3 January 2009
Last year’s seedlings – part 3
Posted by Stuart under: Cacti .
It’s been a heavy day’s blogging here at Blossfeldiana Towers. The bitterly cold weather may just have something to do with it. But this will be the last post for today.
I don’t normally grow columnar cacti, but received seeds of Corryocactus melanotrichus and Trichocereus pseudocandicans from the BCSS Forum seed pool when seed dating back to 2005 was being chucked out to make room for newer material.
The largest of the Corryocactus melanotrichus seedlings (above) grew like the proverbial clappers and takes the prize for tallest year-old seedling of the 2008 season.
Meanwhile, the tray of Trichocereus pseudocandicans to the left just goes to show what happens if you sow loads of seed thinking that none of it is going to come up: all of it does.
2 Comments so far...
Julie Says:
4 January 2009 at 4:53 am.
Oh gosh…what will you do with all of that Trichocereus pseudocandicans ?
Stuart Says:
4 January 2009 at 4:17 pm.
I’ll probably use some as grafting stocks to practise my grafting skills, and sell the rest to help raise funds for my local branch of the BCSS. That’s a 10″ tray, so they’re doing alright for their first year.