Yavia cryptocarpa offset

[fatich]

Cintia knizei did the same thing few months ago and now Yavia's turn.

[DaveW]

Are you sure it is not an offset?

Mine flowered from the centre of the crown, as the fruit here show.

[fatich]

Oops i used wrong word,sorry.
Thank you DaveW for the correction.

[Eric Williams]

Nice plant, mine went cristate, and has never flowered since, and I think I don't like cristate S. LoL Cheers. Have a pic somewhere if any one interested.

[DaveW]

You and me both Eric, I don't like cristate or monstrose plants either. If you started collecting pigs with six legs or dogs with two heads and no ears you would be thought of as abnormal yourself and yet cultivating what are similarly deformed plants is considered acceptable - strange world we live in.

Here was my Yavia in flower, having only one plant the fruits it set in the above post were sterile.

[Eric Williams]

What a beautiful clean plant Dave, I love it. Cheers

[DaveW]

R.I.P, one of those peculiar occasions where though the stock was still perfectly healthy after flowering the scion simply dried up on the stock. However I have another now I am attempting to root. I have had the same trouble of scions shrivelling on healthy stocks before with Mammillaria luethyi etc after growing quite satisfactorily for a couple of years. I often wonder if differential expansion or shrinking breaks the graft union eventually?

[kohinoor]

i recently got 20 seeds from a friend of mine.
Beside they have long viable time, i have very little knowledge about growing from seed.
Any advice will be helpful.

I saw them in june with sterile pure mineral mixture using bag-method.
well it's technically a plastic ice cream box not a bag.Very durable.