Hey scott....

The suggestions washy, trachy and phoenix are great. All 3 of these have germinated for me, in room temp, and no bottom heat (although, both with greatly increase the speed of germination of the phoenix and washy). I would like to add Sabal species. Without heat, mine too 6 months to germinate, but all of the seed I planted germinated!

For me washintonia came up in 3 weeks. Trachys a bit longer. Phoenix dont take long at all.

I would also like to add CHamedorea and Dypsis species. CHamedorea is the genus that the ever popular parlor palm comes from. IT has dozens of great species for indoor (like the cat palm). Ive only tried 1 type of them from seed, and I overwatered the soil, and they rotted. Everything I have read states these are easy to grow from seed.

Dypsis, is the genus where the "areca/butterfly palm" comes from, which used to be sold under "chrysalidocarpus lutescens". Again there are dozens of species that do well indoors, and are rare in cultuvation. Ive grown this from seed, as well as D lanceolata, D arenarum, and the ultra rare D albiforinosa. The D lanceolata germinated during shipment, and are growing great. The D arenarum took a bit of time, but all came up around the same few weeks. I had about 80% germination on both. THe D alboforinosa took about 5 months at about 20% germination rate (keep in mind, I do NOTHING special for palm seeds besides sow em in baggies). I kiled these guys by giving them too much sun. Thats a big deal, becasue these have not been for sale for 4 years on RPS, are excedingly rare in the wild, let alone cultivation and are just gorgeous.

Scott, there is not always a visible bump/dot/eye in each species. In certain species like Jubaea, the eyes are very visible. However, for others like Trachycarpus, there is basically no indication.

In my thread you'll be able to see the embryo locations for the three species of seed that you're starting, but when you start a new species and you're unsure where the embryo is located, the best thing to do is just sacrifice one seed and sand it down at all locations, until you determine where the embryo is.

Which species isn't there a example of that I am getting, and where is the embryo?