Hi Markku,
OK, I been thought maybe the flowers of musa lawitiensis had not been pollinated, left the seeds with no embryoes, due to bees or insects disappeared through loss of rainforests.
Only way is to import the plants in inert / synthetic material, from Borneo.
I may try my luck in find the plants in Borneo in few years time (maybe).
But with Borneo rainforests being replaced by oil palm plantations, it will be very difficult for me to find and import the plants.
If we cannot get these plants, musa lawitiensis will face extinction when rainforest being replaced by oil palm plantations.
musa beccarii, musa campestris had escaped the extinctions as they are in our homes and grown as garden plants worldwide, etc USA & Germany, Europe.
Cheers
Clinton.
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Originally Posted by Markku Hakkinen
Hi Clinton,
I have tested germination of thousands different Musa seeds by using different methods.
However, some seeds have inhibitors which prevents the germination and which are unknown to science still today. Embryo rescue is very difficult to those very tiny seeds.
There is not Musa lawitiensis seeds available. The only way to have them is to go Borneo inland and collect them.
markku.
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