Flowers of Ariocarpus in autumn 2009

1st one is fissuratus, opening 7 flowers together.
Collected seeds from my plant and sowed on 30/09/06. Several young seedlings were grafted.
This plant is one of them.

Wow that's an awesome bloom to get 7 and they're stunning too.

Can I ask what sp. it is?

Great shot Hanazono. So much pollen for a little plant

Wow... grown from seed started in 9/07 and you've got 7 (!) flowers. Your skill is amazing.

I keep Ariocarpus under soft sunlight. Since tubercles of 2 retusus turned color, I covered further by a small piece of shade-cloth.
I removed the shade-cloth this morning and found that one of plants had a flower. The flower is smaller than normal one.
I sowed purchaced seeds on 30/08/03 and grafted seedlings on hylocereus.
I degrafted plants and rooted in 2006. This is one of rooted, own root plants. The diameter of the plant is around 15 cm.
Becuse the plant was grafted once, taller than normal one.

I say again... your skill is amazing.

Another retusus grown from a seed, coming from a same seeds pack as the plant shown on 19/03/09.
Since flower color and size are different, seed come from a different plant I think.
This plant got 4 flowers together today.

This plant was in flower yesterday.
retusus v major x furfuraceus v magnificus, sown seeds on 28/09/05 and grfted seedlings.
I have several grafted and degrafted plants, appearnce are varied.

retusus v jarmilae MM110
sown purchased seeds on 31/08/06, grafted seedlings

Hanazono wrote:

retusus v jarmilae MM110
sown purchased seeds on 31/08/06, grafted seedlings

That's awesome Hana. I haven't seen this variety before.
It's really nice.

very nice man! those flowers are amazing!

Flowers of fissuratus v intermedius, taken photo today.
Sown seeds on 11/08/05, grafted young seedlings but only 2 plants have been remained.

Very nice flowers!!!

A kotschoubeyanus was in flower today.
I sowed seeds collected from my plant on 30/09/06 and grafted quite many seedlings.
Flowering of kotschoubeyanus is very young if the plant was grafted. 1st flowering of this plant was April 2007.
I crossed with bravoanus v hintonii.

This fissuratus is a different sauce from top one.
I tried to degraft the main plant and failed. I cut a pup off from the main plant and grafted on an Echinopsis.
It seems the plant meets to the grafting stock very well.
I took this photo yesterday.

retusus v furfuraceus cv Suguru ooibo cauliflower
Sown seeds on 11/08/05 and grafted seedlings
It is still a young plant, just starts shownig the character of cauliflower.
The diameter is around 15 cm, was in flower yesterday.

The Suguru ooibo is awesome.

How long does it take to get that cauliflower effect?
I haven't seen many of them around.

KanJa
I do not know actually but upper tubercles, inside of wool are showing more cauliflower character.
I assume 7~8 years if the plant was grafted.
Hanazono

retusus v major cv Shinkawa shiwa-botan
Sown seeds on 11/08/05 and grafted seedlings.
I crossed this to cauliflower last week.
It seems the plant is bit weak. I will degraft this next spring.

scaphirostris
Sown purchased seeds on 31/10/03 and grafted seedlings on Hylocereus undatus
Degrafted with a short undatus vascular bandles in 2006
I assume own roots have been added.
I crossed kotschoubeyanus on this flower.

retusus v major cv Shinkawa tama-zouge maruba
Sown seeds 11/08/05 and grafted seedlings

I really like the retusus v major cv Shinkawa shiwa-botan. The texture on the skin is really interesting.

I only have 5 or 6 Ariocarpus my self but I've got some seed that I'm going try out over winter in the light box. It looks like an exciting genus to work with.

retusus v trigonus
Sown seeds on 11/08/05 and grfted seedings.
Since summer weather came back last week, Ariocarpus stopped once flowering.
Last 2~3 days, weather returned to normal and trigonus was in flower in this afternoon.

kotschoubeyanus f Rio Verde
Sown purchased 10 seeds on 30/09/04 and grafted seedlings. This is one of them.
I made many seedlings from this plant.

retusus v elongatus f CSD45
I sowed 25 of purchased seeds on 31/08/06 and grafted seedlings.
Only 2 plants are remained in my place. Both of plants were in flower yesterday.