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Well, you are all lucky you even got seeds, LOL I live in their hometown, have visited their store, and when hubby went in to ask if he could purchase seeds for my birthday, they treated him as if we couldn't possibly know how to grow the seeds and refused to sell him seeds. They do sell some very impressive plants, which are displayed in their front windows.
2 experiences with this company- 1 negative, 1 positive. the first time i ordred it was 5 yrs ago or so. remember the guy being very curt on the phone. had barely any germination- so i chalked it up to my being only semi-experienced at the time, though i'd had good luck with seeds form everywhere else. this yr, i really wanted seeds for brug. sanguineum, and so i placed another samll order. one variety of seed was sent pre-germinating, and i had good results with the remaining 7 varieties, except 1. unfortunately, the pre-germinated ones never grew- they just sat there in the pots for months and eventually rotted. looking over the comments posted, i may not order from them if i can find another source.
I ordered the following palm seeds from The banana tree. Washington Filifera, most germinated. Trachycarpus Fortunei, none germinated. Phoenix Robellini, 1 germinated. Jubea Chinensis, none.
I have ordered from Banana Tree in the past. I had very poor germination of ALL seeds ordered. I have also ordered the same seeds from other companies (exact Genus and species) with much better luck. However, I will continue to order Voodoo bulb plants (Amorphaphallus riviera) from Banana Tree as I have had great luck with these.
I've ordered a couple of times from the Banana Tree. Almost nothing germinated, but I had thought it was my fault. I live in Costa Rica, and we germinate a fair amount of seeds for the nursery, so maybe it *was* a problem with the seed quality.
