First Germination xButiagrus seed

[Scott W]

Woooooooooo!  Super excited to find first germination from the mule palm seed purchased from @ErikSJI back in November! Can't wait to see the rest start to pop!

I layered the seed similar to how Erik does, then  buried in soil over heat mats with the temperature set to 92F and then plastic for a humidity dome over that.  Seed trays are in a small greenhouse attached to my house, gets full late morning and afternoon sun.

[KDubU]

That is awesome Scott! 

[Scott W]

Noted multiple green spikes emerging today!  

[Plant-Life]

That looks like a really nice setup, which is obviously effective. Congrats on the positive germination results!! Do you know where I might be able to purchase some Butiagrus seed? I really want to try to successfully cross pollinate some seed myself, but purchasing some to start with would be fun. I am not 100% sure on the step by step process to accomplish the pollinization, but it would be a great challenge, and I would be REALLY excited if I actually did it! Any help would be appreciated!

[NWpalms@206]

Are these just standard mule? I’d like to find a Butia E. X Santa Catarina, I believe that’s what MPOM advertises also. 

[Scott W]

20 hours ago, NWpalms@206 said:

Are these just standard mule? I’d like to find a Butia E. X Santa Catarina, I believe that’s what MPOM advertises also. 

Yes, these are standard mule to my knowledge.  I have a large Litoralis that hopefully will be flowering in a couple years, and have two Santa Catarina on order, so maybe in 7 years I'll have pollen from these to play with.

[Scott W]

21 hours ago, Plant-Life said:

That looks like a really nice setup, which is obviously effective. Congrats on the positive germination results!! Do you know where I might be able to purchase some Butiagrus seed? I really want to try to successfully cross pollinate some seed myself, but purchasing some to start with would be fun. I am not 100% sure on the step by step process to accomplish the pollinization, but it would be a great challenge, and I would be REALLY excited if I actually did it! Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks for the compliments!

As for buying seed, these rarely come available.  I was fortunate enough to jump on an opportunity to get these from another Palm Talk member that decided to retire from the business.

As for the process, there's a tons of threads on here and Palmpedia....here's a couple links that I have bookmarked for reference:

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/4789-jubutyagrus/

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/19884-pollen-questionhybridizing/

http://www.palmpedia.net/forum/threads/butia-x-syagrus-hybrids-i-thought-i-would-share-some-photos-as-well.2538/

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/70041-hybrid-creation-butia-odorata-x-parajubaea-torallyi-var-torallyi-f1/

[Scott W]

Germination in the other seed beds now and at least a dozen tiny green spears in the first...

[RJ]

On 2/5/2022 at 4:17 PM, NWpalms@206 said:

Are these just standard mule? I’d like to find a Butia E. X Santa Catarina, I believe that’s what MPOM advertises also. 

He’s been talking about them for some time, to my knowledge he has yet to produce this cross. 

[NWpalms@206]

2 hours ago, RJ said:

He’s been talking about them for some time, to my knowledge he has yet to produce this cross. 

Ah ok, it’s on their website that’s why I emailed to see the deal. Also lists JxQ and JxB F1 but the whole list of what’s for sale says sold out so maybe soon to be updated.