how to germinate metroxylon sagu

[Tingtongthai]

Anyone have a "how to"  guide for germinating Metroxylon Sagu seeds, Ive managed to get hold of one by chance and would like to germinate it, seeds  very fresh, dropped off the tree whilst i was next to it...........missed me, its the size of an apple

[Tingtongthai]

Read an article saying removing the  outer and inner  skin/flesh gives  better germination

[Tingtongthai]

anyone?

[Fusca]

Unfortunately I have only tried to germinate a single seed of Metroxylon warburgii one time and was not successful.  I hope you will have success and share your experience.  Good job of avoiding the falling fruit! 

Jon

[Frond-friend42]

 Go Floribunda!

Man that place is so amazing. I picked this up off the ground to ask Jeff what it was and he unwrapped it and told me M. vietense, and (gosh I would love it to be amicarum ) and let me have the little donut shaped thing.

I buried it in an airy mix of peat, perlite, and coir (heavy on the perlite) in a pot on a heat mat, with dappled light and a clear plastic lid heating it up a bit more.

[Rick Kelley]

3 hours ago, Frond-friend42 said:

 Go Floribunda!

Man that place is so amazing. I picked this up off the ground to ask Jeff what it was and he unwrapped it and told me M. vietense, and (gosh I would love it to be amicarum ) and let me have the little donut shaped thing.

I buried it in an airy mix of peat, perlite, and coir (heavy on the perlite) in a pot on a heat mat, with dappled light and a clear plastic lid heating it up a bit more.

 

Ben,

Great to see that your very rainy vacation to Hawaii produced some positive palm results. I won't ask how you got the seeds through ag inspection and onto the plane. M. vitiense is an excellent species reaching monster status before it blooms. It will not be happy in a pot for very long. It will soon be crying out to go into the ground. If it makes it 20-30 years (in Utah?), it will put on a wonderful show when it blooms. And I will be amazed if it survives that long in cold, dry Utah. If it is any consolation, be happy you got a  vitiense seed. They germinate easily, amicorum much higher failure rate.

[Frond-friend42]

11 hours ago, Rick Kelley said:

Ben,

Great to see that your very rainy vacation to Hawaii produced some positive palm results. I won't ask how you got the seeds through ag inspection and onto the plane. M. vitiense is an excellent species reaching monster status before it blooms. It will not be happy in a pot for very long. It will soon be crying out to go into the ground. If it makes it 20-30 years (in Utah?), it will put on a wonderful show when it blooms. And I will be amazed if it survives that long in cold, dry Utah. If it is any consolation, be happy you got a  vitiense seed. They germinate easily, amicorum much higher failure rate.

Rick,

20 -30 years is a long time. I could build a bigger greenhouse or drive the thing somewhere in that time. I got it through the Ag inspections by showing the Ag inspectors what I had. They nodded and said "this all looks ok". I've done this a few times. You just have to clean off all the pulp and bugs (in the case of a tarot cutting I was gifted by a tarot-farming friend) and it's fine. Strangely, you can't take oranges, because there is the fruit. But you can take palm seeds, cleaned of their fruit.  I'm an honest person.

I was just sooo impressed with A. amicarum. The one at Bill Austin's looks like some kind of Kraken coming out of the ground. Massive. But you're right, I am probably better off with this kind.

Ben

[Frond-friend42]

Pretty steady grower. Wicked spikes right off. Reminds me of something Klingon.

[Looking Glass]

 

On arrival.....

 

After a few months under the heating pad....

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