Rooting of offsets

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Off-sets posted on 9th August were set into tubes for rooting in this afternoon.
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Rooted red flowering asterias last year has grown well and pushed pots out.
I removed it from the pot and repotted in a 8 cm square pot.

Removed from the pot and trimmed roots off
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Repotted asterias
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Very informative thread as always Frank. i have learned so much from your posts and blog. Thanks for sharing!
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I repotted 12 of rooted off-sets in this morning.

Off-sets are Ariocarpus retusus v furduraceus cv Daruma Seiji.
They were set for the rooting in September 2017, 1 year and 5 months ago.

Selected 12 offsets for the repotting, in 6.5 cm square pots
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An off-set removed from a pot
The pot is filled up by developed roots
The rooting medium is 2~4 mm pumice sand.
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Off-sets removed rooting medium
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Repotted off-sets in 8 cm square pots
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Astrophytum hybrid, fukuryu banjyaku forms many off-sets when it was grafted.
Banjyaku is a hybrid, myriostigma x ornatum.

The top photo is a grafted fukuryu banjyaku, sown seed and grafted a seedling in 2017.
I will select off-sets more than 3 cm in diameter and root in September.


The following photo is rooted off-sets.
I removed off-sets and rooted in 2017. Since fukuryu banjyaku mixed ornatum gene, rooting is very easy.
The current size is 5~6 cm in diameter.
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=68939
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2 Geohintonia mexicana and 3 Aztekium hintonii off-sets were set for rooting last year.
Since they were rooted, I repotted them in this morning.

Photo 1: Removed from old pots, smallest one is A. hintonii, 4 cm in diameter.
Photo 2: Reotted Geohintonia and Aztekium
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Wow!!! Beautiful aztekiums and geos!!!!
Trade with me :) Always looking to expand my collection! :D
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Thanks for your comment, PseudolithosLover.

I cut 3 off-sets of Aztekium hintonii, around 3 cm in diameter yesterday.
They are under drying process currently.
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Wow! I've never seen such happy healthy aztekiums, they must love your conditions! i can't wait to see how they all progress :)
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Hanazono wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 11:51 pm Thanks for your comment, PseudolithosLover.

I cut 3 off-sets of Aztekium hintonii, around 3 cm in diameter yesterday.
They are under drying process currently.
interested to see how these go!
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What I'm about to discuss is not an offset, but a cutting of a Uebelmannia pectinifera seedling. I had 3 seedlings and unfortunately due to insufficient lighting during the seedling stage ( about 6 months after germination), they started to etiolate quite severely. In order to correct this, I used a sterilised blade (wiped down with methylated spirits) and made a clean horizontal cut which resulted in a nicely shaped growing head and off course ,the still rooted stump (without a head).
I let the head dry out over two weeks and they placed them (2 of them) in a 50% coarse sand + 50% screened cacti potting mix. I maintained soil moisture such that the soil was never wet, but just enough to supply a very high humidity to the calloused portion of the cutting.
Now, 1 month later, you can see the results - very healthy rooted cuttings. I suspect one of the seedlings is a pseudo-pectinifera (the green one) instead of a pectinifera (the reddish one).
Meanwhile, the stump itself has produced about 3 decent offsets from its aerioles :D
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