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Jananas Bananas · 01-23-2010, 08:30 PM

More sprouts - this is day 57 after I received them the day after Thanksgiving. These have been in a moist ziplock baggie with bottom heat. I have had ZERO sprouts in the moist paper towel method, and ZERO directly sown in the peat pots on the heat mat with the contained moisture (mini greenhouse) with bottom heat from the heat mat, and ZERO directly sown into seed starter potting soil in cups under grow lights.

Sooooo......if you are not having any luck with these, you might try the baggie method. To give it a try, just put a few (8 or so) into a baggie with a few drops of water and zip it up. Set it on top of your hot water heater and check on them once a week. The moisture will probably get a little brown like a weak tea. When they start looking like an outee belly button they have started to sprout. (I have a picture posted of this stage if you scroll down) Don't remove them untill they look like spiders. I use tweezers to separate them, be careful because they are very fragile. If you remove them too soon they will immediately turn brown and you will have lost your sprout.

Put into peat pots and into the mini greenhouse on bottom heat

Note: My first sprout (all the earlier pictures) died after I knocked off a grow light onto it and it fell to the floor.

01-23-2010, 08:30 PM	#22 (permalink)
Jananas Bananas Jananas Bananas's Photo Gallery Location: Austin, Texas Find me on the map! Zone: 8b/9a Name: JaNan Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 4,438 BananaBucks : 443,329 Feedback: 1 / 100% Said "Thanks" 3,341 Times Was Thanked 7,059 Times in 2,683 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 133 Times	Re: Propagating Musa Velutina Seeds More sprouts - this is day 57 after I received them the day after Thanksgiving. These have been in a moist ziplock baggie with bottom heat. I have had ZERO sprouts in the moist paper towel method, and ZERO directly sown in the peat pots on the heat mat with the contained moisture (mini greenhouse) with bottom heat from the heat mat, and ZERO directly sown into seed starter potting soil in cups under grow lights. Sooooo......if you are not having any luck with these, you might try the baggie method. To give it a try, just put a few (8 or so) into a baggie with a few drops of water and zip it up. Set it on top of your hot water heater and check on them once a week. The moisture will probably get a little brown like a weak tea. When they start looking like an outee belly button they have started to sprout. (I have a picture posted of this stage if you scroll down) Don't remove them untill they look like spiders. I use tweezers to separate them, be careful because they are very fragile. If you remove them too soon they will immediately turn brown and you will have lost your sprout. Put into peat pots and into the mini greenhouse on bottom heat Note: My first sprout (all the earlier pictures) died after I knocked off a grow light onto it and it fell to the floor. __________________ Jananas Bananas