I made this cristata from seed in 2009, today it flowered for the first time.
How is the chance of getting cristata's from the seeds of this plant? I pollinated it with two "normal" v-types.
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Dan
i have very little experience, but i think cristata trait is poorly heritable...
It's going back a few years ago now but I once read a paper published in the 70's that studied heritability of fasciation in Echinocereus riechenbachii. It found that crests are more likely from crested parents. I think Ritter was one of the authors.
In my own experience I did a Copiapoa (tenuissimaXmillicula)hybrid because it produced nice veriegates. In the second year I grew out about a hundred seedlings trying to isolate bright coloured variegates. About 8 plants from that cross went crested and one is a monstrose crest. I even got a variegate crest so I was happy!
This Superkabuto crest I obtained 2years ago. Formerly it was on pereskiopsis but now I regrafted it on Myrtilo.
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Nice plant, Tokra, a VERY nice plant! :)
A nice evolution on the new rootstock.
yeah it looks great!
Great result!
Andrea.
Thank you, plant is now greater,
I tried to cut off some parts and graft them to another stock, but unfortunatelly with no success :'(
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