Randy: Thanks for keeping me updated. I hope we can get some to germinate quickly since these are very fresh seeds.
I've never grown this banana from seed before so I have no idea how to germinate it. I imagine it would be similar to other bananas. I think I've read somewhere that this banana may be hard to germinate and that it could take a while. The seeds are as fresh as they get so maybe it will be easy!
Here is what others say from Rarepalmseeds.com:
Seeds from this species ...
...very easy to germinate and need up to 3 months to sprout.
I bought 100 Musella Lasiocarpa seeds and put 50 in a baggie with well draining soilless mix and 20%sand added. I prepared the mixture with a little water to be just moist. I kept them at 90 to 95 deg.F. Germination started in 6 weeks. Received 24 seedlings within 2 months. The other 50 were placed in another baggie with the same mix but stored in the refrigerater for 6 weeks. When I took themout I kept them at 90 to 97 deg. F. the firstones started growing in 2 weeks I was so impressed that I finally had results after many previously failed attempts. The trick seems to be High heat and keeping the medium rather dry. It also seems to be abenefit to cold stratify, but that may not be necessary. I will be trying a second batch of 100 in the same way to see if the results are consistent.
Submitted on 06/06/2005 by Chris Wolfe
wolfecbr@mail.ocis.net
...easy to germinate and need up to 1 month to sprout.
100 seeds soaked in water with 300 ppm gibberelenic acid (06.03.05). 1 day warm 2 days at 4°C. Seeded low under surface and stored 14 days at 4°C. After 14 days kept warmth an sunny (35°C). Germination partly occur after 26 days (02.04.05).
Submitted on 10/04/2005 by Michael Nippgen
VetMed-M.Nippgen@t-online.de
...difficult to germinate and need up to 3 months to sprout.
I've placed 6 seeds in a container with humus rich soil. The container was in my fridge for about 6 weeks. After that i've placed the container in a propagator at 25 Celsius. After 2 weeks 2 germinted and started to grow fast, the 4 others are still there...
Submitted on 25/01/2005 by filip hermans
filip_hermans@yahoo.com
...easy to germinate and need up to 3 months to sprout.
Placed four seeds covered and moist in the fridge for 5 weeks. After taking the seeds out of the fridge, one seed took two weeks to grow to about 5 centimeters size. (I was away during this period so can't tell the exact germination time).Waiting for the other three
Submitted on 19/09/2003 by bram
brbrbr@zonnet.nl
...difficult to germinate and need up to 3 months to sprout.
I've had a very hard time trying to get this seed to germinate i'm wondring if its possible
Submitted on 21/02/2003 by Elaine Terry
elaineterry@ns.sympatico.ca
...difficult to germinate and need up to 6 months to sprout.
Very tricky to germinate. Make sure to first give them at least a month of cool temps before trying to germinate them. I put mine in plastic bags full of moist vermiculite, and placed them in the fridge for a little over a month. Then I took the seeds out and placed them on a heating pad. They've now been on the pad for over 2 1/2 months, making the total time to date around 3 to 4 months. They are currently being kept at about 30 degrees clesius, constantly. They are not the easiest seeds to germinate but are well worth the effort. Beautiful flowers if you can get them to grow, well worth the effort.
Submitted on 03/03/2003 by Paul Chafe
p_chafe@hotmail.com
...very difficult to germinate and need up to 3 months to sprout.
I didn't have any luck with these seeds. They just rotted away, so I must have overwatered them or had bad seeds to begin with. I am trying a second batch to see if I have better luck.
Submitted on 11/12/2002 by Leslie Price
skinnychick2@yahoo.com
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