Pollinating Cactus Flowers & Harvesting Seeds | Astrophytum & Gymnocalycium
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2020
- In this video I'll be showing you a few techniques for pollinating cactus flowers. We'll be pollinating some Astrophytums & Gymnocalyciums and harvesting the seeds from some of the ones that developed seed pods. Hope you enjoy :)
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WOW what a FANTASTIC video Daz :-D and fantastic info and fab tips on how to pollinate Astro and Gymno flowers, the BEST video on You Tube on how to do this from the pollination to the seed pods and to the harvesting, and we love how nice and black and shiny the Astro seeds are, we are so happy you have so many wonderful seeds, EXCELLENT filming too, we really enjoyed watching this video so much, thanks so much for sharing 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 terrific Thursday today XXXX
Thank you so much Lyn & Hans, that truly means so much to me and Edith 😊 I shall be saving you both some of these Astro and Gymno seeds too 😉 It’s so rewarding when pollination is successful, good thing it was too as I wouldn’t have been able to make this video haha. So happy I finally managed to pollinate the asterias, both of them just didn’t cooperate last year and kept blooming at different times. Thank you so much again Lyn, from Edith & myself to you and Hans, have a wonderful Thursday ❤️😊🌵☀️🌸🌺🌺🏜
@@Cactimania Thats FANTASTIC Daz :-D thank you so much, and it really is so rewarding when the pollination's are successful, it can be very hit and miss if they get pollinated or not, but its so much fun to play the Bee haha XXXX
A new subscribers and super excited about all this content. New to the world of cacti. I had two Mammillaria vetula sups. gracilis that were blooming and I used a q-tip to cross pollinate to see what happened. I got a nice see pod and went searching on the internet to figure out how to harvest seeds. I came across your videos and loved the intro (nice graphics), editing, brevity but detail, and practical approach. Looks like you are more than just a collector, I hope the best for you and your business. Denver, CO, USA.
Thank you, I appreciate that 😊 Hope you enjoy the rest of the content on the channel and that they’ll be helpful to you. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🏻🌵☀️🌼🏜
Yep my type of vid,
Free information, presented freely!,
I hope you had some success ,Bill.
Thank you once again 😊 Oh yes lots of success with these, excellent germination rate. Thanks for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
Dedication in cleaning and drying all those miniature seeds!
Haha thank you 😊 It can be a tedious and time consuming job cleaning them all up, much prefer the seeds that come out dry. Thank you for watching and commenting, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
Very much enjoy seed harvesting... Excellent video and seeing all the fruits developing was great! 👌😁👍
Thank you, Claire 😊 Glad you enjoyed, more seed harvesting to come too 😁 Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful evening 🌵🌼🌺☀️🌸🏜
Gorgeous cacti specimens! I just recently discovered your channel, looking forward to more videos. 🙌🌵☀️
Thank you so much, Christine 😊 Big fan of your channel too, thank you for stopping by and for watching and commenting. Have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
Hi Daz! Of course I enjoyed watching your video and OF COURSE you deserve a like 😍. First, let me say sorry I’m late but I’m always busy in the morning till about noon but today I had more stuff going on. But your video was the first I watched then I’ll proceed to Lyn’s. Haha...you looked like a scientist experimenting with pods and seeds. Very good video, Daz. Very clear demonstration on how to pollinate, harvest and store seeds. 👍👍👏👏
Thank you so much, Molly 😊 Haha it did feel like a science experiment, I guess in a way it was really with the different ways of pollination and the frequency of when you pollinate the flowers. Glad you enjoyed this one, Molly 😊 Thank you so much for watching and commenting as always and for your support, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
Absolutely amazing! I hope that next year I can pollinate some plants of my own. I had a couple gymno flowers and on my peanut cactus! Collecting seed and growing them is so rewarding and fulfilling when you grow new plants! I also have actually got some seed pods on 2 of my mammillarias that I am waiting to dry out
UK Plant Grower it’s very rewarding growing these plants from seed, especially when pollination is successful on your own plants. I wasn’t successful with pollinating any last year and after trying out these methods it was much more successful. Good luck with yours 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting and happy growing 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Awesome Daz. Keep up the great work
Thank you so much, Ken 😊👍🏻☀️🌵🌼🏜
Gran aporte muchos éxitos
El Coleccionista thank you 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌺🌼🏜
beautiful plants
Thank you 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting, happy growing 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Beautiful flowers. Well done with pollination-that'll be the next step in my cacti journey:) Good luck with sowing them at a later date.all the best to you and Edith.
Thank you, Magda 😊 Good luck with yours too, always nice getting seeds from our plants and I can’t wait to sow these and see them germinate. Thank you for watching and commenting as always. From Edith & myself, have a wonderful evening 🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
Thank you man. Informative!
Thank you 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌺🌼🏜
Good shih bro!
Thank you man!!
Love you vids.
Thank you 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌺🌸🌼🏜
That was an awesome video, Sweetheart! 😍 So much hard work there but totally worth it. I loved the info and tips you shared. I loved your mum’s make up brush you used. It worked magic. 😂 This video made me so happy - soooo many seeds from your own pollination. You are so going to enjoy seeing them germinate and grow. Thank you for the effort and time you put into this video. Thanks to Sebastian too for that very useful tip he shared. Well done, as always. ❤️🤗♾😘🥰❤️
Thank you so much my love 🥰 Haha that’s not her makeup brush anymore, it’s my pollination brush 😂 Can’t wait to get sowing these seeds, you know I already have with a few of them and they’ve germinated already 😁 Yep that tip from Seb was a good one, definitely made a difference I think. Thank you as always babe for all your love, support and encouragement ❤️🥰🤗😘♾❤️
Wow what a great video from flowers to seeds yay 🤩 The hardest part is to separate the seeds from the pulp. I always struggle transferring the dried seeds to the plastic pouch where I keep them because I’m picking them up one by one haha, I have to copy how you transfer it to a bowl then to the small cup. I like those little cups with lid, where did you get them? The variegated gymno is interesting 🤔 Tea strainer is very handy, must try. Thank you for sharing this amazing video 👍🏼 Have a great long weekend Daz and Edith 💚🌵
Thank you so much Katherine 😊 Yes that’s definitely the hardest part and most time consuming haha. I got the little containers with lids from Amazon a while back, I think they’re sold as dried herb storage pots, very handy. I shall have to get a tea strainer with a fine mesh 😊 Thank you so much for watching and commenting Katherine, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful weekend 🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
What a fantastic video, Daz!👌 Very informative, detailed and useful for people like me, very new at cacti cultivation. And today I have finally harvested my first seed pod🥳, so I'm going to follow your instructions, thank you very much!👌☺️ The variegated ragonesei is so cool 😍. Sending Edith and you a lot of love and good vibes from Spain😘💖🌵☮️
Thank you so much, Vanesa 😊 Glad this video has been useful to you and that’s great you’ve harvested your first seed pod, it’s so rewarding pollinating and growing them from seed when they’re from our own plants 😊 Good luck with yours, I hope lots germinate for you. Thank you for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful weekend 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🌼
Cheers, Vanesa on your first seed pod! Firsts are always so exciting. Hope you get a lot of seeds to germinate. Here’s to more seed pods and plant happiness. Muchas gracias! 🥰
@@edithcoliagrandis Thank you Edith!😘 I've been checking my seed pod every morning before breakfast like a child for many days 😆, until the day it changed colour from green to strawberry pink 😃 and then I started visiting my cactus every few hours😆.🌵☀️💚
@@Cactimania Thank you Daz☺️. I'm not sure if they are going to germinate because I pollinated from a clump of three that I'm not sure if they are independent plants or a three headed (I don't know if this has any sense...). Perhaps you could tell me if cross-pollinating between different heads of the same cactus is possible... may I have obtained a sterile seedpod? Anyway, thanks for the video again, it's very useful!👌🤗💚☀️🌵🌺
Some cacti are self fertile, and others you can pollinate from the same flowers on the same plant. I think most Gymnos you need another plant in flower for successful pollination though, and Astrophytums you do need two plants. What plant do you have with seed pods on? 🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
Quê legal fantástico a colheita destas sementinhas
Thank you for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌸🏜
I watched this at work during my lunch, while eating a fruit... not a cactus fruit. 😂 Great job pollinating them. I was wondering why some people cut off all the petals when pollinating. Good thing you mentioned that. I am looking forward to those seeds that you will get out of that variegated gymno. Cheers to more cactus fruits and seeds. 🌵☕️🙂 Oh... and my guess is 300 seeds. So what’s the answer? 😄🤣
Thank you so much, Ana 😊 I already harvested the seeds from the variegated Gymno and sowed them, most have germinated and from what I can tell so far, there are some variegated ones 😁 Will do a little video on that soon. Haha I’m not sure how many seeds were there myself 😂 I’m going to have count them now aren’t I? 🤣 Thank you for watching and commenting as always Ana, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day and upcoming weekend 🌵☀️🌸🌼🌺🏜☕️
Awesome Information 🙏
Thank you 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Great job Daz, gagawin ko din Yan sa mga gymnos ko 😊🌵🌼👍
Norman Quinez thank you again 😊 Maraming salamat po sa comment at sa panonood 👍🏻🌵☀️🌼🏜
@@Cactimania ur welcome my friend 😊🌵🌼🙏
Great video Daz!!! I like it when I learn from videos!!! Like I didn't know that a seed pod from the variagated part of the plant is more likely to produce a variagated seedling! How cool is that?!!! That seed pod from the astrophytum was enormous! I am also surprised it didn't produce more seed than the smaller one. Very curious!! I've had trichocereus seed pods split like the Gymnocalycium. I like when they do this because you know when they are ready! Thanks again for a great video Daz!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks to the UK & Singapore have a great day guys!!!!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
Thank you so much, Clyde 😊 Yeah I learnt about the variegation thing from one of Ana’s videos when she went to visit Rob Roy’s collection. I really did think there would have been more seeds in that big asterias seed pod, but I’m still more than happy with how many I got in total from both of them. It is nice when they split to let you know when they’re ready, but separating all that pulp can be a tedious task haha. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, from Edith & myself to you and Deb, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
Love this video! Nice tutoria Daz 😍. I am amazed but the flower at 2:40. How is that possible! Half Shinshowa + Half normal flower! 😮😮. They are just so amazing ❤❤❤
Thank you so much, Seb 😊 Not sure how that’s possible with the 50/50 flower. When it first bloomed last year I thought it was just a random fluke, but then the second and then the third flower it produced was the same. This year it bloomed 3 times again but all blooms looked like a normal asterias flower, very strange. Glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching and commenting as always, from Edith & myself, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Great info! My Asterias just bloomed but as nobody seems to want to bloom at the same time I’m having a hard time getting seeds. One of my Myriostigma’s gave me two huge seed pods about a month ago, but it was pollinated at the cactus farm I got it from. I already have some seedlings started. The place I got it from, B&B Cactus farm in Tucson, AZ let me gather seed pods from their cacti the other day. I got about 500 fresh Astyrophytum Capricorne seeds, some dwarf Silver Torch seeds, and several others. They will keep me busy. Thanks for the info. Peace, AM
Thank you 😊 Yeah that’s always a problem having two bloom at the exact same time, last year I got lucky with these as so far this year I haven’t been able to pollinate any cacti, just Haworthia at the moment. Good luck with your seed sowing, that’s fantastic you have so many capricorne seeds, I hope lots germinate for you. Thank you for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌺🌸🌼🏜
@@Cactimania Thank YOU for sharing your amazing, immaculate collection. For the first time in my life I have a house that can truly support my plant 🪴 habit! I truly am a crazy plant lady. 🍄🍁🍂🍃🌺🌸🌼🌻🌲🌵🎋🎍🌳
Fascinating! I guess it's taken you a while to separate those tiny gymno seeds from the pulp..
Thank you, Julia 😊 Yeah it can be a time consuming job cleaning all those Gymno seeds up haha, much prefer the seeds that come out dry. Thank you for watching and commenting, have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Pls read my comment. Can I pollinate a cactus flower two days after I cut of the flower. My problem is that I use the cutting flower method, where I cut the flower to expose the stigma. And I did that two days ago and I was very busy so I didn’t pollinate it for a another two days. Only today I am gonna pollinate it. Will the stigma still accept the pollen? Since the flower stigma has been exposed to the air and hasn’t been pollinated for two days! Will the stigma still be receptive?
It might still be receptive, I can’t say for sure as I’ve never done the cutting method before. The only thing you can do is try and hopefully it’ll set seed. Let me know if it works. Thank you for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌸🌼🌺🏜
Random question but what label maker have you got Daz? I might have to invest in one as my handwritten labels completely fade over time rendering them useless! Cheers
It’s a Brother PT-H107B with black on white laminated tape. There’s lots of other models but this one is pretty basic. Thanks for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
I always was fascinated by cactus fruits.. so a question: does the red squishy fruit you took from the first cactus, the one that was split open, is the fruit itself actually edible? because it looks like dragon fruit witch is also a cactus fruit.
As far as I’m aware and from what I’ve seen and read, yes all cactus fruit is edible. I have tasted some in the past but some of them had very strange tastes. A Mammillaria fruit I tried tasted like perfume! Thanks for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
@@Cactimania You're wlesome. Thank you for the fast reply. Another question then. Does all cacti produce fruits or does some just grow a dry seed pod without a fleshy fruit around the seed, like ofr example a poppy? My grandmother has a huge barrel cactus, I call it like that because it grows in segments that look like a octagonal barrels, and it regularly creates huge purple flowers. I wonder if they would produce fruit if pollinated? I never tried it.
@@mr.dahliaking.202 Yes I’m pretty sure all cacti produce fruit. Some have to reach a certain age or size before they flower though. 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
Wow..my mommy.wanted to have these kind of cactis but she told me that these are pricey
Some cacti can be very expensive, but these ones aren’t. Thank you for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
Can you eat the ripe fruit? They look sweet and juicy!
You can yes, cacti fruit is edible. Although I tasted some Mammillaria fruit in the past and that tasted nasty lol. Thanks for watching and commenting 🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
405 seeds :-)
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Haha thank you for watching and commenting, I’ll let you know if you’re correct 😉☀️🌵🌺🌼🏜