Sabal minor Seedlings

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Sabal minor Seedlings

Post by bgodwin1987 » Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:15 pm

So I planted some Sabal Minor seeds at the begging on Jan and now they have germinated. I have never grown any palms from seed before so im excited.
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Post by Cameron_z6a_N.S. » Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:03 pm

Nice job, make sure to give them lots of heat and light!
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Post by TimMAz6 » Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:17 am

Hi Bryce,

those S. minors look happy :D
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Post by lucky1 » Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:20 am

Congrats Bryce, sabals aren't known as easy to do.

Nice fresh seed obviously.
Well done.
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Post by TerdalFarm » Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:59 am

Wonderful! My favorite palm, of course. :D

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Post by bgodwin1987 » Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:23 pm

Thanks everyone ill update photos of their progress.
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Post by bgodwin1987 » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:30 pm

I just repotted my sabal minor seedlings yesterday so far they seem to be doing pretty well, they needed some room to stretch.
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Post by TerdalFarm » Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:40 pm

That's always fun. Sunday I potted up a batch of Sabal "Birmingham" that needed bigger cups (now in 20 oz. styrofoam).

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Post by canadianplant » Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:12 am

Sabals have massive taproots. My seedlings slowed a lot in shallow pots. Theyre going to be re potted in 2 liter pop bottles, or something larger.

Grats on the germination!
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Post by bgodwin1987 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:42 am

Yeah I just planted them in 3 different community pots. They are still kinda small, some of them were so bound together I couldn't get them apart. The container they were in was so shallow and small there tap roots were like al curly and wrapped around each other.
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Post by lucky1 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:16 pm

Good work on the germination Bryce.
some of them were so bound together I couldn't get them apart. The container they were in was so shallow and small there tap roots were like al curly and wrapped around each other.
That's the tricky part, minimizing root damage at up-potting.
They generally stall for a while as a result.
But then bounce back like crazy.

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