I am retired and looking for a hobby. I love growing cacti and thought I
would try cacti from seed. I have ordered from several commercial vegetable
and annual flower seed company's but have not had much success. Does anyone
know of places of people that sell cactus seed at a reasonable price.
Any help would be appreciated.
Neb

craterr wrote:

I am retired and looking for a hobby. I love growing cacti and thought I
would try cacti from seed. I have ordered from several commercial vegetable
and annual flower seed company's but have not had much success. Does anyone
know of places of people that sell cactus seed at a reasonable price.
Any help would be appreciated.
Neb


www.davesgarden.com is a nice resource for several reasons, one of
which is a 'rating' and discussions of reputable and problematic
mailorder plant companies.

Carl


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On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:11:33 -0400, "craterr"
wrote:

I am retired and looking for a hobby. I love growing cacti and thought I
would try cacti from seed. I have ordered from several commercial vegetable
and annual flower seed company's but have not had much success. Does anyone
know of places of people that sell cactus seed at a reasonable price.
Any help would be appreciated.
Neb



Have you tried Burpee? It takes a lot of patience to grow cacti from
seed.

"craterr" wrote in :

I am retired and looking for a hobby. I love growing cacti and
thought I would try cacti from seed. I have ordered from several
commercial vegetable and annual flower seed company's but have not had
much success. Does anyone know of places of people that sell cactus
seed at a reasonable price. Any help would be appreciated.
Neb

Cactus from seed takes a longggggggg time to grow, IIRC. (Or at least it
did decades ago when I was a kid and tried it.) Are you sure you want to
wait a few years for teeny plant when there are so many great ones you can
buy at a reasonable price? Maybe you could do something else with cactus
-- grafting, perhaps?

I did the same thing. I had a lot of success (mostly succulents) and then had to
sell my collection when I went away to college. there used to be (I think)
something like "new mexico cactus and succulent seed" organization that was dedicated
to providing seeds to prevent ripping plants out of the wild. maybe somebody else
knows the name? Ingrid

"craterr" wrote:

I am retired and looking for a hobby. I love growing cacti and thought I
would try cacti from seed. I have ordered from several commercial vegetable
and annual flower seed company's but have not had much success. Does anyone
know of places of people that sell cactus seed at a reasonable price.
Any help would be appreciated.
Neb




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There are lot of cactus/succulent seed sources. A Google search will turn up
dozens. My favorite is Mesa Gardens
http://www.mesagarden.com:80/index.html

If you want some really nice flowering plants while you wait for your seedlings
to mature, check out the the Schick ecinopsis hybrids from Huntington Botanical
Gardens.
I have a dozen of these little cacti and they are spectacular when in bloom.
http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalD...alogintro.html

--beeky

craterr wrote:

I am retired and looking for a hobby. I love growing cacti and thought I
would try cacti from seed. I have ordered from several commercial vegetable
and annual flower seed company's but have not had much success. Does anyone
know of places of people that sell cactus seed at a reasonable price.
Any help would be appreciated.
Neb