Three little dypsis minuta baby’s

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So happy about the three little seedlings I germinated. Such a beautiful palm the minuta, I was lucky enough to get viable seeds from a single plant. It’s flowering again now so hopefully I get a few more seeds! 

[Harry’s Palms]

I hear that Dypsis can be slow to germinate . It has only been two months for my Decipiens seeds and I’m already checking them weekly . It looks like it may be Spring before I see sprouts . About like Howea seeds , I guess. Those are special little palms you got to germinate , good work. Harry

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39 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I hear that Dypsis can be slow to germinate . It has only been two months for my Decipiens seeds and I’m already checking them weekly . It looks like it may be Spring before I see sprouts . About like Howea seeds , I guess. Those are special little palms you got to germinate , good work. Harry

These ones were definitely slow I almost gave up on them. But I did read one post on hear that it took a long time. Decipiens I have never germinated before, so not sure how long they take. But one would think 3 to 6 months perhaps a bit more. They are special plants, it’s difficult to import viable seeds when the seeds are small, the smaller the seed in general the shorter the viability. So lucky to get the seeds, this is one reason why they are rare with difficulty in germinating imported seeds.

Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

These ones were definitely slow I almost gave up on them. But I did read one post on hear that it took a long time. Decipiens I have never germinated before, so not sure how long they take. But one would think 3 to 6 months perhaps a bit more. They are special plants, it’s difficult to import viable seeds when the seeds are small, the smaller the seed in general the shorter the viability. So lucky to get the seeds, this is one reason why they are rare with difficulty in germinating imported seeds.

Richard 

Good to know that about seeds. I have some Chambeyronia Hookeri in wee pots right now . The seeds were bright red and laying on the ground near the most beautiful Chambey I’ve seen . The seeds are much larger than Howea seeds . I have hopes that they will sprout , in time! Harry

[Jonathan]

Nice work Richard...are these from the plant you bought that was already fruiting? I wonder how old that palm is??

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2 hours ago, Jonathan said:

Nice work Richard...are these from the plant you bought that was already fruiting? I wonder how old that palm is??

I purchased the plant that was flowering and lucked up. Then the one I already had flowered so I had two flowering pretty well much one after the other. They are both flowering now and I harvested seeds of both of them not long ago. So more to pop up I hope. They are cool tolerant and being small you would be able to overwinter inside easily. If my memory serves me correctly I think the seller was saying 15 years old or that might have been my dypsis louvelli I got from them. 
As I said to Harry it’s difficult to germinate very small imported seeds for reasons you are aware of. Actually how did you go on that brom seed you got from me?

[Jonathan]

12 hours ago, happypalms said:

I purchased the plant that was flowering and lucked up. Then the one I already had flowered so I had two flowering pretty well much one after the other. They are both flowering now and I harvested seeds of both of them not long ago. So more to pop up I hope. They are cool tolerant and being small you would be able to overwinter inside easily. If my memory serves me correctly I think the seller was saying 15 years old or that might have been my dypsis louvelli I got from them. 
As I said to Harry it’s difficult to germinate very small imported seeds for reasons you are aware of. Actually how did you go on that brom seed you got from me?

No good unfortunately with the  brom seed...it has a short viability and just took too long to get to Australia I think.

On the other hand I've got three Chuniophoenix nana up so far, so happy with that, plus some C hainanensis from Tim popping up, so not all doom and gloom!

[PalmatierMeg]

Awww. I love those little ankle biters. I've tried them several times - potted only - but they didn't survive long term. I can't figure out why not. Do they prefer cool nights over tropical swelter?

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7 hours ago, Jonathan said:

No good unfortunately with the  brom seed...it has a short viability and just took too long to get to Australia I think.

On the other hand I've got three Chuniophoenix nana up so far, so happy with that, plus some C hainanensis from Tim popping up, so not all doom and gloom!

That’s another story taking to long! My Chuniophoenix are popping up well. A few around the globe so they too should be popping up as well.

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3 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Awww. I love those little ankle biters. I've tried them several times - potted only - but they didn't survive long term. I can't figure out why not. Do they prefer cool nights over tropical swelter?

There beautiful and so cute. I get high temperatures up to 42 but most summer temps are around the 30s and mid 30s with lows of night temperatures in summer of 14 to to 20 degrees Celsius. Winter lows of 2 degrees and day temps of low 20s. So there can be big temperature fluctuations. The mother plants come from cairns so tropical temperatures all round. You may be just too cold? Or drainage?