Canary Island date palm seeds

Canary Island date palm, or Date / Phoenix - an evergreen palm tree up to 3-5 m tall for growing in bright rooms, halls, winter gardens, greenhouses. Leaves (frond) are pinnate, up to 3-5 m long, with narrow bluish-green leaves, slightly bent outwards.

Petioles are covered with strong spines. Inflorescences axillary, female up to 2 m long, branched, male - shorter. The room will eventually reach the ceiling.

How to grow a date palm from seed

Before planting a date palm, you need to prepare the date seeds themselves for planting, which, for reliability, it is better to plant several at once, and prepare the soil for planting. Bones are suitable from fresh, candied or dried dates - the main thing is that the fruits are not subjected to heat treatment.

In order for the bones to sprout faster, it is better to break their shell slightly by rubbing it with sandpaper, and in order to get the soil necessary for seed germination, you need to mix raw sawdust, sand and peat in equal parts. The bones are placed vertically in the ground and sprinkled on top with a layer of the same substrate 1 cm thick, then the pot or container is placed in a warm place where the temperature is above 20 ºC, and even better - 25-30 ºC, and contain, observing that the soil all the time was warm, damp, but not wet.

To do this, it is best to keep it near heat sources by laying sphagnum moss on the surface of the substrate. Do not expect quick results: a seed can sit in the ground and swell before it sprouts, and three months, and six months.

When the sprouts hatch, move the container to a bright light, protecting the seedlings from direct rays, regularly moisten the soil and spray the seedlings with warm water, and when they grow to 10-15 cm, plant the seedlings in personal pots with a diameter of 15 cm in a four-part soil humus, one part of peat land with the addition of two parts of sand, sod and leaf land. Throw a couple of handfuls of charcoal into the mixture as well and mix everything thoroughly before planting. Don't forget to put a layer of drainage material on the bottom of the pot.

The date palm grown from the stone at home can only give leaves in the third or even in the fifth year of life. The growing point of the date palm is at the top of the trunk, so you can’t cut it off or try to form a tree crown in any way. Make sure that the new leaf arrow is turned from light to shadow, and rotate the pot around the axis from time to time so that the crown of the tree forms evenly.