Which seeds did you order this year?

[edds]

Homalocheohala texensis variegata

Also am I right that you can't buy variegated seeds?

You can buy seeds from variegated plants but it doesn't mean the seedlings will be variegated. Most will just be green in my experience but there are some seed strains that do more reliably (a variegated foxglove, Cornish mallow are non-succulent ones I'm aware of).

[MatDz]

Homalocheohala texensis variegata

Also am I right that you can't buy variegated seeds?

One certainly can, but I wouldn't hold my breath for the variegation!

[NaZzAtAzEr]

Yeah that's what I meant. So it is basically misleading advertising it as such?

[edds]

Yeah that's what I meant. So it is basically misleading advertising it as such?

Not really if that's the plant the seeds have come from. If they're saying the seedlings will all come up variegated then then that would definitely be misleading if it wasn't a seed strain that did come variegated from seed.

[el48tel]

May be misleading advertising, but who is going to chase the supplier in another country where the advertising standards and enforcement may be different ..... and who will foot the legals bill?

[Tina]

I sowed some seeds from a variegated astrophytum and didn't get one but you see other people seem to get some, maybe its a more dominant gene in some plants/lines

[oriky]

i think it's mostly depend on the variegation genetic source,
from my experience, it's really depend - in my Obergonia, from variegated plants i got almost 50% seedling variegated, but on other plants it's not was the situation (0%)

[AnTTun]

Don't forget the forum seed pool- you could try more frailea,
Frailea afilarensis
Frailea aureispina
Frailea bueneckii
Frailea chrysacantha
Frailea grahliana
Frailea horstii
Frailea horstii
Frailea lepida
Frailea magnifica
Frailea magnifica
Frailea pseudograhliana
Frailea pygmae
Frailea schlosseri
Frailea tenuissima

Ah Tina, you tease, you... I needed all my will power to refrain myself...

[Tina]

Ha ha, why fight it for the price of a stamp lots of bargain plants- some euphorbia obesa cross, Lophophora, ariocarpus n lots of other cactus seed, shop till you drop

[AnTTun]

Don't tempt me, I'm trying to leave the dark side
After all, some English Lady filled my growing area with the 'consequences of her seed' so I have to keep repeating to myself: follow the light, leave SA side and go to CA...