DiscoStu Posted March 12, 2016 it's only been a week so still too early to tell germ rates but looking OK so far, a few poor performers but hopefully they'll come up over the next week or two 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
J Smith Posted April 17, 2016 Cactus sowing season for me. Lumberjackus x tpm Psycho0 x tpm Sharxx blue x tpm Tpm x Sharxx blue Tpm x huarazensis Lumberjackus x Sharxx blue Big thanks to Nitrogen 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
karl_marx Posted April 18, 2016 Sowed these in December but haven't posted them enough yet. Last week, I moved them from their big bulky containers into neat lines in this little one. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AbleKay Posted July 7, 2016 in the last week... 30 T. peruvianus 99 Lophs 20 Carnegia gigantea 60 Bridgesii 50 A. maidenii 10 A. courtii 20 Sida cordifolia 30 P. viridis 50 odd Calea ternifolia and a few others I can't remember. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fungal Forest Posted September 26, 2016 Some of these over that last couple of months 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrownDog Posted October 15, 2016 (edited) Hi All - This is a first post and these are my first try at growing cactus from seed with some Zelly / misplant seeds. The big zone is Red Grandiflorus x Yellow Grandiflorus and the other two are SS02xSS01 x Huarazensis and SS02xSS01 x Peru Clyde. I sowed them 2016-08-07 and have mostly let them be aside from occasional misting with distilled water. Almost all of the ones I sowed germinated and I'm going to do another round soon with more of his seed as well as some I got from spooge in his give-away here. Thanks again! I used the basic instructions off the misplant.net site. A layer of commercial cactus mix, wetted and sterilized in the microwave, then a layer of rinsed sand, also sterilized. I culled a few albinos seeing as to how I'm not setup for grafting just yet, though I hope to get around to it eventually. It's fun and exciting to see the little buggers growing so nicely and easily. Edited October 16, 2016 by BrownDog 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
karl_marx Posted January 7, 2017 (edited) I typically skip the sterilization step because it opens up the soil for whatever organism happens to show up first and it's usually a gross one. Today I sowed most of the various wild-collected seeds I have accumulated about 200x Icaros DNA some Harissia Jusbertii (not actually from the wild, thanks zelly) SuccSeed numbers: 5543 6341 2983 6608 4835 2979 Edit: I added some of those polyacrylamide water-absorbing crystals to the mix on these ones. Hopefully it will save them from my periodic forgetting to water anything for weeks on end. Or they might die. Who knows? Edited January 7, 2017 by karl_marx 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Berengar Posted February 2, 2017 Finally got done with the latest round of sowing. I need a beer now. In the past I've had huge trouble with molds, lost thousands of seedlings from hundreds of euros worth of seeds. This time I took no chances, sterilized the soil and containers, washed all the seeds in bleach solution, and sprayed the soil thoroughly with Previcur fungicide. If this fails, then I'm officially done with sowing cacti seeds and will give away all my remaining seeds here. This time around I've sown some 100 varieties, many random species, several Adenium varieties, Interbeing hybrids, Zed's hybrids, Secret garden opens, EG's peruvianus varieties, and a few dozen others I've had lying around from previous years. Wish me luck! 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted February 2, 2017 I just lost 95% of my seedlings. I will be looking at this thread in jealously. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted February 2, 2017 (edited) sorry mate sucks to hear and I too , being in the same boat, hate having just watched hundreds of dollars and years of work get flushed too I got the nastiest pest of all attack mine , they had my mum inflicted upon them : / , what did yours die of? and is there anyway you can eradicate the issue for when you might feel like dusting yaself off and giving them another bash? -like it seems Berengar is determined in doing... good luck Berengar! i think i'm gna graft as many as I can as soon as i work out how it's done on pere'z to get them out of school early as poss and for those left behind ; bash out a way until it it does work ... at least some of the survivors are beauties , hope the same for you Zedo. here's my list of leftovers from prev sowings and some i never got chance to sow yet maybe sowing soon if up to it.. Trichocereus :- 1 eth rosei#1 op 2 eth ben op 3 EG knuthiana 4 EG taquimbo 5 EG rio lurin 6 koeh escayachensis 7 incog cordo op 8 incog bridge op 9 x2B boganXscop 10 x2B boganXyowie 11 x2B yowieXbogan 12 pim SG hybrids 13 nitr LJXsharxxb 14 nitr psyXLJ 15 nitr psyXsharxxb 16 nitr psyXtpm 17 nitr LJXtpm 18 misp LJXpsy 19 misp valiXhuaraz 20 misp helenXpsy 21 misp valiXLJ 22 misp juul'sXpsy 23 misp p'clydeXsharxxb 24 misp huanuXpsy 25 misp peru op 26 misp juul'sXperu 27 int scopXp'john 28 int rosei#1Xrosei#2 29 int rosei#1Xscop 20 int rosei#1Xp'john 31 int rosei#1Xsuperpedro there's 28 2" slots to a tray so I'll either knock a few off the list or aquire another 25 kinds for a second tray.. any other genus will be lucky to get more than a fk off this year unless the kids say so.. they did make some good loph seeds so maybe but hey... chins up, it shalt be done Edited February 2, 2017 by ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted February 2, 2017 I took em out of the greenhouse 2 weeks back and we're going great. Woke up this morning to find something dug em all up and it's a mess. I could only see around a dozen left. Dunno what did it. Nothing else around them was touched. It looks like paw prints but can't be sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted February 2, 2017 Solution is a shotgun and trip wire lol 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Berengar Posted February 19, 2017 1. Mix seeds Hungary 2. Eulychnia saint-pieana / escayachensis 3. Astrophytum mix 4. Lobivia ferox + Lob. mix 5. Echinocereus engelmanii variegetus 6. Turbinicarpus mix 7. Kakteen piltz mix 8. Loph mix 9. Stapelia 10. SS columnars mix 11. Ariocarpus mix 12. Skotsbergii 13. Tacaquirensis/quisco/ 14. Harrisia mix 15. Echinopsis Leucantha 16. Pasacana/peruvianus/dumortieri 17. Ferocactus 18. Lithops mix 1. Zelly mix 2. Nitrogen mutants 3. Cereus mix 4. Trichocereus hybrids mix 5. Peruvianus John x huasca 6. Pasacana Dawsons x open 7. Chilensis James x seminudus 8. Peruvianus Huancavelia 9. Peruvianus Lurin 10. Tarmaensis 11. Knuthianus 12. Terscheckii 13. Psycho0 x peruvanus John 14. Caput-medusae 15. Austrocactus / Maiuhuenia 16. Macrogonus fields x rosei 2 17. Pachanoi x cereus 18. Fields pachanoi x pasacana 19. Rosei OP 20. Psycho0 x N1 1. Scop x Norma 2. Tipz macro x scop 3. Hahn pach x scop 4. Gawler peru x scop 11. Yowie x scop 12. Norma x Anakie 13. Gawler x Norma 14. Tipz x Norma 1. Red spine peru 22. Adelaide macro 23. Super pedro x Norma 24. Norma x Hahn pach 31. Sausage OP 32. Psycho0 OP 33. Number 1 (terscheckii x scop/yowie) 34. Number 2 (terscheckii x scop/yowie) 41. Validus OP 42. Yowie OP 43. Goliath OP 44. werdermannianus OP Just to have a copy of the list here as well... I had only a few seeds of some varieties so I just threw them in the mix with similar or very distinct species, it's about a hundred in all. Most have started germinating, no sign of molds yet. I gave them 2 sprays with fungicide for now and will leave them in closed trays until they are ready for some air, or I start noticing molds. Will throw a few pictures when they grow a bit more. Cheers! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DualWieldRake Posted February 28, 2017 If this ain't a nematode or some larva slurping down on the embryo i'm gonna have a khat plant in a day or two 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DualWieldRake Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) Edited March 4, 2017 by DualWieldRake 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DualWieldRake Posted March 5, 2017 Say hello to my little friend Edible khat 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gimli Posted October 5, 2017 Recently sowed some seeds. Some came from eBay, some from interbeing. Big ups interbeing for your 2017 seed. 95+% germination rate! 100x Loph seed - eBay 1000x T Peru 'lurin valle' - eBay 50x T Bridgesii x T Peru KK1688 - eBay 25x T Peru 'Rosei #1' x T Scop - eBay 100x T Bridgesii 'Tig' x T Scop - eBay 100x T Bridgesii 'Psycho0' x OPEN -interbeing 100x T Peru 'Rosei #2' x T Peru 'MG Red Spine' - interbeing 100x T Peru 'Rosei #2' x T Peru 'John' - interbeing 30x T Pachanoi 'Rod' x T Bridgesii 'Cliff' - interbeing So over having limited stuff to buy here in WA. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aguacolla Posted November 27, 2017 Just recently sowed a whole lot of different seeds that I got from herbalistics - icaro and pomachanka trichs, acuminata, mimosa hostilis, etc. A bunch of the pomachankas have sprouted already which is super exciting for me because this is my first time growing anything from seed 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Posted November 27, 2017 Enjoy the fun mate , some good times to be had sprouting cool stuffs and thanks , I'd forgotten about this cool thread. Welcome to SAB ! ..recently sowed theobroma cacao for a first time fresh from the pod and 4 countable sprouts so far, no sprouts on any of the bought seeds from sri lanka , nor the myristica fragrans that came with them, iboga pot only saw one sprout when checking last week so left them to it.. still not breached the surface, also sowed some caupuri, some anonna muricata and some manikara zapota 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aguacolla Posted March 13, 2018 Thanks ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯ॐ€ðяئॐ♡Pϟiℓℴϟℴ Some observations and lessons learned from my first round of tricho seeds that I planted in November/December: For takeaway tek seed planting, getting the 1 litre plastic takeaway containers seems to be the way to go. I initially used 500ml containers, but they're really short and I'll probably have to pot them up before i'd like to because they won't have enough root space. There are lots of different kinds of sands, and it makes a difference. I bought a bag of "river sand" and used it in my soil mix before realising that the bag was really a mix of super fine dust-like sand, fine sand, course sand, and small pebbles. Out of those 4, I really just wanted the course sand. Using a mix of garden sieves, kitchen sieves, and washing with water separates the sand to get the good particle size I now drill holes into the bottom of my takeaway containers before I put anything in them, and cover them with tape which I can take off later to turn my containers into proper pots with draining that I can water. Drill the holes big! It takes a bigger hole than you might think for water to flow through it. Small hole makes water get stuck. Lots of different soil mixes work. I used a 80% coco coir mix for some of my containers, and they are growing very well. Give them light from the very start. My first round I kept indoors when they germinated, and they grew way too skinny. Now I put them outside undercover where they get morning sun, and they seem much plumper and healthier. Don't add perlite to seed mix! Don't bother trying to plant seeds individually in nice rows/grid formation. It takes way too long, just sprinkle them. Don't try to poke them under the soil individually, just sprinkle a little bit more soil over the whole lot to cover them. I ordered lots more seeds from Rod/trichocereus.net.au and have about 1000 tiny seedlings now. These cactii are proving to be a joy to grow. Jacob 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pedropark Posted May 1, 2018 Zelly seedlings were replanted last week. Finished this batch yesterday. Thank you zelly for the beauties. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pedropark Posted May 4, 2018 Here is the result, 3000 replanted. VID_20180503_184508.mp4 VID_20180503_184508.mp4 VID_20180503_184508.mp4 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pedropark Posted May 14, 2018 Scop x chilensis fat strath, 6 month old 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dropthehammer Posted June 28, 2018 Too many to list. Here are a couple of pics of loph and trich Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spiritmovesus Posted July 31, 2018 The temperatures are finally at more tolerable ranges, the following will be sown as the first wave of the season: T. pallarensis T. huanucoensis x T. scopulicola T. scopulicola x T. terscheckii "Dawson's" T. validus x T. terscheckii "Dawson's" T. cordobensis x ????? T. "Goliath" OP T. scopulicola x JS500 T. tulhuayacensis T. tarmaensis T. scopulicola x T. scopulicola and flowering varieties: "Epic" OP "High Noon" x "Embers" "El Capitan" x "Dione" "Orange California" x "Embers" "Blutsbruder" x "Embers" Zelly 1 x Cali-Vali Zelly 11 x T. scop Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
