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cactus seed/ nomenclature

I have grown Turbinocarpus spp., Ariocarpus spp, Trichocereus spp.,
Ferocactus spp., and many others. I don't grow cacti commercially, just as a
hobby but I find them to be a lot easier than other things I have to work
with. I use plastic salad containers which hold the humidity (there are
holes in the bottom of course).

----by the way when you have a botanical name with spp. at the end, like
Ferocactus spp., that means more than one, many species. If I wrote
Ferocactus sp. that would mean an unidentified plant of Ferocactus-that you
know it is a Ferocactus but not sure which species it is. I hope that helps
some people. All too often I see people misuse sp. and spp. If you find a
name that looks like this: Cercidium aff. floridum, that means that you
found a plant that has an affinity with C. floridum but that is a little
different. I hope I am not annoying anyone with this, but I know there are a
lot of non-botanists on this list and thought it might help to shed some
light on nomenclature rules for them.
Jared R. Shortman
jared@tucsongrowers.com
Tucson Growers
www.tucsongrowers.com
(520) 882-7060
2509 N. Campbell #338
Tucson, AZ 85719

-----Original Message-----
From: glenda.george <glenda.george@MCI2000.com>
To: seeds-list@eskimo.com <seeds-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 5:29 AM
Subject: 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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