This year’s seeds seem slow to get going or maybe I’m getting more impatient as I use up my remaining years. Germinaton rates haven’t been great either – way under 50% so far.Of the sowings made at the beginning of May, current seedlings showing are as follows:
From Middleton Cactus Mart (BCSS seed, no heat)
- Thelocactus bicolour – 4
- Astrophytum mixed – 4
- Mammillaria (Mamillopsis) senilis – 5
- Frailea pumila – 1
- Echinocereus rigidissimus – 0
- Echinocereus pectinatus – 0
From Kakteen Haage (with bottom heat for first 10 days)
- Agave parryi – 0
- Aloe ramosissima – 2
- Mammillaria geminispina – 6
- Mammillaria guelzowiana – 1
- Mammillaria wilcoxii – 0
- Matucana madisoniorum – 5
- Parodia magnifica – 0
- Fouquieriea splendens – 2
- Hesperaloe funifera – 0
- Operculicaria decaryi – 0
- Pachypodium densiflorum – 2
- Astrophytum mix – 11
- Echinocereus mix – 2
- Echinopsis hybrid mix – 6
- Epiphyllum mix – 1
- Rhipsalidopsis mix – 0
- Ferocactus mix – 3
- Lobivia mix – 2
- Rebutia mix – 2
- Flowering mix – 3
Kept back half the KH succulent seeds and am trying them in vermiculite bags to see if they germinate more readily – found this a very successful method earlier in the year to get Adenium, Cissus juttae & Agave parryi going.
