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Areca seeds germinating

11 years ago

For years my palm was seeding but something always ate into the seeds killing them. This year when the seeds starting to fall I kept gathering them up and put them on the ground in my shade house, then left it to nature. So far, after a few months, 2 seedlings are emerging. Also put Wodyetia seeds in as well, but none of those are showing yet even though they are usually a lot easier. Obviously what ever was eating into the Areca seeds didn't follow them into the shade house.

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siegel2
11 years ago
Congrats! Getting palm seeds to germinate is always exciting.

What do you mean "Areca"?

Areca as in Areca vestiaria, A. catechu, A. tunku , etc. ?

Or Dypsis lutescens?
tropicbreezent
Original Author
11 years ago
Thanks Gary. You can see in the first photo it is an Areca not a Dypsis. I have both A. catechu and A. vestiaria but only the catechu is old enough to seed. The germination rate is quite good, have about 25 now and more keep germinating out of the 10 - 15 still left. Not sure what I'll do with that many seedlings, I already have about 6 larger ones of those.

Some of the seedlings are growing fairly fast.
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