Germinating Queen Palm, Days 0-12

[@rico99586]

7 years later. Hi Melvin. I'm from Hawaii but currently living in Florida, south of Tampa. I appreciate all the work and waiting you put into your experiment. However the seed obviously is the FRUIT of the Queen palm, and I have 6 mature Queens on my property, (which isn't really very big property), but I'm constantly trying to recreate Hawaii in my front and backyards, and have hundreds of plumeria trees too. I'm getting off track, at my age it's easy to do, 80.. Sorry. When the fruit is yellow, it's ripe, and I have some regular squirrel visitors every morning who come by and eat all the flesh off, and drop seed on ground. So it must taste good. Once the flesh is eaten, I can proceed with germinating them, and then selling them. I never have soaked or used hydrogen peroxide on them, I just let dry a few days so as not to create any rot, and plant straight into coconut coir. I have over a 90% success rate, but I have hundreds or thousands of seeds that wind up in my compost pile, and with no help from me there are always seeds that sprout on their own. It is real simple, and whether I'm working, sleeping, on vacation, or whatever, GOD does all the work. I put it in the coconut coir, and HE does the rest, and doesn't even ask for a cut of the profits. I propagate everything, and most I give away, but sell the Queens and plumerias, especially the hybrid plumeria from seed. Im mostly happy just seeing the result if I'm successful. I do podacarpus (yew tree), avocado, mango, sugar apple (anona spanish), schefflera,, samoan ti plant (red), Jatropha, and moringa(called Mallungay in Phillipnes, a real miracle tree. Sorry this so long, but good luck, and thanks again.

[@orchidee7910]

اتمنى لك عمرا مديدا بصحة جيدة ❤

[@leevancleef358]

That is awesome Rico - I hope you are doing well!

[@wotanmituns33]

This beautiful palm is native to Brazil, the indigenous people of Brazil used to call it ''Jerivá''.

[@deborahs102]

My Queen Palms drop so many seeds and they grow wild in my back yard😊

[@Dont370]

Same here. They grow on my lawn and I mow them.

[@WILDWILLXD]

I'm currently trying to grow a native NZ palm, if you crack one of those seeds open you'll come to see that they're just mini coconuts! I found it very cute.

[@lobomaumsn19]

wrong color, orange whitout mesocarp germinates better.

[@cooperbookout]

On March 27, 2014 the Queen palm seeds

[@cooperbookout]

Years later

[@deepharrow8520]

I wonder who does all this for the seeds in the wild

[@marinefish4life]

dee pharrow birds digest them and excrete the seed

[@CALI-ll7iv]

The birds duh

[@shadora]

@@marinefish4life ohh

[@Juduh]

God

[@CALI-ll7iv]

Beautiful palm trees! Will this work for King Palm seeds too?

[@CastelliMoni]

The palms was brought to Americas by the spaniards...did you visit Salton See...you can see the cuadras (block) of palms...

[@TheMelvinWei]

I saw many palm species being farmed around the Salton Sea, some in dense blocks as you said. I didn't know they were brought by Spaniards. Nowadays they're all over Southern California, even growing in small backyards as ornamental trees. They're in my apartment complex and in the parking lots at work.

[@newage777777]

What types of palms exactly?!

[@gabrielaloureiro2437]

I can't find the next video

[@kamila3362]

Melvin ,hi could i appreciate your video because of this scientific approach, yet now it is 6 years since you made it, did your palm tree ever germinate?

[@TheScorpion615]

So I'm guessing you are supposed to germinate them first? I have a bunch of these in Florida my job is to cut them down for a living and get rid of them

[@tkorbie2]

Any progress on the palm seeds? I just found your videos and I love the experiments. What do you do for a living?

[@charlieparish9053]

what kind of palms ?

[@theeamericanempire2279]

Thank you for this video this helps out a lot 😁👍

[@ginalethco2926]

You say you soaked them in the peroxide. You say solution a lot and water? Is the peroxide mixed with water?

[@commedycommedietv]

nice video and very informational :)

[@TheMelvinWei]

+commedycommedietv Thanks! Sad to say I couldn't get these to germinate, I may try again in the future.

[@wiskytom4386]

Lol, so how does nature deal with gemination ?

[@hajjam82]

It put it on peroxid...

[@jefdamen2977]

U should've taken the brown seeds where the flesh is easy removable cuz it dried already.

[@greenbear3221]

I want to buy a wooden large spanish sailboat and sail to spain and bring back palms like they did back in the day. I want to relive the past. LOL :) and I won't forget the lemons on board so I don't get scurvy.

[@michael0155]

Green Bear when you say relive, that means YOU have done this before.

[@shadora]

They look like miniature coconuts

[@GeorgeLoyal]

try growing kiwi fruit from seed next

[@jamestropicals8262]

Those seeds are too unripe, the fruit has to be yellow when their ripe

[@kathykarniss8239]

did the queen palm seeds ever sprout and grow

[@TheMelvinWei]

No :(

[@theeamericanempire2279]

How do ur palms look now?

[@jamestropicals8262]

Didn’t sprout

[@theeamericanempire2279]

@@jamestropicals8262 Darn bro sry to hear that😔

[@theeamericanempire2279]

@@jamestropicals8262 would u like to know how to get them to sprout?

[@jamestropicals8262]

@@theeamericanempire2279 They didn’t sprout for him, but yeah sure

[@theeamericanempire2279]

@@jamestropicals8262 mine sprouted a while ago. All u need to do is, #1:choose the dates that are already ripened(orange color). #2:then u peel off the skin clean off till no more flesh is left. #3: plant it in good soil and when planted in soil make sure it gets a good amount of water and afternoon sun. And #4: let it do it’s thing and wait till it sprouts. I recommend doing more then one seed though. And that’s it ur done with the planting process the rest are the simple things like giving it food and watering it.

[@sahar1usa]

you keep adding chemical to plant it is not a good idea and nor needed really, just put it in water for couple of days and using knife to remove the skin and plant it , would do the same

[@MsTokies]

is that edible?

[@TheMelvinWei]

MsTokies This is what I read: "Aromatic and sweet the dates are sticky and fibrous with a very large seed. Usually you don’t eat the date meat. One just chews on the pulpy coating getting the sugar off of it then spit out the fiber out. However, some people like to eat the fiber as well but it can cause a tummy ache."

[@CastelliMoni]

Do not need to put it in water...let them get color orange ...eat the pulp and plant the seed.

[@TheMelvinWei]

Hi Monica, I have lots of plant series ongoing but at some point I'd like to try again with queen palms. Thanks for the tip!

[@CastelliMoni]

All the palm tress can be eaten ..., Here in Florida... I learned how to harvest a eat, the Queen Palm have a great fruits, I have several at home. Good luck with your palms!

[@jesussalinas6831]

Monica A. Castelli 11w8

[@cyrilroux7830]

What is the liquid that u use ? Water? Thx

[@randomnav]

That was a waste of 10 minutes. It could have been condensed to 1 minute. At least it wasn't watching paint dry.

[@MARKCrews-l5c]

This should be removed.

[@sefsufisefsufi5684]

A for effort. But i suggest you should do more research before experimenting as many of your mistakes could have been avoided

[@alfabravo7685]

You wasted a lot of time just doting I,s and dashing t,s. It was simple within 5 minutes.

[@bryanrosado6757]

You're supposed to get the ripe ones. Then you scrape off the fruit and you're left with the seed. Then get a plastic bag with slightly moist soil and put the seeds in there. Then wait a couple of weeks and they should sprout.

[@Charlydx21]

Paige hope he answers.

[@SweetlifeKenyan2012]

you should have made a 2 min straight to the point video about this dude

[@cohco9320]

@@EastRiverHomestead when they are orange

[@hanzifaction]

The fruit turn yellow when ripe

[@tinabailey3170]

Do you close the bag?

[@tkorbie2]

Any progress on the palm seeds? I just found your videos and I love the experiments. What do you do for a living?

[@TheMelvinWei]

Nothing happened and the soil was too porous so it dried out nonstop, that didn't help. I'll try in the future with different methods. Also, as Gabriel Fornazari said below, I probably chose the wrong color fruits :( I'm a scientist.

[@hmax1591]

did the seeds germinate? where's the video showing the seedlings? If this process did not work, why do you still have it on you tube? what's the purpose?

[@kingliam9896]

Just wanted to let you know that I have successfully germinated and grown queen palm seeds (in the Bay Area California) - both when they were orange and when they were green. I used a small amount of Hydrogen Peroxide, soaked them for a week in the sun, removed the outer pulp and planted them. Out of 60 seeds, I had 50 successfully germinate. Don't give up, you can be successful with this method! Best of luck!

[@TheMelvinWei]

Thanks for the protocol! I recently found some juicy orange ones in parking lot queen palm. I tried peeling off the flesh and it was a big sticky mess; luckily the sticky substance is water soluble so I wash most of the mess away, peeled away the fibers, and tried planting them in a small pot. It's been a while and still nothing. How long did it take your seeds to germinate?

[@reenaeda]

Nice!!

[@umhello4989]

Melvin Wei they take about 3-4 months to germinate. They sprout quicker if its 85 or higher

[@mommyharris1111]

I get great seeds after my dogs eat them and throw them up. I live in Florida and I can’t keep my dogs from eating these darn seeds every time we are outside in my garden. I decided I’ll go ahead and grow me a few trees. Lol Not a bit of flesh left on those seeds.

[@FknNefFy]

Why not just scrape the seed? Seems pointlessly slow

[@bismillahkhan1866]

Hi!.. I wanna go for research on palms 5 varieties...but I have no idea how to wash and clean the palms seeds... I planted the bismarkia palm, Queen palm, canaria palm Copernacia palm and foxtail palm.. Can u give me suggestions how to wash the seeds and which chemicals is best for these varieties to early germination? Pleases reply to my question tha k you..

[@FknNefFy]

I would say you should’ve got the orange ones because they are more ripe you want RIPE seeds to germinate

[@brianh.3468]

Pretty good video, it would help if you stopped saying the word a “while” and actually used time. There were several times throughout the video where I really didn’t know what “a while” was in actual time but good video

[@jamestropicals8262]

Queen palm seeds can be more difficult to germinate then other palm tree seeds

[@berthayellowfinch5471]

Did you get a little over excessive with the hydrogen peroxide maybe thinking it would somehow activate unripe fruit???