- Hemp palms are bicommon
- Only adult hemp palms flower
- This is how the seed is made
- Propagating hemp palm from seeds
With really good care and a favorable location, you can get your hemp palm to flower and later develop edible fruit and seeds. However, this only works if the hemp palm is already grown. Young palms do not flower.
The dried fruits can be collected for sowing the seeds
Hemp palms are bicommon
Hemp palms are dioecious, so you must have a male and a female palm to harvest seeds.
The flowers differ only slightly from each other, so it is not easy for laypeople to determine the sex of a hemp palm.
The female flowers are yellow-green and appear bushy, while the male flowers are quite a rich yellow color.
- Male and female plants required
- self-pollination
- Let the flowers dry out
- harvest dried fruit
Only adult hemp palms flower
For a hemp palm to flower, it must be mature. This can take many years, so most hemp palms tend not to flower. Plants grown indoors rarely set flowers.
This is how the seed is made
The flowering period of a hemp palm lasts between April and June. The flowers must be fertilized. This often only works if you take a brush and do the pollination yourself.
The fertilized flower produces a fruit that you can eat. It's ripe when it's black and purple.
You must not cut off the flowers if you want to harvest seeds. They remain on the palm tree until they have completely dried up and the fruit is also very dry. Then you harvest them and release the hard-shelled seed.
Propagating hemp palm from seeds
Propagation of a hemp palm from seeds occurs from February to April. The dried seeds are placed in lukewarm water to swell before sowing.
The seed is then sown in prepared seed pots (€16.68), covered with soil and placed in a bright location.
It takes up to a year for the seed to germinate. Keep the growing pots nice and warm and ensure that the substrate is always moderately moist.
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The seeds of the hemp palm resemble those of the fruit and are only slightly smaller. They have a kidney-shaped shape and are about 11 millimeters long and 7 millimeters high and wide.