Copiapoa #2

This is a grafted Copiapoa cinerea ssp. columna-alba and it's grafted on a Harrisia. Lets get back to the grafted part later on!

I was looking for seeds from Copiapoa cinerea all over the net, but the price was to high (including shipping and payment), so I bought plants from SuccSeed when he had some. But when the seed-list came up late in 2010 SuccSeed had the two species I was looking for. And what a coincidence; it was with the field number FK 39 and FK 41. I sowed them early in january 2011 and picked out som of the seedlings for grafting. The germination rate was so high that the space in the pot began to be very small and very fast.

However, I grafted some seedlings when they were a month old. To be more precise; I sowed the seeds 2011-01-05 and grafted some 2011-02-10. The one in the picture is about 4 cm in diameter and it's only 10 month old!

And I still have a pot full of seedlings...