My grafted Lophophora williamsii (SB 854; Starr Co, Tx) is growing its last fruit this season. The fruit looks ripe and fat so I'm hoping for lots of seeds even though the flower was self-pollinated.
Lophophora williamsii - ripe fruit
Yesterday I harvested the dried fruits produced by the plants second and third flower – both of these flowers were also self-pollinated (I didn’t have a whole lot of plants flowering last year ;-)
Lophophora williamsii - harvested fruits
The fruits are approximately 1 cm (~0.4'') long, only the upper half is containing seeds. The yield from these fruits, each contained 6 seeds, is much better than from the first fruit I harvested.
Lophophora williamsii - seeds
If the seeds are viable I hope to come full circle, growing new seedlings in less than two years after the mother plant was sown!
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Flora del Río Cenepa, Amazonas, Perú / v. 114 pt. 2 2010 (added:
02/26/2024)
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*By:*
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Vásquez, Rodolfo
Werff, Henk van der,1946-
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St. Louis, Mo. :Missouri Botanical Garden Press ;c2010.
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3 weeks ago
Wow! that plant is freakin beautiful? i am wondering if you would be at all able to give me any pointers, i am a beginner. please e-mail me at lithiumbarbie@bellsouth.net
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