Hello everyone,
I used the baggie method with the following seeds. Does anyone know when to taking out the baggie each one? (in months)
1. Lithops mix
2. Aloe descoingsii
3. Haworthia emelyae picta
4. Echinocereus viridiflorus davisii
5. Turbinicarpus heliae
6. Turbinicarpus rioverdensis
7. Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus
Taking out of the baggie: aloe, haworthia, turbinicarpus, echinocereus, eriosyce
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Re: Taking out of the baggie: aloe, haworthia, turbinicarpus, echinocereus, eriosyce
No, not in months. You can't measure it in time because it will vary a lot depending upon temperature and light.
Instead, take them out when they reach a succulent volume such that they won't dehydrate easily when allowed to drive. With cactus that may be 2 months or 4 months or 6 months or 12 months depending upon the species and the conditions.
With the Mesembryanthums and Aloeae, it will probably be less time on the order of several weeks. But you can't really do it effectively on a set time scale because conditions vary, so you have to learn to get a feel for when they have reached the correct succulent volume. Once you learn to do this by trial and error, you can grow pretty much any succulent from seed.
Instead, take them out when they reach a succulent volume such that they won't dehydrate easily when allowed to drive. With cactus that may be 2 months or 4 months or 6 months or 12 months depending upon the species and the conditions.
With the Mesembryanthums and Aloeae, it will probably be less time on the order of several weeks. But you can't really do it effectively on a set time scale because conditions vary, so you have to learn to get a feel for when they have reached the correct succulent volume. Once you learn to do this by trial and error, you can grow pretty much any succulent from seed.