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Looks great! I see what appear to be red flowers on those astos in the back. I take it your hanazonos x red flowered asterias was successful beyond the one mentioned earlier in the thread. We're they grafted in 2004 or 2014?
Great pictures!

I made a mistyping. It should be 2014.
I grafted 24 of red flowering related asterias seedlings.
Almost all are red flowering ones.

Whoo! They look great!

I completed seedling grafting in January but I added 12 scions in this month, which are not seedlings.
6 of A. rittri off-sets and 6 of M. luethyi tubercles were grafted.

I grafted a tubercle of luethyi on an other stock and got a successful result some years ago.
It is the 1st time to graft these tubercles on Pereskiopsis.
The photo is one of grafted tubercles.

Ariocarpus scions grafted in 2014 have started to be in flower.
The photo is one of them, A. fissuratus v intermedius.

A grafted Ariocarpus retusus v furfuraceus cv Daruma royal was in flower in the afternoon.
24 young seedlings were grafted in 2014.
This is one of them.

Man I can't wait till my grafted arios take off in growth! Thanks for the pictures that is really something!

george 76904

I assume you have to wait 1 or 2 more months to happen.

Here is updated photos of grafted scions in 2015.
They are around 8 months old.
It is 1st month in autumn in here but they still have grown continuously.

Ariocarpus bravoanus v hintonii

Astrophytum myriostigma cv khoyo, kikkou

Echinocactus horizontharonius

Ariocarpus fissuratus

Ariocarpus retusus v furfuraceus cv Daruma royal

Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus v elephantideus

Ariocarpus retusus v furfuraceus cv Suguri cauliflower

These scions of Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f Rio Verde were sown seeds in the end of August 2014.
24 of 1 month old seedlings were grafted.
They are still 1 year old, need 5 more months to reach to 2 years old.
Some of them were in flower in this morning.

Amazing plants. What do you plan to do with them once the stock is exhausted? Will you regraft on a sturdier, longer lasting stock or will you try to root them? Some of them seem too much out of shape to try that.

I will degraft them next September with short stocks, 2 cm length.
The short stock will be buried in potting-mix.
Roots come out from the stock initially and the scion relies on the stock for a while.
In 4~5 years, the stock will die but roots are developed form the scion before that and swap over.
This method is utilized the character of non-permanent stock, Peleskiopsis.

The photo is degrafted kotschoubeyanus scions some years ago.
Some of them have developed roots from scions.

Amazing, Hanazono. Your posts are an inspiration and a constant source of joy.

Fissuratus related species are in flower in young age.
These A. fissuratus v intermedius were sown seeds and grafted in 2014.
They have started to be in flower.

2 other species were also in flower yesterday.
Seeds were sown and grafted seedlings in 2014.
Ariocarpus retusus v furfuraceus cv Daruma Royal

Ariocarpus retusus v furfuraceus cv Suguri cauliflower

Updated photo, some of degrafted and under rooting scions
They were grafted in 2014 and degrafted in September this year.