Re: Ensete Ventricosum sprouting!
Here is the reason I ask:
It seems sprouting Ensete Ventricosum seeds sucsessfully can be kind of like a lottery...
First time I bought 100 seeds from banana-tree.com back in 2002, almost all germinated. I thought back then that this is the norm for this species. Boy, was I wrong...
The following year I bought 500 seeds from various vendors: None germinated. Not a single one.
Next year, same story.
A couple of years ago; Bought 50 seeds from rarepalmseeds: All germinated. Friends, coleuges and family were given tons of ensete-seedlings as I didn't anticipate this.
Ensete seems to have a puzzling type of dormancy. When sprouting regular Musa I have pretty good sucsess with alternating temperatures.
- Erlend
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