Musa velutina seeds...
 

My velutina's fruit is popping open and so it is time to harvest some seeds, if anyone is interested. I did this last year and not a lot of folks had much success germinating them. Before I go through the hassle of separating the seeds from the fruit, I want to see if anyone wants to try their hand at getting them to sprout. If anyone wants to try them, let me know and I will start a list and harvest only enough seeds to fill requests. Pics of the parent plant can be found in my photo gallery. Let me know if anyone is interested...

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I'll try them! I've been wanting to try starting bananas from seed and I think I remember reading that velutina was one of the easier ones to germinate.
:sumbrero:

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Southlatropical,
E-mail me your address and I will add you to the list...
Randy

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I'd like to try some again. :D I was one to get seeds last year, but for some reason, not even one grew. I've grown banana plants from seeds before without many problems. I guess I'll try doing it like Canna seeds this time.

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Hey Tony,
Please e-mail me your mailing address and I will send some out to you in the next couple of weeks...
Randy

amadrat@bellsouth.net

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Thanks Randy:baloonnaner:

address sent


Dan & Tara :0519:

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Room for one more? :D

PM inbound.

-James-

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Hi, Iam very interested in trying the seeds. Since falling in love with nanners, i have been wanted to give seeds a try. Please count me in! Thanks...Lynn:2179:

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:2223: :twonanners: :2223:
Address on the way!

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Alright Randy, I kept trying to talk myself out of it, but can't anymore.
If you want, you can just send me a section of the fruit and I can clean
the seeds on my own, lol. and pm sent too...

Re: Musa velutina seeds...
 

The seeds arrived today. I put them in a clear plastic container after soaking them in water for two hours. They are in Miracle Grow 'Moisture Control' potting soil outdoors with the lid on. They will recieve direct sunlight in the morning hours and should see a change of temp around 20*F per day. Thank you again for being so generous and taking the time to send the seeds. I will post an update whenever I have to move them indoors for winter.
Isaac
:hiiiiyanana:

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Hey everyone,
I have asked Jarred to move our thread for the M. velutina trials to the main discussion forum... Any correspondence from here on, please post on this thread:
http://www.bananas.org/showthread.php?p=20174#post20174

This will help insure that everyone involved will be able to see what each of us are doing...

Thanks for the input and all the efforts!!!!

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:2130:
The seeds arrived Monday. I was expecting maybe a dozen or so. WOW!!!, Now that's a bunch of seeds. You're to generous Randy. I'll post on the other thread about how I try different methods & how they worked. Many thanks!

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Randy,

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to try your seeds. I eagerly await their arrival. I have never grown Bananas from seed, but will do my best and keep others posted of there progress here:D .

Dean

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Randy
I sent you an email with my addy
Thanks for the offer :2215:

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Hope,
I responded to your email b4 I saw this reply. I now see where you came across the seeds. In the response to your email, I mentioned a link for everyone to share info with and if you look in the main discussion forum, you should see my thread. If not, let me know and I will send you a link...
Thanks again for your interest,
Looking forward to your participation with your experiences posted on the thread,
Randy