Palm tree seeds8/14/2023 The yield may reduce within 10years of establishing the farm, instead of 30 to 40 years normal palm plantation. Planting F2 will also produced fruits, but it is risky if you want to go into commercial production. If you decide to sprout Tenera yourself (Raising from seed to seedlings), you will agree with me that you can no longer call the New seedlings Tenera again? That is why we kept on going there to buy planting materials every year. This parent materials are with NIFOR, Benin City. Tenera is an hybrid species gotten from cross between two parents ( Psifera (Tall) and Dura (Short)). If you sprout the seed yourself, the yield will reduce. “A specie will not give the same yield as the parent”… It is a simple Planting Breeding / Genetics explanation So, remove as soon as the flesh has been softening. The hot water treatment is to soften the flesh for easy removal. So, the yield can never be like the original Hybrid parent as there will be reduction in yield. The Original Tenera specie is an F1 (first filial) generation as it was obtained from the crosses of two different parents. I will like to use this opportunity to enlighten the audiences on the major limitation of sprouting the oil palm nut yourself.įirst, the END product or result of this process will no longer be an F1 (first filial) generation. NOTE: I need to update this article today ( ), due to calls and inquiries on how to sprout palm nuts since the day this article was published. So, germinating your own seedling is less costly but takes some times. If you are planting 10,000 palms, you will have to have 300 x 10,000 = N 3 Million. You don’t really need to go through all this stress when you can just go to the agricultural institute to buy already prepared seedling at about N300 per seedling, before it was usually sold for N120. The overall period it will take before the seedlings are transplanted into the farm is 15 to 17 months old. Is it compulsory to wait till the seedlings have 15green leaves? Well, doing so we reduce mortality rate (probability of seedling drying out when you move it to field and also prevent transplanting shock) This is when you can finally transplant them into your prepared farm land. The seedlings will stay in the nursery for 1 year before transplanting it to the field.īy that time, they will have about 15 green leaves. In raising oil palm seeds, you germinate it first in the pre nursery before transplanting to the nursery. When the seedling begins to bring out new leaf with two points you can then start transplanting to the nursery. The young seedlings will stays in the plastic container for about 4 to 5 months. When the seeds have germinated, you transfer them into small plastic container with black loam manured soil. Doing this we make the seeds to germinate in about 90 to 100 days ( smiling).ĭo you have the patient to wait for over 3months? If yes, then continue reading. In order to ensure that your oil palm seed germinate fast, the seeds should be kept in a very hot room. The oil palm seed required special care and treatment because if you do not take care of the seeds, it will take several years before they germinate. Note you can’t just take the seed and plant directly on the field like your maize seed.
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