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Basjoofriend · 11-23-2012, 12:02 PM

Hi,

in another thread I already wrote about the germination problem of Musa peekelii, hirta, schizocarpa, voonii, bauensis, campestris, textilis and others from Borneo and PNG, and one member has found the paper http://www.musalit.org/pdf/IN970066_en.pdf

I wrote also to Tobias Spanner from Rarepalmseeds about this problem and gave him this PDF document. He already knows this document and informed also some people about this.

We should try to solve this germination problems to get finally many seedlings from these rare banana species!

I also informed my friend Helton about this, I hope that he will not throw the pots away.

I surmise there are special conditions for these rare banana species to get them germinating. Many plant species have also special germination conditions. Many species do only germinate after one cold snap ore freeze snaps when their mother plants died by frost, other germinate only after one forest fire when their mother plants died by fire, and other do only germinate after one extreme drought season when their mother plants dried to death. Some seeds need special soils or special pH amounts. And again other seeds need to be eaten in fruits or pods by animals, the seeds leave the intestine of the animals and do germinate then. Other seeds do only germinate after soaking in water for some days or weeks.

We should find out, which conditions are in Borneo and PNG on original places of wild Musa schizocarpa, peekelii, campestris, textilis, voonii, bauensis, hirta and others, and how the seeds do germinate there in the wild. This might be the key!!!

Best wishes
Joachim

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