Digi Seeds Follow their progress

Decided to do a post to keep everyone up to date on the seeds of Astrophytum caput-medusae.

Seeds Planted on Sunday afternoon 22nd June.

10 seeds per pot using the baggie method and put on a heat mat with thermostat set at 26C with lights on for 16 hours per day.

No action Saturday morning 28th June

Germination sighted Saturday night at 7pm the 28th June..............Whoopeee!!!!!!!!!!

Photos tomorrow

Congratulations Betty

waiting for tomorrows photos

Good work betty
can't wait to see these pics.

Amazing little fella's not even a day old and they have character

Wasn't till I took the photos that I could see it. I have eight up so far from 40 planted

ohhhh excitement!!

nice pics, cant wait to get my seeds

Won't be long and there will be others posting pics of seedlings

Betty, first pic, are 3 cotyledons normal for digi?

Interesting two does seem the norm

Will see what I can find out

Good looking pics Betty, and they look so healthy. 3 cotyledons seems abnormal but I wouldn't complain - you should have your first tubercle by the end of the week.

Not complaining at all excited more like it

More soil is cracking tonight

Updates will be forth coming as I am sure I will be checking evey night when I get home from work lol

Well they say 5 to 10 % will come up with 3 cotyledons and no difference noticed with growth.

Damn I was hoping for something special

Cool Betty! Hahaha i remember me and Lewis were talking about caput-medusae awhile ago, guess you beat me to getting one hahahahahaha.
How long would it roughly be before they are a decent size?

some years at least, unless they are grafted. It is supposed to be not hard to grow.

Betty graft some to pereskiopsis next spring, although its probably a good idea if you haven't tried before to practise on common seedlings rather than potentially waste digi seedlings!

Update ................ 10 up now

I may get game later on with the grafting. I may try one on some echinopsis or thrich though. I have seen some doing really well on echinopsis.

Sounding good Betty!

15 up now and one of the first ones has a tubercle

Will take photos over the weekend

Sounds good Betty! Hopefully they all survive

Well done Betty,
15 is a good number out of 40 seed - that's about 35% so far.

3 more days for me and I hope to see my first seed

Whoo Hooo it will be a digi invasion

Great work. Keep us updated

Can't wait to see those tubercles pushing through Betty. Good work!

i got my seed yesterday. Thanks betty

Cheers hornet got them planted yet

Sorry folks I think I need to clean my glasses no tubercle.............I was looking throught the baggie all fogged up. Was another with three cotyledons that I hadn't noticed before

Here's two of four pots.