Escobaria minima etc.

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jerrytheplater wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:12 pm Hi Keith, in the seed swap sub forum you said to look over here to see seedlings you sometimes sell. What do you have available now?

Thanks, Jerry
Back on Feb 24, 2022 I bought some of Keith's seedlings. They included Escobaria minima. Two out of the three of mine just bloomed this season for the first time since I bought them from Keith. Thanks again Keith! The pots they are in are 2.5 inches in diameter and 3 3/8 inches deep. They are plastic containers I brought home from work rather than throwing them out. They contained electroplating metal salts, are very thick and are made out of Polypropylene, a #5 recycling code. Nice free pots once you drill holes in the bottom. I think I'm going to visit there and see if I can get anymore now that I am retired.
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Hi Jerry nice :D I went back to work for some reason so have less time for cactus, maybe I'll retire again in a year :D

Of course now I can buy a greenhouse
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Planted Mesemb seeds and had a little more germination than I planned on .. Lithops, Conophytums,
Argyroderma. Upper middle conophytums upper left and right Lithops , lower left conophytums , middle Argyroderma and Lower right lithops . Some from my plants many sent to me by a friend in AZ . Have more seeds Just need to find space .
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Some seed grown conophytums not exactly sure of the species .
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keith wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:42 pm Some seed grown conophytums not exactly sure of the species .
Nice conos, is it their first year flowering? The tiny fuzzy one looks like C. stephanii (subsp. helmutii?)
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Yes first year flowers. the little one is the oldest and only survivor from a mixed seed package from mesa which had poor germination.

It was my first try at conophytums back around 2018 ? I now have hundreds of tiny plants from my own seed they are not hard to germinate if you have good seed. I could write about my old soil mix working way better than a new mix I tried but individual growing conditions vary so much its hard to say whats going on .
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Yeah, the seed germinates easily. It's the keeping them alive, especially through their first summer, that I have trouble with!
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Conophytums I think you have to get them as big as possible in that fist 6 months so they survive Summer dormancy . last years seed were in mostly sand and they look mostly dead now but my new seedlings are looking good so far :D

Lithops seem to be easier than conophytums from seed ? Cactus often the most difficult from seed , easy to rot and they stop growing if kept too dry. I think Mexican desert cactus need real heat something I don't have .
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keith wrote: Sun Aug 21, 2022 8:15 pm Turbinicarpus dickisoniae grown in 2019 seeds from Aiko . Some grew up faster than other .
Turbinicarpus dickisoniae has radial spines, but the central one is flexible, nothing like in that image, maybe an hybrid.
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MiguelCactus wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:06 am
keith wrote: Sun Aug 21, 2022 8:15 pm Turbinicarpus dickisoniae grown in 2019 seeds from Aiko . Some grew up faster than other .
Turbinicarpus dickisoniae has radial spines, but the central one is flexible, nothing like in that image, maybe an hybrid.
Also, T. dickisoniae has white to yellowish flowers, not pink.
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Planted more cactus seeds Epthelantha bokeii a few up, M lenta , M humboltii , Escobaria robbinsonii nothing yet, Turbinicarpus Polaskii one up one rotted, Turb lophophorides nothing yet, M meiacantha many coming up very small seeds, M schumanii nothing yet.

These were planted about 1 week ago. Pictures when there's something to see.
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M humboltii with a volunteer lithops
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