I keep seedlings in same pot for one year after germination. Augusut is still in winter in here but I started repotting from yesterday. H36 One year old seedlings before repotting Ariocarpus furfuraceus v magnificus cv Shinkawa tama-zouge http://inlinethumb27.webshots.com/42458/2154461750044113659S5...

Darryl
It was mouth full water with spines.

Davi
I think they need some years for flowering.

Hanazono

I made 2 veg-patches and tried to grow some vegs but it did not work well because summer was too dry and too hot. I moved some cacti out from greenhouse and planted in one of veg-patches. Echinocactus grusonii, large one is around 30 cm diameter,sown seeds in year 2000. They all have fitted for the ...

Harriet F1 means first filial.When you cross different cactus, the appearance will be similar to the mother plant at the stage of F1. Silenus The stock is Harraisia jusbertii which is used commonly as seedling grafting stock in Japan. Jusbertii is a permanent stock will grow continuously even winter...

I grafted 3 caput-medusae based F1 seedlings in Feb this year. Unlikely farther plant, all of them are growing very slowly. I crossed with many other Astrophytum but I could not get fruits from many plants. The germination ratio was also very bad. All attached photos were taken today. http://inlinet...

I split a seedling and grafted on 21/09/08. The scion is caput-medusae, sown seeds on 24/08/08. One failed and other was made well. I could not make two from one and I have been reviewing my method. I did normal seedling grafting also. 30 of all grafted successfully. http://inlinethumb13.webshots.co...

I sowed seeds of a variegated Astrophytum on 24/08/08. The germination was started 3 days after sown. I checked seedlings yesterday and found around 10% of seedlings are variegated. 3 seedlings in front on the attached photo are variegated. Although variegated pattern would be changed later but I ho...

Darryl

I keep my cactus in two green houses.
One is 6 m x 11 m and keeping maily large cactus. The other one is 3.5 m x 5m and keeping seedlings.

Hanazono

Shaz I tried verious potting mix but I use two types at moment. 1. for large seed, e.g. Astrophytum, ariocarpus Fine normal seed rasing potting mix in market, main element is matured pine bark (Normal seed raising mix in Australia) Covered seeds by coarse sand 2. for small seeds, Mammillaria etc Sam...

Darryl

I can not graft all seedlings, although I have prenty of grafting stocks.
I graft around 100 seedlings every year.
Grafting stocks also are started from seeds.

I sowed cactus seeds on 24/08/08 for this year. I use heating plates for germination as shown attached photo. The temperature is adjustable. I set the volume as 33 'C, which will be 30 'C on the surface of potting mix. Heating plates allow to accommodate 18 of 10 cm square pots at once. I will sow 4...

peterb

I have kept the pumice stone in a small plastic box and kept small amount of water in tha bottom of the box.

Hanazono

Seeds of Strombocactus disciformis are extremely small. I sowed seeds on a block of pumice stone as a trial. 3 shallow 25 mm diameter holes were drilled on the stone and filled up by powder of pumice stone. Seeds were sown in the holes on 26th June. The photo was taken 6th July. Can you see seedling...

Hi Tvaughan I just put a scion on top of the grafting stock, no pressure on the scion. I use also a paper cap shown in the photo to minimize drying up and stopping direct sunlightto hit the scion. The grafting will complete in 10 days. http://inlinethumb41.webshots.com/40936/2577830180044113659S425x...

Hi Alex I use seedlings of Harraisia jusbertii as grafting stocks. 3 years old jusbertii seedlings should be grown around 30 cm height. I graft seedlings on top of jusbertii stocks and cut off bottom of stocks after confirmation of the successfull grafting. I cut stock height as 22.5 cm and rooting....