Germinated Ceroxylon peruvianum

[tbearz]

Last Spring Ceroxylon peruvianum seeds became available and were for sale on Rare Palm Seeds for the first time. This post included germination notes on peruvianum and other palm seed germination: http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/41173-how-to-germinate-rps-seeds/?hl=peruvianum#entry637380

Well finally, after ten months, the Ceroxylon peruvianum seeds I bought from RPS have started to move. Four seeds have germinated - I'm attaching pictures of the three I'm going to put in soil today. The fourth was put into soil three weeks go and has a quarter inch spear emerging from the soil. This species has, for me at least, has turned out to be one of those germinators that just takes time. It has taken longer than any other Ceroxylon I have germinated in the past. I used the standard baggie method, with moist spaghnum and set them aside at room temperature. I hope I can get them past the tricky strap leaf stage - I'm excited about this new species!

[Josh-O]

looks good. keep us posted on the growth rate. How many seeds did you start with and what was the germination rate?

[Jim in Los Altos]

Great! I wish I had your patience with seeds. Those will be beautiful palms someday.

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Well done looking forward to seeing updates

Troy

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[Pedro 65]

10/10 here too Thom in "coarse sand", I buried the seed 2" deep so it was "always" moist, not too wet / too dry = Just right Pete

[Tassie_Troy1971]

great work Pete

Still waiting for my Ceroxylon quindiense to come up !

[Pedro 65]

great work Pete

Still waiting for my Ceroxylon quindiense to come up !

Troy, I went and checked the Quins, and look, the "marvel" of coarse sand in a big pot in the garden ( olden day style germination has started after 10 weeks . Pete

[tbearz]

I started with ten seeds from RPS and four of the six I had indoors in baggies have germinated. As an experiment, I put four seeds in sand outside this summer to germinate but they were eaten by squirrels.

[Josh-O]

squirrels suck!!

[LJG]

On 12/14/2014 at 5:53 PM, Jim in Los Altos said:

Great! I wish I had your patience with seeds. Those will be beautiful palms someday.

Started from seed late 2012.