My neighbour wants me to try to shoot a native plant that she calls WHITE HAKEA. She gave me two green nuts and wanted me to get seeds out of them and get them going.
I have since collected some dry nuts just opening, and taken some black material from them and placed in seed trays.
Help, i need lots of Help to do the right right thing by my neighbour as well as for me to learn something about natives
Hi roughie I have never tired to propagate Hakea only Lily Pilly and Grevillea. But have a look at the link below, lots of info on there for you. Cheers..MM.
The thing with growing any Proteas from seed including Hakeas is that the seeds need to be in darkness to germinate. Put your seeds in a tray of propagation mix and then put just enough prop mix over the top of them to block out the light, don't bother with vermiculite.
In my experience with growing Proteas from seed I have learned that they are very fickle with thier germination times. Some species will come up within a few weeks while others take much longer. I happened on four seeds of Hakea lissosperma (Needle Bush) while working on a herbarium and I thought what the heck, I'll give em a go. After months of care nothing happened then the growing season finished and they got months of neglect to the point of drying out completely. I didn't bother to take the tray out of my little Chickenfeed greenhouse I just pushed it to the back while I started off lots of other new seeds. 14 months after putting the Hakea seeds in one decided to pop up and is now growing like a rocket!
By the way roughie, where abouts in Tassie are you?
