A patch of variegated A. asterias seedling (own-rooted plants, 3 yo). They grow slowly - but steadily...
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Beautiful! Do you think they have some senile genes?
Andrea.
I have tons of variegated asterias from seed going. I ordered some seeds from china and got nearly 100% germination and 75% highly variegated seedlings. Here's one of them. It seems to have spines which confuses me. It is the only one big enough to show some character so I am only posting a picture of this one. It was a pure white seedling. There were many green/white/yellow/pink seedlings. I tried grafting all the pure white ones first though. I also have a bunch of myriostigma kikko variegates, kikko koh-yo, and MY x OR variegates growing. Will be posting more pictures when they're larger.
Quote from: lophofan on Thursday, 09 October 2014 - 02:06:03
I have tons of variegated asterias from seed going. I ordered some seeds from china and got nearly 100% germination and 75% highly variegated seedlings. Here's one of them. It seems to have spines which confuses me. It is the only one big enough to show some character so I am only posting a picture of this one. It was a pure white seedling. There were many green/white/yellow/pink seedlings. I tried grafting all the pure white ones first though. I also have a bunch of myriostigma kikko variegates, kikko koh-yo, and MY x OR variegates growing. Will be posting more pictures when they're larger.
This is a good result, you can give me the address where you ordered these seeds?
Greetings Hans
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Nice plants.
Looks like they are from cactus china.
Seed grown Astrophytum asterias variegata. It has had some offspring that I will soon plant that I crossed with this guy.
Sorry for the two year late reply but yes they are from cactus china.