Lucky me, I have seen gorgeous plants and will post a few of them here. I had a great time and learned a lot about Astros 8)
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(https://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7299/dsc21521small.jpg)
2.
(https://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6232/dsc21761medium.jpg)
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(https://img268.imageshack.us/img268/2162/dsc21781small.jpg)
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(https://img843.imageshack.us/img843/3392/dsc21801small.jpg)
5.
(https://img818.imageshack.us/img818/8701/dsc21701small.jpg)
6.
(https://img860.imageshack.us/img860/7534/dsc21471small.jpg)
Thank you Carlo & Daniele for your kindness!
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(https://img859.imageshack.us/img859/8246/dsc21721small.jpg)
8.
(https://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3584/dsc21771small.jpg)
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(https://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4166/dsc21681small.jpg)
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(https://img42.imageshack.us/img42/474/dsc21501small.jpg)
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(https://img20.imageshack.us/img20/997/dsc21751small.jpg)
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(https://img855.imageshack.us/img855/8821/dsc21491small.jpg)
Uihhhh - great! Thank you! :o
is the third from the bottom new? i never saw it...
al others are beauty... best to me
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6232/dsc21761medium.jpg
hello guys and thanks!
compliments to eve who made these nice photos!
Manuel, the third one from the bottom is not a new entry, we have it since a couple of years!
Hi C & D, Beautiful plants...
very good and lovely plants, compliments
Thank you Mario and Ana!
Great collection \O/
The picture 7 is amazing
well, to me they look as if they had been forgotten in the oven and burned a bit ;D
Quote from: eve on Monday, 23 January 2012 - 12:25:10
well, to me they look as if they had been forgotten in the oven and burned a bit ;D
hahaha
We add some names:
01. superkabuto Alps
02. fukuryu banjyaku
03. onzuka kikko ball
04. fukuryu haku-jo white
05. myrio kikko nudum
06. onzuka 4-ribs ball form red V-marks
07. koh-yo seedlings
08. coahuilense kikko
09. superkabuto V-type
10. fukuryu
11. fukuryu hekiran (close up)
12. onzuka multiheads white V-marks
and this is plant no. 2 in bloom:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6ldyYRSNCLk/Su2iBnDn6RI/AAAAAAAAAC8/ULgNIn1gHfQ/s640/CIMG2179.JPG)
Very nice!
beautiful plants..!!
Thank you Natalya and Flavio!
very beautiful photos Evelyn, congratulations to Carlo and Daniele for the collection ;)
thanks a lot vicky!
thanks Vichy
ciao :D
Really nice plants C+D and big thanks to you guys for making some their progeny available to astro freaks worldwide.
Question to C&D:
1.How long do you grow cactuses?,
2. and when you started by collecting of Astro cultivars?
IMHO/Remark: I mean for me it's almost impossible to get so many and such expensive plants. Sometimes I think about if those Japanese, who mainly started this, weren't/ aren't just crazy, to take to much money for it - they started this bubble, and other growers / people now see good business in it, so they even continue with so high prize... :'( I really appreciate their work but for what prize ? :-[
I discussed this topic of cultivar vs. high prize with many growers, and 90% of growers don't like them because of high prize. They appreciate more plant from nature / I mean natural plants, then so called"hybrids" -> because let say ALL cultivars are in fact even defects or hybrids.
hello Tomas,
we've been collecting cactus since about 18 years...but when I was a child the most important thing was to let the plants survive...
after we started collecting seriously all kinds of cactus with preference to mexican small species, but also succulent and caudex.
We started with astro cultivars in 2006 and we have been fascinating from them because you can obtain really strange and different results.
I think the price for some plants are fair for other not at all, but just think that the first book from T. Sato is from 1973 and there were already a lot of cultivars that nowadays are still rare in europe. I'm talking about 40 years! There are some collectors in japan that collects only own roots kabutos and the plants they have now are amazing...now If I'd be the owner of a plant like that I'd not sell it for sure. But how much you think is fair to spend for a plant fruit of selection of 40 years?
The philosophy here in Europe is a bit different and maybe many people do not understand the work that there is behind that, but it's the same thing about selecting orchids, roses or hibiscus...
I also do not think cultivars and hybrids are the same thing, of course they derive from hybridization but with the purpose of selecting a specific character, take a look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar
Daniele
you must have been really very young, if you started already 18 years ago!!
In facts I was attending primary school :)
Daniele
some own roots arios in flower:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cgIHH89ukSI/UI7QenZV4SI/AAAAAAAAHt0/2iTkg_ZLeEU/s618/051020121403.jpg)
Very nice daniele. I guess you are busy with your brush these days (:
Dan
We add here some myrio kikko from our collection:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LDebgIGURas/UegjK0Bh_iI/AAAAAAAAK80/kd5A8zTczbo/w734-h553-no/180720132264.jpg)
What a beautiful view! You have a great selection, congratulations!
thanks a lot Carlo!
Amazing kikko collection!
i love the two ball shaped ones, the nudum and green one, it are greath!
thank you cortona, we love them too!!!