Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree Seeds - 50 Seeds - Stunning Colored Bark - Eucalyptus deglupta

I’m always looking for “new to me” plants to start, and these seeds did not disappoint at all. They are very tiny seeds, therefore have tiny sprouts, so I recommend either bottom-watering, or using the stream option on a spray bottle and spray the dirt around them rather than hitting the babies. I used peat pellets in a starter tray with a dome lid.

These seeds are duds! After reading reviews I saw a lot of people had bad results, but many had great results. I have a farm nursery and sprout thousands of seeds a year from hundreds of different plants and trees, so I figured I'd get it right. I used professional seed starting mix, a seed starting tray with humidity dome, a heat mat with temperature probe to ensure consistent 90 degrees for germination. Carefully placed one seed in each of 50 cells and misted twice daily. After 5 weeks, not a single sprout. I came back to the listing and looked at reviews. I noticed that there was not one single review with success in the past 12 months. I also looked at reviews from other sellers on amazon with seeds from the same source "CZ grain" and I see the same thing there. They must have a large stock of old seeds. In retrospect, I guess it's dumb to by tropical plant seeds from a source in in mid-west USA. Of course these sellers are not sourcing their seeds directly. Better off buying these types of seeds directly from a grower in a tropical or subtropical region.

Almost all of mine popped, both the germinated ones and the ones straight planted-- but the other reviewers are right, heating pad made them pop in both situations, no activity until heat was applied, so I get why some had mixed results, I imagine there would be some result with longer time and no heat but with heat it was about a week or so, maybe a bit longer. That being said the ones I transplanted from germination only a couple lived to seedling whereas the ones straight up from soil survived better (maybe leave them in the towel a bit longer before moving) though separating and potting the seedlings from the soil was easy enough and the seedlings are sturdy. (on both scenarios they got at least 24 hours in the fridge, the germinated ones on a towel and the straight planted ones just sat in a tray with no soak) On the soil planting I put 3 per planting and out of 8 pots 3 of them had more than one and they all had one minimum, and in the paper towel method like 14 out of 17 sprouted, though like I said only a few of the paper towel germinations came up after soiling, I think I moved them too quickly so, let them get a bit bigger in the towel maybe for better success. Overall these sprouted really well and are starting well, they are definitely eucalyptus and I am hoping they are in fact the advertised Rainbow variety, CZ Grain seems to be the most reputable person to get it from on amazon, I will be watching them grow in anticipation of the reddish stems and edges that I believe are more associated with the rainbow kind. EDIT: So, they are now exhibiting the red features that confirm it is the correct Rainbow Eucalyptus species! Very pretty! So, if you got your seed pack from czgrain like me than you are probably good-to-go!

For the price and how tiny they are, I thought I might get more. Unfortunately, I tried the paper towel trick, and still haven't seen any results. :(

Seeds will not germinate...if they even are seeds... tried napkin in Ziploc... ive tried heating pad... no heating pad...dome pots... no dome...potting soil, coconut coir, peat moss... XD at this point questioning what was even received xD