look what i got:


own roots Digitostigma/Astrophytum caput-medusae.

Nice score. Lucky bugger!

Nice work Lewis. A great plant.

kinda fat tubercles eh?
its supposed to be easy to grow... as easy as a myriostigma (apparently so.. well it BETTER be, it didn't break the bank at all or anything i just like it). just 99% of the time seen grafted so to speed it up and as insurance because it is viewed as being some ultra rare new discovery of mythical proportions.
now to wait a while for flowers then i can get some hybridisation done. could also try a tubercle graft but for some reason i somehow don't like the propect of taking the knife to it. needless to say i could just get some local seed and graft the seedlings like everyone else.

Well done Lewis - got to be happy with one that size. The rest of us will have to wait for our seed to grow.

Looks like the digito challenge is underway haha. Graftin or from seed, go for it people, get those babies crankin and make this lil plant a common one here in Au

my digi seeds are sown and Im keening waiting for them to pop through. have one lot of seeds through that were sown at same time so perhaps I'll not have long to wait. Lewis, did you get that one locally..?

Totally awesome Lewis, now fess up where did you get it,

*Jelaously smiles*

Mine is tiny but coming many. 30 grafted and 10 own root ------

sown seed on 24/08/08, grafted seedling 09/09/08

complete seedling grafting and cut stock to align the height

excellent! yours will be the size of mine or bigger in a few months!
when they reach flowering size you can try some making some interesting hybrids with your already extensive astrophytum collection

Its an amazing looking plant. Seeing as it was disciovered so recently I suppose there hasnt been enough time to see how it goes making hybrids. Should make some pretty interesting ones though.

I read somewhere that it grew 'very fast' .. dunno how true this is.

asterias X caput-medusae seeds do exist, I have seen them for sale. Expensive too! So people have been doing a bit of it, still lots of work to go with this one I think.