There are numerous reasons why you can't find
Anthurium seeds to purchase. The chief is economic. The second is the time it takes to grow them. There are few growers of this genus in the United States that do so commercially. The demand is not high. If you and others were able to buy the thousands and thousands of seeds you seek you would flood the market with plants and put these businesses out of business. It has happened already.
I'll give you a single example. Three or four years ago a species known as
Anthurium veitchii would easily bring $100 in the United States. Today, growers cannot sell them for $6 to $10 per plant! That is because tissue culture companies took this relatively rare plant and created thousands and thousands of them. As a result, the market has crashed. And there are other plants in this genus that have done the same thing.
I receive requests daily for up to 10,000 seeds at one time. Obviously, people think they are going to get rich on these plants. You won't. People think they will get rich because they see difficult to obtain specimens sell for up to $500 on eBay. But if they were easily available, the price would drop to next to nothing. It's called the law of supply and demand.
As a result, commercial growers refuse to grow rare species in large quantity. They grow just enough to keep the demand high. Still, the majority of
Anthurium in the United States sell for around $20. If people do as they are now doing in India and grow countless thousands of these plants the price will simply plummet. The Indian market is already affecting the Hawaiian
Anthurium market. I know large growers in Florida who laugh at requests like this one. They are smart enough to protect their businesses and refuse to sell their seeds. They grow a few and throw the rest in the trash.
Besides, many of the species in this genus do not make good house plants. They require a large greenhouse to survive. Plants like
Anthurium veitchii, which is beautiful, die by the thousands because they will not grow in a house. Growing more rare specimens in large quantity is simply going to kill the market for those plants and put large growers out of business. I just attended a conference in Miami where this exact subject was discussed. Growers decided they would prefer to throw the seeds away rather than destroy their own businesses and sell them to mass producers.
The next problem is the fact that few
Anthurium will produce seed voluntarily. If you do not know how to collect the pollen, store it in a freezer, then pollinate the plant the next time it produces a spathe and spadix you are likely to never see seed. I have rare specimens that produce one spathe and spadix each year. If I have pollen in the freezer (and you must learn how to collect it properly) then those plants never produce seeds. If I do have pollen then I can get them to produce berries and each berry normally contains two seeds. I might get 200 berries on a spadix. That's 400 seeds. And people ask me for 10,000 seeds! Where do they think I'm going to grow enough plants to produce 10,000 seeds?
Then, the viability of the seeds is short. I have had people mail me seed from South America and they will not germinate even after that short of trip in the mail. I really don't believe many people who ask for large volumes of seed have done the slightest research into how
Anthurium reproduce. Even large growers in Central America can't supply the volume of seed people are seeking! It simply cannot be done. And if they sold them to you and shipped them to Asia, you'd likely demand your money back when they produced no plants! Again, the germination period is very short!
Here is a link that will explain all of this in detail. You are fee to continue to send all of the known Anthurium growers on the internet emails begging for countless thousands of seed. But it is highly unlikely you will even receive a response. Growing them is difficult in the first place. And anyone who has spent a few million dollars building a business is not going to do something that will destroy what they have built.
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Why you can't find Anthurium seeds to purchase
