Loved seeing inside the seed! Very cool that the leaves don't grow within the seed and push out like today's cotyledons leaves. I grow unique/rare fruits and it's interesting to see how long it can take something to germinate. My longest has been four months from planting to sprouting (ubajay).
I have a trick to pass time. You can't do this with expensive, bought seeds. But if you want to have a passion fruit vine: Buy a fruit, "extract" the seeds aka make a juice for you. Then you take the 102 seeds and burry them everywhere. Anywhere where you have soil or a pot. When you water your plants and time passes, you will "start to see things". Some seeds somehow found their way into an Orchid pot and began their work. Month later I found a baby plant growing with a cactus - standing in no soil but bigger, loose rocks. There are many exotic fruits with tons of seeds in them to play with. Physalis Peruvianus is my favourite fruit seed grown monster.
I actually am growing a passion fruit variety native to my area, the Maypop! Super easy plants to germinate. I have three in the backyard and I hope to have fruit this upcoming spring!
@@GardeningInRaeford hahaha, that is very nice to hear! Mine did flower the second year, with ~10fruits. This year it did not want to. It is my fault because I had no fertilizer which is P-K heavy. So I grew more leaves. I was to lazy/old to take it inside and snow should kill it. But I have some cousins inside waiting. No idea where they came from but I must have burried some seeds. :) But thank YOU in the name of your plants for taking good care of them!!!
I ❤❤❤ your videos. The dedication to process, scientific method, attention to detail, etc is fantastic. Thanks so much and please keep up the good work!
Cycads are definitely cool, I really only have experience with Sago "Palms" because they are sold everywhere, but it seems like all other Cycads are rare
@@stiaanfritze8958 do you have in mind any seed seller from SA especially for Encephalartos who can provide phytosanitary papers for the seeds that won't cost a fortune? Am not an importer, thus I look for seeds, I can't import such high value plants from outside EU.
Cycads are great! and are surprisingly resilient, most(comercial sp) can handle wet or dry soil and full sun to almost full shade, they grow slow as hell though.
Great video ! I used bonemeal when repotting mine they grew like crazy , plesse do some videos on south african cycads Encepheleratos Horridus Longifolius Eugene Maraisii Lanatus There are many
Hey mate I was lucky enough to find a sprouting seed today but it was in an area where it wouldn’t have been able to grow so the owners of the area allowed me to take it :) was just wondering where you kept your seeds when they were sealed for the month?
They remind me of Lychee. Litchi Chinensis as the french would say. Lay them on the side and a root goes down. And "something" grows upwards. If you "have access" to squirrels, they will sow them for you. A nut is a nut - no discrimination there. And even if it is not a nut...better burry it for a rainy day.
"One of them got a little weird and I tossed it out." Surely you could be more descriptive than that. Was it an eldritch abomination whose form was beyond human understanding and therefore indescribable?
Loved seeing inside the seed! Very cool that the leaves don't grow within the seed and push out like today's cotyledons leaves. I grow unique/rare fruits and it's interesting to see how long it can take something to germinate. My longest has been four months from planting to sprouting (ubajay).
Wow! Yeah 4 months is long! Nice work
I have a trick to pass time. You can't do this with expensive, bought seeds. But if you want to have a passion fruit vine: Buy a fruit, "extract" the seeds aka make a juice for you. Then you take the 102 seeds and burry them everywhere. Anywhere where you have soil or a pot. When you water your plants and time passes, you will "start to see things". Some seeds somehow found their way into an Orchid pot and began their work. Month later I found a baby plant growing with a cactus - standing in no soil but bigger, loose rocks. There are many exotic fruits with tons of seeds in them to play with. Physalis Peruvianus is my favourite fruit seed grown monster.
I actually am growing a passion fruit variety native to my area, the Maypop! Super easy plants to germinate. I have three in the backyard and I hope to have fruit this upcoming spring!
@@GardeningInRaeford hahaha, that is very nice to hear! Mine did flower the second year, with ~10fruits. This year it did not want to. It is my fault because I had no fertilizer which is P-K heavy. So I grew more leaves. I was to lazy/old to take it inside and snow should kill it. But I have some cousins inside waiting. No idea where they came from but I must have burried some seeds. :) But thank YOU in the name of your plants for taking good care of them!!!
I ❤❤❤ your videos. The dedication to process, scientific method, attention to detail, etc is fantastic. Thanks so much and please keep up the good work!
The growth from that 'egg' is really interesting. Nice video
This was a cool video. Strange looking plant. Thanks. 💚🌱💚
Thanks a lot. I use germination mix, seeds down, and then perlite, almost covering seeds. Uniform long leave growth. 👍🙏
Very cool video! I really want to give cycads a try so i think i got to go looking for some seeds next year 😊
Those seeds seriously were like eggs. A cycad hatched and crawled out. Totally epic plants!
Yeah they are super cool. I hope i can get it growing well now
I love tutorials like this for these weirder less talked about groups of plants. any plans to do videos on growing ferns or moss from spores?
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection lovely
Cycads are definitely cool, I really only have experience with Sago "Palms" because they are sold everywhere, but it seems like all other Cycads are rare
Sago Palms are cool as well, but nót cycads. (Cycas) If possible, get from South Africa...real dinosaurs here. 👌🏻
@@stiaanfritze8958 are you talking about Encephalartos? Nursery plants with papers or... from poaching?
@@TropicalGardeningCyprus Yes, yes and NO.
@@stiaanfritze8958 do you have in mind any seed seller from SA especially for Encephalartos who can provide phytosanitary papers for the seeds that won't cost a fortune? Am not an importer, thus I look for seeds, I can't import such high value plants from outside EU.
@@stiaanfritze8958 thank you very much, I will!!
Cycads are great! and are surprisingly resilient, most(comercial sp) can handle wet or dry soil and full sun to almost full shade, they grow slow as hell though.
Try Seagro or Nitrosol. And yes, a bit of shade helps.
Those cycads root looks like a caudex. You should get some Dioscorea elephantipes seeds and do a video on them. Super fun to grow!
wow I looked that up, looks like a turtle shell or something, very neat plant!
@@TechplantChannel that’s exactly what I thought too. I bought some about 3-4 months ago and they are doing super well.
Great video !
I used bonemeal when repotting mine they grew like crazy , plesse do some videos on south african cycads
Encepheleratos Horridus
Longifolius
Eugene Maraisii
Lanatus
There are many
I gotta source them but I will try
Please a tissue culture propagation video 🙏🙏🙏 i love ur videos
Cute! Though I am glad I started with an established one that was also gifted.
Hi can you do a tutorial on how to plant a Encephalartos horridus plant?
I love these videos! Awesome plant. ☺
We need a spider plabt seedling update
Hey mate I was lucky enough to find a sprouting seed today but it was in an area where it wouldn’t have been able to grow so the owners of the area allowed me to take it :) was just wondering where you kept your seeds when they were sealed for the month?
Hi, did you perform scarification before soaking the seeds? Thanks!
Very interesting plant.
Awesome video as always
It's not a Techplant video without you saying 'bäg'.
That's beg.
شكرا
Does anybody know if the seeds can deal with freezing temperatures ? Thanks !
That's really neat!
They remind me of Lychee. Litchi Chinensis as the french would say. Lay them on the side and a root goes down. And "something" grows upwards.
If you "have access" to squirrels, they will sow them for you. A nut is a nut - no discrimination there. And even if it is not a nut...better burry it for a rainy day.
Spider mites are the bane of my plant life 😩 Neem oil again for my weekend...
SOOO COOL!
Yeah it's pretty neat
When exposed to the sun?
I would try Cycads but they are too sharp and I am like a toddler around sharp plants. Great video! I'm checking for spider mites now 😓
Same here, I have a lot but swear all the time touching around them...😆😆😆
I had a beautiful Cycad. Spider mites totally devastated it. 😢
Beeehg
you sound like you're from wiscaanson
Put it in a beg ? Oh come on.
"One of them got a little weird and I tossed it out." Surely you could be more descriptive than that. Was it an eldritch abomination whose form was beyond human understanding and therefore indescribable?
Yes lol
Those seeds look like eggs
The jar is expired! WTH are using expired jar. You just got lucky this time. Next time use jars that have no expired...
Heck yeah! Skylar (@thecuriousseedling) is so wonderful!
For sure