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... are average to germinate and need up to 6 months to sprout.
Soaked seeds for 48 hrs then placed in shopping bag with moist sphagnum in sealed tank with bottom heat of 25-32c.Sporadic germination over several months so far of around 15%.Make sure to check regularly as roots shoot out rapidly cross branch are brittle and can rot at the tips if not planted fairly early (50-80mm long)Seedlings planted in 400mm deep pots and placed in unheated temperate greenhouse conditions and have 100mm first leaf in 2 months.
Submitted on 05/02/2008 by one of our visitors

... are average to germinate and need up to 3 months to sprout.
Soaked 100 seeds for 4 days changing water daily.Triple shopping bagged with squeezed sphagnum 50% and into grow chamber at 27C average.First seed germinated after 1 month,5 more after 3 months.Try to catch them before excessive root/ shoot growth as it has a brittle/lateral branching root structure at an early stage.
Submitted on 15/11/2007 by SCOTT CUMBERLAND scott.cumberland@visionstream.com.au

...very difficult to germinate and need up to 1 year to sprout.
The seeds were soaked for three days in water, changing the water every day. They were then sown individually into 1 litre black plastic bags. After 5 months 1 germinated and after a further two more months another germinated and I am still waiting, but am not hopeful. Here in central Venezuela we are probably too hot for this species. Up to now a year later only two seeds germinated from 100 sown
Submitted on 25/05/2004 by David Clulow davidclulowven@yahoo.co.uk

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