Mammillaria Plumosa v. roseiflora, 8 months
My fluff balls are getting increasingly harder to capture on camera without everything being a blurry mess. The “spines” are pretty much covering the body at this point.
Growing succulents from seeds
My fluff balls are getting increasingly harder to capture on camera without everything being a blurry mess. The “spines” are pretty much covering the body at this point.
I went looking for more big and decorative cacti to fill my new flat and was lucky to find a Notocactus with 3 seed pods!
This cactus is fat and adorable, and in summer it will develop amazing and huge flowers.
I picked off two of the ripened seed pods and scraped out the seeds, washed them and let them dry on a piece of paper.
Some of them had already started to germinate (there were even small seedlings in the old soil next to the adult cactus), so I decided to quickly sow some and hope for the best.
Algae pretty much took over the peyote pot and I had to emergency-repot them all. The only thing I had left was aquarium sand, but the new arrangement looks very clean and organized.
Succulents/cacti:
Pseudolithos cubiformis (now watch me kill them all by looking at them wrong)
Astrophytum asterias – cv Super Kabuto
Euphorbia obesa
Mesembs:
Monilaria moniliformis (the world’s cutest succulent/mesemb)
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Conophytum pillansii
Fenestraria aurantiaca
Argyroderma aureum
Gibbaeum comptonii
Oophytum nanum
Oophytum oviforme
Cheiridopsis, mixed
I’ll sow the Pseudolithos, Astrophytum, Euphorbia, Monilaria and Gibbaeum, because these were the ones I was initially looking for. The Pseudolithos are going to be a pain to raise, but I love a good challenge!
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