Flower - Cactus - Living Stone - Lithops Mixed - 20 Seeds

Item arrived promptly & was clearly the item I ordered. Packaged fairly well, with brief sowing instructions. Other vendors in the past, combined seeds with a little fine sand, which makes sowing easier. However, it was OK in the waxed sachet anyway. Bought two packs, 40 seeds 12 days later, 12 have germinated & are clearly the real thing. Following a cheaper purchase from China which turned out to be "naughty Marietta's", I am completely relieved & grateful to the vendors (Just Seed UK) for providing the real thing. Thank you.! Think a few more may still germinate, so pretty good rate. I might not have sowed them as carefully as I should so I am happy with current progress. Photos are May 2021, one year later. More than 12 germinated, but these are the survivors! I find these a challenge to grow. I think i overwater them. Also, my cats tread on them sometimes, which doesn't help!🙂 June 2021 Recently bought two more packs and noticed the waxed sachet inside was just folded, not sealed. Consequently several seeds had fallen out into the outer packet. They are so tiny they're easily missed & am now wondering how many I lost like that in previous packs. Recommend using strong magnifying glass when handling/sowing these! May '23 - added last 4 photos. I think the spotty grey one is Terricolor (localis) maybe 'peersii', the 3 orange/red ones I think may be karasmontana, possibly 'lateritia' & the red one possibly 'Top Red'. The large brown one could be hookeri, the medium one could be hallii, maybe C087, 'salicola reticulata'? & the still tiny one Schwantesii maybe. The 4 larger ones flowered last year, at 2 years old, which is quite early. I have tried sowing onto 1 ply kitchen roll over cactus compost but had a lot of trouble with algae which may have inhibited germination and caused seedlings to die off. Didn't have great success with this method. Also I don't transplant for at least a year as the seedlings are so easily squashed & fatally damaged by my clumsy fingers. I now sow into 5cm pots filled with cactus compost, topped with fine horticultural sand (not builder's sand), which is said to deter algae. I pre-soak the pots by standing in water until it rises to the top, then stand them in a tupperware tub tall enough to put the lid on above them. I use a directable table lamp beside me for extra light. I place 2 or 3 sheets of A4 paper under the tub & over my working area. (You can easily see if you have dropped any this way). I take a small piece of paper, say A6 cut into 2 or 3 & fold it down the middle. Place it onto of the other sheet & shake the seeds from the pack onto it, into the crease. Use a very strong magnifier to look at the seeds. Some you can hardly see without this, others are more easily visible. Tap/shake the seeds into the crease when you pick it up. Position the end of the paper over the pot/position you want & gently tap it, to make the seeds roll into the pot. Or you can gently push them with a dry toothpick. Its quite easy to space them apart this way so they don't overcrowd each other later. Then, i mist them using a simple small/cosmetic atomiser, (eg150ml holiday cosmetics size), to help them settle them into the sand/compost & absorb moisture. Then i put the lid on & stand it on an East facing windowsill. I check every 1-3 days at first & mist them again to keep them moist. After germination I gradually remove the lid for longer periods in the day, as the seedlings get larger, to avoid damping off, but also, keep misting & avoid leaving them in direct sun at this stage or they'll fry. They need temperatures of around 21C to germinate so this probably won't work in winter without heated propagator. They're a challenge! It's a learning process, but they're fascinating little things. I love them!

After seeing previous reviews planted contents of sachet which just looked like tiny specks. Over 2 months on just one tiny plant has grown - what a waste of time and money.

Seeds arrived before expected date. Healthy looking seeds. Planted them on the 11th of March. And the image included was taken on the 21st of March. Still waiting for the rest to germinate if they will.

After 1 week ,all growing.

No sign of life 😢

These seeds are that small that I didn't think there was any in the pack. However planted and three seeds germinated but they are very slow growing very tiny. Fingers crossed they survive the winter

The packet said extremely small seeds. However inside the packet there was an open transparent seed packet with no seeds. I held it against the light with a magnifying glass, but even if the seeds were incredibly small there wasn’t any visible. I feel that I was sold a packet of air. I would not recommend.

Good quality seeds

Nicht ein Samen ging auf

Consegnati in fretta. Non sono come li si vede in foto, sono micro semi che una volta piantati diventano come in foto (o almeno me lo auguro). Attendo ottobre per piantarli...

Sconsiglio, non é cresciuto

Dei 20 semi forniti solo due sono germinati, purtroppo.

pessimo la busta era completamente vuota era un pensierino per mio nipotino e siamo ovviamente rimasti molto delusi. pazienza ma sono stata rimborsata