- Where do you get seeds for date palms from?
- Sow the date palm
- This is how you continue to care for the seedlings
- Grow dwarf date palms from saplings
If you want to grow a date palm yourself, you have to be patient. It takes several years from sowing to the formation of the first fronds. Only the dwarf date palm is easier to pull yourself over saplings.
Date palms can be grown from seed with a little patience
Where do you get seeds for date palms from?
In nature, date palms bloom and develop fruit with seeds. When cultivating a date palm as a houseplant, in most cases there is no flowering. Only under very favorable environmental conditions does the palm blossom and later produce fruit containing germinable seeds.
When the date palm blossoms, you must fertilize it with a brush. To do this, stroke each flower several times. To increase the likelihood of fertilization, you should grow several date palms.
You can also get seeds for growing date palms in stores.
Sow the date palm
- water seeds
- Sow in prepared seed pots
- cover lightly with soil
- place very bright and warm
- keep moist but not wet
The seeds have a hard shell and are more likely to germinate if you soak them in lukewarm water beforehand. You can also roughen it up slightly with sandpaper.
Set the potties at 22 to 26 degrees. You should avoid direct sunlight, especially around midday.
It can take many months for the first cotyledons to appear. So you need a lot of patience if you want to grow a date palm yourself.
This is how you continue to care for the seedlings
Once the first cotyledons have appeared, continue nurturing them by keeping them moist and continuing to keep them in a warm spot.
Grow dwarf date palms from saplings
With dwarf date palms, saplings often form on the sides of the trunk. You can separate these saplings and plant them to grow new date palms yourself.
Put them in loose potting soil. Don't keep them too wet. It is better to water more frequently, but more sparingly. You can tell whether they have rooted by the fact that new shoot tips form.
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Compost soil, which you loosen up with gravel or sand, is suitable as a substrate for date palms. You can also mix in some expanded clay (€19.73), lava granules (€13.99) or gravel so that the earth remains nice and loose even after a long time.