Difference between old seeds from the market and fresh ones donated by fellow growers

[Phoenikakias]

 

Thank you my friend @gyuseppe for the rupicola seeds. Both seeds sowed side by side.

[happypalms]

Home grown chamaedorea metallica seeds, 70 germinated from 70 seeds, the other ten seeds went to @gyuseppe, so waiting to see how many he gets, but so far 100 percent germination in Australia. Fresh is best! 

[Phoenikakias]

11 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Home grown chamaedorea metallica seeds, 70 germinated from 70 seeds, the other ten seeds went to @gyuseppe, so waiting to see how many he gets, but so far 100 percent germination in Australia. Fresh is best! 

True, when I get fresh seeds from anywhere, even from Oceania, my main problem is the surplus of resulted seedlings, when I buy small packets from the market, I would be extremely happy, if I get a single sprout, anf this situation becomes a dejavu over and over again, like Groundhog Day.

[happypalms]

16 minutes ago, Phoenikakias said:

True, when I get fresh seeds from anywhere, even from Oceania, my main problem is the surplus of resulted seedlings, when I buy small packets from the market, I would be extremely happy, if I get a single sprout, anf this situation becomes a dejavu over and over again, like Groundhog Day.

Try living in Australia. Fresh home grown seeds make a huge difference, and even better if there harvested from your own garden!

[gyuseppe]

1 hour ago, Phoenikakias said:

 

Thank you my friend @gyuseppe for the rupicola seeds. Both seeds sowed side by side.

Thank to you Konstantinos, I don't know how many seeds you sent me! The Chamaedorea klotzschiana seeds are all black, but I want to wait another month to send them, so they will be sure to be ripe.

[gyuseppe]

59 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Try living in Australia. Fresh home grown seeds make a huge difference, and even better if there harvested from your own garden!

fresh seeds I received from my Australian friends always sprouted

[Phoenikakias]

43 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Try living in Australia. Fresh home grown seeds make a huge difference, and even better if there harvested from your own garden!

We are several growers in southern Europe, what we lack is coordination and networking.  If you consider, that Portugal with Algarve, Spain with Costa Tropical, Costa del Sol, Costa de Almeria etc, France with Corsica, Italy with Sicily, Greece with Rhodos and Crete and finally Cyprus are all countries being members of the same customs and trade union, and  their aforementioned regions have a climate very close to the one in SoCA, there must be a decent quantity of less usual palm seeds available. 

[gyuseppe]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

Home grown chamaedorea metallica seeds, 70 germinated from 70 seeds, the other ten seeds went to @gyuseppe, so waiting to see how many he gets, but so far 100 percent germination in Australia. Fresh is best! 

Richard, if they germinated for you, they'll germinate for me too. The only problem is that you won't get rid of me easily!   😄I'll keep asking you for seeds (I have to be brave and ask you for them; bought seeds never germinate).

[happypalms]

19 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard, if they germinated for you, they'll germinate for me too. The only problem is that you won't get rid of me easily!   😄I'll keep asking you for seeds (I have to be brave and ask you for them; bought seeds never germinate).

Iam confident you can germinate them, if I have spare seeds I don’t mind sharing them around, after all the another mafia gang member must look after the Italian connection! 

[happypalms]

25 minutes ago, Phoenikakias said:

We are several growers in southern Europe, what we lack is coordination and networking.  If you consider, that Portugal with Algarve, Spain with Costa Tropical, Costa del Sol, Costa de Almeria etc, France with Corsica, Italy with Sicily, Greece with Rhodos and Crete and finally Cyprus are all countries being members of the same customs and trade union, and  their aforementioned regions have a climate very close to the one in SoCA, there must be a decent quantity of less usual palm seeds available. 

Customs and border security took the fun out palm seed sharing, we where not doing anything wrong in sharing a rare palm seed! 

[gyuseppe]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

Iam confident you can germinate them, if I have spare seeds I don’t mind sharing them around, after all the another mafia gang member must look after the Italian connection! 

I know Richard,if you weren't a good person I wouldn't have said it, there are good people here, but I want to tell you something that happened to me, to a person on this forum, about 15 years ago I sent seeds twice, as soon as I started writing here again, I contacted him to see if he had chamaedorea seeds, he replied and said he had them, but he didn't want to send them to me, I was very disappointed, but luckily I met you and other new people here who sent me seeds without asking for anything in return, fortunately in this world there are still people who have a heart

[Harry’s Palms]

Sharing seeds is a wonderful act of kindness on this forum. I have received quite a few from Sullivans garden and also @DoomsDave. . Freshness is key for success as some of Dave’s have already sprouted . The problem here , for me , is sending out of the country . The post office is very strict for most other countries. I mostly sow seeds from my own palms and that works out quite well . The Dypsis Decipiens that I sent out are sprouting for some of you , they seem to be a bit hard to germinate. I sent out hundreds of them and I am getting reports of some success. Harry