Is your shelf a warm place ? The seeds need to be in a warm place. You can community pot them outside in Fl this time of year and they will sprout quickly.Keep moist and in a semi shaded spot and just put them in a pot big enough and after they produce one frond you can transplant. Try not to brake the root or the seed off the seedling or it can die. Make sure you use peat/perilite mix so they are easy to get out of the pot for transplanting.

Thanx David. I put them in a 10" pot (15 to a pot) 4 total. Is that too many in one pot? I hope not. Placed them in full sun with partial shade from young Christmas palms. What time frame do you think I'm looking at till germination?

That's perfect and they should start to germinate in a week to a month. When picked fresh they germinate quicker.

So. I checked my seeds and they are starting to push a root out. Yeah!