The race is on; Astrophytum caput - We have a winner!!

[Christer Johansson]

The second one to flower is......
...."The Other One"....

....also on a Selenicereus

[Dmyerswny]

I forgot which one I voted for. One of the underdogs though!

[Sutremaine]

Gorgeous silky flowers. Do all caput-medusae petals fold back like that, or is it variable?

[Christer Johansson]

Do all caput-medusae petals fold back like that, or is it variable?

Well, I've got 4 flowers so far and all of them looked like that, so I can't really tell
But I do really like them

[Echinopsis]

Hello ACM-friends!

Selenicereus is good (for seedling grafts) - but it`s not the best.



The best rootstook for acm turberkel-grafts is ferocactus glaucescens.

A little experience report of my proliferation 2011 in my greenhouse.
I have 10 Motherplants (10 different clons). So they call "K1" (it calls clon 1) and so else...this is the meaning of the plug label in the different pot.

Ok, let`s start.

First some flowers:

[Echinopsis]

All Stocks from acm are ferocactus glaucescens:







tubercel from köhres:

[Echinopsis]

This is the same plant! Graft in spring 2011!

1 Month after the graft in ferocactus glaucescens:


1 Month later:


1 months later:


1 months later with flower-bulb

[cactuslee]

wow you have an amazing talent at grafting. that is something i have not tried and don't know if i ever will.

[Echinopsis]

Thank you.

It also will good grow own root like this plant:


Astrophytum caput medusae

[Christer Johansson]

From seed to flower to fruit to seed to flower; 1 year and 5 months.

The second generation.

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[gemhunter178]

Nice! Pretty quick!

[CactusFanDan]

Wow, Christer, that's incredible! Very nicely done!!

[Sharpy]

Very nice work indeed