Some of My Lophophora williamsii

[Spanishfly]

Hi, I have been growing Lophophora williamsii from seed for about 15 years now (along with other Mexican desert cacti). L. williamsii blooms all year long, and produces masses of seed - most of mine I give away or trade for other species. Seed germinates easily, and the seedlings are simple to raise.

Anyway, this one I bought in 1999 as a seedling - it has grown into a nice sized clump - my largest peyote - and is the parent of hundreds, growing all round the globe.

 

[HumbleTraveler]

Beautiful!

I'd love to be able to find seeds for williamsii somewhere. No luck yet

 

[Spanishfly]

Humble Traveller - I have sent you a PM.

It looks like I can only add a pic at the bottom of each post, so I will continue with a pic per post.
This next pic is a plant I started from seed in 2004 - last year it produced 6 pups all at the same time, they are now flowering independently. A nice clump in the making!

 

[Spanishfly]

Here is a singleton, again from the 2004 sowing - that has set quite a few seeds. It is amazing the trouble we take growing from seed, taking especial care that our babies do not get too much light too young. And these seedlings have germinated and grown under the continual fierce Spanish sun. I will replant them when it is time to repot Mum.

 

[Spanishfly]

A nice double header that I bought last year - to add some variety to my gene pool.

 

[Spanishfly]

And a singleton showing a lovely flower.

 

[Spanishfly]

A couple of young ones - the one on the left is just 2 years old - germinated at Christmas time (I love to see life spring up in those short, dark days), the pic was taken in winter - just beginning to produce a bud, which flowered the following spring. The plant on the right is 3 years old - a few flowers in the past season.

 

[Spanishfly]

And finally for the moment, some uprooted plants that I sent a guy in the US, showing their deep taproots - four peyote, one large one, two small and a tiny sprout, a couple of Encephalocarpus strobiliformis and a Astrophytum myriostigma var. nudum.
You will never see beautiful taproots like those on a graft !!

 

[Nathaniel]

Beautiful specimens! Looks like you are doing it right. How hard are they to grow?

 

[Spanishfly]

Thanks Nathaniel. They are certainly the easiest species to propagate that I have in my collection, relatively fast-growing, and freely flowering.

 

[Aegle]

Spanishfly

Your peyote's are really beautiful, much respect to you for growing and cultivating this precious species with such care and concern.


Much Peace and Respect

 

[Nathaniel]

Thanks Nathaniel. They are certainly the easiest species to propagate that I have in my collection, relatively fast-growing, and freely flowering.

Welcome . Very nice! I am growing 2 Pedros myself and they are doing wonderfully. I have the idea in the back of my head to graft some Lophos onto them at some point but I don't know if and when that might happen. I want to start a little cactus garden eventually.

Your one plant is mother to hundreds, you say? That is amazing.

 

[endlessness]

Beautiful Lophs, thanks for sharing!

Just started my first `yote from seed couple of months ago, want to start many more

You mentioned direct sunlight, all day, or during what hours? I have my seedling in partial shadow all day long.

Regarding the pics, you can attach multiple images to the same post with the forum feature (either clicking on the `attach` button next to edit after the post is made, or clicking the tick box `attach files to this post` below the text box as you are making it. but if you want to have alternating pictures and text, you need to first upload it to some website like this or this, then add the link to the post such as

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, followed and preceeded by whatever text you want to write.

 

[hostilis]

Beautiful plants you have here. I hope that one day my little babies are as healthy and beautiful as yours.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Spanishfly]

Beautiful Lophs, thanks for sharing!

Just started my first `yote from seed couple of months ago, want to start many more

You mentioned direct sunlight, all day, or during what hours? I have my seedling in partial shadow all day long.

Regarding the pics, you can attach multiple images to the same post with the forum feature (either clicking on the `attach` button next to edit after the post is made, or clicking the tick box `attach files to this post` below the text box as you are making it. but if you want to have alternating pictures and text, you need to first upload it to some website like this or this, then add the link to the post such as

 [img]http://www.a.com/image.jpg[/img]

, followed and preceeded by whatever text you want to write.

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

Endlessness - I start seeds under lights - a couple of 6500K tubes - when they look like miniature adults rather than blobs of green jelly I move them outside. Just a couple of hours of early morning sunshine at first, then increase the amount of sun over a couple of months until they are eventually in sun all day.

How are your seedlings doing??

Thanks for the help with the pics.

 

[Spanishfly]

Thanks Nathaniel. They are certainly the easiest species to propagate that I have in my collection, relatively fast-growing, and freely flowering.

Welcome . Very nice! I am growing 2 Pedros myself and they are doing wonderfully. I have the idea in the back of my head to graft some Lophos onto them at some point but I don't know if and when that might happen. I want to start a little cactus garden eventually.

Your one plant is mother to hundreds, you say? That is amazing.

Good luck with the cactus garden and possible grafts.

I have just acquired some rooted pereskiopsis cuttings - I want to try comparison experiments growing some Lophophora and Ariocarpus seedlings as grafts alongside the same size seedlings on their own roots.
Until now I have concentrated on growing all my seedlings on their own roots - the only plants I have as grafts are Aztekium ritteri - possibly the slowest growing cactus of all - and Toumeya papyracantha - bought in an eBay auction and reputed to be almost impossible on its own roots. But I feel an experiment coming on there as well.

Yes that big clump of mine is the oldest - over the last 15 years I have sent thousands of seeds (for free of course) from her - and my other peyote parents - to growers all over the world - some of whom find it difficult to acquire Lophophora williamsii seeds in their own countries.

 

[slugware]

Gorgeous plants, Spanishfly!

I've been on my own cacti research for quite a few months now and want to start growing few LWs . No seeds though anywhere around me.

 

[tizoc4u]

Spanish fly is a very reputable cactus grower. I know him from a different forum. He has a nice soil mix maybe hell share that with us here at the nexus. My respects for spanish hes very knowledgeable on growing cactus the way god intended.

 

[Spanishfly]

Hey tizoc nice to see you again. I had a difference of opinion with the people at Mycotopia so don´t go there any more - a shame as I was a donator as well - their loss I say. Anne Halonium gone, and Peyote - they have replaced their talented growers with fuckwits.

 

[Spanishfly]

Gorgeous plants, Spanishfly!

I've been on my own cacti research for quite a few months now and want to start growing few LWs . No seeds though anywhere around me.

Thanks for the kind words, slugware. I have sent you a PM.