Seeds arrived!
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- Arctic Palm Plantation
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Seeds arrived!
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All seeds will soak for 24 hours but the Trachy Waggie 24 seeds (no floaters) will be kept in a cooler spot (with the Chamaerops humulis seeds from John, which went into a community pot a week ago).
Pritchardia 5 seeds like a small hazelnut, (no floaters), Nannorrhops 20 seeds large-pea-size (no floaters) and Cyrtostachys size like a broken pencil point, 14 seeds (4 floaters) are soaking in water, near wood stove ~90-95F.
Some will go into perlite-baggies, some into tall 7/11 "Gulps".
Great packaging from seedrack.com in Oregon.
Took approx 3 weeks.
Not bad, considering they have to languish at the Canadian side of the border until officials figure out what "palm seeds" are
Barb
All seeds will soak for 24 hours but the Trachy Waggie 24 seeds (no floaters) will be kept in a cooler spot (with the Chamaerops humulis seeds from John, which went into a community pot a week ago).
Pritchardia 5 seeds like a small hazelnut, (no floaters), Nannorrhops 20 seeds large-pea-size (no floaters) and Cyrtostachys size like a broken pencil point, 14 seeds (4 floaters) are soaking in water, near wood stove ~90-95F.
Some will go into perlite-baggies, some into tall 7/11 "Gulps".
Great packaging from seedrack.com in Oregon.
Took approx 3 weeks.
Not bad, considering they have to languish at the Canadian side of the border until officials figure out what "palm seeds" are
Barb
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- Palm Grove
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Very nice. Looks like you'll need them green houses.
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Nice selection !
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Damn Barb, what you gonna do this winter? watch palm seeds germinate.
Kent in Kansas
where it's cold in winter (always)
and hot in summer (usually)
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where it's cold in winter (always)
and hot in summer (usually)
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Wow your brave to try wax palms. They are so amazing in the tropics, I saw some real beauties in Panama about 5 years ago. I saw to in greenhouses last winter in coral gables and in davie Fla. They came close to biting it to as I was told from temps in the mid 40's.
Nice kit though, it will be fun to watch them pop over the winter by your wood stove.
Bill
Nice kit though, it will be fun to watch them pop over the winter by your wood stove.
Bill
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- Arctic Palm Plantation
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Thanks folks.
Nope, no freebies (unless the packages were originally goona hold only 3 seeds)
oh, hold on! a free marking pen with the labels.
Winter is too darn long without starting some seeds...
...wax palm. Yup, they love lots of water and tons of humidity.
they'll be in 24/7 shade here, no desert sun/winds for these babies.
I've got my Masters degree in overwatering!
Barb
Nope, no freebies (unless the packages were originally goona hold only 3 seeds)
oh, hold on! a free marking pen with the labels.
Winter is too darn long without starting some seeds...
...wax palm. Yup, they love lots of water and tons of humidity.
they'll be in 24/7 shade here, no desert sun/winds for these babies.
I've got my Masters degree in overwatering!
Barb
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Hi Barb,
you must fell like a kid in a candy store with all those 'goodies'!! Keep us posted on their progress.
you must fell like a kid in a candy store with all those 'goodies'!! Keep us posted on their progress.
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Waggies popping 2 weeks
3 waggies popped in 2 weeks!
That seedrack.com weren't kidding when they said fresh seeds
But since the "evidence" is the same size as the perlite, will hold off taking a pic for now (....thunderous applause from PN group ...)
Yup, that sealing wax palm really interests me too.
Apparently the trick to germinating them is "hot mud"...Easy! (some for the seeds, some for my face)
Barb
That seedrack.com weren't kidding when they said fresh seeds
But since the "evidence" is the same size as the perlite, will hold off taking a pic for now (....thunderous applause from PN group ...)
Yup, that sealing wax palm really interests me too.
Apparently the trick to germinating them is "hot mud"...Easy! (some for the seeds, some for my face)
Barb
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- Clumping Palm
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barb, im starting to fall in love with that place, making 3 orders from it this year. Unfortunatly their available list has been generaly the same for the last 6 months. Ive gotten coffe, and banana seeds, which didnothing except one musella seed ( i relaly didnt go hardcore on tryingto germinate them, they got drowned out when the container they were in opened in a rain storm, and filled with water:( ). I have some gloriosa lily in a window right now, and, i suggest getting colocasia fallax from them. For me super easy to germinate, and they are awsome little elephant ears, and regarded as the hardiest. I got some stuff stratifying from them right now, lobelia, and akebia?/ (chocolate vine), and im gonna be planting some of my rice paper seeds soon, sincei have some good growlights with my aerogardens.
I wish i had luck like you do with palm seeds. I have a bag of fortunei, and naini tal, and a 3 bags of nanus. Nothing yet The nanus have been in bagged up since august.
Grats!!!! Cant wait to see one of the waggies planted outside
I wish i had luck like you do with palm seeds. I have a bag of fortunei, and naini tal, and a 3 bags of nanus. Nothing yet The nanus have been in bagged up since august.
Grats!!!! Cant wait to see one of the waggies planted outside
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Nice Barb!
always fun to get some new seeds!
Cyriak from France sent me 25 Manipur seed to germinate
always fun to get some new seeds!
Cyriak from France sent me 25 Manipur seed to germinate
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- Arctic Palm Plantation
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You only hear about the ones that pop.luck like you do with palm seeds
I could give you a long list of ones that NEVER came up, like Copernicia hospita, Bizzie, etc. etc.
The Cyrtostachys will be THE test, so far I've met the "hot mud" requirement with a plastic pot with NO drainage and 100F next to woodstove
canadianplant, your windowsills must be overflowing!
ahem! D R A I N H O L E S!!!filled with water
Jim, manipur is a nice looking palm.
This was funny
http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Trachyca ... nipur.html yup, it needs lots of water.palm grows on highly slopped areas
Re ordering seeds by mail during winter, obviously it's fine for stuff that can handle cold in habitat.
But I've always wondered if tropical seeds get killed by cold during mailing from overseas or Florida for that matter.
Seeds are fresh during our northern winter, so there's no way to get fresh tropical seed when mailing temps are good in the north.
What do you guys think?
Barb
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"ahem! D R A I N H O L E S!!! "
Oh, the pots had drainholes, the yub they were in, did not.... water was never supposed to accululate in there, but 90km winds took the lid, and the brick right off the top, along with a pot of gloriosa lily....
All my windows are pretty full already, come spring, is a different matter...... Ive had no luck with the trachys yet, but ive grown dypsis arenarum, and dypsis lanceolata, and i always seem to have luck with musella seeds too..
Grats again
Oh, the pots had drainholes, the yub they were in, did not.... water was never supposed to accululate in there, but 90km winds took the lid, and the brick right off the top, along with a pot of gloriosa lily....
All my windows are pretty full already, come spring, is a different matter...... Ive had no luck with the trachys yet, but ive grown dypsis arenarum, and dypsis lanceolata, and i always seem to have luck with musella seeds too..
Grats again
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- Arctic Palm Plantation
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Trachys don't like heat for germination, room temp is fine.
Just give it time.
Just give it time.
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