mutant Posted January 2, 2010 (edited) There are the first shots of these 5-6 month old seelings. I opened it recectly. Again, some etiolation has occured, partly because the fluoro they were under was down and I didn't realise it. I think I might leave them open [in mean leave the box open] now in more light, as it's pretty wet now here, winter, a mild one.. I just started another box too, and first astros, as always germinated at 2-3 days Ok here are the photos general population in the mid, there is aline of astro myrioXmyrio from my own plants and just aside it a line of more smallish gymnocaliciums a closeup at the middle. lots of gymnos and astros melocacti Epithelanthea Note the intensely spined ones. they are stenocacti and seed came from my own plants The roundy ones at the center are T.terscheckii. right and middle is a single saguaro seedling, and below are polycephalus {??? cant seem to find right now... impressive seedlings, they grew big fast.. notably, most trichocereus seeds, except the terscheckii didn't make it [there where some bridgsesii and some wendermannianus - pachanoi didnt even sprout they had an already low rate] These below right are asterias . above are myriostigma, gymnos to the left Edited January 2, 2010 by mutant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted January 2, 2010 (edited) Here's a plant that is slowly leaving it's seedling stage.. it's a year and a half or so, seed came as T.bridgesii .... second pic, same batch of bridge seed, a bit earlier than first photo Edited January 2, 2010 by mutant 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weedRampage Posted January 3, 2010 Time to transplant into growing pots.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chiral Posted January 3, 2010 Stop biting your nails and show us the pic of the tricho that's grafted onto peres...the one you posted at the nook...that thing is way nutty. nice sedlings BTW, ya gunna have fun prickin all those MF's out in individual pots come spring... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted January 3, 2010 Chiral, I put the photo you mean in "Grafting freek" thread here ;) My 3x bridgesiis from seed are in their own pots. And I was thinking of , in a couple of months, spring, putting all these seedlings to grow in large groups, I think they love growing together, and it might be safer like this till they become older. I 've seen some incredible such photos of hundreds of 2-3 year astros in a sigle large flat box! So plans are not singing them out, but making seedling forests in flat pots. Or that's what I've been thinking. Stop biting your nails lol, you think? I noticed the mark and was trying to think what the heck this was! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C_T Posted January 3, 2010 (edited) yeah how the hell, isn't that column too heavy for a peres??? I mean i've seen it before, but pretty much thought it was kinda a myth getting them THAT big still on the peres!!! I have reduced light at my place, maybe this is a great option for my seed growns so they don't elongate too much (using the peres as the great food source). Would this be a situation where it may be a viable option mate? Edited January 3, 2010 by C_T Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tripsis Posted January 3, 2010 Excellent pics! I love the look of baby cacti, they're so cute. You've got some great diversity there. Any Lophs? That bridgesii to Pereskiopsis graft is crazy! Is it being propped up? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted January 4, 2010 (edited) I have reduced light at my place, maybe this is a great option for my seed growns so they don't elongate too much (using the peres as the great food source). Would this be a situation where it may be a viable option mate? I am not sure I get what you mean , but yeah grafting is a great way to speed up through a seedlings very slow stages. Hm, yeah, I see. Some grafts grow well enough in simple inside fluoros. I suppose a pere is gonna boost a seedling in less light, if that's what you mean yeah. The tricho is a kk339 pachanoi, not a bridgesi... I thought it was too messy to prop so I always had it leaning somewhere - the spines help it lock too. I decided to cut it up today - but left some pachanoi part on so as to see if it pups... it will look even more bizarre then OK here are some other interestiong photos This came as Trichocereus wendermanianus seed. The bigger one is same age as the 1,5 year-old seedling. How? The bigger one was grafted on a pere for a year or so... Propping was hard and I took it off. These are T.terschekii of the same age - 1,5 year. I have grafted one in pere too, but it goes way slower. These are the rest, bit shitty photo thought. The single one is a peruvianus, 1,5 y.o too, and the two more intensely spined ones is supposed to be pachanois, 1 year old. I think I have grown them slowly, f.e. my fluoros for inside growing are simple and low in wattage. But they are not anymore in the grow room, they are in a much lighter place Tripsis there are some lopho in the batch I just sowed. One lopho has germinated so far but I won't open the box for a long time. IT has aztekium strombocactus & turbinicarpus in there!! Edited January 4, 2010 by mutant 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bℓσωηG Posted February 15, 2010 This came as Trichocereus wendermanianus seed. The bigger one is same age as the 1,5 year-old seedling. How? The bigger one was grafted on a pere for a year or so... Propping was hard and I took it off. Wow , the magic of pereskiopsis hey, i have just grafted some trichocereus werdermannius seedlings on peres, sure hope they look like that in 1 .5 years 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted August 28, 2010 Hey here's a nice update for this photolog, plus some more seedling porn, hope you enjoy! I remind you these were pretty har grown when young and are going quite fast now First one of the bridgesiis then... the terscheckiis two pachanois [6 months younger than the rest batch] and one peruvianus. and now, tatam tatam.... the wendermanianus ... opposed to one seedling grafted for 1 year in pereskiopsis... and now... some seedling porn stenocactus astro myrio epithelanthea melocacti astro asterias this is a strange gymno, got others from this batch and none was bicoloured like this the seeds was cross of Gymno occulta {mom] and Gymnocalycium mihanovichii var. friedrichii AKAGymnocalycium friedrichii AKA Gymno stenopleurum. pretty interesting 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Genius Posted August 28, 2010 Love your Pics, mutant. Please keep em coming in the future! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gerbil Posted August 29, 2010 nice one mutant, keep em coming, never enough cactus. How's your outdoor bit of land doing, must be coming along nicely? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted August 29, 2010 Thanks a lot guys... Hmmmm the outdoor patch ...it depends... those I water more often are going way better than the patch I water less often... which honestly has truly suffered a couple of times when waterings were scarcer, due to extreme heat and sun. I don't want to be very optimistic about all this, even though some patches and projects are going fine [namely these that were watered more], cause I have somewhat neglected some of the stuff I wanted to do. we had 3 or 4 waves of serious heat during this summer. I found that even the supposedly hardest cacti like ariocarpi, ferocacti didn't like it in extreme heat on my roof, especially when on clay pot. The very same plants, left aside the sorry looks, greened and began growing again, when placed in a more shaded place on the roof or in other spots of even less direct sun. So lots of learning taking place still on my side this year. Under these conditions, even trichocereus on pots will suffer will less than each 2 days watering and they will certainly appreciate everyday watering in the very hot days. I am currently experimenting with placing some of them in more shady spots too. back to the outdoor thing... [also true with pots though] I found improving my watering methods made for loger lasting waterings [especially in regards with 5xTurbinas in the ground], but I still haven't made automatic watering adjustments for this underwatered patch of cactus garden yet: I am still watering clampsily with the hose. What's worse is that it's in a slope, so slow watering is the one-way-road to good watering in this heat - which I almost never do. Hopefully the very hot days will be soon over and a couple of good months during our automn will let them pump again. I will probably install the automatic watering next year. Planning to plant a couple more trichos in the ground soon SO yeah the projects there are advancing alright, but I do not have the strength and time to give time to everything at one time, so sometimes, something falls back. This having beem said I haven't been having any big or important losses, so I don't complain. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted December 18, 2010 An update with seedlings at 1,5 y.o. . You can see earlier stages of them in earlier posts. Epithelanthea micromeris astro asterias astro myriostigma Stenocacti 3x Tricho terscheckii Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MagikF Posted December 18, 2010 That's some mighty fine seedling porn. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Moses Posted December 20, 2010 hey mutant how did your two-tone gymno go? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted December 20, 2010 Its top was chewed by a stick-insect. I actually caught it on the act one night and prevented the worse. It survived, only plumped a bit. The best scenario is that it throws a head of each colour. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
