Koehres seeds

[_Cursive]

I've had absolutely bad/average results from them.
Out of 100 Loph. Will. only 20 germinated. Aztekiums 100 seeds - Zero germinated. I've ordered many many different species from them and had no germination.

What other sites can you guys recommend?

Thanks!!

[Philocacti]

Recently I ordered lophophora, aztekium, astrphytum seeds.

I got good germination with their lophophora and astrophytum but bad percentage with aztekium

[_Cursive]

Divine Cactus had awesomely fresh seed when I ordered 2 years ago. Now they ONLY sell Lophophora. Damn.

[BillyThKid]

I've had absolutely bad/average results from them.

Out of 100 Loph. Will. only 20 germinated. Aztekiums 100 seeds - Zero germinated. I've ordered many many different species from them and had no germination.

What other sites can you guys recommend?

Thanks!!

Agreed that the germination rate is bad for his plants but im suprised you could even see or not see the Aztekium because most people cannot spot them until they are around 6 months old due to being smaller than sand.

[hostilis]

I usually have always gotten great results from their seeds, but I got 1000 of two different variations of williamsii and got around 4% germination. I was pretty frustrated considering how much money was spent on them.

[BillyThKid]

I usually have always gotten great results from their seeds, but I got 1000 of two different variations of williamsii and got around 4% germination. I was pretty frustrated considering how much money was spent on them.

He keeps "pure" genetics but i personally think he has some kind of inbreeding going on with his plants causing this issue. use to be that he was the best around i think in the 90s but then the 2000s came along and he said "fuck it" lol

at least thats my guess

[_Cursive]

Yeah, I'm not happy with most of the seed I've bought. I'm looking for new supplier.

Thanks for all the input to this thread!

[Philocacti]

Out of all my pachanois from them.... This one grows without big spines and dark green shiny skin which makes it fit more as a pachanoi

This one is twice it's girth with bigger spines and more bluish skin..... peruvianus?????

[Philocacti]

A few Ariocarpus fissuratus grown from koehres seeds

[Peter]

Hi!

I have ordered seeds from Koehres two times. They were labeled as pachanoi and peruvianus, so i had sown seeds from four different kind of bags. My seedlings are 1-2 years old. I have tried to group the similar ones together, becouse i havent labeled them.

They look like cuzcoensis:

I hope they are pachanoi or peruvianus:

They are darker greens, with 8-9 ribs, and much wider than the others:

My collection:

Anyone can help me identifying them? They look like how pachanoi or peruvianus should be?

[hostilis]

Giving a for sure ID is hard with seedlings at that stage. They will probably look a lot different when they're mature. But they do look like they're in the pachanoi/peruvianus complex to me so far. Healthy looking little guys.

[M S Smith]

Hey Peter, T. cuzcoensis are one of the easiest to spot as seedlings, and you definitely don't have any. So hurrah, and welcome to SAB!

~Michael~

[someone]

I wait four years from seed before claiming any definitive I.d. at that stage their dominant growth seems to start shining through. But I have no experience with cusco's/peruvians so I do not know if my subjective experience holds true in those cases.

This reminds me I need a long spines cusco for my collection. Personally I think they are an extremely beautiful species.

[Peter]

Thanks for the replies.

Maybe some years later it will be easier to ID them I think growing from seed is a gamble, maybe its easier to buy mature cacti.

[modern.shaman]

Those 'cuzcoensis' look like bridgesii seedlings to me but I do agree that you would need to wait a year or more to be sure.

I have given up on Koehres for my seeds and I haven't regretted it as I am getting better germination rates and an even cheaper price.

Growing from seed is a risk of years wasted growing the wrong species so that's why you should always buy from recognized and trusted vendors.

[Philocacti]

T. terscheckii

T. chilensis

These 2 are the slowest Trichocereus I have in my collection

[Philocacti]

Germinated from a pachanoi seed bag...looks more peruvianus... But what would I know. Attractive "tiger shark" pattern.

[Evil Genius]

"Tigershark" has a nice ring to it! ;)

Hey Guys, does anyone have info about the current quality of Köhres seed? Pachanoi, Bridgesii, Peruvianus, Macrogonus, Lophophora, etc? They are asking more for their Cuzcoensis seed and only sell it in smaller quanities. I am not sure if that means that the seed is a.) fresher than others or b.) less fresh.

Also interested in germination rates of Lithops, Echinopsis, Turbinicarpus, Aztekium, etc.

[Philocacti]

I'll observe this one in the next coming years, if it displays the same pattern I'll call it Tiger Shark.

Last year I bought seeds from Köhres. 100 pachanoi seeds, which I still didn't germinate. And about 11 different types of Ariocarpus seeds, which have a low germination rate. 4 of the 11 didn't germinate at all.

I germinated about 100 Aztekium ritteri seeds and 25 Aztekium hintonii in the same container and only 5 germinated.

Köhres have good service and all, but a lot of their seeds are (were) mislabeled and a lot have low germination rate....at least in my experience.

[Evil Genius]

Thanks Philo! I am really interested in this kind of stuff because they can have some pretty great seed, but also have some really bad batches too.

[Señor Corrochio]

I bought 1000 mixed arios and 1000 fissuratus with about 10% germination rate for the mixed bag and pretty much 0 for fissuratus.

[Evil Genius]

Thanks for letting us know! This really helps to realistically judge about their good and bad ones.

[dajindo]

Hey guys, here are my cacti grown from Koehres seeds.

Tallest one (middle) is Bridgesii. Others are Pedro/Peruvianus (mislabeled them last year), expect for the left one which is Pachanoi x Peruvianus from other source.

Pachanoi/Peruvianus close-up:

Bridgesii close-up:

[Berengar]

I think your 2nd picture is the standard Koehres 'pachanoi', as sold some 5-8 years ago. I have a plant probably from the same seed batch, with those characteristic long radial spines, but grown in very strong sun and looking a bit more 'fierce', but essentially very similar. I'm assuming it has some cuzcoensis genetics. It's a very good looking cactus.

[dajindo]

Yeah... Probably a cuzco. It could be the "pachanoi" from the same batch you had. Bridgesii is the most convincing, and is growing like crazy

The one on the right looks like Peruvianus, but it's too early to tell.

Also, germination was about 60% expect for Bridgesii which had very poor germination rate.

Overall they seem professional, would order again.