My cacti and other plants

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Echinocereus coccineus 8 / 7

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Echinocereus adustus 8 / 26

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Gymnocalycium baldianum 8 / 26

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Echinocereus bristolii v. pectinatus 9/23

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Lobivia leucommalla(??) 9/1

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Thelocactus bicolor 9/7

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Saguaro

[Dodi Russell]

Great work on growing the seedlings , where did you order the seeds from most of them seem to have a high germination rate especially the Lobivia leucommalla and saguaro. Are you planning to graft any plants.

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Great work on growing the seedlings , where did you order the seeds from most of them seem to have a high germination rate especially the Lobivia leucommalla and saguaro. Are you planning to graft any plants.

Thank you! I ordered them from ebay, cactus store and mesa and a few people gave me seeds. The saguaro came from a member here, prickly pear. The lobivia I got from a friend I met on instagram. I don't plan on doing any grafting at all. I'm not big on the look of grafted plants. If any of these won't grow on their own roots they'll probably perish.

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More cactus seedlings. All but the opuntia come from BarrelsandHedgehogs from instagram. Check him out if you get a chance.

[TimN]

You definitely have the seedling thing going on! Well done! I do better by sprinkling the seeds in the pots. I've had marginal success actively sowing seeds over the years. Next spring I'll be switching to the Hanazono method from the baggie method. Fingers crossed...

I've been trying to catch some Saguaro seeds for the past two years and have missed it both years. There's a short period of time between when the fruit is ripe and falls to the ground and the fruit empty of seeds on the ground. The fruit is quite high up and I don't generally carry a ladder in my car, so I have to wait for them to come to me.

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You definitely have the seedling thing going on! Well done! I do better by sprinkling the seeds in the pots. I've had marginal success actively sowing seeds over the years. Next spring I'll be switching to the Hanazono method from the baggie method. Fingers crossed...

I've been trying to catch some Saguaro seeds for the past two years and have missed it both years. There's a short period of time between when the fruit is ripe and falls to the ground and the fruit empty of seeds on the ground. The fruit is quite high up and I don't generally carry a ladder in my car, so I have to wait for them to come to me.

Thanks! I sprinkled these then put a light layer of sand or zeolite over them. So far, they've been pretty easy. What's the Hanazono method?

Lemme look around. I might have more saguaro seeds i can gift you. Not 100% but I don't think I sowed them all.

[TimN]

Frank (Hanazono) shared this with me.

He uses a clear plastic box with no ventilation holes but not clamped down hard. He puts capillary mat in the bottom and bottom waters everything with that. He uses pumice/pumice sand plus some organic. I'm going to go more mineral based on conversations and results from another successful grower I know.

Keep the little pots with the seeds/seedlings in the box for a year. He keeps them in his greenhouse with shade cloth on the box while they're seedlings.

After a year, he puts them in another box with 7 ventilation holes and capillary cloth for another year. No shade cloth.

I'll start planning in a couple of months. I just got some seeds from my M. crucigera that I want try. I always thought they made barren fruit. The seeds are just tiny, but they're there.

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Frank (Hanazono) shared this with me.

He uses a clear plastic box with no ventilation holes but not clamped down hard. He puts capillary mat in the bottom and bottom waters everything with that. He uses pumice/pumice sand plus some organic. I'm going to go more mineral based on conversations and results from another successful grower I know.

Keep the little pots with the seeds/seedlings in the box for a year. He keeps them in his greenhouse with shade cloth on the box while they're seedlings.

After a year, he puts them in another box with 7 ventilation holes and capillary cloth for another year. No shade cloth.

I'll start planning in a couple of months. I just got some seeds from my M. crucigera that I want try. I always thought they made barren fruit. The seeds are just tiny, but they're there.

I found his thread. Very very interesting. I have one of those mats somewhere. I might try it out too. Thanks for the suggestion!

I found those saguaro seeds if you want to shoot me an addy. There's quite a few.

Put on soil today-

2 forms of echinocereus pectinatus
3 forms of echinocereus reichenbachii
2 forms of echinocereus viridifluoris
Echinocereus polycanthus
Echinocereus cloranthus
Echinopsis oxygona
Echinopsis ancistrophora

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Echinocereus seedlings