What Is a Good Way to Germinate Sabal Palmetto Seeds?

[PalmTreeDude]

I want to germinate these Sabal palmetto seeds (the center of them.) and I am not sure what the best was to germinate them is. Should I just throw them in a pot with soil? I tried the baggy method and the paper towel method but both of those did not work, for me. Any suggestions? (Pictures, the one with the crushed seed is just me showing the center of the seed, that I cleaned off.)

[PalmTreeDude]

[PalmTreeDude]

[Brad Mondel]

Put them in a community pot with a half perlite and half soil mix. Place them in a warm area outside. Allow the soil to dry a little between waterings. Keeping the soil too moist will inhibit germination. BE PATIENT, my Sabal domingensis seeds just now germinated after 2 months. 

Click link to learn about palm seed germination: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/m/#publication?id=EP238

[Mohsen]

1 hour ago, PalmTreeDude said:

I want to germinate these Sabal palmetto seeds (the center of them.) and I am not sure what the best was to germinate them is. Should I just throw them in a pot with soil? I tried the baggy method and the paper towel method but both of those did not work, for me. Any suggestions? (Pictures, the one with the crushed seed is just me showing the center of the seed, that I cleaned off.)

I had 100% success , using baggy method...but I put them in pot as soon as see the germination...

[GoatLockerGuns]

I germinated a bunch of Sabal minor seeds (looked almost identical to those Sabal palmetto seeds) using the baggie method and a standard heat mat purchased from Walmart.  They started germinating in about 3 weeks (one week after the Washingtonia filiferas I started at the same time using the same method) at about a 75% germination rate.  Sometimes you just get a bad batch.  I'd try germinating a few seeds using different methods at the same time (baggie, ground, Jiffy trays, paper towels, etc...).  See what takes.

 

Rich

[Laaz]

Throw them on the ground & walk away for a couple weeks...

[PalmTreeDude]

I threw like 200 on the ground in my planter... I might have hundreds springing up in the next month. 

[Matthew92]

3 hours ago, Mohsen said:

I had 100% success , using baggy method...but I put them in pot as soon as see the germination...

Yeah, they sprouted like beans for me too with the bag method.

[Mohsen]

All Sabal seeds germinated for me pretty quickly but then get extremely slow...maybe because we are in winter here ?

[Latinmtl67]

I have a question, 

why is the end of the root green? 

I open my bag today and 1 out of 10 seed germinated after 1 month and all i see is the first picture... i want to put it in soil but i dont know if i can just put in a pot and submerge with soil

take a look guys

i dont think its a good idea if i leave in in the ziploc bag 

[Pal Meir]

And remember, they will play saxophone:

http://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/Sabal/SAMI8-1yr-sax.html