SEEDING PEYOTE CACTI
SOWING SEEDS OF PEYOTE CACTI
SOWING SEEDS OF PEYOTE CACTI
These sowing tips also apply to the other Lophophora species, unless otherwise stated.
1. Peyote Cactus seeds
Fresh germinating Peyote Cactus seeds are important !
Peyote seeds can be harvested from the pink seed berries of Peyote plants.
Each seed berry contains about 5-15 fresh black Peyote seeds !
The black seeds of Lophophora williamsii are 1 to 2 millimetres long.
2. Making Peyote Cactus seeds
You can make Peyote Cactus seeds from your own Peyote Cactus plants.
At least two Peyote Cacti are needed that flower on the same day.
A Peyote flower blooms for about 4 - 5 days, so there is a good chance that two Peyote's will bloom on the same day.
Transfer a little yellow pollen from the flower of one Peyote to the stigma of the other Peyote (= pollinate).
Do this the other way round as well.
This pollinates the Peyote flowers among themselves, and fertilises the ovaries.
pistil = branched top of the pistil, which is in the centre of a Peyote flower.
pistil = the female sexual organs of a plant or Cactus.
The pistil is located in the centre of the flower.
It consists of a fruiting principle, with a stalk (style) above it with a branched top (stigma).
If you pollinate a Peyote flower with its own pollen, the Peyote can also make seeds.
But fewer seeds are produced, and smaller seeds.
3. Sowing Peyote Cactus seeds
Fill a 5.5 or 6.5 cm diameter plastic flowerpot with fine sowing soil.
Lightly press the sowing soil, adding sowing soil up to 1.0 cm from the top edge if necessary.
Place the pot in a container with 2 cm of water, and let the sowing soil absorb the water.
Wait until the sowing soil is well moist.
Sprinkle the Peyote Cactus seeds over the moist sowing soil.
Sow the Peyote seeds slightly apart, at 0.5 to 1.0 cm distance from each other.
Sprinkle a few millimetres of dry sowing soil over this.
The Peyote seeds must make contact with the warm and moist sowing soil to germinate.
Sprinkle a few millimetres of fine gravel of 1-2 mm diameter over this.
The soil must therefore remain well moist for several days, adding water in the tray if necessary.
So:
1. Sterilising the sowing soil is not necessary.
Good sowing soil contains no fungi, and prevents the growth of fungi
2. Covering the jar with Peyote seeds with plastic film is not necessary.
The sowing soil remains sufficiently moist under the layer of gravel.
4. Germination of the Peyote Cacti seeds
The first Peyote Cactus seeds germinate after about five days.
The germination of the Peyote seeds takes place under the gravel so you do not see the actual germination.
Only later do pale yellow and pale pink balls grow up between the gravel.
Most Peyote seeds have germinated after about 10-14 days.
After this, the soil should be kept less moist.
Pour away the water on the saucer.
Do not water the saucer until the weight of the pot clearly decreases.
5. Caring for the germinated Peyote Cactus seedlings
1. Do not let the sowing soil dry out completely.
2. Do not leave the pot with seedlings in full sun !
Screen the pot with gauze or a newspaper page from the sun.
6. Normal growth rate of Peyote Cactus seedlings
The speed at which seedlings grow depends on many conditions.
A normal growth rate is about 1 centimetre of growth in diameter per year.
The seeded Peyote then gets a flat shape with enough sun.
The height is then one-third the diameter of the Peyote body.
6. High growth rate of Peyote Cactus seedlings
If the Peyote gets too little light and too much water and fertiliser, it will grow faster.
The Peyote then develops a spherical spherical shape, sometimes even an elongated columnar shape.
The quality of such a convex Peyote is much lower.
You are then more likely to get problems with inferior conditions and pests.
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