Hello! It took a while for me to find some time to sow the next batch, but here are the results! Batch 5 was sown on April 3. Purchased from Mesa Garden Ariocarpus scaphirostris (SB829) Ariocarpus trigonus 'elongatus' Copiapoa longistaminea (KK194) Copiapoa uhligiana (KK1398) Echinocereus fitchii 'r...

During the same week I received my shipment from ADBLPS, I also received my shipment from Koehres, but as luck would have it, US Customs seized and destroyed that shipment and left me a little note. :( Luckily I only ordered 4 seed packets from Koehres so not much was lost. I did order 3 times as ma...

For the next batch, I simply went off the script and lightly poked the hilum....with a much greater successful germination rate. :shock: Talk about high risk, high reward! I just may try this on some of the sclerocactus seeds I've yet to sow. Also, thanks for the video link! I have to say I didn't ...

If you keep the seedlings wet they need to be free of fungus. I grow mine in air don't use plastic anymore, it works but probably they grow slower . Yours look good to me I have trouble with the echinocactus and dinteranthus vanzylii. Some of the other species I've never tried. I've always wondered...

Very ambitious and obviously, thus far, successful, too! Keep us updated as the seedlings progress, please and thank you. Welcome to the Cactiguide forum! Steve PS - I have a small start of first attempt at cacti seedling growing. A couple of Sclero species in there, too. I poked the seeds vs sandi...

I would also try to bury carefully with a sterile wood stick those seedlings with roots sitting on the surface. Also to remove quick empty seed shells: this is the organic substrate that fungi need to grow. I have buried some of the seedlings deeper (the roots of the Pediocactus and Sclerocactus se...

Batch 3 was sown on February 25. Purchased from Mesa Garden Copiapoa lembckei (KK70) Coryphantha echinoidea 'schwarziana' Echinocactus horizonthalonius (SNL94) Gymnocalycium schickendantzii (P17A) Lobivia haematantha v. rebutioides (R585A) Mammillaria pectinifera Pediocactus knowltonii (SB304) Pelec...

Wait for those to get little larger and to develop some spines on the top. Leave them 2 - 3 months in the bags, if no mould there is not worry about. Never tried micorizae inoculation with seedlings and not sure if this will work. Sterilisation with MWvs, esp. over dry mix is usually not good enoug...

Since the last time I posted I've had to remove dead seeds covered with black fuzzy mold from three of the mesemb pots (you can actually see them in the C. herreanthus picture...I didn't see them until a day after that ](*,) ). I removed them and the surrounding substrate and treated the area with d...

Hi everyone! I've been lurking on this forum for several months now (pretty much since the pandemic started) and have been absorbing (or trying to anyways) the wealth of information available here. I've been inspired by all the seed propagation posts and decided to start my own as my first post here...