Hello all, I thought I'd share with you a technique I learned over on Sharetheseeds on how to start trichocereus/lophophora etc, from seed. This is the misplant tek curtosey of none other than misplant.
My system is as follows:
take a plastic tub of some sort, fill with some fox farm ocean forest/black gold cactus soil, make wet, add a layer of medium coarse sand (for me this is Florida Pool Filter sand which is basically small pieces of limestone), wet that, and lastly surface sow the seeds. Wrap with ceran wrap or put the lid on it.
Germination should take 2-7days. I keep mine at around 90*F under 2 13w CFLs which I plan to upgrade at some point to a 96w t5 CFL set up. I keep the ceran wrap on for like 6 months. After around 6 months I take up to the greenhouse and keep it well watered for another 6 months ( I am fortunate to live in a tropical climate). At that time I transplant into square 4" pots. These will sit here for probably another year before going out into a shaded location. After 3 years maturity will hit and they can be treated just like other cacti.
My system is as follows:
take a plastic tub of some sort, fill with some fox farm ocean forest/black gold cactus soil, make wet, add a layer of medium coarse sand (for me this is Florida Pool Filter sand which is basically small pieces of limestone), wet that, and lastly surface sow the seeds. Wrap with ceran wrap or put the lid on it.
Germination should take 2-7days. I keep mine at around 90*F under 2 13w CFLs which I plan to upgrade at some point to a 96w t5 CFL set up. I keep the ceran wrap on for like 6 months. After around 6 months I take up to the greenhouse and keep it well watered for another 6 months ( I am fortunate to live in a tropical climate). At that time I transplant into square 4" pots. These will sit here for probably another year before going out into a shaded location. After 3 years maturity will hit and they can be treated just like other cacti.
