I like your methodology. There is something so charming about the whole process of propagating cactus from seed, especially the look of the tiny seedlings. Your results are quite successful. I do propagate from cuttings and offsets but as yet haven’t done much seed sowing. Nothing like creating one’s own hybrid! Maybe I’ll give it a more serious effort this winter when I have some time. ~ If your interested, I’d like to invite you to see my new garden which I created over this last year. I posted it in a video titled’ Exotic Cactus and Succulent Garden’.
Thank you 😊 It’s very rewarding growing these plants from seed, especially creating hybrids as you say. I will definitely check your channel and video out. Thank you for watching and commenting, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Wow.....wonderful video on how to harvest the seed pods, separate the minuet seeds 2 ways, dry them out and then sowing them right till they showed their miniature little selves. Very well done, Daz. I enjoyed watching you doing all the hard work while I watched and learned.
Thank you so much Molly 😊 Very happy the pollination was successful on both of these, and a nice amount of seeds from both plants. Looking forward to seeing what forms some of these have when they mature. Thank you for watching and commenting as always Molly, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
So many seedlings! Great germination rate on those. I love growing seeds but I’m beginning to dread the cleaning up of the seeds part. 😉 I admire your patience. I like the substrate that you used to germinate them, too. 👍🏼
Thank you so much Ana 😊 Yeah the cleaning process can be a chore haha, but cleaning with water is much better and less messy. I much prefer the seeds that come out dry, though. Thank you for watching and commenting as always Ana, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful Wednesday 🌵☀️🌸🌼🌺🏜
There's something so satisfying about collecting seed and growing it with cactus! It's so fun and I can't wait to do the same with my currently blooming schlumbergera that I have pollinated.
It’s very satisfying, just be aware that with Schlumbergera the seed pods take a looooong time to develop, I have a seed pod on one of mine that’s been on the plant for almost a year and it’s still not ready to harvest. Thank you for watching and commenting, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
It's so exciting or I should say 'SOW' exciting haha to harvest and sow seeds from our own plants, and WOW what a FANTASTIC seed harvest and seedling germination from them both, the seedlings are absolutely CUTIE haha, their little spines are adorable, and the seed pots you have used are BRILL, I have my Gymno chubutense seed pod almost ready for the harvesting, thanks so much for sharing this wonderful video from harvest to sowing to seedlings with us Daz, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Haha thank you so much Lyn, sow-exciting indeed 😂 Always nice pollinating and getting seeds from our own plants, after not being successful with any pollination last year, this year has been very good and I managed to pollinate the ones I really wanted to get seeds from. I’ll be sending you and Hans some of these Agua Dulce seeds in the spring too 😊 That’s great your G. chubutense is almost ready, that’s a Gymno I don’t have yet. Thank you so much again Lyn for watching and commenting and all yours and Hans’ support, from Edith & myself to you both, have a wonderful Wednesday ❤️🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Thank you my friend, looking forward to these maturing, hopefully there will be a lot with nice forms and markings 😊 Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful weekend 👍🏻🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
Wow that’s a very nice complete video from harvesting seeds, soil mix to tiny cutie baby gymnos 🤩😍 all the hard work cleaning the seeds are so worth it seeing that you got loads of your very own hybrid. Looking forward seeing them big and flowering.
Thank you so much Katherine 😊 So happy I managed to successfully pollinate these two earlier in the year. Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌼🌺🌸🏜
Thank you Magda 😊 very happy with the germination rate on these, looking forward to seeing these mature. Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful Wednesday 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Cheers mate, cleaning them with water is much better, I’ll be doing that with these messy pulpy ones from now on. Cheers for watching and commenting mate 👍🏻🌵☀️🏜
Beautiful Cactus Plants with amazing coloured fruit and the seed colour was surprising, the seedlings look great already... I have a few Gymnocalycium mihanovichii Seedlings that are still so small, even after over a year since I sowed the seed! Great video Daz...😉 once you start washing seeds in water with the sieve technique it becomes the only way from then on 😆 its so much more satisfying, I think, and its nice to know your seed is clean before sowing; agree with Edith 👌👍🌵🤗
Thank you so much Claire 😊 I agree, I’ll definitely wash them from now on. Yeah some Gymnos are quite slow growing, I have a couple of other seedlings that will be coming up to 2 years old in February, and one of them is still the size of a match head lol. Thank you for watching and commenting as always Claire, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 😊🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Wow Daz! The fruit on the first one was HUGE!!! Taller than the plant!!! Looks like they both put out a lot of seed! The Water method seemed to work very well at separating the seed from pulp. I'll have to try that sometime. Looks like they came up well. Yeah it seems like I try my best to spread the seed evenly but some seem to always grow up together in a group, hahaha!! Nice little seedlings!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks , to the U.K. & Singapore, hope Edith and yourself have a wonderful day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌷🌴🌻🌿🌹🌳
Thank you so much Clyde 😊 Yeah that was a pretty big seed pod for a small plant haha, lovely amount of seeds from it too. I’m definitely going to wash the seeds from now on, especially the pulpy ones, makes it less likely for mould or fungus issues to happen as well when sowing them. I’ll be sending you some of these seeds from these two plants in the spring time as well 👍🏻 Thank you for watching and commenting as always my friend, from Edith & myself to you and Deb, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Well done, Sweetheart!❤️ That required a lot of patience. 😂 This is a very good material for reference in the future. I love Gymno Agua Dulces and I only noticed after this video how tiny their seeds are and their slow growth. No wonder their price doesn’t really go down that much especially the variegated ones. I prefer the method you used with water. You get to clean the seeds with that method too. Can’t wait to see the seedlings grow more to see their awesome spines. Thank you for this video, Sweetheart. ❤️🤗🥰♾😘❤️
Thank you so much my love ❤️ Yeah I’m going to clean all seeds with water in the future. I love the Agua Dulces too, hopefully the pure single spine one you got for me blooms in a year or two 🥰 Can’t wait for these to mature too and seeing the forms some of them will have. Thank you again babe for all your love, support and encouragement ❤️🥰🤗😘♾❤️
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing with so many details. It's very useful for the ones that are still learning like I do. I was doubting about the colour of the seeds of my first Gymno seedpod but now I know that it's okay. You're an inspiration. Thank you! Have a nice week and stay safe😘☮️🌵💗!
Thank you so much Vanesa 😊 Good luck with your Gymno seeds too. Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, be safe and well and have a wonderful week 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Haha thank you so much, Ziggy. Sometimes the seed pods can look just as lovely as the flowers. I got a Gymno spegazzinii with a seed pod on it now which is like a turquoise colour. Thank you for watching and commenting, have a wonderful day from Edith & myself 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Tricky business starting life, and then keeping it going. But,it looks like a very successful start,I hope you both got a good haul That is still serving, bill
Very cool! Do you not water them at all then after the placing the lid on? Just what you’ve already done and that’s it until you climatize them?? Great info and fantastic results!! 🌵❤️
Thank you Natty 😊 No once the lid is on they’ll be fine in there for a good 6 months at least, there will be enough moisture and high humidity to sustain them for that long. I’ll do a separate video on unsealing them and acclimatising them in the spring as I have a lot to do that with. Thank you for watching and commenting Natty, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Yes spring and summer is always best for sowing cactus seeds, unless you have grow lights and can keep them warm with a heated propagator over the winter time. I use John Innes no.2 but you can use 1 or 3 or any type of good quality compost really. Thank you for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
It’s a good idea not to sow too many in each pot, if you get a high germination rate you can end up with overcrowding issues and the seedlings will have to be thinned out earlier than is ideal. For a 9cm pot I’d personally sow between about 20 to 30 seeds for Gymnos. Larger seeds like Astrophytum maybe about 15 per pot. Thanks for watching and commenting and good luck with your seed growing 😊🌵☀️🌺🌼🏜
@@batmanlovesyou 7 to 14 days on average, others will germinate sooner and others can take a bit longer. I’ve had seeds germinate within 3 days before 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
@@Cactimania great. i have seen some small green dots after 7 days. wondering if i need to moist the medium every month? wish to see more videos from you. thanks !
@@batmanlovesyou if you don’t have the seedlings sealed in bags or containers then yes, you’ll need to keep them moist at all times for at least the first 3 months. Cacti seedlings can die quickly if they dry out too much 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Haha yeah and a nice amount of seeds from these. Wasn’t able to pollinate the LB hybrids this year though unfortunately. Thank you for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
I like your methodology. There is something so charming about the whole process of propagating cactus from seed, especially the look of the tiny seedlings. Your results are quite successful. I do propagate from cuttings and offsets but as yet haven’t done much seed sowing. Nothing like creating one’s own hybrid! Maybe I’ll give it a more serious effort this winter when I have some time. ~ If your interested, I’d like to invite you to see my new garden which I created over this last year. I posted it in a video titled’ Exotic Cactus and Succulent Garden’.
Thank you 😊 It’s very rewarding growing these plants from seed, especially creating hybrids as you say. I will definitely check your channel and video out. Thank you for watching and commenting, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
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Wow.....wonderful video on how to harvest the seed pods, separate the minuet seeds 2 ways, dry them out and then sowing them right till they showed their miniature little selves. Very well done, Daz. I enjoyed watching you doing all the hard work while I watched and learned.
Thank you so much Molly 😊 Very happy the pollination was successful on both of these, and a nice amount of seeds from both plants. Looking forward to seeing what forms some of these have when they mature. Thank you for watching and commenting as always Molly, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Hello bud another awesome video. Very informative Daz.
Thank you, Ken 🌵☀️🌺🌼🏜
So many seedlings! Great germination rate on those. I love growing seeds but I’m beginning to dread the cleaning up of the seeds part. 😉 I admire your patience. I like the substrate that you used to germinate them, too. 👍🏼
Thank you so much Ana 😊 Yeah the cleaning process can be a chore haha, but cleaning with water is much better and less messy. I much prefer the seeds that come out dry, though. Thank you for watching and commenting as always Ana, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful Wednesday 🌵☀️🌸🌼🌺🏜
There's something so satisfying about collecting seed and growing it with cactus! It's so fun and I can't wait to do the same with my currently blooming schlumbergera that I have pollinated.
It’s very satisfying, just be aware that with Schlumbergera the seed pods take a looooong time to develop, I have a seed pod on one of mine that’s been on the plant for almost a year and it’s still not ready to harvest. Thank you for watching and commenting, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
@@Cactimania oh wow that is a long time
It's so exciting or I should say 'SOW' exciting haha to harvest and sow seeds from our own plants, and WOW what a FANTASTIC seed harvest and seedling germination from them both, the seedlings are absolutely CUTIE haha, their little spines are adorable, and the seed pots you have used are BRILL, I have my Gymno chubutense seed pod almost ready for the harvesting, thanks so much for sharing this wonderful video from harvest to sowing to seedlings with us Daz, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Haha thank you so much Lyn, sow-exciting indeed 😂 Always nice pollinating and getting seeds from our own plants, after not being successful with any pollination last year, this year has been very good and I managed to pollinate the ones I really wanted to get seeds from. I’ll be sending you and Hans some of these Agua Dulce seeds in the spring too 😊 That’s great your G. chubutense is almost ready, that’s a Gymno I don’t have yet. Thank you so much again Lyn for watching and commenting and all yours and Hans’ support, from Edith & myself to you both, have a wonderful Wednesday ❤️🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
@@Cactimania Thats fantastic news Daz :-D and we will be keeping the Gymno chubutnese seeds for you too as well as many others :-D XXXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon loved the pun, Lyn! 😂❤️
@@edithcoliagrandis hahaha :-D I couldn't resist it LOL! XXXXX :-D
@@desertplantsofavalon ❤️🤗😘❤️
Omg! Those fruits are big and look healthy! 😍😍😍. Thanks for sharing these methods Daz 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you my friend, looking forward to these maturing, hopefully there will be a lot with nice forms and markings 😊 Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful weekend 👍🏻🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
Wow that’s a very nice complete video from harvesting seeds, soil mix to tiny cutie baby gymnos 🤩😍 all the hard work cleaning the seeds are so worth it seeing that you got loads of your very own hybrid. Looking forward seeing them big and flowering.
Thank you so much Katherine 😊 So happy I managed to successfully pollinate these two earlier in the year. Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌼🌺🌸🏜
Great success with germination, well done. Thanks for sharing your techniques.
Thank you Magda 😊 very happy with the germination rate on these, looking forward to seeing these mature. Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful Wednesday 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Awsome video mate...like how you showed 2 different ways of getting the seeds out the pods 👍🏻👍🏻
Cheers mate, cleaning them with water is much better, I’ll be doing that with these messy pulpy ones from now on. Cheers for watching and commenting mate 👍🏻🌵☀️🏜
Beautiful Cactus Plants with amazing coloured fruit and the seed colour was surprising, the seedlings look great already... I have a few Gymnocalycium mihanovichii Seedlings that are still so small, even after over a year since I sowed the seed! Great video Daz...😉 once you start washing seeds in water with the sieve technique it becomes the only way from then on 😆 its so much more satisfying, I think, and its nice to know your seed is clean before sowing; agree with Edith 👌👍🌵🤗
Thank you so much Claire 😊 I agree, I’ll definitely wash them from now on. Yeah some Gymnos are quite slow growing, I have a couple of other seedlings that will be coming up to 2 years old in February, and one of them is still the size of a match head lol. Thank you for watching and commenting as always Claire, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 😊🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Wow Daz! The fruit on the first one was HUGE!!! Taller than the plant!!! Looks like they both put out a lot of seed! The Water method seemed to work very well at separating the seed from pulp. I'll have to try that sometime. Looks like they came up well. Yeah it seems like I try my best to spread the seed evenly but some seem to always grow up together in a group, hahaha!! Nice little seedlings!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks , to the U.K. & Singapore, hope Edith and yourself have a wonderful day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌷🌴🌻🌿🌹🌳
Thank you so much Clyde 😊 Yeah that was a pretty big seed pod for a small plant haha, lovely amount of seeds from it too. I’m definitely going to wash the seeds from now on, especially the pulpy ones, makes it less likely for mould or fungus issues to happen as well when sowing them. I’ll be sending you some of these seeds from these two plants in the spring time as well 👍🏻 Thank you for watching and commenting as always my friend, from Edith & myself to you and Deb, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
@@Cactimania AWESOME!
Well done, Sweetheart!❤️ That required a lot of patience. 😂 This is a very good material for reference in the future. I love Gymno Agua Dulces and I only noticed after this video how tiny their seeds are and their slow growth. No wonder their price doesn’t really go down that much especially the variegated ones. I prefer the method you used with water. You get to clean the seeds with that method too. Can’t wait to see the seedlings grow more to see their awesome spines. Thank you for this video, Sweetheart. ❤️🤗🥰♾😘❤️
Thank you so much my love ❤️ Yeah I’m going to clean all seeds with water in the future. I love the Agua Dulces too, hopefully the pure single spine one you got for me blooms in a year or two 🥰 Can’t wait for these to mature too and seeing the forms some of them will have. Thank you again babe for all your love, support and encouragement ❤️🥰🤗😘♾❤️
@@Cactimania Always, My Love. ♾❤️♾
Nice job Daz 😊🌵🌸🙏
Thank you, Norman 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting. From Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌼🌺🌸🏜
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing with so many details. It's very useful for the ones that are still learning like I do. I was doubting about the colour of the seeds of my first Gymno seedpod but now I know that it's okay. You're an inspiration. Thank you! Have a nice week and stay safe😘☮️🌵💗!
Thank you so much Vanesa 😊 Good luck with your Gymno seeds too. Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, be safe and well and have a wonderful week 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Blimey, I've never had a seed pod like that on my Gymnos, looks like I'm gonna need a bigger bat 😁😁
Haha thank you so much, Ziggy. Sometimes the seed pods can look just as lovely as the flowers. I got a Gymno spegazzinii with a seed pod on it now which is like a turquoise colour. Thank you for watching and commenting, have a wonderful day from Edith & myself 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Tricky business starting life, and then keeping it going.
But,it looks like a very successful start,I hope you both got a good haul
That is still serving, bill
Thank you 😊 Yes these are doing very well and some are already a decent size. Thank you for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
Very cool! Do you not water them at all then after the placing the lid on? Just what you’ve already done and that’s it until you climatize them?? Great info and fantastic results!! 🌵❤️
Thank you Natty 😊 No once the lid is on they’ll be fine in there for a good 6 months at least, there will be enough moisture and high humidity to sustain them for that long. I’ll do a separate video on unsealing them and acclimatising them in the spring as I have a lot to do that with. Thank you for watching and commenting Natty, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
I have bought various cactus seed for the first time this year. I’m guessing I should wait until spring to sow? Which john Ines do you use?
Yes spring and summer is always best for sowing cactus seeds, unless you have grow lights and can keep them warm with a heated propagator over the winter time. I use John Innes no.2 but you can use 1 or 3 or any type of good quality compost really. Thank you for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Hi. Please add subtitles in spanish .thants you .
I’ll try 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
how many seeds did you use? i have a 9cm diameter pot, how many seeds should i use to optimize the germination?
It’s a good idea not to sow too many in each pot, if you get a high germination rate you can end up with overcrowding issues and the seedlings will have to be thinned out earlier than is ideal. For a 9cm pot I’d personally sow between about 20 to 30 seeds for Gymnos. Larger seeds like Astrophytum maybe about 15 per pot. Thanks for watching and commenting and good luck with your seed growing 😊🌵☀️🌺🌼🏜
@@Cactimania how soon can we see the baby cactus? 1 month at least?
@@batmanlovesyou 7 to 14 days on average, others will germinate sooner and others can take a bit longer. I’ve had seeds germinate within 3 days before 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
@@Cactimania great. i have seen some small green dots after 7 days. wondering if i need to moist the medium every month? wish to see more videos from you. thanks !
@@batmanlovesyou if you don’t have the seedlings sealed in bags or containers then yes, you’ll need to keep them moist at all times for at least the first 3 months. Cacti seedlings can die quickly if they dry out too much 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Bruh that is one thic seed pod
Haha yeah and a nice amount of seeds from these. Wasn’t able to pollinate the LB hybrids this year though unfortunately. Thank you for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜