A race to breach the soil!

[Sanddollarmoon]

On March 10th, I planted 140 hedvekuli (fissistigma verrucosum) seeds, with no special treatment whatsoever. 73 hours later, ten seedlings with one-inch taproots where poking their way free of the soil. This got me wondering, what is the fastest you have ever germinated and sprouted your tropical fruit seeds? I have included some of my records:

1. Fissistigma Verrucosum (hedvekuli)
Family: Annonaceae
Seed Seller: Roy-Ind
3 days to sprout (7.2% germ on first day)

2. Ceiba Speciosum (silk floss tree)
Family: Malvaceae
Seed Seller: Trade Winds Fruit
5 days to sprout (12.5% germ on first day)

3. Parmentiera Aculeata (guajilote)
Family: Bignoniaceae
Seed Seller: Trade Winds Fruit
7 days to sprout (100% germ on first day)

[Soren]

You received them all dry I assume?

[Rtreid]

On March 10th, I planted 140 hedvekuli (fissistigma verrucosum) seeds, with no special treatment whatsoever. 73 hours later, ten seedlings with one-inch taproots where poking their way free of the soil. This got me wondering, what is the fastest you have ever germinated and sprouted your tropical fruit seeds? I have included some of my records:

1. Fissistigma Verrucosum (hedvekuli)
Family: Annonaceae
Seed Seller: Roy-Ind
3 days to sprout (7.2% germ on first day)

That is very interesting,  I got some of the same seeds from Roy, at about the same time, and my experience has beed slightly different.  My first one germinated after about a week, and I have been getting one or two a week ever since then.  They keep sprouting, just quite unevenly.

Richard

[Sanddollarmoon]

Søren, yes, all were recieved dry. Richard, I had a similar experience. Although many germinated on the third day, they began appearing sporadically over the course of several weeks.

[Roy-Ind]

I am sorry again.
The   seed supplied by me as Fissistigma  verrucosum is actually Senna occidentalis syn Cassia occidentalis

Roy

[Sanddollarmoon]

I am sorry again.
The   seed supplied by me as Fissistigma  verrucosum is actually Senna occidentalis syn Cassia occidentalis

Roy

Thank you fpr the ID, Roy. One of my plants is flowering, and they are quite nice.

[Tropheus76]

Two days for some melons I grew. Have not had citrus seeds that I didn't put in the fridge for four months(forgot about them actually) that I didn't put into potting soil that didn't already have shoots coming up within three days.