sunfish

Mine are in a baggie,but yes I pot them as soon as I see germination.

hardboiled (deleted account)

I was just about to give up with anything that looked like a banana seed when this morning as I was about to throw to soil out I' thought I'd poke round it with a sharp stick and discovered 2 germinated seeds.

GA3 makes no difference. I've tried it with and without, nicked and unnicked. It's right conditions and luck.

Must have words with god about this faulty design... not good enough!!!....lol

hardboiled (deleted account)

However, GA3 Does work on bamboo seeds VERY well.

griphuz

Did you try different concentrations as well hardboiled?

Kind regards,
Remko.

sunfish

hardboiled (deleted account)

Yep 250ml 100ml. GA3 wasn't a problem because I had loads of it. It was the waiting around and pacing up and down like an expectant father that drove the misses mad!
Latest ( and probably last ) experiment is to soak seed for 8 days then put some in ga3 for 2 days. I'm also using a 20watt heat pad( they're meant to be used under reptile containers ) now. Heat pads work a treat with chilli seeds and Papaya so should ( I hope ) work with banana seeds.
I've tried everything else. What have I got to lose!!
2 out of the dozens i've tried is not a good record. Then again some of the one's I've had before 'could' have been duffers!

griphuz

What do you mean by that?? ml are not concentrations,.......mg/ml or ppm are concentrations,...

Lots of relatively cold-tolerant Musa species germinate well by heating them a bit during the day, and letting them cool down again during the night if you use a heat mat. Put it on a timer and you're set to go!

Kind regards,
Remko.

hardboiled (deleted account)

PPM I meant to say.

Something I'e not seen any mention of on this site is hydroponic germination( not that I've looked properly )
This really is going into the Frankenstein dept of growing but from what I've read it works and takes a lot of the guess work away, BUT it's expensive!

I'm about to go looking at what's required for seed germination with hydroponics and see what's required.

hardboiled (deleted account)

How to Soak Rockwool Cubes | eHow.co.uk
How to Prepare Rockwool | eHow.co.uk
This is good but doesn't elaborate enough on the solutions required.

hardboiled (deleted account)

I've been doing more research and the theory and practice of hydroponics makes a lot more sense that GA3. All living things need nutrition and warm = ideal conditions.

I've got 1 vial of GA3 left I'm going to use it to get rid of it.

sunfish

raggedyredhead

Hi, I've been doing a lot of reading about Nitrozyme and it's ability to induce
seeds to germinate by soaking. I tried to find specifics about banana but, to know avail. Does anyone know anything about this.
Thanks Raggedy

jmoore

I used to use nitrozyme to germinate banana seeds, then I did a little comparison between plain water, 1 gram per litre epsom salts and 20 ml/l nitrozyme. I found that for speed of germination the epsom salts was the best, followed by water with nitrozyme a very sad third. However there may have been flaws in my results. I followed the instructions on the nitrozyme itself which states to soak the seed for 24 hours, at this point I had found that soaking for a week in water was the best way to go. So I soaked for 6 days then soaked in nitrozyme for 24 hours. (Maybe I need to re-test this)

There is a lot of talk of nitrozyme in the archives on this site in the germination forum. You have to look at the very old posts though. That's where I got the idea initially.

jmoore

Well you've spurred me on: 25 seeds soaked for 7 days in 20ml/l nitrozyme. Results here we come.

raggedyredhead

[quote=jmoore;188308]I used to use nitrozyme to germinate banana seeds, then I did a little comparison between plain water, 1 gram per litre epsom salts and 20 ml/l nitrozyme. I found that for speed of germination the epsom salts was the best, followed by water with nitrozyme a very sad third. However there may have been flaws in my results. I followed the instructions on the nitrozyme itself which states to soak the seed for 24 hours, at this point I had found that soaking for a week in water was the best way to go. So I soaked for 6 days then soaked in nitrozyme for 24 hours. (Maybe I need to re-test this)

There is a lot of talk of nitrozyme in the archives on this site in the germination forum. You have to look at the very old posts though. That's where I got the idea initially.[/QUOTE

Hi, I would like to try the epsom salts. I currently have ensete seeds germinating after a four day soak & roughing w/sandpaper. Just ordered ensete glaucum & musa balbasana seed. I will try your method next.
Thanks again Raggedy(Lynda)

jmoore

make a solution containing 1 gram per litre of epsom salts. I soaked my balbisiana seeds for 3 days because they are small seeds. I would soak the ensete seeds for a week. You will need to change the solution every other day.

Chironex

Tony, I'm glad to see these germinated. I never got them to do so. Are they indeed Perrieri? I remember getting the seeds and remarked to the seller that they didn't appear to be E. perrieri, but he insisted that they were indeed. By now they must have grown out. I would love to see photos.

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sunfish

They ended up being Ensete ventricosum.

Chironex

It seems a lot of Musa and Ensete seeds are being labelled incorrectly. I have seen several posts like this as I was catching up on things here. Sorry aboput that. I think I had a post in my gallery about those when I received them. But since I was never able to get them to germinate, I couldn't determine for certain.

Any other photos of the other bananas you got from me? Sure would love to see some. It takes forever to find them in the galleries.

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