Hyphaene coriacea

[luke.m]

Had a great germination of H. coriacea over the last couple months. I’d read they can be difficult to germinate but this lot did a great +/-90% germination of a selection of 100 seeds,  over about a three month  period of warmish treatment. 
I’m  doing a bit of a trial to see how many I can get through the first winter. Same with the medemia (100) to see if I can lure out a couple survivors which are a bit more cold and wet tolerant.
Interesting ‘corkscrew’ root on some of the hyphaene. 
Who’s had success in cooler climes with hyphaene? 

[Jonathan]

G'day Luke, cute that you refer to WA as a cooler climate, though there are degrees of definition I guess! 

I germinated some many years ago in a moment of madness but needless to say they stood little chance down here and slowly withered away. Was just going to mention what you probably already know about remote germination, keeping the seed elevated, deep pots, etc. And there was a recent thread which might be interesting: 

Good luck with them!

Cheers, Jonathan 

[Phoenikakias]

Coriacea needs a 10 cm deeper pot than thebaica.

[luke.m]

17 hours ago, Jonathan said:

G'day Luke, cute that you refer to WA as a cooler climate, though there are degrees of definition I guess! 

I germinated some many years ago in a moment of madness but needless to say they stood little chance down here and slowly withered away. Was just going to mention what you probably already know about remote germination, keeping the seed elevated, deep pots, etc. And there was a recent thread which might be interesting: 

Good luck with them!

Cheers, Jonathan 

Jonathan, cooler as in cooler than where the species is know to naturally occur is what I was suggesting, the wet and cool will be the test for them.

thanks for the link man👍

these puppies are all being direct sown. I needed time to prepare the spots they sat in a bowl of coco peat following initial germination and now in they go. They’ll be in the ground soon to get those roots down deep!! This spiralling is pretty consistent it’s the Hyphaene 

[luke.m]

17 hours ago, Phoenikakias said:

Coriacea needs a 10 cm deeper pot than thebaica.

Cheers mate, going to direct sow when I pull my finger out, they came on quicker and more successful than I anticipated 

[meridannight]

In my experience these are easy to germinate. I had 100% rate, but I only had 3 seeds (that I got for free). They do need deep containers.

[Jonathan]

5 hours ago, luke.m said:

Jonathan, cooler as in cooler than where the species is know to naturally occur is what I was suggesting, the wet and cool will be the test for them.

thanks for the link man👍

these puppies are all being direct sown. I needed time to prepare the spots they sat in a bowl of coco peat following initial germination and now in they go. They’ll be in the ground soon to get those roots down deep!! This spiralling is pretty consistent it’s the Hyphaene 

Good stuff!

Direct sowing should work really well you'd think. Keep us posted on their progress...love a good experiment.