I was pleased to see that the first of the new seeds I ordered have started germinating: I think it really helped to soak these seeds in water for about 24 hours before sowing, there are already more than 20 tiny Cheiridopsis glomerata in the container. They have a typical mesemb appearance with the cotyledons looking like a little disc. These will be a little difficult because I sowed them in spring instead of autumn so they will need to be kept cool this summer.
Now that the cacti finally germinated, they are growing strongly and I notice quite a few popping up in the seed mixture in other pots. Typical: start growing like weeds as soon as you give up on them.
The Hoodia gordonii are growing their first set of true leaves and the cooler conditions seem very much to their liking. Somehow, they look like little deranged stick-figures.
The haworthia germination has been a very mixed bag: with 9 emerging, this pot has had around 75% germination but 3 pots have only had two or three come up and the others in 4 pots haven't germinated at all. Considering all the delays around these seeds, I'm glad that I got anything out of them at all. Perhaps there will be more, who knows?
We are experiencing a heatwave and strong winds so I have been careful to move all the ungerminated seeds into the shade. The seedlings are also being kept in a cool environment because it is very easy to fry tiny succulents if you let them dry out or expose them to excessive amounts of sun
good nursery..
Thank you
They're very cute :)
How comes you choose to grow the from seeds? Probably it depends on what side of the world you're living, but over here the grow pretty much eveywhere and it's so easy and fats to propagate them by cuttings that I never tought of planting them
Thank you!
Whereabouts in the world are you? Although I am in South Africa, the home of many of these plants, most of what I am growing fall into the rare and expensive category and aren't that easy to propagate from cuttings. Growing from seed is a way to get interesting plants for a lot less.
I am also growing some of these for resale, I want to start selling collectable succulents on a regular basis as a small home-based business
It's so weird. I live in Italy and I have tons of those succulents at home. I usually save them from the garbage because they're very cheap here and grow a lot, so at a certain point people just trow them away. It's always bad to me seeing plants in the trash bin so I'm glad you appreciate them.
Wish you good luck with your business :)
Thank you. I am also in the habit of bringing home succulents that I find dumped. I grow those in the garden outside
Congratulations!
What a beauty these crumbs!
Love when seedlings first pop up.
I never get sick of watching seeds sprout.
It always amazes me that instead of soil, cesspool grows in shallow pebbles. It's even amazing how they give roots and where they take nutrients.