germination comments by our visitors
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Seeds from this species ......easy to germinate and need up to 3 months to sprout.
Easy to germinate but I later lost my seedlings sown in steralised pelite/compost baggie in airing cupboard
Submitted on 26/03/2004 by one of our visitors
...easy to germinate and need up to 6 months to sprout.
I self harvested about one dozen seeds from a mature plant in Orlando, Florida. After painfully cleaning them
of their pulp, the seeds were soaked in warm tap water for two days with one water change. The seeds were then
sown in 100% Canadian peat moss moistened with tap water and placed into a zip-lock bag. I used the ambient
heat of Central Florida to keep them warm. First seedling germinated within three weeks, but quickly died. Six
more germinated sporadically over the next three months. Currently, the six are slowly growing as seedlings
with only one having produced its first leaf. The other five will be breaking the surface of their substrate
(which is now 50% perlite, 30% Canadian peat, and 20% organic humus) within the next month (I get impatient
and keep digging them up to see their progress). The remaining seeds still seem good and I'll keep them in their
bag until they germinate or rot.
Submitted on 10/03/2003 by Jason C. Skelly Skellsbells@aol.com
...very easy to germinate and need
up to 3 months to sprout.
verry easy to germinate, first i soaked the seeds for 2 days in
the same water.Then i saw them in a heated box , max. temperatur
30 c .After 4 a 6 weeks the first seeds germinated.I think that
90% of my seeds are now 4 a6 cm tal.And you can see already on the
first leaf that it is arenga engleri.Goodluck!
Submitted on 26/06/2002 by johan boeckmans johan.boeckmans@pandora.be
plant cultivation comments by our visitors
Also see germination commnets above.
Plants from this species ...
... are of excellent ornamental value 
In Dar es Salaam in Tanzania they need little care and grow normal.
I bought this palm in Mombassa,Kenya in august 1993, and planted it on our beach in beach sand, with little water but high ground water level, it is now 5 meters tall with lots of side shoots, I have had no flower or any fruits from it yet, but have been propagating from side shoots, which is not so easy, have 3 now.It is growing in full sun.
Submitted on 20/11/2002 by Hedy van Winkelhof hedy@iwaiafrica.com
If you wish to read more on palm cultivation, we highly recommend Ornamental Palm Horticulture
by Timothy K. Broschat and Alan W. Meerow, available in our bookshop.
Ratings and comments reflect individual experiences and the views of our visitors. They do not necessarily describe the most
appropriate methods, nor are they necessarily valid for all seeds or plants of this species. Germination and plant cultivation
success depends on many different factors; nevertheless, these experiences will hopefully aid you in your effort to get the
best germination results from our seeds and the best growth results from your plants.
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