Monday, 17 April 2017

Last week I wasn't able to do an update, because I was on holidays in Mexico city. There there is a Flower and plant market, where they sell a lot of plants. They are so cheap, I bought a few but sadly I couldn't buy as many as I want because I had to come back by bus (about 16 hours).

Seeds of some Dietes and of some vine (given to me by a friend). I soaked the seed for about 48 hours (because of my laziness) and the seeds of the vine were already sprouting.

Seeds of ornithogalum caudatum. I ordered these seeds about two months ago, I soaked them into water and then I sowed them. About a week after, one sprouted and from that time nothing happened. This is the result after my 5-days trip. I guess most of the seeds sprouted, by now. 

Wittia amazonica and zygocactus truncatus

The first of my peniocereus greggii v. transmontanus finally sprouted, I think I have spotted two others sprouting today, while the eechinopsis kermesina keeps "growing".

One arthrocereus rondonianus, there are two others. 

After more than two months, my beaucarnea recurvata seeds finally sprouted. I was actually losing hope to see them sprout and was about to throw them away, but I thought that I would wait after my return. And after 5 days, 5 out 25 had sprouted. It is not a lot, but better than nothing...

While my talinum caffrum keeps growing, I have 5-7 out 15, the first schizobasis intricatus came out. It is not easy to point it out (it's a little bit like where is Waldo) but it is here in the middle of the little pebbles. I guess on the next pictures, next week or in a few weeks it will be easier to spot it. There are two or three more coming out.  

Here are a view of my talinum caffrum. 

Some agave. They look quite elongated, I don't know if they will grow well or not. 

My hoodia gordonii/caralluma russeliana (I think I mixed them and I don't know who's who) keep growing.  

Some hymenocallis littoralis. The seeds are bigger than those of Amaryllis (from the same family) and they are green like in the picture. But after a few weeks (2-4), a root came out of the seeds. They are like clivia seeds (I found 3 of those in Mexico city and sowed them, I can't wait to see them grow too.) 

My adenium seeds, my project. So after my trip it was time for them to be repotted into individual pot or in this case glass. I have 78 of them, I have another 6, 3 will probably grow, 3 won't. I am a bit afraid and also wondering to know whether all of them will make it after the repotting. The weather is pretty hot and they have almost no roots. Also since the moment I've lost one after repotting, I'm scared of losing them when repotting. 

  Here all of my baby adenium. 

When I went to Teotihuacan, I passed a nursery, where these beautiful epiphyllum (ackermanii) was growing. It was huuuuuuge, I told myself that I had to go and see if I could buy some cuttings. So I walked to the nursery and asked the owner if he had some cuttings or plants to sell. It had some plants, but I'd rather some cuttings because of the trip. I asked him if he could sell me some cuttings, he gave me about 8 cuttings for very cheap, this made me really happy, because epiphyllum cuttings are quite hard to find and aren't that cheap either. 


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