Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) 20 Samen

El proceso
Recibí las semillas perfectamente, aunque me sorprendieron por su pequeño tamaño. Preparé un semillero, tierra de cactus y una temperatura constante de 20-25°C... Al cabo de unas tres semanas habían salido 9 cactus de 20 semillas. Después de tres meses los nueve cactus aún viven y aguantan al sol de noviembre en el sur de España. En cinco años os cuento más.

Bonne germination dans l’ensemble
Pour l’instant un taux de 40% de germination et meme s’il va falloir attendre de longues annees pour pouvoir en profiter!

Healthy seedlings
My baby Lophophora williamsii are looking great. Although I only had 5/20 of them actually germinate I think this was due to a mistake of my own. These seeds needs to sense a big difference between day and night temperature to kick-start their germination but I planted them in the midst of heatwave during which the temperature did not drop much at night.

Highly recommended
First time we have ever planted cactus seeds 4 weeks in and we are loving it, I wasn't expecting much from this but we are surprised how many look healthy!!!! Thank you so much guys, brilliant all round service, sending you all blessings

Non ne è uscito nemmeno uno
Ho piantato una ventina di semi seguendo alla lettera tutte le istruzioni in maniera scrupolosa, documentandomi anche su altri siti specializzati nella germinazione di cactus. Sono passati ormai due mesi ma non è spuntato assolutamente nulla.

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très bien merci

Peyote all around!
My first self grown peyotes had a really good germination quote! 15/20 came out, so that’s really good!

Multiple purchases
From my first 20 seed, I had a 60% germination rate. One later bit the dust, due to the way the seedling germinated onto a piece of perlite. So I changed up my game a bit, got sharp sand from garden Center. Washed it many times, and filtered and graded it. Perlite, in my experience is bloody annoying. When misting it blows around like tumble weed, so you end up misting from such a distance! So I put 50% perlite and sieved soil in my tub. Water it with rain water or bottled water. I now use bottled water entirely because there’s no need to sterilise whereas rain water can develop algae in your tubs, which will kill them off. And boiling rain water is such a waste of life... Anyway! Now your mix is burning your hand, leave to cool for a couple minutes. Then get some sand, with very small gravel chipping from the sharp sand. mix again with sieved soil. Cover all the perlite in about half a cm of this mix. Spray it down! If you don’t spray it down now, your seed will not sit how you want them to. Don’t soak the shit out of it, just mist. Then pop your seed on, and ever so lightly dust with dry washed sterilised sand, like putting a fine layer of icing sugar on a cake. This is to retain moisture around the seed. Do not bury! This method has made for much healthier looking loph’s, and seemingly improved many factors of the grow. Like having a seedling stick to a piece of perlite and it gradually tipping and having a shitty time. I also use dry sand to feather in tipping plants as this covers the root. Again don’t bury your plants!

thumbs up
Cacti growth guide at zamnesia is really good. Now I have 60 cacti growing in my greenhouse. I hope to plant them into one big pot in a spiral formation when they are bigger to transplant. I recommend to get more seed than you need because cacti seeds are tricky to bloom at first.

awesome!
I cant wait for the cacti to start growing! ...but they do take their time