Strelitzia 'Bird of Paradise' Seeds

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I don’t consider myself highly skilled with seeds, especially ones that can be harder to germinate like BOP seeds, but since I could not find an orange BOP in my area I decided to try my hand at growing them from seed. I started with about half the seeds using three different methods, seed pods, paper towel, and hydroponic garden. 5 of the seeds germinate, but due to some mistakes on my part only one survived and it is actually putting out a second leaf now! In my opinion these are great quality seeds and I plan to try to grow the rest of them and hopefully more will survive and prove I learned from my previous mistakes. It’s a long process, but it’s been a true joy to watch this one grow! If I can do it, anyone can do it!

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I've planted 9 birds of paradise seeds using different methods. And so far I have 3 successful germinations. I am still very new to planting with seeds so any growth I get is a win for me. Again I have almost had 100% luck with all seeds I have purchased from this company. The 1 I did not I will reorder and try again. No fault of the company I just dont know what I am doing yet.

These took some trial and error to germinate, but I've finally managed to produce success.

I germinated using the paper towel method, wetting with hydroponic nutrient solution, and it required I work in several stages:

- For week 1, I put the seeds in wet paper towels as-is—I did not scarify the seeds or remove the orange hairs at the tip.
- For week 2, I removed the orange hairs, which were basically falling off on their own at this point, and replaced the bag and paper towels with fresh ones.
- I left this as-is for multiple weeks, replacing paper towels and bags weekly. I had a white fuzz building up on the seeds that I would gently brush away with a soft-bristled toothbrush each week when I changed the paper towels.
- Once the seeds started to bulge, I would lightly file the tips (not enough to show white) and I had sprouts within a week.

This is the third batch I've tried and have 3 of 5 sprouting in this batch after a month and a week (March 3rd to April 13th). This is a major improvement over the previous batches that had 0% germination and one batch scarified from the beginning actually rotted hollow.

Note that seedling 2 was not scarified at all in this batch and had to break through the tip on its own. I'm not as confident in this one's survival as 4 and 5 which were both scarified and are healthy color all the way through.