Date palms are not only easy to care for, they are also quite easy to grow yourself. However, this requires a little patience and finesse. How to grow a new date palm from a sapling or from seed.

Date palms are great for growing from seed

What methods are there for propagating date palms?

You can propagate date palms in two ways: from shoots or from seeds.

Cultivation from seeds is very tedious. It can take months before the seeds germinate and the first cotyledons appear.

Rearing from saplings is a little faster. However, this only works if the date palm shoots lateral saplings in spring.

How to grow a date palm from saplings

To grow new date palms, you can cut saplings that grow laterally out of the ground in spring. Never cut off the top of the date palm. This removes the vegetation point and the palm tree dies.

  • Fill the seed pots (€16.68) with soil
  • Insert saplings and press down the soil
  • place in a bright, warm location
  • Keep substrate moist but not wet

Place the pots with the offshoots in a location where it is as warm as possible. Temperatures around 25 degrees are ideal. It is good if the saplings are also heated from below.

New roots are evident when new leaf buds appear. You only have to replant the new date palms when the roots are already growing out of the drainage hole.

Grow date palms from seeds - Here's how!

The seed has a very hard shell and is placed in lukewarm water for at least 24 hours before sowing. Then you sow it in pots that you have filled with potting soil.

Cover the seed with soil about an inch deep. Keep the pot warm and bright but not sunny. Keep the soil moist, avoiding over-wetting.

After germination, wait until the new date palm is about ten centimeters high. Then plant them in a deep pot with palm soil.

tips

Date palms tolerate slight frost temperatures for a short time. In a sheltered location, you can even overwinter older specimens in the garden bed. However, it should not get colder than -6 degrees at the location.

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