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I had a loph fruit the other day with 44 seeds in it. I was blown away!!

I just pulled a fruit off my loph that yielded 44 seeds. It was a hybrid cross L. williamsii x L. alberto-vojtechii. I'm not sure the cross worked, but that is the most seeds i've ever heard of a loph fruit yielding. Anyone ever had that many seeds or more from 1 loph fruit? The most this plant has provided in one fruit has been 20, and that was self-fertilization.

I am waiting for the price to go down. They're just way too much right now due to all the hype. Kind of like L. alberto and A. caput-medusae. Check this one out http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aztekium-valdezii-cactus-cacti-variegated-ariocarpus-astrophytum-variegata-/171442663260?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27eac76f5c Wow, that price is crazy.

So there was a new species of mammillaria discovered just this year. http://mammillaria.forumotion.net/t2111-mammillaria-bertholdii-spec-nova I haven't done much more digging since I'm at work, but I thought I'd share it. I have another plant on my want list now though!!!!

Got the seeds!! A bunch of extras. Thanks sooo very much. You're awesome Evil Genius!!!!!

For me it's certain species that stall. And only those species. I'm pretty sure it's not alignment since I've done quite a few tests with these species. The ones that tend to stall on peres for me are L. diffusa, T. werdermannianus, A. asterias, and A. caput-medusae. No matter how they're aligned on peres they stall, but when I graft these on hylo or selen they start right up within weeks after taking. I've tried with about 10 different individuals from each species and get the same results every time. And I've also noticed what you're talking about with how much of the seedling you keep for the graft. I've also noticed that with L. alberto-vojtechii if you cut it too far down on the seedling then about 50% of the scion on the stock will turn into a hard root section and only the top will be green flesh. I can post some pictures later. It's interesting to see how that effects developement.

Yeah. It's all personal prefference for sure. I like those stocks better for my purposes. I'm not trying to mass propagate. I just want some faster growing single headed arios.

DOOOOOOOOODDDD!!!!!!!!! I want!!!!! Hopefully I get at least one of them out of my thousands hundreds of seeds. Oh and by the way anyone, if you want to buy/trade me for L. alberto seeds then PM me.

I still think they're way better. Hehe. They pup as well sometimes, just not all weird and ugly looking like on peres. Plus nothing EVER stalls out on those two types of stock. On peres a lot of species will just stall out for several months before growing. So far nothing has done it with hylo and selen, they just start right on growing. You should try em out sometime.

Yeah, I'm starting to think that last one is either a hybrid (alberto x frcii or vise versa) or just a very unique phenotype. It does have yellow fruits and a white stamen though just like alberto and I have not seen that on any other lophs than alberto. So I know for a fact it's mostly alberto genes.

Nice!! And thanks so much for contributing to the thread!! I thought i was just going to be talking to myself on this one. Hehe. I can't wait till my own-roots ones are this big. They're all really tiny at the moment, but there's like 100 of them now!! Lol. And I have about 1000 seeds plus seed producing grafts. So in a few years i will be alberto-king. Beautiful plant mate!! How old is that?

When I graft ariocarpus onto hylocereus and selenicereus this doesn't happen ^^^ They grow a bit slower, but look more natural. So much better.

They will just be scattered throughout my house and wont be getting water for the next 4-5 months. I have room for them, but there's going to be plants EVERYWHERE!

Wow! That's fucking awesome auxin! I didn't think you could get pups from rooted leaves.

Cereus has good fruits.

Fall is just starting here and I'm sad. I have like 10x the amount of plants i had last winter and I have to bring them all inside (except for a select few) Idk what I'm going to do with all those in my house.

It looks like either that or bridge x peru. Whatever it is it's beautiful!

Oh man, there goes my next paycheck!! And this pair of pants.....

From what I understand a lot of what goes into placing the plant in the genus has to do with the area and what other species are in present. There are other mammillaria close by that are very unique like this one that they think it is related to. This dude had a little bit to say about it. "It is a plant from Oaxaca, which has tubercles similar to Pelecyphora asseliformis or Mammillaria pectinifera, and flowers like Mammillaria saboe. It is placed by its author, Thomas Linzen, in the Series Longiflora, and questions whether intermediate plants might be found between the Saboe group in northern Mexico and the Napina group in southern Mexico." The quote from the OP.

If any of the mods want to merge this with the other that would be sweet. Thanks!

Totally missed that! Whoops. I highly doubt they will rename it as an ariocarpus. There are plenty of plants in other genera that have tubercles like ariocarpus, but that doesnt' mean they are.

http://www.cactusexplorers.org.uk/journal1.htm

That's awesome!!!! I would love to get ahold of this cross!

Variegated T. validus x T. grandiflorus. I gave some seeds to a friend and this one popped up. I haven't grafted any of mine, but i think I have a couple variegates too.