I used a usual soil mix for seeds, about 70% mineral, sterilized. Let seeds soak in peroxide 3% for 10 minutes, put them on a soil surface and put a transparent lid above. Treated them as usual loph seeds.
They germinated in about 10 days and have no juvenile spines. No photos, sorry.
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- Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:16 pm
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- Forum: Grown From Seed
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- Forum: Grafting
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- Topic: Pot sterilization method?
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Selenicereus stock long livedness
Selenicereus is a temporary stock for grafting, everyone knows that. As far as I understand old scions get too heavy and stock bends. Is it the main reason to consider it temporary stock? What I'm planning to do is to graft some Discocactus seedlings on 10 cm long stocks and few months later cut the...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:43 am
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- Topic: Windowsill plants
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- Sun Jan 30, 2011 3:38 pm
- Forum: Grown From Seed
- Topic: my seed growing adventure
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- Forum: Grown From Seed
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- Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:28 am
- Forum: Grown From Seed
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Astrophytum caput-medusae is pretty easy to germinate and grow. Last time I had 50% germination total during 3-4 days. Sterilizing the soil and using baggy method is a good idea.
I wouldn't add a sand layer above the seeds, I read a research, which said that germination rate is slightly lower with it.
I wouldn't add a sand layer above the seeds, I read a research, which said that germination rate is slightly lower with it.
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:05 am
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- Topic: Mammillaria sánchez-mejoradae
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- Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:20 am
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- Topic: Mammillaria sánchez-mejoradae
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- Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:22 am
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- Topic: Dim Bulb Cacti
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Bruce , I asked the same questions you did some time ago. I have a project (still in work) of growing shade loving cacti under artificial lights all the time. I can advice you Blossfeldia liliputana, both Aztekiums, Gymnocalicium ragonesii. They are really miniature and at least very shade tolerant...