Bananas will need warmth to germinate.

Your seedlings will need all the direct sun you can give them to keep from getting leggy.
It might be better if they are kept cool to help slow them down?????

It will be a while before you can tell your Naini Tal apart from
Fortunei....quite a while.

Good luck with your seedlings!

From what ive read musa ( especialy musella and ensete ?) Like warm days and cool nights to germinate.

Are you talking about the palm seedlings or seedlings in general? Most of the ones ive started now, should be sown 12- 10 weeks before last frost. Im a few weeks early on some, I just want some size on them before they get planted. They aerogarden , which im referencing is a mini hydroponic system, complete with lights. They are on 12-17 hours a day, and they are located in a warm corner. Most of the seeds are in pots, not grown IN the aerogarden. The light is strong enough to grow a small potted rose.

Its funny you mentioned trying to keep them cool. I was thinking of this this morning, in the case of the faster growing plants ( brugs for example), to slow them down, as you suggested. I have a month or so before the windows stay decently warm at night ( they stay around 15C, the windows are probably 50+ years old). Im more worried about the seeds not germinating fast enough in the cool window, then growing slow.

I figured a month to a year to figure out the difference between Fortunei and Naini Tal. Do you know otherwise Jim??

Thanks dude 😀

Congrats on the success so far! The bananas need to be kept warm during the day, and rather cool at night.

Thanks Cameron thats what I thought....

Another thing about nana seeds is the fresher the better. They can take for ever to germinate if there not fresh. I have hundreds of velutina babies that came up super fast, but they where right off the plant fresh.

Hope this helps to.

Good luck with the others.

Bill

That I also agree with. I dont know how fresh they are, but all of them sunk, which is usualy a good sign for seeds..... They didnt look old. The ensete seeds looked very fresh IMO.

Congrats Jesse...oh yeah, 50 year old windows will be coolat night when it's -25C outside. 😕
Maybe too cool for bananas.

While everyone agrees trachies and waggies germinate under cool conditions, some stuff I've read recently suggested germination temps of 70F.
Which is pretty darn warm.
Just affects germination time.

Barb

Thanks Barb

Not all my windows are that old, just the south facing ones 👿 They should be ok in the following weeks

The trachys are strewn around the house, between houseplants. The thermastat says low to mid 60s in here (F), closer to the outside walls is around 60F. They are located near the furnace vent ( 4 feet away), and the stove is located on the other side of the wall.

Im still waiting on the Trachycarpus Nanus, since august.. 😯

Since Aug for the Trachy nanus? 😯

I just got some Trachy princeps seed...should'a started when I was your age by the sounds of it 👿
Barb

Well as you suggested, I think temperature has something to do with it. I had one against a cool wall, on op of the computer monitor, and one where the other trachy seeds are ( which sprouted in 8 - 10 weeks). Nothing yet. Could be dud seeds, ... then again i could just be impatiant. LOL

Princeps germinates quickly if i remember right.

And the thing too, nanus develops a subterranian trunk like Sabal Minor ( only developing a small trunk after a LONG time), and are very slow growing. I think the best estimates ive read on T Nanus was 2 or 3 months...

Princeps germinates quickly

That's IF it's princeps seeds...a big if. 😆

You can't call Trachy seeds DUDS until you've waited 8 months.
E I G H T months...sigh.

I'm going to abrade half my seeds with Sandpaper, will see if that speeds the process a bit.

Nanus at 2 or 3 months...sounds a little too positive to me.
My really fresh (hot off the tree and into the mailbox) Foxtail seeds took that long.

Barb

You can be waiting on Princeps for 2 years or more-I say throw them into the ground
if they take past May.

I had some seeds a few years ago that had not sprouted in months,I put them in the
ground in May,one Tesan came up in August or so.A Princeps came up 1 year later!

My fresh seeds from Garry are already sprouting-never seen Princeps sprout so fast!

fresh seeds from Garry are already sprouting-never seen Princeps sprout so fast!

I got princeps seeds from Garry this week!

When did you receive your seeds?

Barb

it sounds like you've been real busy!!!