Oldest Palms from seed

[Gileno Machado]

This Pritchardia hillebrandii "blue dwarf " shown below is from the very first palm seeds I attempted to germinate in early 2004.

Living in Northeastern Brazil, with not many diversified palm nurseries around, made me consider trying to learn more about cultivation from seed and this curiosity led me to find the IPS website and the Palmtalk forum some five years ago.

At that time I had already germinated many coconuts but when I received the new Pritchardia seeds, kindly sent as a gift from a friend who posts here in Palmtalk I had no experience on germinating other exotic palms so I had to google around and also try to learn from this forum, which helped me a lot.

Shortly after, I decided to place my first orders from RPS, Ortanique and Trebrown and also made great contacts for exchanging seeds with other collectors and friends, in Brazil and abroad. I love palms in every aspect and stage of growth but now I find a great satisfaction in germinating new species from seed and then trying to make them grow nicely throughout the early stages. Considering many frustrating attempts but lots of great satisfactions in these last 5 years of germinating Palms and Cycads, I guess I may have already tried over 500 different species now...and still learning from you in this board, thanks.

Here are some palms germinated from seed in those early days. Please feel free to post pictures of your palms grown from seed too...

[Gileno Machado]

Clinostigma samoense (now warburgii):

[Gileno Machado]

Wodyetia bifurcata (2005) and Actinorhytis calapparia (2004) in the side yard. The traveller in the background was bought as a small seedling but the 6 species of Phoenix in small containers were all from different seed sources:

[Gileno Machado]

Chamaedorea cataractarum

[Gileno Machado]

The small bottle on the left was grown from seed (Hyophorbe lagenicaulis) but the Bismarckia nobilis came as a 25 cm tall seedling from São Paulo in 2004:

[Gileno Machado]

The two taller Veitchias came as small seedlings but these yellow coconuts in the backgrouhd and the smallest Veitchia joannis were all born in Sirinhaém...

[Gileno Machado]

Seed grown Bismackia (from CFK) and Adonidia from a batch of seeds collected in Recife:

[Gileno Machado]

Washingtonia robusta (maybe filibusta):

[Gileno Machado]

Metroxylon warburgii in the backyard:

[Gileno Machado]

Verschaffeltia splendida:

[Gileno Machado]

Acrocomia intumescens juveniles, from seed:

[Gileno Machado]

Seed class:

[Gileno Machado]

Chambeyronia, Salacca, Elaeis and friends:

[Gileno Machado]

Please show yours...

[Kris]

Dear Brother

Great job And your garden looks beautiful & well taken care off !

thanks for those big sized still_ i loved it..

Lots of love to u,

Kris

[Norm]

Dear Gileno:

I like what you have done, it looks great. I am like you. Growing from seed gives me great satisfaction. I have limited space where I live, so I do just a little at a time. Here are two palms from 2003 vintage seed. I only now just set out the Pinanga from container.

[Norm]

This is Dypsis decipiens--2003

[Palmetro]

Nice place Gileno!

Congratulations!

Christian

[fdrc65]

One of my oldest palm from a seed is this Phoenix Reclinata in a pot (full of roots) since 1985

I live in an USDA 8B area so I think it cannot survive on the ground..

bye

Fede

[MattyB]

This is Dypsis decipiens--2003

Norm, that looks like Mauritia flexuosa or maybe Livistona decora, but definitely not D. decipiens.

Ohhhh, I just realized, you mean Livistona decipiens probably, aka L. decora.

[Norm]

Matt--

Thanks for the correction! Last time I made a mistake like that I think I was in the 2nd grade (LOL).

Aloha,

[deezpalms]

Hahaa!! Brahdah Norm, I was just going to point out the same mistake! Too funny!

Take care,

Kawika

[gcyao]

Matt--

Thanks for the correction! Last time I made a mistake like that I think I was in the 2nd grade (LOL).

Aloha,

Norm,

I would call that a senior moment, which I have a lot of myself lately.

[Ciczi in Sweden]

My oldest palm from seed is aproximately 5 months old.

It's a Trachycarpus fortunei, bought in Copenhagens botanical garden i january 2008 and planted the same day. It took four months before it decided to show up.

/Ciczi in Sweden

[Gileno Machado]

Lovely Pinanga Norm. Your garden looks very nice.

Thanks for the comments Christian, Kris...

Fede, my Phoenix recinata from seed hasn`t started clumping yet. Why don`t you put yours in the ground and protect it?

Hi Ciczi....What a nice baby Trachycarpus there. Please don`t ask me to show you mine...droopy leafed and slow growing in my climate...

Welcome to Palmtalk.

Here another little gem from seed: Hydriastele pinangoides 2005

[Gileno Machado]

Areca catechu variegated, 3 years old: