trigonus
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|  Subject: Re: Ariocarpus germinating  Sun May 18, 2008 8:07 pm | |
| Is this thread about propagating Ariocarpus sp. seeds, or about CITES?
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San Rainbow
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Location : south of the border
| | Subject: Re: Ariocarpus germinating Sun May 18, 2008 8:44 pm | |
| | calycium wrote: | Ariocarpus seed - what else.
They are allowed into the country.
My seed collected has been collected from those very rare and hard to get plants that are growing in mexico and have been hand collected to try and populate them worldwide and place them in the hands of small collectors. |
please let us know how you get on, I would be interested in looking into this myself in the near future. |
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San Rainbow
Joined : 21 Apr 2008
Posts : 181
Location : south of the border
| | Subject: Re: Ariocarpus germinating Wed May 21, 2008 6:57 am | |
| if germinated in spring when would hardening off take place?
once they are hardened when would you recommend potting in a more permanent pot and soil mix?
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watertrade
Joined : 16 May 2008
Posts : 128
Location : Canberra
| | Subject: Re: Ariocarpus germinating Wed May 21, 2008 11:10 am | |
| | calycium wrote: | Ariocarpus seed - what else.
They are allowed into the country.
My seed collected has been collected from those very rare and hard to get plants that are growing in mexico and have been hand collected to try and populate them worldwide and place them in the hands of small collectors. |
I have my fingers crossed for you calycium.  |
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trigonus
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| | Subject: Re: Ariocarpus germinating Wed May 21, 2008 11:36 am | |
| | Quote: | | if germinated in spring when would hardening off take place? |
The following spring or the one after is preferrable. A strange paradox with Arios is they much prefer alot of humidity until they are large enough to be hardened off. Once hardened off high humidity should be avoided.
| Quote: | | once they are hardened when would you recommend potting in a more permanent pot and soil mix? |
Yes, but I wouldn't suggest regular cactus potting mix, more than likely you will need to create your own mix to grow your Arios in. Needs to be very free draining and porous with high mineral content and little organic matter, climate dependant of course, though for southerners I recommed a very free draining mix with little to no organic matter.
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San Rainbow
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| | Subject: Re: Ariocarpus germinating Wed May 21, 2008 5:22 pm | |
| cheers  |
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