coahuilense kikko from seed

[Carlo & Daniele]

[Mestre]

Very interesting

My kiko coahuliense are unfertile ,only masculine part

Your have both parts?

I cross normal couliense and coahuliense kiko ,and I have a lot seeds ,but they too small to see anything   

[Carlo & Daniele]

hola miguel,
not all the plants have pistil and pollen, but  some of them yes!

[Carlo & Daniele]

[Karlet]

Wow! It looks like a firework!

[Carlo & Daniele]

Wow! It looks like a firework!

hehe it's true! We can call it cv. Redentore since we are next to it!

[fanecchissimo]

good!

[Carlo & Daniele]

a small kikko grafted on selenicereus:

[Carlo & Daniele]

young promises:

[Carlo & Daniele]

update:

[robinast]

Promising youngsters indeed! Your palnts are more white and nicer than mine ones. From your own seeds if I understood aright, yes?
This is what I've got from the seeds of A. coahuilense 'tricostatum', bought from Malta. Not a single plant with three ribs - most are kikkos, a couple of 4-ribbed plants and a couple of five-ribbed ones...





Grafted onto the Selenicereus hybr. stock at the end of September, the plants are 2...3 cm in diameter now.

[Carlo & Daniele]

yours are super nice too! 3 ribs coah are more difficult to obtain
will try next year. I think the fact they are more white depens on how much light they get...if next year you put in full sun they should become more white.

[robinast]

3 ribs coah are more difficult to obtain

According to my experience - yes! This time, I got from 20 seeds 12 seedlings - and 7 of them are Kikkos!  From the remaing 5 two were initially 5-ribbed and three four-ribbed. Now, a couple of plants are loosing by one rib, so I may get a three-ribbed A. coahuilense finally indeed. Let's see...
EDIT: To make things clearer - the seeds were labeled as 'Astrophytum coahuilense v. tricostatum'

[andrea.a]

Really super plants, please, keep us updated you both!!!

[Simon]

They are all very nice everyone. Robin yours look very good, thin and pointy, disappointing not to get the trico you were after but very good plants any way. From seed you can have good luck and bad.... I had some good luck! Very happy to see this orange one, and it grows well too!

[Carlo & Daniele]

both look great simon and the orange one has a good growth rate! also the cut surface is very good

[Simon]

Thanks
RE;... also the cut surface is very good....because no black?
Graft on stocks that have not been watered for a couple of weeks or do early in the growing season .

[Carlo & Daniele]

Yes we solved that problem with harrisia, thanks!
Btw it seems only coahuilense scions do that on selenicereus winter grafts (under lamps).

[danskibsted]

Great plants from all of you! Keep us updated.
Dan

[robinast]

Simon, your orange beauty makes me jealous indeed!