 

 

Pongo las semillas en remojo en agua tibia durante dos o tres días. Luego las planto en un sustrato compuesto por 50% de perlita y 50% de turba rubia. Las coloco sobre la estera térmica y lista. Esperaré, como dije, a que germinen.

 

You are good friends. I hope you always succeed with your palm trees. Have a wonderful job. Rest and have fun. We don't just depend on ourselves. We also depend on God.

 

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Welp they're drying now. I went ahead and sprayed the Kentia seeds with some copper fungicide cuz they still have a little fermentation smell to them. I've got a small styrofoam box with a lid, will that work? Which way do I orient them in the box @happypalms?

Just stand back and throw them in wherever they land is fine there easy Howea.

[gyuseppe]

5 hours ago, Hugopalmeras said:

We also depend on God

 

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