Post your baby pictures.

[hostilis]

I just wanted to see everyone's baby pictures of their cacti. I have a whole bunch of youngn's to share and I'm sure lots of you do.

2 Month old trich hybrids
New born L. alberto-vojtechii
2 Month old Astrophytum myriostigma and asterias
Cintia knizei (left) Mammillaria perezdelarosae (right)
Geohintia mexicana (2 months)
Geohintia mexicana
Ortegocactus macdougalii (2 months)
Pelecyphora psuedopectinatus (left) P. aseliformis (right)
Neoporteria occulta (left) Echinocereus rigidimus (right)
Mixed lithops species
Adenium obesum (2 months)
L. williamsii (10 months)
L. williamsii (10 months)
L, alberto-vojtechii (9 months) slow growers
L. koehresii (2 months, left) L. jourdaniana (right)
L. williamsii caespitosa (2 months)
Ariocarpus trigonus 1 year
Frailea cataphracta (3 months)
Astrophytum caput-medusae (1.5 months)
Leuchtenburgia principis (3 months)
Ariocarpus retusus cv. cauliflower (2 months)
Obregonia denegrii (2 months)
Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus (3 months) super slow growers.

 

[Swinjin]

Beautiful babies, hostilis.

 

[Mitakuye Oyasin]

You have some cute children.

 

[Spanishfly]

Hey hostilis - lovely plants - so many of them and so healthy!!

I can post pics of a few cacti I have grown from seed, and of some seedlings where I did nothing at all - the plants did the business all themselves.

The first is Ariocarpus bravoanus - the seed was harvested from my own plants - this one is a couple of years old, still small, this is a slow growing genus.

Astrophytum myriostigma var. nudum - from seeds I traded with another grower. Only about two years old - a fairly fast growing species.

The same plant with the flower fully open - alongside a var. quadricostata - same species but only four ribs (the perfect plant for one of your square pots, hostilis???).

Still with Astrophytum - some A. asterias - again from seeds I traded.

Yet more Astrophytum - A. caput-medusae - seeds I purchased - couldn´t find a plant - a couple of years old - I am hoping for a flower next year. This is the species that was discovered in 2002, was first put in its own genus of Digitostigma before it was realised the flowers showed it to be an Astrophytum.

Epithelantha micromeris - a small one just two years old - from traded seed.

Two pics of Encephalocarpus strobiliformis - (I am using its older name here - the ICSG now place it in Pelecyphora - but I disagree) - my two adults produced a bonanza of these little beauties a couple of years ago. They are apparently rather mysterious - there is no obvious fruit, seeds just somehow drop on their own. Mrs Fly likes to give them as presents to her friends.

And good old Lophophora williamsii - I have loads of these that I raised from seed - this was from my 2004 sowing, and she has now produced her own seedlings. All the seed I traded with other growers was in exchange for my L. williamsii seeds.

And may I show my appreciation to endlessness - who showed me how to do the pics !!!!

 

[hostilis]

Awesome plants spanishfly!!

Speaking of the quadricostatum myriostigma, I actually planted a ton of supposedly quadricostatum variegata seeds, but none of the seedlings are variegated and most of them started with 4 ribs and ended up gaining one or two more. You can never trust ebay sellers claims on genetics.

Even more awesome than the quadricostatum (in my opinion) is the tricostatum myriostima. Here are some more of my baby Astrophytum. I will be breeding these variegates and tricostatum when they reach flowering age and hopefully have a bunch more of them.

Pictures:

1&2: (left) Astrophytum myriostigma tricostatum variegata (right) A. myriostigma quadricostatum variegata

3&4: Astrophytum asterias variegata. I suspect the first one might be a hybrid.

5: Astrophytum myriostigma tricostatum

6: Astrophytum asterias x coahuilense variegata

 

[Spanishfly]

Hey I like the tricostata - real neat !! And I will be interested to see how long my quadricostata remains with just four ribs.

I have an old and venerable A. myriostigma that started with the usual 5 ribs, but has produced more as it has grown in size. In the pic you can see one rib becoming two.

 

[hostilis]

Wow, that's a beautiful plant. I would like to get a big old myriostigma some time.

 

[hostilis]

Check out this weirdo astrophytum seedling. I think it's a monstrose or something. It only has 3 ribs on most pups (2 ribs on a couple pups) and it pups from every areole.

 

[AcaciaConfusedYah]

A pup!

 

[Spanishfly]

Wow, that's a beautiful plant. I would like to get a big old myriostigma some time.

Nice of you to say so !! That was bought in about 2000 when it was a flowering adult about 3" across. I would hate to pay the postage on it now.

I like your weirdo Astrophytum seedling - not common to see multiple pupping on one so young and on its own roots.

 

[Spanishfly]

A pup!

Are you sure it is a pup? It doesn´t appear to be obviously attached to Mama. Seeds often fall from their parent and germinate right there.

Like with these two - yes, good old Lophophora williamsii again - I have so many of them - the plant on the left has a pup attached, growing from an areole, obviously squashed up against Mama. The other has dropped seeds which have sprouted - right next to Mama but not attached - not pups.