coahuilense cv. kitsukou (kikko)

[Carlo & Daniele]

these are some of our plants:

[Nata Ellis]

I have a lot of such plants but can't get seeds from them they produce only stamens and even if I pollinate another Astro plants and finally get seeds, nothing germinate

Regards
Nata Ellis

[gattopardo]

beautiful plants Daniel... also the plants of been Nata they are very beautiful..!!

[Carlo & Daniele]

thank you gattopardo!
Your plants are really nice Nata, where are you from?

Best wishes
carlo & daniele

[Nata Ellis]

from Ukraine , Odessa city near Black sea... we have rather good climate for cactus growing ... except winter time

Regards,
Nata

[Carlo & Daniele]

Oh nice place! And you have very nice plants!
coah kikko are not easy plants, but some of them have pistil and they produce seeds like this one:

[xiaohuage]

i want the seeds 

[Arioandi]

A perfect plant, congratulations.

[Carlo & Daniele]

thank you Andi!
now it looks like this:

[xiaohuage]

these are some of our plants:

beautifull i like these

[Astrofreak]

Impressive plants ! C & D I even didn´t know, that they are possible to make seeds.

[Carlo & Daniele]

thanks a lot!
well it's not so common but sometimes it happens

[Astrofreak]

The seedlings, are the normal cohau. seedlings or real Kikkos?

Greetings

[Carlo & Daniele]

it depends on what you use as father...we tried with coahuilense or asterias. results seems interesting even if still small.
this year we have seeds from another coah kikko, we will sow them soon to see the new results.

[Carlo & Daniele]

4 ribs form? we hope so

[danskibsted]

Amazing!

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[Carlo & Daniele]

Nice form Tomas!

[robinast]

Astrophytum coahuilense 'Kikko' (or 'Konpeito' - Frank, if you happen to see this, please comment!) is one of my favourites:

Here's one of mine's (the others can bee seen online at  http://www.e-aiand.com/kollektsioon/thumbnails.php?album=8:


Several years ago, I ordered A. coahuilense 'tricostatum' from CactusHeaven. 8 out of ten seeds germinated and none of them has three ribs: 3 were 'Kikko's and 5 - ordinary coahuilense. This year, I also ordered the same seeds again and again. 8 out of 10 seeds germinated. A couple of days ago, I grafted them all onto Selenicereus rootstock. Let's see what will come out this time.

[AstrophytumCultivars.com]

A.coahuilense KIKKO