Do you like a red flower?

I tried to get a red flower Astrophytum asterias last several years. I bought seeds of red flower asterias every year but I was disappointed many times because flowers were not exaxtry red, apricot color. Last week an asterias, sown seed last year got a red flower. The stigma was also red. I did crossing with a few asterias.
Do you think it is red enough?

Yes I love the red flower, just beautiful. Congratulations.

Your image does not work so I will fix it and post it below.

That's amazing Hanaz. Huge flower too.

beautiful!

Bloody oath i do
That looks beautiful, you keep makeing me more envious of your collection

wow, that is just awesome

Incredible

I have one seedling left of supposedly red flowering so will see how it goes when i grows up a bit.

I love it!

I want one!

Hanazono that is a beautiful colour, I've got a few seedlings of the "red" flowered form too, hardly bigger than a match head yet... if I end up with one half as nice as yours I'll be over the moon.



CP

Nice image Hanazono,
I'm a little bit jealous myself.

Hanazono wrote:

Do you think it is red enough?

Nah, I think it looks pink more than anything. Sorry.

Prier
I think it is not perfectly red but better than this.
This is a typical pink flower, Astrophytum myriostigma.
Hanazono

It's not red at all. It's a darker pink than the one you just showed but its still pink.

It's just like the Trichocereus grandiflorus colors. I have two, one labeled orange, the other red. Really they're just subtly different tones of red.

I think people just like the idea of having a bunch of different coloured flowered species. it's heaps cooler to say i have two plants, one red one pink, than it is to say I have to different kinds of pink flowers. or something. sorry i'm dribbling now.

prier wrote:

Sorry i'm dribbling now.

I think thats from the great images on this thread.

HAHA I agree with KanJe.

You're the Astro master Hanaz.

Yeah, I love a proper red flowering cactus

waw, i'm realy gealous hanazono, a realy nice color, i have an asterias albino that flower pink bur definitively not this colour, are more salmon! your are beautiful!so i hope you continue to cross it with oter pinkflowering asterias and spread everiwere this beautines, hoping at my home to! heheheheeh
Emanuele

Hello Hanazono, the flower you showed us is very nice.
It's not completely red but is deep pink, very big and well formed.
And the asterias is superkabuto too! We also have some red flower asterias but this character seems to be recessive. This summer we crossed two of them and we will sow the seeds next days.

carlo & daniele

Hello, this is our rurikabuto red flower, 3 years old from seed:



carlo & daniele

Carlo & Daniele
It is a very nice red flower. The body color, dark green ruri(azure) is also very good.
Your plant is still young. I hope it will be true azure in mature.

There are two types red flower asterias. One is a flower color mutation of asterias, dark red.
The other is transferred from pink flower myriostigma to asterias.
I think your ruri is a flower color mutation one.
Hanazono