Parajubaea cocoides suprise ! Darold Petty

[Tassie_Troy1971]

On the last day of my first visit to Darold Petty's garden in SFO we agreed that his big Parajubaea cocoides was sadly in decline planted in 1983 it had pride of place in his front yard.

Darold have me about 20 seeds off his Parajubaea cocoides to take back to coastal  Tasmania (similar climate) to keep the legacy alive.

 

This was back in 2010 on my second visit in 2013 the big parajubaea was looking very sad indeed and i said still no life out of those seeds Darold.

In Febuary 2015 i had the pleasure of having Darold Petty and his wife Jan stay with us in Tasmania and that week 5 seeds off his cocoides germinated !

 

Now just today i was looking under the house for a large plastic container to wash out and use to germinate Rhopalostylis chatham Island and R baueri seeds sent over by - you guessed it Darold Petty !  To my surprise i found 15 sprouted Parajubaea cocoides seeds that i had forgotten about in a large sealed container covered in dirt and muck !  I promptly potted them up to grow on in my shade house.   

 

Is there some intergalactic signal that connects the germination of those seeds with any activity that involves Darold Petty ? Maybe not but i am not entirely convinced ?

Troy

[Pedro 65]

3 hours ago, Tassie_Troy1971 said:

On the last day of my first visit to Darold Petty's garden in SFO we agreed that his big Parajubaea cocoides was sadly in decline planted in 1983 it had pride of place in his front yard.

Darold have me about 20 seeds off his Parajubaea cocoides to take back to coastal  Tasmania (similar climate) to keep the legacy alive.

 

This was back in 2010 on my second visit in 2013 the big parajubaea was looking very sad indeed and i said still no life out of those seeds Darold.

In Febuary 2015 i had the pleasure of having Darold Petty and his wife Jan stay with us in Tasmania and that week 5 seeds off his cocoides germinated !

 

Now just today i was looking under the house for a large plastic container to wash out and use to germinate Rhopalostylis chatham Island and R baueri seeds sent over by - you guessed it Darold Petty !  To my surprise i found 15 sprouted Parajubaea cocoides seeds that i had forgotten about in a large sealed container covered in dirt and muck !  I promptly potted them up to grow on in my shade house.   

 

Is there some intergalactic signal that connects the germination of those seeds with any activity that involves Darold Petty ? Maybe not but i am not entirely convinced ?

Troy

Wow, 3 Years to germinate,   well I spose its a very long voyage for the decd Mumma to finally get  to Tassie and see if your taking care of her young (re  intergelactic).    Pete

[Kennybenjamin]

Great story Troy...... good news thread!

[Sir Oxylon]

I got really lucky with this species. RPS P. cocoides seed germinated in a couple of months for me a few years ago. In contrast I have not been able to get  torallyi to germinate.

[Howeadypsis]

He must have the magic touch

[Josh-O]

awesome!

I also received a big box of seeds and only got about 10-15 to sprout to date

some are still starting to sprout 2 yrs later ..

I almost threw them away.

 

 

great story Troy

[realarch]

Nice story Troy, sounds like you and Darold have become good friends. Those special seedlings now also share your friendship.

Tim

[Darold Petty]

57 minutes ago, Josh-O said:

I also received a big box of seeds and only got about 10-15 to sprout to date

some are still starting to sprout 2 yrs later ..

No worries, Josh.  I will visit and do my "laying on of hands" over your seed box !  LOL   

[Josh-O]

5 minutes ago, Darold Petty said:

No worries, Josh.  I will visit and do my "laying on of hands" over your seed box !  LOL   

lol....

your welcome to come by anytime

[Jubaea]

I have a couple of P. cocoides growing and the seeds took at least two years to germinate, possibly three.  I had given up on them and planted other things in the pot and had to separate them later.

[BS Man about Palms]

I can't remember his name but there was a Reverend as such into palms in the Northern LA area that had figured out how to germinate the Parajubea seeds well.  I was still new at it when I visited him near Newbury Park and my only take-away I can remember was he said NEVER throw them away AND you can often get multiple plants from the same seed! He said sometimes he could get a palm per "eye". Many, if not Most of the Parajubea's grown in So Cal are from his germination. When I joined, the going price for a 5 gal seedling at a PSSC auction/tour was $150 (10 years ago?) and now nice sized plants the same size are 1/3 the price.

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Yes nothing like germination success even if it is years after.  I have also had similar thrown away germination with Jubaea chilensis and Trithrinax campestris !

[DoomsDave]

Those are a tough mo-fo grow. Alas. My double died.

My single is still alive, next to the eight hundred pound Gorilla.

I think they need their Andes.

[SHEP]

Just planted three large P. v. Microcarpa today that Patric Schafer sold me.  The tallest one is 12', smallest 8'.  He visited our place, and sized each one of these, because, the front of my house is on a slope, and, each one looks perfectly matched heighth wise.  The only one I found to scope out live in Northern CA was David Sylva's in San Jose.  He had such a beautiful tree.  He also had two monster TvT's, but, they couldn't hold a candle to this one.  California Dreamin... 

I am so excited its getting warm again, and planning on protecting them for a few winters.  He has had these plants at 20 degrees F in Phylo, in a 15g pots, no less. 

Left 2' on either side of sidewalks for base of trunk, just in case I am still alive.   Cecile

[Tyrone]

Hi Troy. Here is a sibling to yours. Seed arrived in 2010, germinated in 2011, planted out in Jan 2015 in freezing cold Albany.

[Howeadypsis]

5 hours ago, Tyrone said:

Hi Troy. Here is a sibling to yours. Seed arrived in 2010, germinated in 2011, planted out in Jan 2015 in freezing cold Albany.

It takes cold?

[Pip]

48 minutes ago, Howeadypsis said:

It takes cold?

Hahaha, Tyrone is speaking about temperture from an Aussie perspective. In southern Australia many of our winter flowering perennials are summer flowering in the UK. I was fascinated by that when I was last in the UK. Plants I'm used to seeing in winter growing in full glory in summer. 

[Tyrone]

10 hours ago, Pip said:

Hahaha, Tyrone is speaking about temperture from an Aussie perspective. In southern Australia many of our winter flowering perennials are summer flowering in the UK. I was fascinated by that when I was last in the UK. Plants I'm used to seeing in winter growing in full glory in summer. 

Well it feels blimmin freezing today. So far for July I'm recording 4.5C min and 17.5C max and rain that just doesn't stop with blowing cold winds straight off Antarctica. The depths of winter here. 

But yes, you are right. Here we grow Canola in winter, but in Europe and Canada it's a summer crop. Here an elderberry bush will flower in winter and never set fruit (because it warms up on approach to summer), whereas in England it flowers in summer and as it cools down it then sets fruit. We're down under and back to front.