Roger has been growing Cordyline Palms from seeds at the school garden for years, but last year we had poor germination. Following a comment from Austin Henning on a previous YouTube video (Thanks Henning) we are trying something different this winter by splitting open the Cordyline Australis white berries / fruits to access the shiny black seeds and we are sowing them directly into a tray of well drained seed compost.
Most Cordyline trees will produce large clusters of seeds, from their perfumed clusters of white flowers. Last year we harvested the seeds quite early in winter (November|) because of cold weather and suspect tat maybe the berries were not quite ripe and the seeds inside not quite mature enough - this year we picked the seeds later in January and are sowing some as berries and some as the black seeds and we shall see how our little experiment works out later in spring.
The seedlings usually start to appear in April here in our little greenhouse, which is only 'slightly heated' so does get quite cold at times but shouldn't get any colder than 0 C.
