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[New Wisdom]

So I found out about this new species of Aztekium today. Very stoked about it. 

Here is a paper about it.  Have any of you heard of it yet?

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[nobody]

Very cool man, now if we could find some seeds.

 

[New Wisdom]

I found some... but you have to drop $30 for 10 seeds or $250 for 100 seeds. Lol... And you know how "easy" it is growing aztekium from seed.

[Saros]

Wow... too bad they're so expensive.

I never really looked into Aztekium before you mentioned this species.. Kinda making me want one... a lot:-)

[New Wisdom]

They are extremely hard to grow from seed. Take like 15 years to get to a decent size. And finding non grafted ones is pretty hard.  I actually had one successfully grafted onto a pereskiopsis from seed, but the thrips got to it.    I have riterii and hintonii growing from seed now as well. I have an adult that's grafted to a myrtillocactus as well.

The first two pictures are my grafted adult aztekium riterii, and the last picture is the seedling I had on a pereskiopsis. It grew like 4 areoles over 3 months and then died when the thrips took over my plants.

[Saros]

I'm sorry to hear of your loss! Also that's one hell of a grafting job... I've got some lophs from the co-op that must be 2-3 times that size and I'm too scared to attempt a graft because they seem so small and fragile.

That grafted adult is a real beauty!

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[New Wisdom]

Thanks! I have more growing from seed right now, I will be attempting the graft again when my seedlings hit .5-1mm (in like 5 months...)  I know better what to do this time. You want to make sure it's on the soft, green top of a new growing pere branch and it needs to be in humidity a lot longer than normal. 

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