So a couple things...
I took Paul up on his offer to send seeds during his travels in Malaysia. Even though they were packed very well and a lot of care was obviously put into shipping them, the extended travels through the mail system didn't seem to treat them very well. Regardless, I cleaned them up, soaked them, and planted them using the paper towel method. With the exception of the Dwarf Longons, these were all new varieties to me.
The BIG NEWS to me was
there is something that smells worse than durian. I cannot handle the smell of durian! But should you ever wish to torture your worst enemy, send them some rotten Jengkol (Archidendron pauciflorum) seeds. Most of those arrived rotten and I about passed out cleaning them out looking for good ones. Fortunately they weren't all rotten and I was able to successfully germinate my first ever Jengkol.
Mangifera pentandra - successful!
Salacca wallichiana - successful! (And I had enough seeds to conduct side by side germination test. A 24hr soak in 50% water, 50% HP solution will increase speed of germination, though reliably germinated without treatment)
Euphoria longana - Dwarf sub sp - successful! (super excited about these for application in container culture)
New Topic...Cuttings...For the first time I decided to stick a Moringa cutting in water to see if it'd root (these are small cuttings off of my seedlings). I stuck it in a glass where I was trying to root Gooseberries and Crossberries (Grewia occidentalis).
The cuttings in the water with the Moringa sprouted roots over a week faster than the glass that didn't have the Moringa in the water. None of the cuttings were treated with root stimulant and all were originally started on the same day.
Anybody experience anything like this?
Sorry for the book
-C