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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

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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

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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?

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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! :)

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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

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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.

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  1. 1.       Mix seeds Hungary

     

  2. 2.       Eulychnia saint-pieana / escayachensis

     

  3. 3.       Astrophytum mix

     

  4. 4.       Lobivia ferox + Lob. mix

     

  5. 5.       Echinocereus engelmanii variegetus

     

  6. 6.       Turbinicarpus mix

     

  7. 7.       Kakteen piltz mix

     

  8. 8.       Loph mix

     

  9. 9.       Stapelia

     

  10. 10.   SS columnars mix

     

  11. 11.   Ariocarpus mix

     

  12. 12.   Skotsbergii

     

  13. 13.   Tacaquirensis/quisco/

     

  14. 14.   Harrisia mix

     

  15. 15.   Echinopsis Leucantha

     

  16. 16.   Pasacana/peruvianus/dumortieri

     

  17. 17.   Ferocactus

     

  18. 18.   Lithops mix

     

 

 

  1. 1.       Zelly mix

     

  2. 2.       Nitrogen mutants

     

  3. 3.       Cereus mix

     

  4. 4.       Trichocereus hybrids mix

     

  5. 5.       Peruvianus John x huasca

     

  6. 6.       Pasacana Dawsons x open

     

  7. 7.       Chilensis James x seminudus

     

  8. 8.       Peruvianus Huancavelia

     

  9. 9.       Peruvianus Lurin

     

  10. 10.   Tarmaensis

     

  11. 11.   Knuthianus

     

  12. 12.   Terscheckii

     

  13. 13.   Psycho0 x peruvanus John

     

  14. 14.   Caput-medusae

     

  15. 15.   Austrocactus / Maiuhuenia

     

  16. 16.   Macrogonus fields x rosei 2

     

  17. 17.   Pachanoi x cereus

     

  18. 18.   Fields pachanoi x pasacana

     

  19. 19.   Rosei OP

     

  20. 20.   Psycho0 x N1

     

 

 

  1. 1.       Scop x Norma

     

  2. 2.       Tipz macro x scop

     

  3. 3.       Hahn pach x scop

     

  4. 4.       Gawler peru x scop

     

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    11. Yowie x scop

     

  • 12. Norma x Anakie

     

  • 13. Gawler x Norma

     

  • 14. Tipz x Norma

     

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    1.   Red spine peru

     

  • 22.   Adelaide macro

     

  • 23.   Super pedro x Norma

     

  • 24.   Norma x Hahn pach

     

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    31. Sausage OP

     

  • 32. Psycho0 OP

     

  • 33. Number 1 (terscheckii x scop/yowie)

     

  • 34. Number 2 (terscheckii x scop/yowie)

     

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    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!

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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.

 

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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 :)

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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

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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

 

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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
 

 

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