sagiXsagi Posted March 8, 2017 Hello, I know this is a not so known plant/seed. I didnt know it either until it was suggested by a mate with which we traded and he had it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picralima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akuammine so I was given a couple fresh ones which I sowed together with Alicia in a shallow tray - there was a suggestion to remove the outer husk of the seed, but frankly it didn't seem like an easy job so I skipped this. 78 days later, no alicia has sprouted, but 2 picralimas have sprouted, lifting up the rather huge seed, leaves not haveing been freed from the envelope.. They are like that some 10 days now, maybe a bit more and I havent transfered them to light yet, maybe it do it today.. the day before yesterday I decided to carefully cut some parts off the seed to maybe help it unveil. I think I managed that without harming the seedling.. we will see Should I take it to light ? maybe the light helps the plantling get rid of the seed? maybe I should have done this from the moment they sprout? any ideas? even people who haven't grown/tried this, please share your experience with hard to germinate and largish seeds..... 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 8, 2017 gna leave mine in the soil in the rainforest tardis if they take that long, I was beginning to give up, thanks man! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sagiXsagi Posted March 10, 2017 after taking them out duting the day for a couple days, I was thinking that the light aint sufficient plus I was thinking alicia too, which is supposed to want warmth to sprout.. so today, I cut some more parts of the exterior seed up until the point that I saw green. I am amazed that the babies havent collapsed from that treatment - I mean it seems I haven't harmed them and I brought them to light.. lets hope it can have positive effects to the alicia seed to, after the slight cold shocks.... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sagiXsagi Posted March 16, 2017 I was suggested I should put a humidity dome so that the seed exterior is aborted, I left it a couple days, then decided I should again try to manually remove the seed with a razor, but this time completely - the first time the seedlings looked un-stressed by the proceedure, so why not? It was successfull or at least seems so, and I then kept the humidity dome two days more, and I removed it today. this tray is pested with flies and I am looking forward to getting this tray out of the light room. humidity dome didnt help. That's partly the reason I hurried up with cutting the seed and not waiting for humidity dome to do the work alone. Frankly, I shoud be trying to transplant the ~20 days seedlings, even though it doesnt seem like the best move. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 22, 2017 (edited) well I'll be damned! , I didn't expect to see this today yesterday i upped temps on the stat to 30C from 25C and moved the rainforest tardis to a sunny south facing window, where cactical ops have temporarily retired from, in hope to rejuvenate the memories of when the box did so well at growing plants in my old's conservatory what do ya do at this stage? remove seed coat or let it blast out of it by it's self? well , curiosity got the better of me and I found I could very gently scrape the coating off with a thumb nail Edited March 22, 2017 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sagiXsagi Posted March 22, 2017 I transplanted my two seedlings and let them out of the light room to natural light position. This is a pretty hard seed. Someone told me to place in humidity dome. remember I started my operations at 15+ days of the seedlings... so maybe let them for a week or two, then consider manually removing them.. during transplanting I saw some roots, and they might have been damaged by fungus gnats / flies a bit... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted March 24, 2017 well, curiosity got the even better of me so I went rooting about in the soil with a finger to check for bad ones to remove , had 3 rotters but check this pleasant surprise ;) I trust these photo's are good enough eh? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted April 11, 2017 ok so there IS a coating - or another coating at least , some rubbery thing that decided it would start breaking so i removed it and out popped two lovely cotyledons which haven't done anything since - no opening or nuthn , ... yet anyway ... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted June 21, 2017 the ones that I didn't remove the coating from seem to be progressing faster in the long run here's the best one 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sagiXsagi Posted July 3, 2017 wow god damn it with this uv light!!! I thought the seedling had red vains... so beautiful shot man dude you should give lessons and lectures in specialised indoor growing waterplants and tropicals and cacti, your work is amazing dude! your seeding is amazing, whatever you are doing to them keep doing it, mine are groin very slow and possibly need very warm temps to grow and now that I saw yours I will take mine to more light - now that I think about it, its in very shady spot... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted July 3, 2017 that's very kind of you man and , .. always a pleasure to share ... if you need a backup if it fails I can post one ... cuz i wont have enough room for probably more than one , and that's if it'll take 'bonsai' treatment ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted July 3, 2017 i have 7 good germinates ... - so far Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MeanGreen Posted July 9, 2017 Wow way to go guys! Those seedlings look gorgeous! Been hearing a lot about akuamma seeds recently as a kratom substitute, seems like a very interesting plant. Haven't had the courage and patience to have a go at germinating these seeds yet... But I'd gladly take one off your hands Thunder haha, I'll PM you see if we can work something out. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyAmine. Posted September 8, 2017 I have a few but am a little scared of trying them T.B.H. When one of you other brave opioid tollerant people try it without any precipitated withdrawal then I'm all in. I'm a bit of a pussy when it comes with withdrawal these days, once you've experienced waking precipitated withdrawal a few times I promise you never, ever want to risk it again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted September 8, 2017 (edited) smoken half a one after a coffee grinding ... felt slight pain releif .. not been further wasnt a bad flavour tho didnt have any withdrawal from that low a dose but as far as recommended doses on various sites i probably hardly scratched the surface and thus probably not much help other than confirming low dose had no pull to retry - other than possible combo scope with nightshades Edited September 8, 2017 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
