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Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:10 am
by Hanazono
My friend gave me some seeds and I sowed the seeds in 2018. The name tag said "cauliflower" and just 3 were germinated.
To see earlier result, they were grafted and degrafted in September 2020.
These cacti do not show the character of cauliflower and flower colour is also abnormal.
I assume the cactus is a hybrid, fissuratus x retusus.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:18 am
by Hanazono
I removed shadecloth covered over greenhouses lately. Since sunlight strength was recoverd slightly, some Astrophytum species were in flwer.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:47 pm
by Hanazono
Two ariocarpus species were in flower.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:00 am
by Hanazono
My friend gave me seeds which were harvested from his cacti. Seeds were Ariocarpus retusus cv tri-fingers.
I grafted 24 young seedlings but 12 scions were eaten by mice. One of survived cactus were in flower which was the 1st flower for the cactus.
Unfortunately the cactus has not shown the character of cultivar yet.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:08 am
by Hanazono
Summer-time finished in this morning and time moved backward for 1 hour. I watered every 2 weeks in summer but it was changed to every 3 weeks.
I started watering yesterday and completed in this morning.
The photo is cacti in the large greenhouse finished watering.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 3:32 am
by memememe
How many plants are in the large greenhouse? Very nice ariocarpus, all from seed?
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 3:34 am
by memememe
Also, do you have different watering methods for different species of cacti? Or do they all just get watered together? Thanks - just asking to know if it is alright to water them altogether (I just water them all at once since there's way too much and I don't have much time to care for them one by one). The air is also very bad right now, so I don't go visit the greenhouse very often. My collection has grown by quite a lot after I got way more plants than I initially expected from friends and nurseries.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:16 am
by Hanazono
G'morning memememe,
How many plants are in the large greenhouse? Very nice ariocarpus, all from seed?
I have never counted because of too many.
All ariocarpus were propagated from seeds except some which are rooted off-sets.
It is not easy to buy ariocarpus plants in here.
Also, do you have different watering methods for different species of cacti? Or do they all just get watered together? Thanks
Normal cacti, all species are watered by a watering -can from top.
Cacti during rooting are dipped pots into water.
Since watering frequency is not same, I can not water together.
Normal cacti: every 2 weeks
Seedlings: weekly
Grafted cacti: weekly
Since watering is not finished in a day, I record watering history on Ipad to manage watering frequency.
Frank
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:21 am
by Hanazono
Ariocarpus fissuratus related species were in flower yesterday afternoon.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 12:53 am
by Hanazono
It is in autumn but some asterias have still been in flower.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:16 am
by memememe
Hanazono wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:16 am
G'morning memememe,
How many plants are in the large greenhouse? Very nice ariocarpus, all from seed?
I have never counted because of too many.
All ariocarpus were propagated from seeds except some which are rooted off-sets.
It is not easy to buy ariocarpus plants in here.
Also, do you have different watering methods for different species of cacti? Or do they all just get watered together? Thanks
Normal cacti, all species are watered by a watering -can from top.
Cacti during rooting are dipped pots into water.
Since watering frequency is not same, I can not water together.
Normal cacti: every 2 weeks
Seedlings: weekly
Grafted cacti: weekly
Since watering is not finished in a day, I record watering history on Ipad to manage watering frequency.
Frank
Thanks!
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:44 am
by Hanazono
Ariocarpus fissuratus were in flower. It was 2nd flowering in this season for them.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:06 am
by Hanazono
Yesterday was a warm day. Some astrophytum flowers returned.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2023 12:47 am
by Hanazono
Two ariocarpus fissuratus f Big Bend were in flower. It was 3rd flowering in this season for them.
Re: Hana's cacti
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 1:15 am
by Hanazono
Two uebelmannia species were in flower.
3rd photo is seedlings propagated from seeds which were harvested from the cactus on 2nd photo.
Seeds were sown last November but seedlings are still very small, just 1.5 mm in diameter. The germination rate of seeds was very bad.