Hallo frank, it's lovely to see your grafting progress all year
I have questions what soil do you use for peresekiopsis, and I see all your graft was in 7cm pot is it matter if I use 5cm pot ?

The main species of my cacti collection is Astrophytum asterias, mostly Japanese cultivars. I sowed seeds every year since year 2000. Seed source: I bought seeds from others originally but I have kept enough matured plants to collect seeds by myself. They are in a small greenhouse, asterias only. A...

Hanazono wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 9:58 pm Updated photo, 2nd flowering of Ariocarpus fissuratus cv godzilla in this autumn

Am I just realized that the stock is getting thicker ?
I see you always put the Scion in middle rootstock, did it touch the ring vascular ?

Wow it's surprising knowing how fast it is to flowering when grafted to peres, btw do you have grafting in opuntia ?

I graft seedlings which are new species for me. The grafting gives early flowering and many flowers. As the result, I can harvest many seeds earlier. The photo is Ariocarpus fissuratus cv Godzilla. 2~3 days after flower opening, stigma opens and pollen turns to powdally when is the best timing of t...

Halo frank
Thanks you always answering my question it's really helpful

Haloo frank I have questions in this graft session When you put scion on to peres did you give some press method ? And where you place them when grafting ? I used told by some people here that when grafting cacti must avoiding sun light so when I'm grafting cacti I place them under my table And abou...

Halooo frank
so far as you told I just realized maybe my cacti is not mature enough to get strong sun
I will added more nett know
Btw what propotion organic do you use
And did you add fertilizer too ?


~Fian

For big size cacti 50° Its okay in here, but it's not for small young cacti and mostly shrink although I have watering them often 2/3x in week, did you separate young and mature cacti in place ?

Yess I live in tropical place, tempt in my greenhouse is now around 45-50° when mid day and 25-30 in night day , Maybe it's not good for CAM proses ? should I cover them with another nett shading ? But I worry the lumen will drop and make some cacti etiolated Or maybe i just put some fan / ventilato...

Halo may i ask you about temp and lumen inside your gh when the plant is flowering ?
It's look like your plant is thriving and make flower every season , do you have some plant that hard to flowering ?

So far it's my best method using peatmoss,
Maybe your problem is the peatmoss not completely wet
Make sure your peatmoss all moist because it will going dry in top so the seed not get enough water and then cover your seedling with plastics, never let peatmoss dry

So I started to sow lophophora fricii from my pollination
It's my 8 attempt , my first and second was not successfully
It's like 50-100seed in each box and I have 9 in total
I use 100% peatmoss as soil