Thanks for the quick response! I will go ahead and hold off on the fertilization until germination. And yes I do mean a 100% mineral medium consisting of pumice, black lava rock, chicken grit(granite), perlite, sand, and zeolite. I will probably do a side by side experiment of all non-organic medium...

Hi guys, As a novice to cacti and succulents, Thankyou so much for this discussion! Its very informative and so easy to understand once the Pdf pictures were made and posted. I was happy to learn that the General Hydroponics solutions were used for the fertilizer since I already have them for my sem...

Hi if the seeds are still available I would gladly take a portion.

I'd like to try them out as well if they are still available. Thanks

You can start as soon as germination of done HOWEVER the longer you leave them in high humidity the quicker the growth rate will be compared to open air. I personally tend to remove humidity at 2 month mark at the latest however many growers leave them for 6+ months. Last year I removed from high h...

Hi all, I recently found this website/forum and its been a great source of information for growing cacti and succulents. I recently started my first batch of seeds of various cacti and so far so good, nearly all of my seedlings have sprouted within a week. My astrophytum have been the fastest and mo...