Surplus Sale Items

Collecting and starting seeds I have managed to have a surplus of items and I always am answering emails about extra plants for sale. So I found the paypal store front widget and have set up some of the extra stuff I currently have. I will be changing it regularly. But the pictures suck on the storefront. So I created this post listing all of the items that will be available in the store. As I add and remove items this popst will be edited as well so that there will always be a large picture and description of the items for sale. U.S. shipping only on sprouts and plants. No shipping on any sprouts or plants to California, Texas, or Arizona. Seeds will ship anywhere.

95% of the time seeds will come cleaned of fruit unless otherwise stated. I have personally collected and sprouted all items. Fresh stuff! Any questions please Email first, before purchasing. All sales are final.

Thrinax radiata - Florida Thatch Palm sprout $2.50
1st leaf sprout. Shipped bare root wrapped in perlite.

Phoenix canariensis - Canary Island Date Palm $7.00
Pic is avg. size. Over a year old. Shipped bare root wrapped in spaghnum moss.

Adonidia merrillii - Christmas Palm Tree $7.00

Pic is avg. size. Over a year old. Shipped bare root wrapped in spaghnum moss.

13 Adonidia merrillii - Christmas Palm Seeds $2.50

13 Hyophorbe verschafftii - Spindle Palm Seeds $3.00

13 Sabal domingensis - Hispaniola Palm Seeds $2.00

13 Sabal causiarum - Puerto Rican Hat Palm Seeds $2.00

6 Pseudophoenix sargentii - Cherry Palm Seeds $2.50

6 Livistona decora - Ribbon Fan Palm Seeds $1.75

13 Livistona australis - Australian Cabbage Palm Seeds $3.50

13 Heterospathe elata - Sagise Palm Seeds $3.00

13 Coccothrinax fragrans - syn. Cocco. argentata - Fragrant Palm Seeds $2.50

13 Arenga caudata - Minature Sugar Palm Seeds $3.00

New Palms Seeds and Spouts

Over the past few weeks I have collected seeds from several palms, I have traded seeds with my new friend Brian in the O-Town, and also a friend from India named Kris mailed me seeds. So I have had lots of preperation to do. I have open the seed room back up for the winter and have a heater on a thermostat that I can set for 80 degrees. I have a thermometer showing a 80-81.7 degrees in the old shower stall. Here are my pictures they have been taken over the past few weeks.

Seed Stall

The first trade with Brian netted 10 Old Man Palm Seeds along with the other named seeds

The Corypha macropoda seeds from Kris in India.

Syagrus schizophylla seeds and a pot of Livistona australis seeds

Seed List started 11/17/08

Livistona australis seeds

Chamaedorea seifrizii and Chamaedorea costaricana

Ptychosperma elegans Solitaire Palm

This has Copernicia alba top left, Thrinax radiata top right, Sabal causiarum bottom right, Vietchia ??? bottom left

Syagrus schizophylla Arikury seeds germinated!

Coccothrinax crinita Old Man Palm seeds germinated!

Chamaedorea microspadix Hardy Bamboo Palm sprouts!

$32 of Disappointment

I have been anticipating an ebay purchase in the mail. I bought 50 plumeria seeds, 40 Rhapis subtilis seeds, and 5 Eulophia graminea orchid bulbs from a seller in Thailand, Well the package was in the mail box today. And this what was inside. Growing instructions for plumeria seeds and a US Dept. of Ag. Mail Interception Notice. No seeds...no bulbs...just $32 growing instructions on some seeds I don't have. I guess the seller did not send a pyto-sanitary certificate with the seeds and customs intercepted and then mailed my empty box to me. Man I wanted that stuff.

Bamboo Palm

I was at a friends house Friday night having dinner and a few drinks. Checking out his yard I came across a section of very nice bamboo palms. I ask for a few seeds and they gave me a bag and said take as many as you want. I collected a couple stalks of seeds. Tonight I am starting 2 snap tite containers 1 with the little green not quite ripened seeds and another with the large black color seeds just like they are off the tree. I also have about 40 of the in a hot soak right now and plan on starting those tomorrow. I have pictures of the palm tree and the stalks with seeds. Then a shot of the seeds in a tin, and finally a shot of the containers in the seed room. These are the 2 containers on the bottom shelf.

Caryota Mitis Fishtail Palm seeds

Tonight I planted 40 Caryota mitis of Fishtail Palm seeds that I collected the other day. They have gone through a 3 day hot soak and cleaning. These were collected off the ground so I am not sure how fresh they are but they all sank so hopefully I will have a good germination rate. I will keep you up to date on any new sprouts from these guys. This is a shot from the mom.

Floating Bismarckia seeds

The absolute worst thing I could have wanted to see. I will start with how I always am looking for palm seeds. Bismarckia and Foxtails are tough to find in my area because they have not been here for that long, but I thought I had scored. A big mature female with a male not as old a few houses away had been fruiting. I talked to the man who lived at the house and asked him if I could collect some seeds. Of course the man said. So I filled my pockets with seeds off of the ground. I got home started to clean and soak them. This is what happened. Every single last 1 of them floated not 1 sinker. So once again I am looking for that 1 Bismarckia fruiting with viable seeds.

Veitchia merrillii , Christmas Palm Sprouts

Today in a tray that I had dropped 50 Veitchia merrillii , Christmas Palm seeds in back in the middle of Dec. 07 I found 49 sprouted and broke the suface of the dirt. I spent about an hour trying to replant these in new pots. 25 made it into the seedling stand, and the other 24 were split up in between some 1 gallons an I planted some 3 and 4 bangers. Some how a Canary Island Date Palm seed made it in the tray, it also sprouted and actually had its 1st strap leaf on its way. Just a little added bonus.

Palm Seeds , Palm Sprout Update

Here is an update on some palm seeds that I started this past week. On 2/17/08 I soaked these seeds for 5 days in warm water rinsing and changing the water daily. Then the seeds were placed in a 50/50 mix of peat moss and perlite, and placed in a 1 gallon ziplock bags. 8 Phoenix dactylifera , or Date Palm seeds , 12 Caryota urens , Fishtail Palm seeds , and 4 Iriartea gigantea, or Stilt Palm seeds. Then tonight 2/21/08 I started the seeds that were collected on the post from 2/12/08. 30 Livenstona chinensis , or Chinese Fan Palm after a 6 day warm soak 10 of these seeds have begun to germinate just soaking in the water some of these are in the shot on the notebook. Then 18 Phoenix roebelenii , Pygmy Date Palm, some of these were pretty tiny but they sank and when i squeezed them they felt hard so I'll give them a shot.
madagascariensis And the last 31 of the still unknown Thatch Palm. I named it in the other post but I am now doubting the original guess. All of these seeds were placed in snap-tite containers. Now sprouts...I Love Sprouts.....From a little seed in my hand to a growing palm tree.............All of the sprouts today were planted on the blog so you can follow their development as well. First from the Seed Score blog on 1/22/08 and the planting on 1/23/08 I have 3 Ravenala madagascariensis or Travelers Palm sprouts starting to spike, and 1 more of the Washingtonia filifera or California Fan Palm that was planted on the 1/16/08 post has started to spike, so that a total of 2 from that planting.

Collected New Palm Seeds Today

Today I was at work and came across a few palms that had seeds on them. I have taken some pictures of the seeds collected, the different stages with fruit to seeds. The first shot is seeds in bags. The red 1's are cardboard palm seeds. But did not get to clean them yet. Then in the notebook shots there is Livistona chinensis, a Chinese Fan or Fountain Palm, Phoenix roebelenii, a Pygmy Date Palm, and as of now an unknown? It is the last shots of the skinny palms. So if you can identify this 1 and let me know what it is I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Mike Update the unknown is a Thrinax radiata, or Florida Thatch Palm.