Germinating Michelia champaca?
tropicdude
15 years ago
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Comments (3)Michelia.... have not had any luck with seed only cuttings.... next time I well try soaking seed for 24 hours then lightly covering seed soil temp 75-80F...See MoreMichelia champaca seeds
Comments (3)Germination of Michelia champaca should be quite easy. Wash the seeds thoroughly. You might want to soak it for a few hours two or three times. The seedpods and arils include germination inhibitors. Use a free-draining soil and keep the seeds warm. Most should germinate in about a month. Oh, and they absolutely need some light to germinate so don't put them in the dark and don't bury them too deep. I've never tried M. alba, but I've heard that germination is more difficult, maybe only 10%. Some people have used chemicals such as GA3 to get a better rate. Passiflora is very similar. Soak it and then keep it warm (or hot, 80F, even 90F) after you sow. Old seed won't germinate well at all. Don't know about Nyctanthes....See MoreMichelia champaca
Comments (35)Here in the Hollywood Hills - my Alba is 4 years old now and has been in the ground for the last three years. It has grown up to about 20 feet now, and blooms year round with fragrant creamy white blooms. There are more blooms in the summer. I water it well twice weekly and fertilize it with super bloom and osmocote twice a year. I have trimmed it back twice now and it continues to get larger and LARGER. It's my favorite plant here, and just a few blooms set in a bowl of water brings me back to Bali where I discovered the incredible fragrance. Note should be taken that the blooms are so much bigger now that the tree has gotten big and is in the ground....See MoreMichelia champaca - root conditions (zone 8b, Western Europe)
Comments (11)Mike, I really like my Champaca a lot, and I would also be very very annoyed to lose it because of spider mites. I know how sneaky they are. They almost killed two Plumerias last winter. Sorry to hear you've lost the tree...I'm thinking of doing a couple of neem oil sprays before I bring the tropicals indoors (around 15th October). Michael, when I received the "tree" it came in a 10 cm x 10 cm pot, and i bare rooted the thing immediately (around 10th December 2018). I remember that it looked more like a rooted cutting than like something grown from seed. Maybe I'm the lucky owner of a more mature tree. The tree came from Germany and the nursery is dealing with plants from South-East Asia and also doing their own propagations. I've been several times in Southern Europe...but my eyes were not trained to recognize a Michelia tree. I would love to put my hands on a cutting from a mature flowering tree... Michael...See Morejinginuk
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