Palm seeds

[ChicagoPalma]

I got right now six of each growing from seed, Windmill palm, Mexican fan palm, California fan palm, and Date palm. I also have a date seedling and and a bunch of dragon fruit seedlings. The dragon fruit germinate fast.

[ChicagoPalma]

The date seedling popped about around February 6, I tried growing dates but they didn’t grow after a month so I removed most of them except one, that one sprouted after two months. It grew pretty fast in general after it sprouted.

[ChicagoPalma]

Here are the rest of my seedlings, they still are seeds but I checked on the dates and one of them have a tiny tail, so I’ll keep the updates coming on all the seeds. They grow in my little diy greenhouse.

[ChicagoPalma]

Just got the pindo seeds, they don’t look really clean though. 

[Jeff zone 8 N.C.]

Nice haul! I do not think those are pindo seeds in your pic. They look more like Trachycarpus maybe.

[PalmatierMeg]

Don’t be too quick to give up on seeds. Palms can and do take many weeks, months, even years to germinate.

[ChicagoPalma]

4 minutes ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Don’t be too quick to give up on seeds. Palms can and do take many weeks, months, even years to germinate.

No I'm still growing them, but before I started this little palm nursery, I planted a couple date seeds in november in a small pot. They all got mold and I threw them out. I forgot to get one that barely had any mold, it just sat there in the soil until, two or three months later it sprouted in February.

[ChicagoPalma]

39 minutes ago, Jeff zone 8 N.C. said:

Nice haul! I do not think those are pindo seeds in your pic. They look more like Trachycarpus maybe.

They definitely do not. I could be wrong though. Also those are not trachy seeds, I have a couple trachy seeds in a baggie for possible later use.

[ChicagoPalma]

With thy spring now arriving, and summer me excitingly cheer, a new addition has came with the seeds.

[ChicagoPalma]

The date seedling might be in trouble! The little bare rooted seedling still had a connection with the seeds it came out of. But the connection partially snapped. The little date seedling might be in trouble but I think it will survive. @Allen, you've helped me a lot, so you have any thoughts about the date seedlings wether it might suffer or not?

[Palmlex]

3 hours ago, ChicagoPalma said:

The date seedling might be in trouble! The little bare rooted seedling still had a connection with the seeds it came out of. But the connection partially snapped. The little date seedling might be in trouble but I think it will survive. @Allen, you've helped me a lot, so you have any thoughts about the date seedlings wether it might suffer or not?

Unless you forcefully separated it, the old seed does normally come off.

[Hardypalms]

19 hours ago, ChicagoPalma said:

They definitely do not. I could be wrong though. Also those are not trachy seeds, I have a couple trachy seeds in a baggie for possible later use.

They look like trachy seeds to me too.

Pat

[Allen]

9 hours ago, ChicagoPalma said:

The date seedling might be in trouble! The little bare rooted seedling still had a connection with the seeds it came out of. But the connection partially snapped. The little date seedling might be in trouble but I think it will survive. @Allen, you've helped me a lot, so you have any thoughts about the date seedlings wether it might suffer or not?

Lots of people on here are better growing from seed than I am and I don't know a lot about date seeds.  

[Little Tex]

I grew a lot of dates, the seed should come off, after the size yours is now it is no longer nessecary, also those mystery seeds look like tracycarpus.

[ChicagoPalma]

They had dried fruit/flesh on it, so maybe pindo or trachy seeds. I ordered my seeds from amazon. But I bought like pindo seeds for like three bucks so maybe those are the seeds. I ordered my trachy seeds a while ago and they come in a little bulb shape. I think those either way could be trachys but the seeds are bigger than the trachy seeds. I will try to grow them and I will use some things to speed up germination.

[Bigfish]

On 3/4/2023 at 9:12 AM, ChicagoPalma said:

Just got the pindo seeds, they don’t look really clean though. 

These are definitely not Pindo seeds.  They look like Trachycarpus to me also.

[Little Tex]

20 hours ago, ChicagoPalma said:

They had dried fruit/flesh on it, so maybe pindo or trachy seeds. I ordered my seeds from amazon. But I bought like pindo seeds for like three bucks so maybe those are the seeds. I ordered my trachy seeds a while ago and they come in a little bulb shape. I think those either way could be trachys but the seeds are bigger than the trachy seeds. I will try to grow them and I will use some things to speed up germination.

send pictures of the old tracy seeds they dont sound like tracy seeds.

[JLM]

Heres the different Trachy seeds and what they look like:


Heres some different Butia seeds and what they look like:


Neither image is mine, both have been posted somewhere on the forum previously. This should help you identify what the seeds actually are.

[ChicagoPalma]

Mk, the seeds look more like T. Fortunei "Tesan" seeds, but yeah they are T. Fortunei seeds.

[ChicagoPalma]

Good news, It is snowing here but it is 40 degrees outside. Most of the date seeds have sprouted, and I’m a couple weeks away until the last frost date.

[ChicagoPalma]

Usually the last frost date is in April and sometimes may, and landscaping season for me is coming!

[ChicagoPalma]

Update: All date seeds have a little root now, other palms seeds have not sprouted yet, and I’m planning to buy Sabal “Oregon” hybrid.