Growing Carpoxylon macrospermum from seed.

[Sam Jones]

Here are some photos of one of my favourite palms the Carpoxylon macrospermum!!!

Definitely one of the easiest palms for me to grow from seed.

They only took 2 weeks to germinate outside when our nighttime temperatures in September where dropping to 18 C or 65F. I brought them inside once October came and the  nighttime temperatures started going down below 15C or 60F, and they didn’t skip a beat.

I made sure the soil has super good drainage, they practically grow hydroponically.

Soil composition is a mixture of sphagnum moss, zeolite (To help keep the nutrients), pumice, perlite. I will fertilise them when the heat comes back. 

I will try leaving them outside next year. I am curious to see how cold hardy they will be here in Ibiza. 
At 4 months old. 

[happypalms]

Nice little project you got going there congratulations! 
They take cool temperatures around 2 degrees Celsius in my climate, no frost though. Don’t overwater them as seedlings. 

[Fusca]

I found them quite easy and satisfying to germinate as well.  I was given some fresh seeds at the palm society sale at Fairchild Botanical Gardens in the Miami area back in November and all 5 germinated within a month.  I used the baggie method and one grew up so quickly that it punctured a hole in the baggie!