Hello!
We'd like to show you some of our myrio kikko, the forms of this cultivar are really various:

myrio kikko koh-yo yellow


myrio kikko nudum (and bit 'hakuun')


myrio onzuka kikko ball


coahuilense kikko


carlo & daniele

TFS
Im in love with the cultivar's you Italians are so lucky to have
Would you be able to maybe post a photo of your Digitostigma i can see in the background?

amazing!
i really love the first pic, its like a rainbow in the background with all those variegated astros etc.
yes i would like to see the grafted digitostigma as well, its got tubercles going everywhere.

Thanks guys!
Here there is a photo of the plant flowering at the end of september.

Beautiful!!
ps. you have an amazing collection in the background of your pics!! nice work.

Thanks lewis! That part of the greenhouse is only with grafted cacti.

Omg, your collection is even more amazeing! The digi is awsome, id probly kill just for a tubericle off it.

Carlo & Daniele, do you have any experience grafting tubercles of Digitostigma?

That digi is unreal what a weird and wonderful plant

@ lewis: we do not have a big experience on grafting tubercles (we are a bit lazy and made only few attempts...). This type of grafting was made after the discover of this new plant, in order to develop fast this new plant. But with this method you can obtain clones of the same plant. We prefered to buy some grafted plants and obtain seeds from them, since own roots plants are different clones and much fascinating that grafted plants. The best stock for this plant seems to be ferocactus glaucescens. The plant in the picture is grafted on echinopsis.

@ MichaelCactus and Vicki: thanks!

Some another myrio kikko forms:

kikko nudum grafted on pereskiopsis:



a form of onzuka kikko, always on pereskiopsis; it's still quite small but it's growing with quite regular ribs now



coahuilense kikko with 4 ribs



carlo & daniele

I love them all. Makes me want to move to Italy!

Carlo & Daniele, is it more common amongst collectors in Italy to sell plant already grafted. Also, are there many collectors in Italy that you know of? Like a society or something like that.

Hello KanJe, grafted cacti are common amon astro cultivar, since grafting is the only way to develop fastly these uncommn plants. Other plants are usually on own roots. About societies, on the web there are some forums, for example:

http://www.cactus-co.com/forum/index.php

http://www.panarottocactus.net/phpBB2/index.php

carlo & daniele

The astro photos on the second forum are totally amazing.