With proper care and in a favorable location, you can ensure that your hemp palm blooms and later develops edible fruits and seeds. However, this only works if the hemp palm is already grown. Young palm trees do not bloom.
How do you harvest seeds from a hemp palm?
To harvest seeds from a hemp palm, you need a male and female plant. Pollinate the flowers using a brush. Allow the flowers and fruit to dry out on the palm before harvesting and loosening the hard-shelled seeds.
Hemp palms are two common
Hemp palms are dioecious, so you must have one male and one female palm to harvest seeds.
The flowers differ only slightly from each other, so it is not easy for laypeople to determine the gender of a hemp palm.
The female flowers are yellow-green and appear bushy, while the male flowers have a very strong yellow color.
- Male and female plant necessary
- Do your own pollination
- Let the flowers dry out
- harvest dried fruits
Only adult hemp palms bloom
For a hemp palm to bloom, it must be adult. This can take many years, so most hemp palms tend not to bloom. Plants grown indoors rarely produce flowers.
This is how the seed is created
The flowering period of a hemp palm lasts between April and June. The flowers need to be fertilized. This often only works if you take a brush yourself (€6.00 on Amazon) and do the pollination.
The fertilized flower forms a fruit that you can eat. It is ripe when it is black and purple.
You must not cut off the flowers if you want to harvest seeds. They stay on the palm tree until they are completely dry and the fruit is also very dry. Then harvest them and release the hard-shelled seeds.
Propagate hemp palm from seeds
The propagation of a hemp palm from seeds takes place from February to April. The dried seeds are placed in lukewarm water to swell before sowing.
The seeds are then sown in prepared seed pots, covered with soil and placed in a bright location.
It takes up to a year for the seed to germinate. Keep the cultivation pots nice and warm and ensure that the substrate is always moderately moist.
Tip
The seeds of the hemp palm are similar to those of the fruit and are only slightly smaller. They have a kidney-shaped shape and are approximately 11 millimeters long and 7 millimeters high and wide.
