I’m trying to cross a robellini with a reclinata any tips would be appreciated!!

do you have them both in different sexes? hybridizing phoenix palms is so easy it happens by accident. get pollen from one species and dust it over the female flowers of the other species. then be patient, and when you get seeds and sprout the seedlings eventually it becomes obvious which ones are hybrid and which aren’t. I haven’t done this myself just to clarify, but I do have 2 hybrid phoenix seedlings in my possession that if you didn’t guess i literally got from random phoenix trees around my area. 

I have a dactylifera x roebelinii and sylvestris x roebelinii, and both have been comparatively slower to their pure counterparts but they’re morphologically unique which is cool.

Yes I have many robellini and rectillinata palms both male and female of each but I have heard that there is a certain time when the female flowers are receptive!! I tried last year and had no luck so was hoping for more information!!

On 5/4/2026 at 7:58 AM, 96720 said:

Yes I have many robellini and rectillinata palms both male and female of each but I have heard that there is a certain time when the female flowers are receptive!! I tried last year and had no luck so was hoping for more information!!

Oh I don’t know much about timing. In that case my approach would be to have some pollen on hand and dust the female flowers at different times after bloom, like a few days after, a week after, and like 2 weeks after for good measure. A sort of calculated persistence.  But it happens in the wild/open air without much thought so it can’t be that hard.