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does anybody have a good guide for sprouting and growing these palms? thanks

 

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ill most likely buy them from RPS but, does anybody know where to buy oil palm seeds?

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I've got a couple of big ones, Elaeis guineensis, that produce seed but the animals manage to eat most of it. The seed that gets to the ground seems to germinate quite readily. They come up mostly around sprinklers but not so much where it's drier. So in a pot if they're well watered they should be okay.

 

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20 minutes ago, tropicbreeze said:

I've got a couple of big ones, Elaeis guineensis, that produce seed but the animals manage to eat most of it. The seed that gets to the ground seems to germinate quite readily. They come up mostly around sprinklers but not so much where it's drier. So in a pot if they're well watered they should be okay.

 

@2palm may need a heating mat. How deep is the taproot before the stem emerges?

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25 minutes ago, tropicbreeze said:

I've got a couple of big ones, Elaeis guineensis, that produce seed but the animals manage to eat most of it. The seed that gets to the ground seems to germinate quite readily. They come up mostly around sprinklers but not so much where it's drier. So in a pot if they're well watered they should be okay.

 

Don’t forget to save some for me thanks happypalms 

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RPS doesn’t have them in stock, anybody know somewhere to get them?

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15 minutes ago, 2palm said:

RPS doesn’t have them in stock, anybody know somewhere to get them?

Somebody was selling them in the For Sale forum a year or 2 ago. I don't remember his name but they had an Etsy store and listed them as shipping w/phyto certificate. 

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On 10/13/2023 at 9:01 PM, SeanK said:

@2palm may need a heating mat. How deep is the taproot before the stem emerges?

I haven't taken any notice but from memory those pulled out had two or three larger roots that were no more than about 100 mm long. And they'd have a couple of short leaf blades. When reading up about them years ago, they're okay to grow commercially about 10 degrees off the equator in a wet climate. They will grow well outside of that range, even outside of the tropics. Don't know how well they do there though.

These are some seeds I picked up tody, don't know how long they've been laying around. May not be viable any more. I'd say the small ones were probably dropped by animals before they matured.

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They can grow quite large. The big one has a trunk about 30 m tall, the smaller beside it about 15 m. Epiphytes grow well on the trunks.

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