A lot of seeds

[happypalms]

I have been observing this palm for 30 years in my home town. Each time I look at it it’s got more seeds than the last time. I germinated some 30 years back. And they are growing well in my garden. Such a pity nobody’s interested in them. 

[kinzyjr]

Kind of like Foxtails here (Wodyetia bifurcata) - 25 years ago people were paying $5/seed.  Now you can't give away the seeds.  That might change to a small degree now that some of them will be dropping out of the gene pool, but the supply is still pretty high.

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, kinzyjr said:

Kind of like Foxtails here (Wodyetia bifurcata) - 25 years ago people were paying $5/seed.  Now you can't give away the seeds.  That might change to a small degree now that some of them will be dropping out of the gene pool, but the supply is still pretty high.

It’s strange how the market works itself out, in demand one day every one wants them, then a few years later nobody wants them anymore. 
Foxtail palms when they first hit the black market in Australia many years ago. It was ask pretty well as much as you wanted for the. Now I see thousands of seeds all over the place, not worth 10 cents or even worth picking up! 

[Harry’s Palms]

It is the same around here. Many palms of different variety drop seeds and they get ignored , for the most part. The percentage of folks that want to germinate palm seeds is very low , unless the palm is very rare . Even then , the seeds can fall and go untouched. I have been throwing some of my seeds in the bin or letting the squirrels have them . I had a huge amount of Sabal and Brahea seeds at one time but my gardener cut them off before the fruit ripened . Harry

[happypalms]

13 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

It is the same around here. Many palms of different variety drop seeds and they get ignored , for the most part. The percentage of folks that want to germinate palm seeds is very low , unless the palm is very rare . Even then , the seeds can fall and go untouched. I have been throwing some of my seeds in the bin or letting the squirrels have them . I had a huge amount of Sabal and Brahea seeds at one time but my gardener cut them off before the fruit ripened . Harry

First up sack the gardener for cutting of a bit of garden eye candy, they said it years the younger generation are not interested in things like gardening, pidgeon racing or anything outdoors. Heaven forbid nowadays they are only interested in a google pixel addiction, what will our palms become in the future. There will come a day when they will look at botanical gardens and go what are those things growing, that’s if botanical gardens exist in 200 years. Seeds are the future generations and without people germinating them a lot will be lost.

Richard 

[Nico971]

22 hours ago, happypalms said:

First up sack the gardener for cutting of a bit of garden eye candy, they said it years the younger generation are not interested in things like gardening, pidgeon racing or anything outdoors. Heaven forbid nowadays they are only interested in a google pixel addiction, what will our palms become in the future. There will come a day when they will look at botanical gardens and go what are those things growing, that’s if botanical gardens exist in 200 years. Seeds are the future generations and without people germinating them a lot will be lost.

Richard 

I’m from the new generation, germinate all my palms, try to plant as many rare palm as I can, and give some to my friends who don’t care. And would love to see your amazing garden. I Go around the garden every morning with my baby girl to show her the new leaves. But to be honest, around me no one cares…

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, Nico971 said:

I’m from the new generation, germinate all my palms, try to plant as many rare palm as I can, and give some to my friends who don’t care. And would love to see your amazing garden. I Go around the garden every morning with my baby girl to show her the new leaves. But to be honest, around me no one cares…

That’s the go taking your daughter around the garden, they learn a lot as children and the earlier the better, drop in next time you’re down under. Together we can all save one species at a time.