Selections follow the direction to grow plants wth very large tubercles, but there is a difference too with rough tubercles and smooth ones.
this is a smooth tubercle form, the name should be oiboo renzan.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-njkqylmeXAo/S7y1ZH7Y6vI/AAAAAAAAFRY/KL0L2yEtIYQ/s576/CIMG2964.JPG)
nice!=)
another very funny form! but are those cracks on the tubercles due to watering or rather part of the skin?
it's due to too much water in springtime, when the skin is not very elastic...now the plant is bigger, will take a photo soon!
good result Danie..!!
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-buiABEYSDKY/TBfWxXrVDZI/AAAAAAAACgY/hO8RfCgl6W4/s720/040.JPG)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sIg5uITb_4I/TIVVQyruN7I/AAAAAAAADYs/kVLkqx2ik9M/s720/039.JPG)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vJvfJFS6NSA/S410lddR9XI/AAAAAAAAB5w/EDnCO08c2jE/s720/032.JPG)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XaD00rCNBS8/TKc_1BtV4rI/AAAAAAAADrc/Eh0tT643gzU/s720/015.JPG)
wow Sandro, very pretty plants specialy the variegate one...
thanks
great plants Sandro! love the variegated one.
This is an updated photo of the lloydii:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xXLrZPlHaCU/TyvyY5cyP0I/AAAAAAAAFvU/DA8UlKuMC80/s512/02022012574.jpg)
Carlo & Daniele and Sandro
Beautiful lloydii cultivars, especially those variegata form is beautiful.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XLG1A_OcNns/SnRzIwt1zyI/AAAAAAAAALg/vKvkH0ollgE/s720/100_3942.jpg)
OMG... ::)
This is a degrafted my lloydii cultivar, "Adehada oibo renzan".
I bought seeds and sowed in 2005.
Adehad means a fascinating skin.
(https://inlinethumb58.webshots.com/46329/2002249760044113659S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2002249760044113659LLggSO)
nice plant Frank, was it grafted on pereskiopsis?
Carlo & Daniele
It was grafted on a Hylocereus stock.
Since fissuratus group includining lloydii may not be able to stop liquid coming out from cut body during degrafting, I used a special
degrafting method called "zui-tuki oroshi".
I remained a short, 15 mm of vascular bandle of Hyrocereus.
The scion reled on roots from the vascular bandle but it rely on own roots currently.
Before the vascula bandle die, roots come out from the body of the scion.
Hanazono
;D
(https://i49.tinypic.com/8wz19v.jpg)
@ Frank: thanks for the tips!
@ Ariocarpus: what is the grafting stock?
thanks
Echinopsis!
and the species? is it a spineless type or you cut them?
Yes, i cut it!
Hi Ariocarpus, Lovely plant and colour...
i like the lloydii cultivars a lot. it is very strange but my seedlings grow very slow, even when grafted and treated like the other ariocarpus cultivars. Do you have the same experience ?
yes they are great! we have few plants, grafted ones grow quite fast, but the own roots are really slow.
our plant with flower buds:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jgPHKxUfbLc/UJb4F-kE2dI/AAAAAAAAHvo/i-CY7SQ_RZU/s566/031120121454.jpg)
Beautiful plant, we hope the sun will come back so it can flower well!
we hope too, but foggy days already entered :(
the plant in flower:
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-f0_uTpx7Th0/UKAwjGrMZjI/AAAAAAAAHxE/PTzjyoqoU7Y/s508/081120121458.jpg)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/293730_3725313221287_570704957_n.jpg)
little tip: if you don't have a good day you can put it under a lamp for the entire day. :)