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Trachycarpus fortunei seed germination
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 5:12 pm
by wxman
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:39 pm
by TimMAz6
Hi Tim
You went for the small pack of Tracy seeds?
Boy that's a lot of work. I remember when Kiril sent me 3,000 of his Bulgarian palm seeds back in 2000......my wife did not care for the 10 flats of seedlings in the kitchen. I could not understand.......does't everybody keep seedlings all over the house in winter?
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:04 pm
by wxman
TimMAz6 wrote:Hi Tim
You went for the small pack of Tracy seeds?
Boy that's a lot of work. I remember when Kiril sent me 3,000 of his Bulgarian palm seeds back in 2000......my wife did not care for the 10 flats of seedlings in the kitchen. I could not understand.......does't everybody keep seedlings all over the house in winter?
Yeah I went for the gold on this project. I plan on selling them summer of 2013 to help promote hardy palms in my state. I'm going to be starting a new batch of seeds each winter, so will hopefully be able to keep selling young windmill palms every summer. My grow area in the basement can accommodate approximately 600 4" pots, so if much more than that germinate I will need to come up with another grow area. Should be good until fall though as I don't think I will be potting these up until it's warm enough for them to go right outside this year.
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:00 am
by TimMAz6
Hi Tim
I'd expect 80% or more germ rate.....2000x0.8=1600. Start finding more room!
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:51 pm
by Cameron_z6a_N.S.
Great work, wxman! It should not be too long (a couple weeks or less) until the first spears start popping up.
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:27 am
by lucky1
Nice, wxTim, I've been wondering about your seeds.
Many people say Trachies, etc. etc. prefer cool germinating temps.
IMO why would anyone want to extend the germination time by not heating them.
You proved the heater is a good idea.
TimMA,
doesn't everybody keep seedlings all over the house in winter?
Yeah, what's the matter with that???
Have you got a pic of those 3,000 Bulgarian trachies?
Barb
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:01 pm
by TimMAz6
Hi Barb,
I'll try to find some of those old photos.....the old fashion ones....those predate digital photos! I got some of the testing photos on my old web site if your interested I scanned in the photos when I did test plots in the yard to see how hardy the bulgarians were. I remember sending 300 of the bulgarians to Ian Barclay too. They may still be alive!
It's a fortunecity site. My Nortons Virus software says to keep away since it's a malicious site!
Type in 'cold hardy plants' and look for the fortune city address.