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Re: catus from seed...?

I have grown Bishops Cap, Astrophytum myriostygma.  I had two mature plants
that bloomed at the same time only twice.  They need to cross pollinate to
produce seed, so twice I collected seed .  They germanate best when seed is
fresh and I had a high germanation rate.  I still have the "babies" about
14 years later.  Also I have grown Cows Horn cactus, Euphorbia
grandicornis, and was able to get the seed only once when I had the plant
outdoors where bees must have helped with pollination.  It has been indoors
while blooming since and I have not had any seeds set.  I tryed hand
pollination with a small pantbrush and had three blossoms set seed this
year.  I didn't watch them close enough as they came ripe and they exploded
open scattering the fine seed.  I'll try again during next boom.  Glenda in
NC
> From: utah blaine <utahblaine@webtv.net>
> To: seeds-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: catus from seed...?
> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 12:20 AM
> 
>  are there any other people who have grow catus from seed nd still have
> the catus..
> they are fun to grow 
> i have one i grew over 12 years ago from a mail oder catalog... the
> catus were year basic catus but they were kinda neat to see them sosmall
> and to realize the bigger ones are hundreds of  years old .. im
> fascinated by them,as well as the wildlife the florishes in there
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