Flowers of Ariocarpus in autumn 2009

Really nice Hana.
I particularly like the geometry of the kotschoubeyanus f Rio Verde.

Is it normal for the flowers to have those petals or is variegated?

KanJe
It is normal flower of Rio Verde form.
The flower of normal kotschoubeyanus has white stripe.
Hanazono

retusus v major cv daruma-royal
Sown seeds on 30/09/04 and grafted seedlings.
Degrfted in 2007 with a short vascular bandle of the grafting stock.
Repotted last month, roots came from both of the vascular bandle and own body but a taproot was not developed yet.
Flowering yesterday

retusus v furfuraceus cv daruma seiji
A pup was grafted on Echinopsis.

I think you really have brought back my eagerness to want to grow more Ariocarpus as I have been put off in the past.
Really good work Hanazono.

The last one above is my favourite I've seen from you so far. Very beautiful.

scaphirostris
Sown seeds on 31/10/03 and grafted seedlings
Degrafted in 2006, own-root
Spent long time for rooting, around one year
This is the 1st flower for this plant, opened yesterday.

retusus v major cv mituibo
Sown seeds on 11/08/05 and grafted seedlings
Degrfted in 2007 with a short vascular bandle of grfting stock
This cultiva should show 3 areoles on each tubercle in muture age. I have not seen it yet.

Wow, these are simply stunning. I did a double take on seeing that clump of scaphirostris... it's just fantastic.

agavoides
Sown seeds on 29/07/03 and grfted seedlings
Only 2 plants were remained from that seedling grafting.
I collected many seeds from these plant and growing seedlings.

You certainly have some remarkable plants Hanazono. Very inspiring. I will have to focus on doing some more grafting myself next season. Had some successes with Arios on peres this season, but alot of failures too. Would love to try some on Harrisia some time.

retusus v bicolor n. prov. KMR61
Sown seeds on 31/08/06 and grfted seedlings
I am not sure how much this plant is different from other retusus var.
I bought seeds and original source was unknown.

trigonus
agavoides in the photo is grfted on Hylocereus undatus.
undatus is also one of good grfting stock for Ariocarpus, I think.
If you graft around 1 month old seedling, it will be in flower one year later.
Hanazono

Those are lovely plants. Given your obvious experience in grafting these amazing plants, would it be possible for you to show us how you achieve these extraordinary results?

awesome blooms, is that stock eriocereus jusbertii? and is that the same as harrisia? i have some ariocarpus seeds yet to be sown and am gonna need stock for graftin..nice work

blowng
I use various grfting root stocks.
It is possible to graft around 10~40 days seedlings after germination onto:
Hylo undatus
H bomplandii
H jusvertii
Echinopsis
Pereoskiposis is also possible but I just get some plants and starting to try.
Hanzono

Lachy
My seedling grfting is not special. I referred to an internet site and studied how to do.
I graft 10~40 days old seedlings aftergermination onto various root stocks.
My purpose of the grfting is to get seeds form my plants as soon as possilble.
I still buy some seeds from VIC and graft around 50 seedlings every year.
If you graft Ariocarpus in spring you may get flowers in autumn in same season. Astrophytum will get flowers in next spring.
I also has many own-root seedlings germinated from seeds, collected from my grafted plants.
Hanazono

I like that last one. The light green contrast and rough tubercles is very nice

kotschoubeyanus v macdowellii f albiflourus
Sown seeds 30/09/04 and grfted seedlings on Hylocereus
Degrfted with a short vascular bandles of Hylocereus in 2007
A poor shape of flower by some reasons

agavoides short tubercle form
Sown seed on 04/09/07 and grafted seedlings
A young plant

Wow!
That colour is truly amazing.
Really good photo Hanazono.

Nice Flowers. That is the advantage of opposing seasons on Earth. I still need 3-4 months to maintain blooms Ariocarpus.

Blossfeldia

Such an amazing collection of Arios Hanazono. Thanks for sharing them.

kotschoubeyanus v elephantidens
Sown seeds on31/08/06 and grafted seedlings
Deeper red flowers compared to normal kotschoubeyanus and f Rio Verde

fissuratus v lloydii variegated?
I bought seeds collected from variegated plants.
Sown seeds on 11/08/05 and grafted seedlings.
Only one seedling was varigated.
When this plant was small, the balance of variegation was very good but it is too much currently.
The appearance of the plant is "not looks like lloydii".

retusus v scapharostroides
Sown seeds on 31/08/06 and grafted seedlings
In flower yesterday