Cactus / agavoides

Tubercles of Ariocarpus agavoides are thin and long when you propagated it from seed and kept own-root.
The photo is a A. agavoides sown seeds in 2006.
Tubercles are quite thin. I have tried to maintain tips of tubercles without damaging.
Agavoides will be in flower in 4 years after sown seeds.

Cactus / lloydii

A degrafted Ariocarpus fissuratus v lloydii was in flower.
I bought seeds and sowed on 11th August 2005.
Several young seedlings were grafted on Hylocereus stocks.
Since fissuratus related species are hard to stop liquid if a part of body was cut, I degraft them with short vascular bundles of stocks.
The plant was repotted last spring. The short vascular bundles died and own roots were developed.

Cactus / scaphirostris

Ariocarpus scaphirostris is not easy to propagate and growing slowly.
I just have two plants.
I bought 25 seeds and sowed 31st October 2003.
I grafted several young seedlings and degrafted later.
The photo is one of two.
It has not been vigorous at all.

Cactus / cauliflower

The photo is a grafted Ariocarpus retusus v furfuraceus cv Suguri cauliflower.
It is not showing the character of cauliflower significantly but it is the base plant in my place.
It is the mother plant of all my cauliflower seedlings.

Cactus / elephantideus

This is a variation of Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus, elephantideus.
I bought seeds and sowed on 31st August 2006.
I grafted several young seedlings.
Var. elephantideus grows lager than standard one.
The flower color also is different, darker.

Cactus / kotschoubeyanus

A degrafted Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus, standard form was in flower.
I degrafted this one in 2008 with a short vascular bundle of Hylocereus.
I assume the plant relies on own roots currently.

Cactus / fissuratus

This is an other A. fissuratus, the mother plant of the fissuratus which was posted yesterday.
It is grafted on an Echinopsis stock. I grafted a pup years ago.
The stock has been old and turned to woody appearance but it has been still alive.