Do variegated G. Ragonesi exist?
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:58 pm
I’ve never seen these in variegated form, has anyone ever seen one or gotten variegated from seed growing? I’ve been looking for one for years.
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I have seen some offered by Bulgarian commercial nursery at a price of 15€ for grafted specimen. Not very appealing in my opinion:keithp2012 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:58 pm I’ve never seen these in variegated form, has anyone ever seen one or gotten variegated from seed growing? I’ve been looking for one for years.
I have done that with two batches from my own specimen , 100% were normal colored. Keep in mind it takes nearly two years to get true coloring and it’s very time consuming. I’ve resorted to searching for one at this point.Aiko wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:07 pm Why look when you can see if you can grow one yourself from seeds. Buy a few hundreds or - better - thousands seeds and see what different kind of Gymnocalycijm ragonesi pops up. You can keep the prettiest ones and give away the rest. Seeds are not hard to get and in bulk not that expensive from the right source (I advice Czech seed sellers).
Grafted forms don’t grow or color true like on own roots. If I could get hold of that and grow seed from it then I bet those would be much more attractive looking.Nino_G wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:15 pmI have seen some offered by Bulgarian commercial nursery at a price of 15€ for grafted specimen. Not very appealing in my opinion:keithp2012 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:58 pm I’ve never seen these in variegated form, has anyone ever seen one or gotten variegated from seed growing? I’ve been looking for one for years.