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5 years and one small plant has flowered. This is the whole journey from seed to flower.

Wow, that's pretty cool. Amazing that they're flowering while still so small.

This is really amazing

A few tiny Dinteranthus wilmotianus are still hanging in with Lithops. I first sowed the Dinteranthus wilmotianus and nothing happened pot dried out re-wet nothing so I sowed Lithops not to waste the pot and Dinteranthus wilmotianus showed up just a few. red arrows

keith wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2015 3:56 am Some more random seed pots for a few years ago to many years ago.

I think I have one of those lentas.i love to touch the out spines. Strange bouncy texture. It also bloomed for me.

Turbinicarpus dicksonia I think 1/2 year old.

Love this thread!

Tiny conophytum seeds from C. globolsum plants I pollinated with a pine needle. Lets see if I can keep them going. The sand has been shifted through a fine sieve on the top couple mm of the pot under that is small sized pumice mixed with sand and compost. No heating and on a window sill with morning sunlight. They are under window screen no plastic. Planted them 7 days ago. I leave that little window open at night for cooler air.

Random succulents I think they grow in the winter around here? Lapidaria margaretae, Argyroderma sp. and some other Mesemb at the top of the picture not sure yet what it is. And fast growing mammillarias mostly gemispina .

Conopytum slightly larger green blobs. I grow these inside the house for the first 6 months the weather can get too hot and dry here for seedlings of conophytums. I think globolsum but IDK for sure ? parents had white flowers.

2010 ? I must have stunted these poor little guys with all my moving around back then. I'm growing more hope they grow faster. I notice the seeds sprout one by one over a period of months.

I was re-writing some labels a few days ago and really saw how time has moved on. These little guys are getting old and so am I.

Slow growers 10 years or older for some of them. Ariocarpus are the slowest and I'm afraid to water them too much to push them because that often ends badly in rot. Pictures kinda washed out even though the sunlight is going through shade cloth. I guess the Low light of Late fall is still pretty bright.

I think the only one that will grow "fast" is that M. schiedeana that snuck in the Turbinicarpus ysabelae pot. The rest are just slow slow slow. The good thing is I won't run out of room any time soon. Sowing 2012 for the A. retustus and 2013 for the Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus and 2008 for the fissuratus. The other guys maybe around 2013 ?

From seed now 5 years later Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae flowering .

Mammillaria pectinifera I think this is 6 years from seed. They were in a mixed seedlings pot earlier in this post.

Some more seedlings that have grown up a little. the Ariocarpus are over 10 years old and the Echinomastus is one of only two that have survived so far, rot easy. I started some new seeds but they are pretty small now they are Lithops. Last years jumble started out as M herrerea but because hardly any germinated I added other seedlings like Epithelantha greggii , Astrophytum coahuilense and Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus.