Medemia Argun seedlings are sprouting

[Zeeth]

Just now, doranakandawatta said:

"Palms" IPS magazine?

 

Found it! Starts on page 33.

https://www.sbg.org.sg/media/k2/attachments/2012_Jan_Gardenwise_Vol_38.pdf

[LJG]

39 minutes ago, Zeeth said:

I could have sworn that I read an article about how the female Lodoicea at Foster was pollinated with male pollen collected at the SBG, but I can't find the article anywhere now. 

I am sure it was too. I was talking about one of the first pollinations outside the Seychelles. Plants from that pollination are already flowering. But I have ADHD and if anyone talking at me goes on longer than a few sentences I tend to forget what was said. So I might have missed where the SBG Palm was pollinated from. Could have came from Seychelles maybe too. 

Any IPS members on the biennial remember what they said?

[doranakandawatta]

5 minutes ago, LJG said:

I am sure it was too. I was talking about one of the first pollinations outside the Seychelles. Plants from that pollination are already flowering. But I have ADHD and if anyone talking at me goes on longer than a few sentences I tend to forget what was said. So I might have missed where the SBG Palm was pollinated from. Could have came from Seychelles maybe too. 

Any IPS members on the biennial remember what they said?

Anyway, with the Lodoicea Avenue, Peradeniya Royal Botanic Gardens in Kandy owns the best harem for this species, so many males, so many females... 

[Josh-O]

6 hours ago, doranakandawatta said:

Anyway, with the Lodoicea Avenue, Peradeniya Royal Botanic Gardens in Kandy owns the best harem for this species, so many males, so many females... 

wow! do you have any pictures??

[Zeeth]

28 minutes ago, Josh-O said:

wow! do you have any pictures??

There have been some threads about it in recent past. Definitely check them out! 

 

[doranakandawatta]

6 hours ago, Josh-O said:

wow! do you have any pictures??

it must have been one of my first post end of 2012:

Lodoicea of Peradeniya garden

Started by doranakandawatta, 9 Nov 2012

or: 

Peradeniya News: Lodoicea

Started by doranakandawatta, 10 Jan 2013

• Peradeniya
•  
• Lodoicea

 

[Josh-O]

I'll post more pictures soon. I have never seen such a fast growing seedling like Medemia!

they are rocket ships..

[Palm Tree Jim]

Nice work Josh!

[kirkhutch]

I placed 11 of these in a baggie on 10-30 and today I have germination in 9! Wow. Does anyone have suggestions about when I should place them into pots? 

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

I'd  wait for a 2-4" radicle then put in a pot. This is what i do for bismarckia and hyphaene coriacea. 

[Al in Kona]

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On ‎10‎/‎11‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎03‎:‎53‎, LJG said:

I have never seen a palm root this crazy as a one-leaf seedling. 

Syagrus santoursii is just like that.

Yes as Dave's pic above shows, SYAGRUS SANTOSII grow like that.  I grew some of those from Brazil seed and am very happy to have this beautiful palm from Bahia, Brazil.  Yes it's still a seedling but at least I now have one.  Who else has Syagrus santosii?  Here's a pic of one in habitat.

[Phoenikakias]

Bump, any updates from those who obtained medemia seedlings or grow them from seed on? 

I had been given one Medemia seed, which germinated during early winter. It grows exclusively in pumice and has spent rest of winter and early spring indoors. Piece of cake and less warmth demanding than Borassus aethiopum. Next challenge for it is going to be the extreme summer heat around root zone. Certainly pumice and white pot help keeping an insulation and reflecting sun rays. 

[Sabal Steve]

I have a seedling that I got as a strap leaf many months ago.  It's easy, but by no means fast (in the ambient temps, of central San Diego).  The initial leaf has gotten bigger though.  Maybe things will change, as higher summer temps arrive.  I'll move into more Sun in the fall (although it could probably handle more at this stage). Maybe getting 1/3 - 1/2 day Sun now, through translucent plastic, at times - depending on the Sun's  angle).

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

5 hours ago, The Steve said:

I have a seedling that I got as a strap leaf many months ago.  It's easy, but by no means fast (in the ambient temps, of central San Diego).  The initial leaf has gotten bigger though.  Maybe things will change, as higher summer temps arrive.  I'll move into more Sun in the fall (although it could probably handle more at this stage). Maybe getting 1/3 - 1/2 day Sun now, through translucent plastic, at times - depending on the Sun's  angle).

These are quick growers and the color is very nice.

[Sabal Steve]

1 hour ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

These are quick growers and the color is very nice.

I like these, and they do have great color.  They grow steadily.  Here's what it looked like in 10/2016, and after is what It looks like 8 months later.  The leaf is about 7 inches long.  I'll probably plant it for a neighbor in a few years, so it can get most day sun.

[Tingtongthai]

Coming up for 3  years  old and about 4  metres  tall now with  2  metres  trunk...........got 5  of  them here frequently flowering, foreground 3  Tahinas

Edited June 12, 2017 by Tingtongthai

[Kris]

3 hours ago, Tingtongthai said:

Coming up for 3  years  old and about 4  metres  tall now with  2  metres  trunk...........got 5  of  them here frequently flowering, foreground 3  Tahinas

Iam just seeing your top soil,looks interesting.Thanks for the visual.

[Tingtongthai]

4 hours ago, Kris said:

Iam just seeing your top soil,looks interesting.Thanks for the visual.

The  soil is  sandy the "top soil" is 1 inch  stone maybe granite I get from a  local quarry its 4  inches  deep

[Phoenikakias]

Bump! Any updates of the attempts to grow Medemia in coastal Ca? I do not bother asking about the inland empire or southern Az, because I am sure it will thrive there. In my place with constant low temps during winter but also very low rainfall it survives for many years but it grows slowly. I do not mind about it however, if I am the champion of the most northern outplanted Medemia. Interestingly it seems to benefit from the bitter cold, dry and desiccating northern wind during winter. Deadliest enemy is, what else, the snow. Stem is fattening up nicely and the mark you observe is an indirect damage from last year's snowfall, meaning that increased moisture during its protection caused a small fungal infection. This year had used no whatever overhead protection and it does certainly better.

 

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Cold tolerance update. I have these right beside hyphaene coriacea and super blue/purple bismarckia, and it looks like medemia and hyphaene experience leaf burn at exactly the same temperarure.  The house dropped to 21f, same amount of burn on each, zero on bismarckia.  Same bismarckia outside zero burn at 20f while b. Clara had partial burn and arenga e. 50+% defoliated. 

[Phoenikakias]

On 29/1/2018, 4:12:56, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

Cold tolerance update. I have these right beside hyphaene coriacea and super blue/purple bismarckia, and it looks like medemia and hyphaene experience leaf burn at exactly the same temperarure.  The house dropped to 21f, same amount of burn on each, zero on bismarckia.  Same bismarckia outside zero burn at 20f while b. Clara had partial burn and arenga e. 50+% defoliated. 

Never managed to grow a H coriacea to an outplantable size. How did the H thebaica score during the recent cold spell in your neck of the woods?

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

@Phoenikakias I don't have any Thebaica  growing but have had requests from several of my Airzona customers so it looks like i will start growing a few for them in the next few months.  They will all grow in the same house with the latania, medemia, hyphaene, and a few yucca species.

[Hillizard]

On 6/2/2017, 4:11:18, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

These are quick growers and the color is very nice.

Joe (Texas Cold Hardy Palms): the one you shipped me arrived today in good shape. It's a very robust seedling with great color! I like that this one has already proven its hardiness during your recent Texas winter low temps! In my inland NorCal location it should like the hot, dry summers; the test will be our cool, wet winters.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

I just germinated another 75ish seed and will have some more available end of summer. 

[Joeb]

isn't the fruit edible ? 

Joe